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William Garrity Named University Librarian and Vice Provost of Digital Scholarship

Cody Kitaura — May 09, 2024 - 10:11am

William Garrity, deputy university librarian and the library’s chief operating officer, has been selected as the next university librarian and vice provost of digital scholarship for 51�ԹϺ�� Davis. Garrity, who has served as interim university librarian since July 2023, will officially start on May 15.

IN MEMORIAM: Roberto C. Delgadillo and Chester ‘Chet’ McCorkle

Dave Jones — November 07, 2022 - 3:20pm

Roberto C. Delgadillo was a librarian at 51�ԹϺ�� Davis for 17 years. Chester O. “Chet” McCorkle Jr. was an agricultural economist, a 40-year member of the faculty who also served as vice chancellor and 51�ԹϺ�� vice president.

University Librarian and Vice Provost Smith Announces Retirement

Dave Jones — October 11, 2022 - 11:00am

The Office of the Provost released this announcement today (Oct. 11):

MacKenzie Smith has announced she will retire as University Librarian and Vice Provost of Digital Scholarship at the end of June 2023, after more than a decade at 51�ԹϺ�� Davis and nearly 40 years in academic research libraries.

51�ԹϺ�� Library Search Wins Sautter Award for IT Innovation

Dave Jones — August 30, 2022 - 12:44pm

The 51�ԹϺ�� libraries’ project to consolidate the 10 previously independent campus library systems into a single, shared online catalog — 51�ԹϺ�� Library Search — received a silver Larry L. Sautter Award for Innovation in Information Technology.

Open Access: 51�ԹϺ�� Forges New Agreements With IEEE and Nature

Dave Jones — July 28, 2022 - 9:54am

The University of California on Wednesday (July 27) announced two new open access publishing agreements.

The first supports open access publishing with the technical professional organization IEEE, which is among the largest publishers of 51�ԹϺ�� research. The other is an extension of 51�ԹϺ��’s 2020 agreement with Springer Nature that adds funding support for open access publishing in the prestigious Nature journals; previously only titles in the Springer portfolio were eligible.

Lunchable: Visit the Hounds at the Library

Maria Magdalena Martinez Castro — July 26, 2022 - 1:43pm

If you are looking for a quick art tour, Shields Library has the perfect dog-themed art exhibit for any dog-lovers or people in search of some refreshing and interesting art pieces.

Lunchable: Capture Student Photojournalism Throughout the Years

Maria Magdalena Martinez Castro — October 29, 2021 - 8:36am

Visit the main lobby of the Peter J. Shields Library and take a peek into the past through the eyes of The California Aggie’s own student photojournalists from the last 40 years.

Grant Will Help 51�ԹϺ�� Davis Library’s DataLab Digitize 17th Century Records

Karen Michele Nikos — September 09, 2020 - 10:45am

The University of California, Davis, Library’s DataLab will be able to complete the digitization of a vast collection of 17th century texts, art, music and cultural records

Eternal Champion

Jocelyn C Anderson — May 26, 2016 - 10:17am

He was tall, agile and fast, a natural at basketball and football. Put all that together, and he was great at rugby — a gold-medal winner with the U.S. team in the 1920 and 1924 Olympics. Colby E. “Babe” Slater ’17 was the first Aggie alumnus to win Olympic gold, a member of the Cal Aggie Athletics Hall of Fame and the International Rugby Hall of Fame.

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