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Our Wine Writers Collection was created, in part, to recognize the significant role that wine writers have played in educating the public about wine. Wine writer Jancis Robinson, whose papers we hold, recently shared her thoughts on the need for wine language including her own to evolve beyond the limitations of a Eurocentric tasting vocabulary to reflect more diverse voices and experiences. Everyone agreed that there is considerable work to be done on wine vocabulary,... but the greatest scorn was reserved for tasting descriptors such as ‘masculine’, ‘feminine’ and ‘sexy’. Jancis Robinson, about panelists at a session on tasting notes at the 2021 Professional Wine Writers Symposium. Read her piece, The Evolving Language of Wine, at bit.ly/3cDvND1. : "Sparkling wine tasting notes - Domaine Chandon" by avlxyz is licensed with CC BY-NC-SA 2.

Heads-up: Shields Library will be closed from June 12 to June 20. Enjoy your summer, Aggies!

Aggies, we’re hiring! Check out our open student positions at Shields Library and Carlson Health Sciences Library in Handshake and apply today: https://ucdavis.joinhandshake.com Why work at the library? Here's what Emily, a student who worked on our Circulation Desk team, had to say about her experience: ... I came into college really lost. The library became my second home.

We invite you to join us on Thursday afternoon for the last Creative Writing Series event of the academic year: 'A Reading by the Signs': Second-Year MFA Students' Farewell Thursday, June 10 4-5 p.m. on Zoom ... Register: bit.ly/3zbC4zn Hear short stories, novel excerpts, poetry and non-fiction read by eight Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing graduates: Rowena Chodkowski Jake Rose Brianna Cockett-Mamiya Jordan Dahlen Sawyer Elms Kelsey Ford Jen Soong Anna Tuchin The event is free and open to the public, sponsored by @ucdavisenglish in collaboration with the UC Davis Library.

One week left in the school year! Let's finish strong, Aggies. The library will be open with regular hours during finals week.

How is climate change impacting the ability of California’s premier wine regions to grow grape varieties like chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon? And what are winemakers planning and planting for the future? Join us Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 6 p.m. for a free public online panel discussion, Savor: California's Vanishing Chardonnay, presented by the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science and the UC Davis Library. Register by 3 p.m. on Nov. 10 to receive the Zoom link.

It’s all right to not know; it’s what you do with your not-knowing. Claudia Rankine, award-winning author, playwright, poet and multimedia artist Tomorrow at 4 p.m. PST, Claudia Rankine comes to UC Davis, virtually, for a reading and lecture based on her new book, Just Us: An American Conversation, which is being hailed as a must-read book this fall, and her magnum opus. Her previous book, Citizen: An American Lyric, a meditation on race relations in the United Stat...es, is widely considered one of the most influential books of our age. In revelatory and ingeniously written essays that mix text and visuals, Rankine questions what it means to interrogate white privilege, liberal politics, white male aggression and much more. Coming the day after the U.S. presidential election, this online event, like Rankine’s intimate book, promises to bring us into a necessary conversation about what we don’t know. It's not too late to register online and join us tomorrow: https://ucdavis.zoom.us//register/WN_quKuhrwnTxqWUcEx3MMruw This event is organized by the UC Davis Creative Writing Program, UC Davis Department of Religious Studies, and Manetti Shrem Museum, and 23 UC Davis co-sponsors, including the UC Davis Library.

There's still time to vote today, Aggies! Whether you're on campus or learning remotely, take a well-deserved study break on #ElectionDay and make your voice count. If you're on campus and eligible to vote in Yolo County, drop off your ballot or vote in person at the Voting Assistance Center at the ARC, which is open until 8 p.m. tonight.

What a great way to celebrate Open Access Week! To any other UC Davis book authors interested in getting assistance publishing your books #openaccess, you can find info on the TOME Fund here: library.ucdavis.edu/guide/tome-fund

When plotting the data on a map, the unevenness of overcrowding across prisons was very striking; individual prisons might have 1.5 to 2 times the number of inmates they were designed to house. -- UC Davis PhD candidate Erin Calfee, commenting on what her team of grad students, "Miss Demeanors," learned in examining the historical context of Proposition 20. Hear from all three winning teams at the online finale, tomorrow at 5pm! Register at bit.ly/CAdatachallenge.

The online finale of the California Election 2020 Data Challenge is just around the corner! Join us online on Wednesday, Oct. 21 from 5-7 p.m. to meet the three winning teams of this month-long data science and civic engagement competition and see their projects. Twenty teams of more than 100 UC Davis students, scholars, and alumni competed in the Data Challenge, designed to leverage public data to help people understand this year’s ballot initiatives. The online finale ev...ent will feature keynote talks from Mindy Romero, founder and director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy; Jesse Salinas, chief election official for Yolo County; and MacKenzie Smith, UC Davis university librarian and vice provost of digital scholarship. Organized by the UC Davis DataLab and Scholars Strategy Network, the competition embraces data literacy, experiential education, and data science for promoting quantitatively-informed civic dialogue. Learn more about the competition and register to attend the finale: https://datalab.ucdavis.edu/ca-election-2020-data-challenge/

Happy Aggie Spirit Week! Join us Friday at 3 p.m. for a virtual tour of Shields Library, the academic heart of campus. Learn about the student experience at Shields, and find out what services and resources are available to you. Register for the tour: bit.ly/3iXxviX

Starting now... it's not too late to end your day with a moment of peace and poetry. Register here to join us now: https://ucdavis.zoom.us//tJEudOCtrTojHt0-lMr5X_wk3rU0canB_

Join UC Davis tomorrow at 4 p.m. for its Virtual Innovation Spectacular! This event puts a spotlight on exceptional student experiences across the university, including at the Library, where we are helping students and researchers alike transform information into innovation, problem solving and discoveries. Visit ucdavis.edu/countdown to learn more.

Our Archives and Special Collections Department has reopened! In-person services are available by appointment only, to UC Davis faculty, students, and staff. Appointments are available Tuesday-Friday from 1:30-4:30pm and must be made 72 hours in advance. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3d8bNYk

DYK: A perk of being a UC Davis community member is free online access to The New York Times! If you're not already taking advantage of it, we invite you to activate your access to NYTimes.com today. Learn more and get access: https://www.library.ucdavis.edu//free-access-to-the-new-y/