Sign up for Career Management Academy

Summertime is the perfect time to work on your career development. Toward this, Staff Development and Professional Services will offer the Career Management Academy on Aug. 11.

According to organizers, participants will learn how to take inventory on their work values, personality, interests and skills, which are integral steps in developing career goals.

The course description reads: “It’s natural to want a career that brings a high level of satisfaction, enrichment and opportunity for professional development.”

The workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in 136 Hoagland Hall. The instructors will be Constance Stevens and Andrea Weiss. For more information and to enroll, visit http://sdps.ucdavis.edu.

Summer library classes

Did you know that as a UC Davis employee you have access to the wealth of books, journals, databases and other resources in the University Library?

To help you get started, the library staff invites you to attend a one-hour workshop to be offered three more times this summer. Organizers said the library staff will guide you to print materials and electronic resources, tell you how to access them from your home and office, and show you how to search the catalog system and databases.

The three remaining sessions are scheduled on the following dates:

• Thursday, July 23
• Wednesday, Aug. 5
• Monday, Aug. 10

Each workshop runs from 10 to 11 a.m. and each one takes place in the Shields Library Instruction Lab, Room 165.

Registration is required, and can be arranged online at http://www.lib. ucdavis.edu/dept/instruc/classes.

For more information, contact Sandra Vella at savella@lib.ucdavis.edu.

California Ag magazine issues now online

Every word is now there at your fingertips. One of the nation’s oldest land-grant research publications, California Agriculture, has put all the articles created in its 63-year history — numbering up to 6,000 — on the Web, where the material is free and searchable. You can find the archive on California Agriculture’s home page (which, by the way, has been redesigned). See http://californiaagriculture.ucanr.org/

Quarantine in Japan

The quarantine on 20 UC Davis students taking a “Summer Abroad” class in Japan has been lifted. They resumed their programmed activities on July 10.

They had been confined to a Kyoto dormitory for a week as a precaution against the spread of the H1N1 influenza. Students in the program “Community and Everyday Life in Japan” at Ryukoku University were quarantined on July 3 after a Japanese tutor was diagnosed with H1N1 influenza.