Events & Exhibitions on 10/01/2025
Oct
1
1
- Wed, 10/01/2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
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UCSB Library Room 1312 is on the 1st Floor, Mountain Side, adjacent to the Learning Commons.
Are you experienced with open source software or hardware, or just curious about open source?
This month, we'll be joined by a panel of special guests: Trissalyn Nelson (Geography), Rich...
Oct
1
1
- Wed, 10/01/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
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Join us for a guided tutorial where you will learn to 3D model in Autodesk Fusion by modeling vases in three different styles. You will be able to send your design directly to our 3D printers and later pick up your model. No experience needed!
All you need to bring is a laptop (and...
Oct
2
2
- Thu, 10/02/2025 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Makerspace
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Event
Meet up with your fellow fiber artists at the Makerspace. This event is a casual, drop-in event where you can work on crochet, knitting, or any other yarn art. Feel free to start a new project, or bring a project you've been working on. We will provide yarn, crochet hooks, and knitting needles....
Oct
7
7
- Tue, 10/07/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
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Event
The Unix Shell is a powerful command-line interface that allows you to control your computer more efficiently than a traditional graphical interface. This hands-on workshop will introduce fundamental skills, including navigating files and directories, manipulating data, and writing simple...
Oct
7
7
- Tue, 10/07/2025 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
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Join us for a lecture by Nicholas van Hoogstraten, author of Broadway Poster Art: 1945–1969...
Oct
7
7
- Tue, 10/07/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
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Learn to 3D print by creating your own 3D model in TinkerCAD. During the workshop we will cover the basics of designing in TinkerCAD, learn how to remix existing 3D models licensed through Creative Commons, and get acquainted with the 3D printing process. At the end of the workshop, everyone...
Oct
8
8
- Wed, 10/08/2025 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
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Not sure where to start—or how to keep up—with the flood of new papers in your field? Got a bunch of unread PDFs in your downloads folder? In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn practical strategies for...
Oct
8
8
- Wed, 10/08/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
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Join us for a hands-on workshop where we'll walk you through a simple sewing machine project. Everyone will get to take home a mini snack-sized tote bag they made themselves. We will cover sewing machine operation plus some basic construction techniques. No experience needed and all materials...
Oct
9
9
- Thu, 10/09/2025 - 12:00pm to 12:30pm
Location: Online
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Event
Want to sharpen your data and open science skills? Join the Data to Discovery series—30-min online sessions with practical tools, tips, and ideas to grow your...
Oct
9
9
- Thu, 10/09/2025 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Other, off-campus
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Event
SBHS Alumni Room
700 E Anapamu St
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Are you or a family member an SBHS graduate?
Join the Santa Barbara Community Archives Project (SBCAP), in partnership with the Santa Barbara High School Alumni Association, for our next round of...
Oct
9
9
- Thu, 10/09/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
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Join us for a hands-on journey into the world of laser cutting, where you'll learn how to turn your digital design ideas into physical objects. We will create custom designs through a free, open-source software called Graphite and show you how to send...
Oct
12
12
- Sun, 10/12/2025 - 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Other, off-campus
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Event
Location: Art Learning Lab, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Join the Santa Barbara Community Archives Project in preserving local history at Free Second Sunday for community members at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art! Bring your cherished family photographs and get free...
Oct
14
14
- Tue, 10/14/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
- Thu, 10/16/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
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Event
Register at Shoreline: https://cglink.me/2dD/r2268290
This two-day workshop introduces git, a command line tool for managing revisions in coding projects, and GitHub, a web-based platform for sharing your work and collaborating with others....
Oct
14
14
- Tue, 10/14/2025 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
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Find out what to consider when launching a podcast, from choosing a theme, topics and guests, and incorporating sound elements. You’ll learn what to know about using copyrighted material and how to streamline the...
Oct
14
14
- Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
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Event
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Celebrate Día de Los Muertos (November 1-2) by creating and decorating your own shoebox altar in the Library's Makerspace. Learn to craft tissue paper flowers and mini...
Oct
15
15
- Wed, 10/15/2025 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
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Event
This workshop has now reached capacity. We hope you'll consider registering for our online version of this workshop, offered on Wednesday, October 22, 2025.
Research isn’t just about...
Oct
15
15
- Wed, 10/15/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Special Research Collections
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UC Santa Barbara Library invites you to the opening event for Unyielding Voices: Global Resistance and the Black Radical...
Oct
15
15
- Wed, 10/15/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
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Event
Join us for a guided electronics project where we will create a prototype for a light up piano. Discover the basics of wiring a circuit with components such as an Arduino (aka the 'brain' of the circuit), a speaker, buttons, and a LED to create your ideas. All materials will be provided.
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Oct
16
16
- Tue, 10/14/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
- Thu, 10/16/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Event
Event
Register at Shoreline: https://cglink.me/2dD/r2268290
This two-day workshop introduces git, a command line tool for managing revisions in coding projects, and GitHub, a web-based platform for sharing your work and collaborating with others....
Oct
16
16
- Thu, 10/16/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
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Event
Join us for a hands-on workshop where we'll walk you through a simple sewing machine project. Everyone will get to take home a mini snack-sized tote bag they made themselves. We will cover sewing machine operation plus some basic construction techniques. No experience needed and all materials...
Oct
16
16
- Thu, 10/16/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Online
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In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to get started creating a Literature Review or environmental scan, including:
- What Literature Reviews are, and where to find them
- How to...
Oct
20
20
- Mon, 10/20/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
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Event
Register now to save your spot!
Celebrate Día de Los Muertos (November 1-2) by creating and decorating your own shoebox altar in the Library's Makerspace. Learn to craft tissue paper flowers and mini...
Oct
21
21
- Tue, 10/21/2025 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: Online
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This workshop is designed to teach you about the different avenues for publishing articles, manuscripts, and data. Additionally, the workshop will highlight resources and considerations as you start your...
Oct
21
21
- Tue, 10/21/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
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Event
Join us for a guided tutorial where you will learn to 3D model in Autodesk Fusion by modeling vases in three different styles. You will be able to send your design directly to our 3D printers and later pick up your model. No experience needed!
All you need to bring is a laptop (and...
Oct
22
22
- Wed, 10/22/2025 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: Online
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Research isn’t just about collecting sources or writing papers, there’s a crucial middle stage where ideas take shape: reading, reflecting, drafting, and making connections.
This workshop explores how to...
Oct
22
22
- Wed, 10/22/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
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Event
Join us for a hands-on workshop where we'll walk you through a simple sewing machine project. Everyone will get to take home a mini snack-sized tote bag they made themselves. We will cover sewing machine operation plus some basic construction techniques. No experience needed and all materials...
Oct
23
23
- Thu, 10/23/2025 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
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Event
Are you an R user eager to work with text data and explore techniques like sentiment analysis? This workshop, the first in a series, will guide you through essential preprocessing steps to turn messy text into structured, analyzable data.
Registrations: ...
Oct
23
23
- Thu, 10/23/2025 - 12:00pm to 12:30pm
Location: Online
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Event
Want to sharpen your data and open...
Oct
23
23
- Thu, 10/23/2025 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Makerspace
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Event
This isn't your average scary story session -- join us for a Halloween themed zine-making night. Zines (pronounced "zeens," short for magazines) are small, self-published booklets created and distributed by individuals or small groups. Zines are a cornerstone of DIY culture, offering an...
Oct
23
23
- Thu, 10/23/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
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Event
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In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to get started creating a Literature Review or environmental scan, including:
- What Literature Reviews are, and where to find them
- How to...
Oct
24
24
- Fri, 10/24/2025 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
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Event
This workshop has now reached capacity. We hope you'll consider registering for our online version of this workshop, offered on Tuesday, November 4, 2025.
Zotero is a free open source bibliography management tool that...
Oct
27
27
- Mon, 10/27/2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Thu, 11/06/2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Event, Online
Event
Event, Online
Event
Register in Shoreline for Nov 6: https://cglink.me/2dD/r2269320
Join us for this 1-hour introductory seminar on High Performance Computing (HPC) resources at UCSB. The seminar is...
Oct
28
28
- Tue, 10/28/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
- Thu, 10/30/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
- Tue, 11/04/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Event
Event
Register at Shoreline: https://cglink.me/2dD/r2268292
This three-day workshop offers a comprehensive introduction to Python, specifically designed for participants with no prior programming experience. Through the use of Jupyter notebooks,...
Oct
28
28
- Tue, 10/28/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
Event
Event
Join us for a hands-on workshop where we'll walk you through a simple sewing machine project. Everyone will get to take home a mini snack-sized tote bag they made themselves. We will cover sewing machine operation plus some basic construction techniques. No experience needed and all materials...
Oct
29
29
- Wed, 10/29/2025 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
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Event
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In this presentation you will learn the basics of copyright under U.S. Law, including:
- What is copyright? What does it cover?
- How does a creator get their work...
Oct
29
29
- Wed, 10/29/2025 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Ethnic & Gender Studies Collection
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Event
Join us for a short presentation and ofrenda at a Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) altar created by UCSB students in celebration of the holiday. Everyone is welcome to attend.
The altar is composed of shoebox altars created by students in workshops on...
Oct
29
29
- Wed, 10/29/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
Event
Event
Join us for a hands-on journey into the world of laser cutting, where you'll learn how to turn your digital design ideas into physical objects. We will create custom designs through a free, open-source software called Graphite and show you how to send...
Oct
30
30
- Tue, 10/28/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
- Thu, 10/30/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
- Tue, 11/04/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Event
Event
Register at Shoreline: https://cglink.me/2dD/r2268292
This three-day workshop offers a comprehensive introduction to Python, specifically designed for participants with no prior programming experience. Through the use of Jupyter notebooks,...
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- Mon, 12/02/2024 - 12:00pm to Tue, 03/17/2026 - 12:00pm
Location: Sara Miller McCune Arts Library
Exhibition
Exhibition
The study of the arts is an essential element of a classical education. With world-renowned faculty in Art & Architecture, Dance, Film & Media Studies, Music, Studio Art, and Theater, and the nation’s only Bachelor’s degree in the field of Book Arts, UCSB enables students of all...
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- Mon, 07/14/2025 - 8:00am to Fri, 12/12/2025 - 5:00pm
Location: Mountain Gallery
Exhibition
Exhibition
This exhibition showcases fifteen research posters selected by a jury of UCSB librarians during the UCSB Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities’ 2025 Poster Colloquium. Outstanding undergraduate research from the humanities and fine arts, social sciences, and science,...
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- Mon, 09/15/2025 - 8:00am to Fri, 03/13/2026 - 5:00pm
Location: Ethnic & Gender Studies Collection
Exhibition
Exhibition
UCSB Library presents an art installation by artist Elena Yu, exploring histories of the Ethnic and Gender Studies Collection (EGSC) and space in celebration of its 30th anniversary.
In Fall 2023, Yu was invited to create artworks in response to the history of the EGSC. The artist was...
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- Mon, 09/22/2025 - 8:00am to Fri, 03/13/2026 - 5:00pm
Location: Ocean Gallery
Exhibition
Exhibition
Art and science are often seen as distinct, yet both thrive on creativity. Scientists, like artists, seek new perspectives, experiment with ideas, and push boundaries to reveal something novel. The Art of Science competition at UCSB celebrates this shared spirit of innovation, transforming...
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- Mon, 09/22/2025 - 8:00am to Wed, 10/29/2025 - 8:00am
Location: Paseo
Exhibition
Exhibition
Stop and check out the various pieces of technology and other items available to students, staff, and faculty to check out at the Services Desk.
Currently, the Services Desk offers short-term loans for laptops, charging cables with an outlet adapter, bike locks, whiteboards, board...
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- Mon, 10/06/2025 - 8:00am to Fri, 12/05/2025 - 8:00am
Location: Mountain Gallery
Exhibition
Exhibition
This exhibition showcases historic Broadway posters from collector Richard C. Norton, a comprehensive selection of musical theater posters 1972 to the present ranging from the famous to the obscure, from the celebrated to the damned. These posters offer insight into the evolution of American...
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- Wed, 10/15/2025 - 9:00am to Fri, 06/12/2026 - 4:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
Exhibition
Exhibition
"Through most of our lives and work, Cedric and I have had deep commitments to collaboration, internationalism, and solidarity movements."
–Elizabeth Robinson, 2024
This exhibition documents the life’s work of Cedric J. Robinson and Elizabeth Peters...
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- Wed, 10/29/2025 - 5:00pm to Mon, 11/03/2025 - 5:00pm
Location: Ethnic & Gender Studies Collection
Exhibition
Exhibition
UCSB Library is pleased to present a Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) altar created by UCSB students in celebration of the holiday. The altar is composed of shoebox altars created by students in workshops on...
