Today's Events & Exhibitions

Sep
22
A spinning wheel in alternating colors with icons of chat, headphones, an umbrella, and a laptop. A yellow arrow points to the text Week of Welcome and the UC Santa Barbara Wordmark.
  • Fri, 09/22/2023 - 11:00am to Wed, 09/27/2023 - 2:00pm
  • Mon, 09/25/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
  • Tue, 09/26/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
  • Wed, 09/27/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: Paseo
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Welcome all students to the new academic year! Did you know you can borrow a laptop, bike lock, umbrella, board games, and more from UCSB Library?

Whether you are a...

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Five triangles containing closeups of the Art of Science images
  • Wed, 08/02/2023 - 8:00am to Tue, 12/19/2023 - 5:00pm
Location: Mountain Gallery
Exhibition

Artists, some say, are more right-brained, prone to feeling and imagination. Scientists, meanwhile, are more left-brained, valuing order and logic.

Leonardo da Vinci shatters that theory.

The left and...

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Sep
25
A spinning wheel in alternating colors with icons of chat, headphones, an umbrella, and a laptop. A yellow arrow points to the text Week of Welcome and the UC Santa Barbara Wordmark.
  • Fri, 09/22/2023 - 11:00am to Wed, 09/27/2023 - 2:00pm
  • Mon, 09/25/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
  • Tue, 09/26/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
  • Wed, 09/27/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: Paseo
Event

 

Welcome all students to the new academic year! Did you know you can borrow a laptop, bike lock, umbrella, board games, and more from UCSB Library?

Whether you are a...

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Sep
26
A spinning wheel in alternating colors with icons of chat, headphones, an umbrella, and a laptop. A yellow arrow points to the text Week of Welcome and the UC Santa Barbara Wordmark.
  • Fri, 09/22/2023 - 11:00am to Wed, 09/27/2023 - 2:00pm
  • Mon, 09/25/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
  • Tue, 09/26/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
  • Wed, 09/27/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: Paseo
Event

 

Welcome all students to the new academic year! Did you know you can borrow a laptop, bike lock, umbrella, board games, and more from UCSB Library?

Whether you are a...

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Sep
27
A spinning wheel in alternating colors with icons of chat, headphones, an umbrella, and a laptop. A yellow arrow points to the text Week of Welcome and the UC Santa Barbara Wordmark.
  • Fri, 09/22/2023 - 11:00am to Wed, 09/27/2023 - 2:00pm
  • Mon, 09/25/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
  • Tue, 09/26/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
  • Wed, 09/27/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: Paseo
Event

 

Welcome all students to the new academic year! Did you know you can borrow a laptop, bike lock, umbrella, board games, and more from UCSB Library?

Whether you are a...

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Sep
27
Faculty Reception
  • Wed, 09/27/2023 - 3:30pm to 5:30pm
Location: Mountain Courtyard
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Please RSVP for the reception here.

The Library's Annual Reception for Faculty...

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Open Access Week banner
  • Sun, 10/01/2023 - 8:00am to Tue, 10/31/2023 - 5:00pm
Location: Paseo
Exhibition

UCSB Library created this month-long display in conjunction with International Open Access Week to showcase UCSB and UC-wide initiatives that support open scholarship.

The theme for International Open Access Week 2023 is "Community over Commercialization." Open Access Week is an...

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Oct
10
Portrait of Nelson Lichtenstein with Pacific Views logo superimposed
  • Tue, 10/10/2023 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
Event

RSVP here
Event is free and open to the public. 

UCSB Library is pleased to present Nelson Lichtenstein in the...

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Oct
12
  • Thu, 10/12/2023 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Location: DREAM Lab
Event

This is our first Fall community meeting of the academic year. We will discuss the Carpentries Program, and instructor training for the upcoming year. If you are interested in becoming a certified Carpentries Instructor, or are interested in being a helper, please join us at the DREAM Lab, Rm...

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A red-orange cross over four diverse screen prints. On the cross are the words Cultura Cura 50 Years of Self Help Graphics in East LA
  • Wed, 10/25/2023 - 8:00am to Fri, 06/21/2024 - 5:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
Exhibition

Please join us at 5PM on Wednesday, October 25, 2023 for an event and reception to celebrate the opening of the exhibition.  

UCSB Library is pleased to present an exhibition...

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Oct
25
literature review
  • Wed, 10/25/2023 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
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Open to all graduate students.  Pizza will be provided.

 

In this workshop, you will learn how to get started creating a Literature Review, including:

● What Literature Reviews are, and where to find them
● How to use concept mapping to identify which secondary sources...

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Oct
25
A red-orange cross over four diverse screen prints. On the cross are the words Cultura Cura 50 Years of Self Help Graphics in East LA
  • Wed, 10/25/2023 - 5:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
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A red-orange cross over four diverse screen prints. On the cross are the words Cultura Cura 50 Years of Self Help Graphics in East LA
  • Wed, 10/25/2023 - 5:00pm to Wed, 11/22/2023 - 5:00pm
Location: Ethnic & Gender Studies Collection
Exhibition

UCSB Library is pleased to present a Dia de los Muertos altar created by students from UCSB’s Las Maestras Center. This student project is in conjunction with the Library's new exhibition...

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Nov
1
  • Wed, 11/01/2023 - 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Event

UCSB librarians will provide a presentation on patents geared to graduate students, although everyone is welcome. Learn more about the valuable legal, business, and technical information patents provide, how to find them using open and proprietary databases, and what UCSB inventors need to know...

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Nov
2
Record player
  • Thu, 11/02/2023 - 5:30pm
Location: Special Research Collections
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Please join UCSB Library for a reception and panel discussion that will consider the history of the disc record, its evolution along with popular music, and explain why we still can’t get enough of our beloved vinyl LP collections.
In the age of fast-changing technology affecting the...
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Divest UC from Fossil Fuels
  • Mon, 11/06/2023 - 8:00am to Fri, 06/28/2024 - 5:00pm
Location: Ocean Gallery
Exhibition

UCSB Library is pleased to present an exhibition documenting student activism with materials held by the Library's Special Research Collections. Sponsored by both UCSB Library's Special Research Collections and the Mellon Sawyer...

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Nov
7
  • Tue, 11/07/2023 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
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After a long hiatus, EcoDataScience's workshop series is returning! 

EcoDataScience is an environmental data science study group at UCSB. This volunteer-driven group provides hands-on, lunch-time workshops on...

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Ferris Wheel
  • Tue, 01/16/2024 - 3:30pm to Fri, 06/28/2024 - 5:00pm
Location: Learning Commons
Exhibition
What’s it like to grow up in one of the highest opportunity towns in rural America?

To answer this question, Trevor Auldridge Reveles spent over 1,000 hours–and traveled over 20,000 miles–following young people who live in Dixon, California. Why? Because over the past 45 years, children...

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