- Wed, 06/07/2023 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
UCSB Library invites graduate students to learn how to use ORCID in your research. ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a unique, persistent digital identifier that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher.
In this workshop we will cover:
• Creating a free ORCID ID and managing your ORCID account
• Placing your publications in ORCID
• Funding, publisher, and research institution...
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- Fri, 06/02/2023 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in History & Physics. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the ...
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Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Please join us for a reception and awards ceremony honoring the recipients of the 2023 Library Award for Undergraduate Research. Prizes of $750 for first place and $500 for second place will be awarded in each of three categories: Sciences & Engineering, Humanities & Fine Arts, and Social Sciences.
The 2023 Library Award for Undergraduate Research is generously supported by a gift from Dr. Jenny Cook-Gumperz, faculty emerita.
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Location: Other, on-campus
UCSB Campus Location: McCune Conference Room, Humanities & Social Sciences Building (6020 HSSB)
Luis J. Rodríguez is an award-winning author and activist whose memoir about life in a gang, "Always Running," is as popular as ever in 2023, its 30th anniversary. The UCSB Library Special Research Collections recently acquired Rodríguez’s personal papers, giving scholars and students an opportunity to see the personal and social context behind Always Running...
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Location: Online
Join us for a virtual conversation between Grammy award-winning musician, composer, and tango expert Pablo Aslan and David Seubert, Curator for the Performing Arts for UC Santa Barbara Library, Special Research Collections. Moderated by...
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- Fri, 05/19/2023 - 12:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
Event Location: UCSB Henley Hall 1010
Click here to register or access the live stream option
ChatGPT has become a central topic of interest at the UCSB campus, prompting numerous discussions on its research, educational, and societal impacts. As educators, researchers, and society members, it's crucial to delve deeper into understanding ChatGPT's functionality,...
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- Fri, 05/12/2023 - 7:30pm
- Sat, 05/13/2023 - 3:00pm
- Sat, 05/13/2023 - 7:30pm
- Sun, 05/14/2023 - 7:30pm
Location: UCSB Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
The UCSB 2023 Opera "Burning to Sing" is a comedic and charming production that promises to leave audiences thoroughly entertained. This ironic tale of Madame Tremolini, voice teacher extraordinaire and cast of colorful characters in a 1950's apartment building that is slowly catching fire, will have you grinning from ear to ear with delight. The witty score sets the perfect backdrop for this amusing operetta.
Whether you're an opera enthusiast or just...
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- Fri, 05/12/2023 - 7:30pm
- Sat, 05/13/2023 - 3:00pm
- Sat, 05/13/2023 - 7:30pm
- Sun, 05/14/2023 - 7:30pm
Location: UCSB Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
The UCSB 2023 Opera "Burning to Sing" is a comedic and charming production that promises to leave audiences thoroughly entertained. This ironic tale of Madame Tremolini, voice teacher extraordinaire and cast of colorful characters in a 1950's apartment building that is slowly catching fire, will have you grinning from ear to ear with delight. The witty score sets the perfect backdrop for this amusing operetta.
Whether you're an opera enthusiast or just...
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- Fri, 05/12/2023 - 7:30pm
- Sat, 05/13/2023 - 3:00pm
- Sat, 05/13/2023 - 7:30pm
- Sun, 05/14/2023 - 7:30pm
Location: UCSB Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
The UCSB 2023 Opera "Burning to Sing" is a comedic and charming production that promises to leave audiences thoroughly entertained. This ironic tale of Madame Tremolini, voice teacher extraordinaire and cast of colorful characters in a 1950's apartment building that is slowly catching fire, will have you grinning from ear to ear with delight. The witty score sets the perfect backdrop for this amusing operetta.
Whether you're an opera enthusiast or just...
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- Fri, 05/12/2023 - 7:30pm
- Sat, 05/13/2023 - 3:00pm
- Sat, 05/13/2023 - 7:30pm
- Sun, 05/14/2023 - 7:30pm
Location: UCSB Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
The UCSB 2023 Opera "Burning to Sing" is a comedic and charming production that promises to leave audiences thoroughly entertained. This ironic tale of Madame Tremolini, voice teacher extraordinaire and cast of colorful characters in a 1950's apartment building that is slowly catching fire, will have you grinning from ear to ear with delight. The witty score sets the perfect backdrop for this amusing operetta.
Whether you're an opera enthusiast or just...
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- Fri, 05/12/2023 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This is a one-day workshop to learn about UCSB's new three-year licenses for accessing Planet Labs imagery, web applications, and visualization tools. Planet provides daily satellite imagery of the Earth’s land surfaces and coastal areas. UCSB’s access includes the RapidEye Archive, SkySat Archive, and daily PlanetScope imagery. In the morning we will introduce Planet and the available products, some use...
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Location: UCSB Campbell Hall
UCSB Library is excited to present Charles Montgomery, UCSB Reads 2023 author of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design for a free community talk at Campbell Hall.
REGISTER HERE
Event is free but registration through the Arts & Lectures portal is...
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- Mon, 04/17/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 05/10/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The UCSB Library will be offering two Zotero workshops for graduate students during the spring quarter. Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. While the workshops are designed for graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
The “Zotero Basics” workshops last two hours and will cover all aspects of...
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- Tue, 05/09/2023 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Snacks and drinks will be provided!
Sign up here! Join a student-led book club to discuss this year’s
UCSB Reads book selection,
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery, which explores...
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- Fri, 05/05/2023 - 9:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online are a powerful software duo that support geospatial data processing, analysis, visualization, and the cloud-based sharing of geospatial products. In this one-day, example-driven workshop, we’ll review how to most effectively use...
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- Fri, 04/28/2023 - 2:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: Other, on-campus
- Fri, 04/28/2023 - 8:00am to Mon, 05/01/2023 - 5:00pm
Location:
Join UCSB Reads 2023 in participating in the Santa Barbara City Nature Challenge! Let's celebrate the nature in and around our urban areas by documenting all the species we can find. The City Nature Challenge is an international community science effort for people to find and document plants and wildlife in cities across the globe.
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- Tue, 04/25/2023 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 04/26/2023 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is a two-day, example-driven workshop on April 25-26, 2023 for an introduction on utilizing the terminal to use version control with Git. We will get you started on how to use the command shell/bash to use git. The use of a shell allows you to perform complex and powerful tasks, often with just...
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- Tue, 04/25/2023 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 04/26/2023 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is a two-day, example-driven workshop on April 25-26, 2023 for an introduction on utilizing the terminal to use version control with Git. We will get you started on how to use the command shell/bash to use git. The use of a shell allows you to perform complex and powerful tasks, often with just...
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- Fri, 04/21/2023 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Global Studies and Geography. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division,...
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- Wed, 04/19/2023 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Snacks and drinks will be provided! ...
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- Mon, 04/17/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 05/10/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The UCSB Library will be offering two Zotero workshops for graduate students during the spring quarter. Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. While the workshops are designed for graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
The “Zotero Basics” workshops last two hours and will cover all aspects of...
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Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join us at UCSB Library for a free zine workshop, no experience necessary! Participants will learn how to make a zine exploring themes in the UCSB Reads 2023 book “Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design” by...
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Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Please join UCSB Library at a public reception to celebrate its new exhibition of student work Happy City: Isla Vista. The exhibition is drawn from the layouts of UCSB's literary magazine The "Catalyst," whose Winter 2023 issue is themed to connect to the ...
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- Wed, 04/05/2023 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join a student-led book club to discuss this year’s
UCSB Reads book selection,
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery, which explores how our communities do or do not make us happy.
Snacks and drinks will be provided! ...
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- Wed, 04/05/2023 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This workshop will provide graduate students with practical tips and strategies for creating Literature Reviews in the humanities and social sciences.
You will learn the following:
- What Literature Reviews are, and where to find them
- How to use concept mapping to identify which secondary sources you need
- How to find and organize your sources to facilitate your writing
- Advanced tips and strategies for searching library databases so...
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- Tue, 04/04/2023 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: Mountain Courtyard
Join the UCSB Library and Graduate Division for this fun social event. This event is FREE to all current graduate students. RSVP here.
**If you would like to drink wine at this event, be sure to bring either a passport or driver's license so we can verify that you are over 21.
This event will be photographed or recorded.
Location: Special Research Collections
Join UCSB Library for a reception and conversation with Isis Aquarian about her life with the Source Family, a commune in Los Angeles in the early 1970s based on natural food, spiritual practices and psychedelic rock, and how she came to place the commune's archival materials with UCSB Library. Jodi Willie and Charlie Kitchings...
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- Fri, 03/17/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Take a healthy study break before finals. Stretch, color, grab snacks, and pick up free bluebooks and scantrons. Sign-up for a massage (first-come, first-served, in person, starting at 10:50am).
In collaboration with UCSB Health & Wellness and UCSB ONDAS Student Center.
This event will be photographed or recorded.
- Fri, 03/03/2023 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, and Economics. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the ...
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- Fri, 03/03/2023 - 11:00am
Location: Other, on-campus
Space is limited, please RSVP here
In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2023, Silvia Perea, Curator of the Architecture and Design...
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- Thu, 03/02/2023 - 11:00am
Location: Other, on-campus
Space is limited, please RSVP here
In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2023, Silvia Perea, Curator of the Architecture and Design Collection (ADC) at UCSB’s ...
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- Wed, 03/01/2023 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Online, Other, on-campus
The CSC will be offering a workshop, Parallel Programming with Python on HPC on Wednesday, Mar 1 from 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, in Elings/CNSI 1605.Parallel processing is a powerful operation tool in that the task is executed simultaneously in multiple processors and can vastly accelerate various computational tasks. It is meant to reduce the overall program execution time and speed up the computational performance. In this workshop, you'll learn some knowledge to write python code...
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- Mon, 02/27/2023 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Students will learn and become familiar with using web-based mapping software while supporting a humanitarian effort that will ultimately impact communities...
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Location: Other, on-campus
UCSB Buchanan Hall, Room 1930
Barajas will share findings from two projects within the Mobility Justice in Chicago research study, a multi-year collaboration between university researchers and a racial justice organization in Chicago. The work aims to advance mobility justice by understanding the relationships between everyday experiences and travel barriers faced by people of color in the urban area.
The first study explains how inequities in transportation...
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- Tue, 02/21/2023 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 02/22/2023 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 02/23/2023 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Data Carpentry: Introduction to Data...
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- Tue, 02/21/2023 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 02/22/2023 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 02/23/2023 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Data Carpentry: Introduction to Data...
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- Tue, 02/21/2023 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 02/22/2023 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 02/23/2023 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Data Carpentry: Introduction to Data...
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- Wed, 02/15/2023 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Online
This workshop will cover key definitions, recommendations, and techniques to implement data de-identification/anonymization.
Attendees will be invited to follow along and complete exercises with a provided dataset using the online graphical user interface of the R sdcMicro package for disclosure control. No R programming experience is required.
This event is open to students, faculty, staff, or affiliated researchers at the University of California (UC), and we...
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- Mon, 02/13/2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Online
Data visualizations can be powerful tools to present patterns and insights from research findings. However, the effectiveness of communicating data visually is highly dependent on...
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Location:
Location: Santa Barbara Central Library, 40 East Anapamu Street.
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- Wed, 02/08/2023 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Online, Other, on-campus
The CSC will be offering a workshop, Singularity Containers on HPC on Wednesday, Feb 8 from 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, in Elings/CNSI 1605. Singularity is a container platform. It allows you to create and run containers that package up software in a portable and reproducible way. You can build a container using Singularity on your laptop and then run it on the UCSB High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster or national HPC clusters, a single server, in the cloud, or a workstation....
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- Mon, 01/23/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
- Mon, 01/30/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
- Mon, 02/06/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Data Carpentry: Introduction to R for...
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- Thu, 02/02/2023 - 12:00pm
Location: Online
The Professional Women's Association (PWA) is a UCSB staff organization which promotes equity by providing opportunities for women to meet, connect, and learn together.
For its February meeting, the group is reading the UCSB Reads 2023 book Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery. Staff, students and faculty are all welcome to join the discussion.
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- Tue, 01/31/2023 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Online
As of January 25 2023, NIH now requires researchers to submit a Data Management and Sharing Plan (DMS Plan) with new proposals. This policy applies to all research, irrespective of award budget amount, that results in the generation of scientific data. In this workshop for faculty, we will go over the essential elements of the new...
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- Mon, 01/23/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
- Mon, 01/30/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
- Mon, 02/06/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Data Carpentry: Introduction to R for...
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- Fri, 01/27/2023 - 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
Take a slow group ride down to local favorite Hendry's Beach on your bicycle!
This ride, which will be led by
UCSB Health & Wellness staff, is inspired by Chapter 8 in
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery. In this chapter of the
UCSB Reads 2023 selection, Montgomery...
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Location: Instruction & Training 1312
- Mon, 01/23/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
- Mon, 01/30/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
- Mon, 02/06/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Data Carpentry: Introduction to R for...
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- Fri, 01/20/2023 - 12:00pm
Location: Paseo
The University Librarian, Chancellor, and Executive Vice Chancellor will hand out free copies of the UCSB Reads 2023 book to UCSB students while supplies last. The 2023 selection is Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery.
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- Wed, 01/18/2023 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Other, on-campus
The CSC will be offering a class, Introduction to Linux and High Performance Computing on Wednesday, January 18th from 11:30am - 12:30pm in CNSI/Elings Hall 1605. We will have lunch afterwards, and you can have a chance to ask additional questions and talk to other researchers and IT staff. This 1-hour workshop will go over how to start using HPC...
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Location: Pacific View Room
UCSB Library invites you to the first Pacific Views lecture of 2023 with Professor Trisalyn Nelson (UCSB Geography). This event is in conjunction with the UCSB Reads 2023 book ...
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- Mon, 12/05/2022 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The UCSB Library will be offering three Zotero Basics workshops for graduate students during the Fall quarter. Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. While the workshops are designed for graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
The “...
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- Fri, 12/02/2022 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Take a healthy study break before finals. Stretch, color, grab snacks, and pick up free bluebooks and scantrons. Sign-up for a massage (first-come, first-served, in person, starting at 10:50am).
In collaboration with UCSB Health & Wellness and UCSB ONDAS Student Center.
- Tue, 11/15/2022 - 11:00am to 3:30pm
- Wed, 11/16/2022 - 9:30am to 5:00pm
- Thu, 11/17/2022 - 9:30am to 3:30pm
Location: Online
- Tue, 11/15/2022 - 11:00am to 3:30pm
- Wed, 11/16/2022 - 9:30am to 5:00pm
- Thu, 11/17/2022 - 9:30am to 3:30pm
Location: Online
- Tue, 11/15/2022 - 11:00am to 3:30pm
- Wed, 11/16/2022 - 9:30am to 5:00pm
- Thu, 11/17/2022 - 9:30am to 3:30pm
Location: Online
- Tue, 11/08/2022 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 11/09/2022 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 11/10/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is a three-day, example-driven workshop on November 8, 9, and 10, 2022 on project organization and scientific authoring with RStudio.
Participants will build on using their R data analysis skills in RStudio by learning how to create R...
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Location: Online
Join the Library for a presentation on the influence of historical indigenous imagery on contemporary Chicana/o artists with Terezita Romo, recipient of the 2022 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Research Fellowship. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A with California Ethnic & Multicultural Archives (CEMA) Curator, Angel Diaz.
Romo’s proposed project,...
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- Tue, 11/08/2022 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 11/09/2022 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 11/10/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is a three-day, example-driven workshop on November 8, 9, and 10, 2022 on project organization and scientific authoring with RStudio.
Participants will build on using their R data analysis skills in RStudio by learning how to create R...
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- Tue, 11/08/2022 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 11/09/2022 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 11/10/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is a three-day, example-driven workshop on November 8, 9, and 10, 2022 on project organization and scientific authoring with RStudio.
Participants will build on using their R data analysis skills in RStudio by learning how to create R...
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- Sat, 11/05/2022 - 2:00pm to 5:00pm
Location:
Santa Barbara Public Library, Eastside Branch
1102 East Montecito Street, Santa Barbara CA 93103
A collaboration between UCSB Library and Santa Barbara Public Library, the Santa Barbara Community Archives Project invites residents of the Eastside neighborhood and surrounding communities to bring their family photographs and home movies to Santa Barbara Public Library Eastside Branch for FREE digitization by UCSB Library.
During...
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- Tue, 10/25/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
- Thu, 10/27/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is a two-day, example-driven workshop on October 25 and 27, 2022 for an introduction to data processing and visualization with R. Learners will start with basic information about R syntax and the Rstudio interface. By the end, learners will be able to manipulate data and produce simple...
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- Tue, 10/25/2022 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Hybrid in-person and virtual event. Please
RSVP here to receive the Zoom invitation
Please join UCSB Library and punctum books in celebrating International Open Access Week by attending a panel discussion with scholars in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, and Arts. Three UCSB researchers and two guest scholars...
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- Tue, 10/25/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
- Thu, 10/27/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is a two-day, example-driven workshop on October 25 and 27, 2022 for an introduction to data processing and visualization with R. Learners will start with basic information about R syntax and the Rstudio interface. By the end, learners will be able to manipulate data and produce simple...
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- Mon, 10/24/2022 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The UCSB Library will be offering three Zotero Basics workshops for graduate students during the Fall quarter. Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. While the workshops are designed for graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
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- Mon, 10/24/2022 - 8:00am to Sun, 10/30/2022 - 5:00pm
Location:
The University of California is dedicated to making its scholarship freely available to the people of California and beyond. Click here to learn more about open access at the UC and how to participate in initiatives such as the Open Access Publishing Fund, eScholarship, the UC Publication Management System, and more.
Please email openaccess@library.ucsb.edu with...
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Location: Special Research Collections
Join the Library for an open mic afternoon celebrating the rich poetic community of Santa Barbara. Faculty Emerita and acclaimed poet Dr. Shirley Geok-lin Lim will begin the event with a reading of her published poems, including select ones from her new book, In Praise of Limes, and will be followed by poets Stephanie Batiste and Swati Rana of the UCSB Department of English, as well as George...
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- Thu, 10/20/2022 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The UCSB Library will be offering three Zotero Basics workshops for graduate students during the Fall quarter. Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. While the workshops are designed for graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
The “...
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- Tue, 10/18/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
- Wed, 10/19/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
- Thu, 10/20/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is a three-day, example-driven workshop on October 18, 19, and 20, 2022 for an introduction on using the bash terminal, and utilizing the terminal to practice version control with Git. We get you started on how to use the command shell. The use of a shell allows you to perform complex and...
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- Tue, 10/18/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
- Wed, 10/19/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
- Thu, 10/20/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is a three-day, example-driven workshop on October 18, 19, and 20, 2022 for an introduction on using the bash terminal, and utilizing the terminal to practice version control with Git. We get you started on how to use the command shell. The use of a shell allows you to perform complex and...
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- Tue, 10/18/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
- Wed, 10/19/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
- Thu, 10/20/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is a three-day, example-driven workshop on October 18, 19, and 20, 2022 for an introduction on using the bash terminal, and utilizing the terminal to practice version control with Git. We get you started on how to use the command shell. The use of a shell allows you to perform complex and...
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- Tue, 10/11/2022 - 9:30am to 11:30am
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is a hands-on, example-driven workshop on October 11, 2022 for an introduction to data organization in spreadsheets. We will learn how to think about data organization and some practices for more effective data wrangling. Topics this workshop will cover are good data entry practices,...
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- Fri, 10/07/2022 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and Sociology. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and ...
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Location: Special Research Collections
Join the UCSB Library for a short reading and conversation with local Santa Barbara writer Mary Tonetti Dorra, author of the recently published Two Lives on Four Continents: A Double Memoir, which documents both her life and the life of her late husband, UCSB Faculty Emeritus Dr. Henri Dorra, up to the point their lives converge. Mrs. Dorra will discuss her new book and her professional life as a published author, including her creative writing process and...
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- Fri, 09/23/2022 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Location:
Come to the Library for a virtual reality and pop-up makerspace experience!
Pop-Up Makerspace (Room 1575): Learn to sew, watch a 3D printer in action, make a zine, and give us feedback on what you want in the makerspace that will open in the Library later this year. Sponsored by the Library and...
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- Thu, 09/22/2022 - 3:30pm to 5:30pm
Location: Mountain Courtyard
The Library's Annual Reception for Faculty returns this year to the Mountain Courtyard. This social event bring together new and returning faculty from across campus to kick off the 2022 academic year, meet their subject librarians, and hear about current and upcoming Library initiatives.
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- Thu, 09/22/2022 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location:
Come to the Library for a virtual reality and pop-up makerspace experience!
Pop-Up Makerspace (Room 1575): Learn to sew, watch a 3D printer in action, make a zine, and give us feedback on what you want in the makerspace that will open in the Library later this year. Sponsored by the Library and...
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- Mon, 09/19/2022 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
Location:
Come to the Library for a virtual reality and pop-up makerspace experience!
Pop-Up Makerspace (Room 1575): Learn to sew, watch a 3D printer in action, make a zine, and give us feedback on what you want in the makerspace that will open in the Library later this year. Sponsored by the Library and...
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- Tue, 09/06/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 09/07/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 09/08/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 09/09/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Sat, 09/10/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 09/13/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
- Tue, 09/06/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 09/07/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 09/08/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 09/09/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Sat, 09/10/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 09/13/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
- Tue, 09/06/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 09/07/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 09/08/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 09/09/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Sat, 09/10/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 09/13/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
- Tue, 09/06/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 09/07/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 09/08/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 09/09/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Sat, 09/10/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 09/13/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
- Tue, 09/06/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 09/07/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 09/08/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 09/09/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Sat, 09/10/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 09/13/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
- Tue, 09/06/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 09/07/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 09/08/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 09/09/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Sat, 09/10/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 09/13/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
- Tue, 08/30/2022 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: Paseo
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Join UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Special Research Collections for a tour with artist, Jane Gottlieb.
If you look up from the West Paseo, you can’t miss the most...
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- Tue, 08/16/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
- Thu, 08/18/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312, Online
This event is an example-driven two day workshop on August 16 and 18, 2022 for supervised learning for tabular data in R with RStudio. This workshop will require some knowledge of R/RStudio. If you have no prior experience in R/RStudio, we recommend attending the ...
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- Tue, 08/16/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
- Thu, 08/18/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312, Online
This event is an example-driven two day workshop on August 16 and 18, 2022 for supervised learning for tabular data in R with RStudio. This workshop will require some knowledge of R/RStudio. If you have no prior experience in R/RStudio, we recommend attending the ...
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- Tue, 08/09/2022 - 9:00am to 12:30pm
- Thu, 08/11/2022 - 9:00am to 12:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312, Online
This event is an example-driven two day workshop on August 9 and 11, 2022 for using geospatial raster and vector data in R. This workshop will include working with spatial metadata (extent and coordinate reference systems), reprojecting spatial data, and working with raster time series data. This workshop...
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- Tue, 08/09/2022 - 9:00am to 12:30pm
- Thu, 08/11/2022 - 9:00am to 12:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312, Online
This event is an example-driven two day workshop on August 9 and 11, 2022 for using geospatial raster and vector data in R. This workshop will include working with spatial metadata (extent and coordinate reference systems), reprojecting spatial data, and working with raster time series data. This workshop...
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- Tue, 07/26/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 07/28/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312, Online
This event is an example-driven two day workshop on July 26 and 28, 2022 for an introduction to working with data in R/RStudio. Both synchronous remote and in-person attendance will be supported, and there will be two types of tickets (in-person, remote) for you to choose from. Learners will start with...
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- Tue, 07/26/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 07/28/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312, Online
This event is an example-driven two day workshop on July 26 and 28, 2022 for an introduction to working with data in R/RStudio. Both synchronous remote and in-person attendance will be supported, and there will be two types of tickets (in-person, remote) for you to choose from. Learners will start with...
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- Tue, 07/12/2022 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: Special Research Collections
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Join the UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Special Research Collections for a presentation and art showcase with artist Mary Heebner.
Last fall, Santa Barbara-based...
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- Thu, 07/07/2022 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: Special Research Collections
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Join UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Special Research Collections for a tour with art collectors and donors, Fima and Jere Lifshitz.
Twenty-three pieces chosen by...
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- Fri, 06/03/2022 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Take a healthy study break before finals. Nap, meditate and grab snacks. Massages will be available. In collaboration with UCSB Health & Wellness and UCSB ONDAS Student Center.
- Thu, 06/02/2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Please join us for a reception and awards ceremony honoring the six recipients of the Library Award for Undergraduate Research. Prizes of $750 for first place and $500 for second place will go to two students from each of three main disciplines: Sciences & Engineering, Humanities & Fine Arts, and Social Sciences.
- Thu, 05/26/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:30pm
- Fri, 05/27/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509, Online
- Thu, 05/26/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:30pm
- Fri, 05/27/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509, Online
- Mon, 05/23/2022 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The UCSB Library will be offering two Zotero Basics workshops for graduate students during the Spring quarter. Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. While the workshops are designed for graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
The “Zotero Basics” workshops last two hours and will cover all aspects of using...
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- Thu, 05/19/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
UCSB Library and the Writing Program invite you to join us for a presentation of student-created pandemic stories.
During the 2021-2022 academic year, UCSB's
Writing Program led a two-quarter-long creative nonfiction initiative in which a group of students worked with faculty to create multimedia stories about their COVID-19 pandemic experiences.
This event is free...
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Location: Special Research Collections
The Cambodian Vintage Music Archive (CVMA) works to recover and digitally restore vinyl recordings of Cambodian popular music from the pre-Khmer Rouge “golden age” in the highest quality possible. CVMA founders Rotanak (Oro) Oum and Nate Sovannet Hun will speak about the CVMA and their current project to build relationships with surviving families of pre-Khmer Rouge era performers and restore their claims to reproductions of golden era sound recordings.
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- Mon, 05/16/2022 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: Mountain Courtyard
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Join the UCSB Library and Graduate Division for this fun social event. This event is FREE to all current graduate students. RSVP is requested for accurate head count.
**Be sure to bring two forms of ID with you to this event: your UCSB ID card (so we know you're a grad student) and either a passport or driver's license (so we know you're over 21).
- Thu, 05/12/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:30pm
- Fri, 05/13/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509, Online
Library Carpentry: Introduction to...
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- Fri, 05/13/2022 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Online
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Psychological &Brain Sciences and Sociology. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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- Thu, 05/12/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:30pm
- Fri, 05/13/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509, Online
Library Carpentry: Introduction to...
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Location: UCSB Campbell Hall
Event is free but registration through the Arts & Lectures portal is required. Event includes an at-home viewing option (live stream only; no replay). You will still need to register in advance. Learn more here.
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- Thu, 05/05/2022 - 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Location: UCSB Pollock Theater
Reserve Tickets starting April 14.
Adapted from the 1998 short story “Story of Your Life” by acclaimed science fiction author Ted Chiang, Arrival (2016) centers on communicating with tentacular alien visitors, whose language changes one’s experience of time. When twelve mysterious extraterrestrial spacecraft...
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- Thu, 05/05/2022 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The UCSB Library will be offering two Zotero Basics workshops for graduate students during the Spring quarter. Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. While the workshops are designed for graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
The “Zotero Basics” workshops last two hours and will cover all aspects of using...
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- Wed, 05/04/2022 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Online
Join Research Data Services to discuss TDM methods and tools, and how our team can support your classes and projects involving text data mining. Faculty, staff, and students are welcome!
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- Wed, 04/27/2022 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312, Online
Join the Research Data Services team to discuss some good practices for crafting insightful and trustworthy data stories. Faculty, staff, and students are welcome! This event is hybrid and refreshments will be provided for those attending in person.
Location: In-person (UCSB Library RM 1312)/Virtual (Zoom)
- Thu, 04/07/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
- Wed, 04/13/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
- Thu, 04/21/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
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Undergraduate students are invited to join UCSB Library and UCSB Reads 2022 for a three-part Sci-Fi...
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- Tue, 04/19/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
- Thu, 04/21/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Online
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Location: Pacific View Room
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The UCSB Library presents a Pacific Views Series Talk by Roland Geyer, Professor of Industrial Ecology. This event is free and open to the public. If you are unable to attend in person, this event will be live-streamed on the ...
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- Tue, 04/19/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
- Thu, 04/21/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Online
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- Fri, 04/15/2022 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Online
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology & Anthropology. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join industry and academic experts in the quantum field for a panel inspired by Ted Chiang's story "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom." Ted Chiang's
Exhalation: Stories is the
UCSB Reads pick for 2022.
Panelists include...
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- Thu, 04/14/2022 - 2:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Online
- Thu, 04/14/2022 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
In the final story in this year’s UCSB Reads book Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang, quantum computers allow people to explore divergent timelines. At UCSB, scientists are working on developing real quantum computers that do not allow for divergent timelines, but will help address pressing problems such as optimizing delivery routes and strengthening password encryption.
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- Thu, 04/07/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
- Wed, 04/13/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
- Thu, 04/21/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
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Undergraduate students are invited to join UCSB Library and UCSB Reads 2022 for a three-part Sci-Fi...
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- Mon, 04/11/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
- Wed, 04/13/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
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Location: Online
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Join Goleta Valley Library for a virtual discussion of Ted Chiang's latest collection of short stories. Event is in conjunction with UCSB Reads 2022 and is free and open to the public.
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
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Join the UCSB Reads student book club and connect with other students over this year’s UCSB Reads...
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- Mon, 04/11/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
- Wed, 04/13/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
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- Thu, 04/07/2022 - 3:30pm to 6:30pm
- Fri, 04/08/2022 - 3:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: Online
This event is an online, two-day, example-driven workshop on April 7 and 8, 2022 for an introduction to using geospatial data in R. R is commonly used to perform spatial analysis and to generate map graphics in many scientific disciplines. This workshop will focus on visualizing the two basic geospatial data types using sample data from NSF NEON. This workshop will move at a quicker pace...
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Location: Special Research Collections
In Person Registration OR Zoom Registration
Thursday, April 7, 2022
5:00 PM PT Reception
5:30 PM PT Event
UCSB Library Special Research Collections | Mountain Side, 3rd Floor
*Free campus parking will be available
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- Thu, 04/07/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
- Wed, 04/13/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
- Thu, 04/21/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
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Undergraduate students are invited to join UCSB Library and UCSB Reads 2022 for a three-part Sci-Fi...
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- Thu, 04/07/2022 - 3:30pm to 6:30pm
- Fri, 04/08/2022 - 3:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: Online
This event is an online, two-day, example-driven workshop on April 7 and 8, 2022 for an introduction to using geospatial data in R. R is commonly used to perform spatial analysis and to generate map graphics in many scientific disciplines. This workshop will focus on visualizing the two basic geospatial data types using sample data from NSF NEON. This workshop will move at a quicker pace...
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- Wed, 04/06/2022 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312, Online
Join Research Data Services to discuss available digital methods and tools, and how our team can support your classes and projects. Faculty, staff, and students are welcome! This event is hybrid and refreshments will be provided for those attending in person.
Location: In-person (UCSB Library RM 1312)/Virtual (Zoom)
Location: Mountain Courtyard
UCSB Library invites you to join us for a public reception to celebrate the opening of Picture This: From Text to Image, an exhibition of paintings by student artists responding creatively to the UCSB Reads 2022 book Exhalation by Ted Chiang.
Event will include light refreshments and remarks by several students...
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Location: Online
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Santa Barbara Public Library Fiction Book Club will be reading the UCSB Reads 2022 selection Exhalation by Ted Chiang for the March 8 gathering. Open to the public. More information here.
- Tue, 03/08/2022 - 10:00am to 11:00am
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The UCSB Library will be offering four Zotero workshops for graduate students during the Winter quarter. Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. While the workshops are designed for graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
The “Zotero Basics” workshops last two hours and will cover all aspects of using Zotero to...
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- Thu, 03/03/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 03/04/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is a hands-on example-driven 2-day workshop on March 3 & 4, 2022 on project organization and scientific authoring with RStudio.
Participants will build on using their R data analysis skills in RStudio by learning how to create R...
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- Thu, 03/03/2022 - 12:00pm
Location: Online
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PWA, Professional Women's Association, will be joining the 2022 UCSB Reads! UCSB Reads is a program of UCSB Library. We will be reading "Exhalation: Stories" by Ted Chiang for our upcoming Winter 2022 meetings. Read the below stories of the book by the meeting(s) date, no pressure to finish. And join us for a lively discussion.
February 3rd, 12-1pm Meeting - Story 1 -...
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- Thu, 03/03/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 03/04/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is a hands-on example-driven 2-day workshop on March 3 & 4, 2022 on project organization and scientific authoring with RStudio.
Participants will build on using their R data analysis skills in RStudio by learning how to create R...
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- Thu, 02/17/2022 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 02/24/2022 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
- Tue, 03/01/2022 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The UCSB Library will be offering four Zotero workshops for graduate students during the Winter quarter. Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. While the workshops are designed for graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
The “Zotero Basics” workshops last two hours and will cover all aspects of using Zotero to...
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- Thu, 02/24/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
- Fri, 02/25/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Online
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- Thu, 02/17/2022 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 02/24/2022 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
- Tue, 03/01/2022 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The UCSB Library will be offering four Zotero workshops for graduate students during the Winter quarter. Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. While the workshops are designed for graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
The “Zotero Basics” workshops last two hours and will cover all aspects of using Zotero to...
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- Thu, 02/24/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
- Fri, 02/25/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Online
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- Tue, 02/15/2022 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
- Thu, 02/17/2022 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
- Fri, 02/18/2022 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Online
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- Fri, 02/18/2022 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Online
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the...
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- Tue, 02/15/2022 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
- Thu, 02/17/2022 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
- Fri, 02/18/2022 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Online
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- Thu, 02/17/2022 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: Online
Data Carpentry: Intro to Python Programming @NCEAS
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- Thu, 02/17/2022 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 02/24/2022 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
- Tue, 03/01/2022 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The UCSB Library will be offering four Zotero workshops for graduate students during the Winter quarter. Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. While the workshops are designed for graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
The “Zotero Basics” workshops last two hours and will cover all aspects of using Zotero to...
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- Wed, 02/16/2022 - 12:00pm
Location: Online
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UCSB Library and the Center for Innovative Teaching, Research, and Learning (CITRAL) invite you to a moderated discussion about incorporating the UCSB Reads book into a course. Hear from UCSB faculty across the disciplines who have done this successfully and learn how the UCSB Reads program can support your instruction.
Panelists include...
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- Tue, 02/15/2022 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
- Thu, 02/17/2022 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
- Fri, 02/18/2022 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Online
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- Mon, 02/14/2022 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Online
Love Data Week 2022: How to Not Lie with Data:...
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- Mon, 02/07/2022 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
- Wed, 02/09/2022 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
- Fri, 02/11/2022 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Online
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- Mon, 02/07/2022 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
- Wed, 02/09/2022 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
- Fri, 02/11/2022 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Online
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Location: Online
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Please join UCSB Library for an interdisciplinary discussion of the UCSB Reads 2022 book Exhalation by Ted Chiang. Panelists include Rudy Busto (Religious Studies), Jane Callister (Art), erin Khuê Ninh (Asian American Studies), Misha Sra (Computer Science), Sharon Tettegah (Black Studies). Moderated by David Weld (Physics).
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- Tue, 02/08/2022 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
Whether you are just getting started or have already started your research project, this workshop will help you start organizing your research timeline, notes, and other important information all in one place. We'll be using bullet journal techniques to create a temporal map for your research agenda, create task lists, and more.
Bring your...
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- Mon, 02/07/2022 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
- Wed, 02/09/2022 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
- Fri, 02/11/2022 - 4:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Online
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- Fri, 02/04/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven one-day workshop on Friday, February 4th, 2022 at NCEAS Downtown Campus for introduction to relational databases and SQL. Participants will need to install sqlite3 or DB Browser onto their devices; if you have Anaconda, it comes with sqlite3. Concepts covered include data organization, querying large amounts of data, and quality...
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Location: Online
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Pour a glass of wine and join the UCSB Library for a virtual presentation on the history of winemaking on the Santa Cruz and Catalina Islands, as well as a review of the viticultural tie-in between the two islands. This lecture will be presented by Geoff Rusack, owner of RUSACK Vineyards and CEO of the Santa Catalina Island Company.
- Tue, 02/01/2022 - 10:00am
Location: Paseo
This event will be held outside, in front of the Library's West Paseo entrance.
UCSB Library will hand out free copies of the UCSB Reads 2022 book to UCSB students while supplies last. The 2022 selection is Exhalation: Stories, a...
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- Mon, 01/31/2022 - 3:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: Online
This event is a one day, example-driven workshop for introduction to using Git Pages for online self-publication....
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- Fri, 01/28/2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is a one day, example-driven workshop on ...
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Location: Online
This talk is in conjunction with the
UCSB Reads 2022 book
Exhalation by Ted Chiang, a collection of short stories that addresses essential questions about human and computer interaction, including...
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- Fri, 01/21/2022 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Online
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Environmental Studies and Religious Studies. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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- Wed, 01/12/2022 - 9:00am to 1:00pm
- Fri, 01/14/2022 - 9:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Online
This event is a two day example-driven workshop on ...
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- Wed, 01/12/2022 - 9:00am to 1:00pm
- Fri, 01/14/2022 - 9:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Online
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- Tue, 01/04/2022 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm
- Fri, 01/07/2022 - 9:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
This event is an example-driven two-day workshop on January 4 and 7th, 2022 at NCEAS Downtown Campus for introduction to data visualization and pandas libraries with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface in JupyterLabs. Participants will need to install ...
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- Tue, 01/04/2022 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm
- Fri, 01/07/2022 - 9:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
This event is an example-driven two-day workshop on January 4 and 7th, 2022 at NCEAS Downtown Campus for introduction to data visualization and pandas libraries with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface in JupyterLabs. Participants will need to install ...
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- Tue, 11/16/2021 - 11:00am to 5:00pm
- Wed, 11/17/2021 - 11:00am to 5:00pm
- Thu, 11/18/2021 - 11:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Online
Register now for the UC GIS Week conference from Nov. 16th - 18th!
The University of California GIS Week is an opportunity for you to learn and engage with experts and...
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Location: Online
Register for Zoom Webinar
UCSB Library is please to co-sponsor this virtual conversation between William Wang, Director, Center for Responsible Machine Learning and Mellichamp Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence at UCSB and Kai-Fu Lee.
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee has spent more than three...
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- Tue, 11/16/2021 - 11:00am to 5:00pm
- Wed, 11/17/2021 - 11:00am to 5:00pm
- Thu, 11/18/2021 - 11:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Online
Register now for the UC GIS Week conference from Nov. 16th - 18th!
The University of California GIS Week is an opportunity for you to learn and engage with experts and...
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- Tue, 11/16/2021 - 11:00am to 5:00pm
- Wed, 11/17/2021 - 11:00am to 5:00pm
- Thu, 11/18/2021 - 11:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Online
Register now for the UC GIS Week conference from Nov. 16th - 18th!
The University of California GIS Week is an opportunity for you to learn and engage with experts and...
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- Fri, 11/12/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Online
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology & Music. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the ...
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- Tue, 11/09/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: Online
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Through a partnership with Esri, UCSB faculty, staff, and students have access to a wide range of software and solutions for mapping and analysis of geographic data.
Join this webinar to learn about UCSB’s software license with Esri, what tools you have access to, and how you can use those tools for your geographic work. The presentation includes demonstrations from Esri...
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- Thu, 11/04/2021 - 9:00am to 11:00am
- Fri, 11/05/2021 - 9:00am to 11:00am
Location: Online
This event is a two day, example-driven workshop for introduction to SQL and relational databases. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. This lesson will teach you what relational databases are, how you can load data into them and how you can query databases to...
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- Thu, 11/04/2021 - 9:00am to 11:00am
- Fri, 11/05/2021 - 9:00am to 11:00am
Location: Online
This event is a two day, example-driven workshop for introduction to SQL and relational databases. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. This lesson will teach you what relational databases are, how you can load data into them and how you can query databases to...
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- Tue, 11/02/2021 - 3:30pm to 5:30pm
Location: Mountain Courtyard
The Library's Annual Reception for Faculty returns this year to the Mountain Courtyard. This social event bring together new and returning faculty from across campus to kick off the 2021 academic year, meet their subject librarians, and hear about current and upcoming Library initiatives.
This event was originally scheduled for October 13 but cancelled due to smoke from the Alisal Fire.
RSVP for the Annual Reception...
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- Mon, 10/25/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Tue, 10/26/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Wed, 10/27/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Thu, 10/28/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Fri, 10/29/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Paseo
Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.
During Open Access Week UCSB Library will host an information table in the Paseo. Stop by for information on open access...
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- Fri, 10/29/2021 - 8:00am to Fri, 11/05/2021 - 6:00pm
Location: Ethnic & Gender Studies Collection
Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a holiday from Mexico with origins dating back to the Aztecs. Now a global festivity, it is celebrated wherever the Mexican diaspora exists. Traditionally, people build altars in their home and decorate them with ofrendas: offering for the dead. The most common offerings are: tamales, chiles, water, tequila and pan de muerto, a specific bread for the...
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- Mon, 10/25/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Tue, 10/26/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Wed, 10/27/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Thu, 10/28/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Fri, 10/29/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Paseo
Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.
During Open Access Week UCSB Library will host an information table in the Paseo. Stop by for information on open access...
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- Mon, 10/25/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Tue, 10/26/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Wed, 10/27/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Thu, 10/28/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Fri, 10/29/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Paseo
Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.
During Open Access Week UCSB Library will host an information table in the Paseo. Stop by for information on open access...
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Location: Pacific View Room
- Mon, 10/25/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Tue, 10/26/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Wed, 10/27/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Thu, 10/28/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Fri, 10/29/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Paseo
Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.
During Open Access Week UCSB Library will host an information table in the Paseo. Stop by for information on open access...
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- Mon, 10/25/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Tue, 10/26/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Wed, 10/27/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Thu, 10/28/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
- Fri, 10/29/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Paseo
Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.
During Open Access Week UCSB Library will host an information table in the Paseo. Stop by for information on open access...
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- Tue, 10/19/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 10/20/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 10/21/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 10/22/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven 4-day workshop on October 19 - 22, 2021 for introduction to data visualization with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface through JupyterLabs. Learners should install Anaconda on their devices prior to the workshop. ...
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- Tue, 10/19/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 10/20/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 10/21/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 10/22/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven 4-day workshop on October 19 - 22, 2021 for introduction to data visualization with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface through JupyterLabs. Learners should install Anaconda on their devices prior to the workshop. ...
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- Wed, 10/20/2021 - 12:00pm
Location: Online
Please join us for a virtual conversation about the history and contributions of Filipina/o Americans on the Central Coast. This event is in conjunction with UCSB Library's exhibition
Postcards from Salinas, on display in the Library's Ocean Gallery beginning October 1, 2021.
Panelists...
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- Tue, 10/19/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 10/20/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 10/21/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 10/22/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven 4-day workshop on October 19 - 22, 2021 for introduction to data visualization with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface through JupyterLabs. Learners should install Anaconda on their devices prior to the workshop. ...
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- Tue, 10/19/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 10/20/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 10/21/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 10/22/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven 4-day workshop on October 19 - 22, 2021 for introduction to data visualization with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface through JupyterLabs. Learners should install Anaconda on their devices prior to the workshop. ...
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- Fri, 10/15/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Online
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in History and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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- Thu, 10/14/2021 - 9:00am to 11:30am
- Fri, 10/15/2021 - 9:00am to 11:30am
Location: Online
This event is a two day example-driven workshop on October 14 and 15, 2021 for introduction to using version control with Git. This workshop builds on the skills presented in a Bash workshop offered on October 12 and 13, 2021. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have...
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- Thu, 10/14/2021 - 9:00am to 11:30am
- Fri, 10/15/2021 - 9:00am to 11:30am
Location: Online
This event is a two day example-driven workshop on October 14 and 15, 2021 for introduction to using version control with Git. This workshop builds on the skills presented in a Bash workshop offered on October 12 and 13, 2021. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have...
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- Tue, 10/12/2021 - 9:00am to 11:30am
- Wed, 10/13/2021 - 9:00am to 11:30am
Location: Online
This event is a two day example-driven workshop on October 12 and 13, 2021 for introduction to using the Bash/Shell.Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. You should be using a Windows, Mac, or...
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- Tue, 10/12/2021 - 9:00am to 11:30am
- Wed, 10/13/2021 - 9:00am to 11:30am
Location: Online
This event is a two day example-driven workshop on October 12 and 13, 2021 for introduction to using the Bash/Shell.Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. You should be using a Windows, Mac, or...
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- Mon, 09/20/2021 - 8:00am to Fri, 09/24/2021 - 5:00pm
Location: Paseo
Stop by the UCSB Library from 11am to 2pm during Week of Welcome to learn more about how the Library can get you what you need to succeed!
Take our Clue Me In!...
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- Mon, 08/23/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 08/24/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 08/25/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 08/26/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven 4-day workshop on August 23 - 26, 2021 for introduction to data visualization with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface.
Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and...
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- Mon, 08/23/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 08/24/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 08/25/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 08/26/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven 4-day workshop on August 23 - 26, 2021 for introduction to data visualization with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface.
Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and...
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- Mon, 08/23/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 08/24/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 08/25/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 08/26/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven 4-day workshop on August 23 - 26, 2021 for introduction to data visualization with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface.
Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and...
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- Mon, 08/23/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 08/24/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 08/25/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 08/26/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven 4-day workshop on August 23 - 26, 2021 for introduction to data visualization with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface.
Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and...
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- Mon, 08/16/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 08/17/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 08/18/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 08/19/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is a 4-day, example-driven workshop for introduction to R programming. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. This workshop will focus on the basics...
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- Mon, 08/16/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 08/17/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 08/18/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 08/19/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is a 4-day, example-driven workshop for introduction to R programming. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. This workshop will focus on the basics...
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- Mon, 08/16/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 08/17/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 08/18/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 08/19/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is a 4-day, example-driven workshop for introduction to R programming. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. This workshop will focus on the basics...
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- Mon, 08/16/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 08/17/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 08/18/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 08/19/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is a 4-day, example-driven workshop for introduction to R programming. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. This workshop will focus on the basics...
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- Fri, 08/13/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Online
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in History and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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- Wed, 08/11/2021 - 9:00am to 11:00am
- Thu, 08/12/2021 - 9:00am to 11:00am
Location: Online
This event is a two day example-driven workshop on August 11 and 12, 2021 for introduction to using version control with Git. This workshop builds on the skills presented in a Bash workshop offered on August 9 and 10, 2021. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have...
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- Wed, 08/11/2021 - 9:00am to 11:00am
- Thu, 08/12/2021 - 9:00am to 11:00am
Location: Online
This event is a two day example-driven workshop on August 11 and 12, 2021 for introduction to using version control with Git. This workshop builds on the skills presented in a Bash workshop offered on August 9 and 10, 2021. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have...
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- Mon, 08/09/2021 - 9:00am to 11:00am
- Tue, 08/10/2021 - 9:00am to 11:00am
Location: Online
This event is a two day example-driven workshop on August 9 and 10, 2021 for introduction to using the Bash/Shell.Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring your own laptop to...
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- Mon, 08/09/2021 - 9:00am to 11:00am
- Tue, 08/10/2021 - 9:00am to 11:00am
Location: Online
This event is a two day example-driven workshop on August 9 and 10, 2021 for introduction to using the Bash/Shell.Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring your own laptop to...
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- Fri, 07/16/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Online
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Physics and East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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- Thu, 07/08/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Online
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- Fri, 06/04/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Online
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Counseling, Clinical, & School Psychology and Physics. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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- Thu, 05/20/2021 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: Online
The UCSB Library will be offering two Zotero workshops for graduate students during the spring quarter. The workshops will be conducted over Zoom and are scheduled for:
- Tuesday, May 11 from 10am-12pm
- Thursday, May 20 from 1-3pm
Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies.These workshops are designed for beginners, but tips will be shared...
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- Fri, 05/14/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Online
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Counseling, Clinical, & School Psychology and Physics. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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- Fri, 05/14/2021 - 11:00am
Location: Online
- Wed, 05/12/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 05/13/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 05/14/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This is a 3 day, example-driven workshop for introduction to using geospatial data in R. R is commonly used to perform spatial analysis and to generate map graphics in many scientific disciplines. This workshop will focus on visualizing the two basic geospatial data types using sample data from NSF NEON. This workshop will...
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- Wed, 05/12/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 05/13/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 05/14/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This is a 3 day, example-driven workshop for introduction to using geospatial data in R. R is commonly used to perform spatial analysis and to generate map graphics in many scientific disciplines. This workshop will focus on visualizing the two basic geospatial data types using sample data from NSF NEON. This workshop will...
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Location: Online
Please note that Arts & Lectures is UCSB Library's partner for this event and advance registration through their website is required. You will be required to create a free UCSB Arts & Lectures account. Register Here
You will be able to replay the talk for one week following the event.
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- Wed, 05/12/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 05/13/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 05/14/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This is a 3 day, example-driven workshop for introduction to using geospatial data in R. R is commonly used to perform spatial analysis and to generate map graphics in many scientific disciplines. This workshop will focus on visualizing the two basic geospatial data types using sample data from NSF NEON. This workshop will...
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- Tue, 05/11/2021 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
The UCSB Library will be offering two Zotero workshops for graduate students during the spring quarter. The workshops will be conducted over Zoom and are scheduled for:
- Tuesday, May 11 from 10am-12pm
- Thursday, May 20 from 1-3pm
Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies.These workshops are designed for beginners, but tips will be shared...
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- Thu, 05/06/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 05/07/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This is a 2 day, example-driven workshop for introduction to R programming. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. This workshop will focus on the basics of R...
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- Thu, 05/06/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 05/07/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This is a 2 day, example-driven workshop for introduction to R programming. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. This workshop will focus on the basics of R...
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Location: Online
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40 Years A Prisoner (2020) chronicles the controversial 1978 Philadelphia police raid on the radical back-to-nature group MOVE and a son’s decades-long fight to free his parents from prison in the aftermath. Directed by Tommy Oliver (1982...
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- Fri, 04/16/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 04/23/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 04/30/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This three-week workshop series co-taught between UC Merced and UC Santa Barbara teaches the fundamentals of working with messy data. If you're in the humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences and you have messy data, this workshop will help you:
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Location: Online
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Event is free and open to the public. A Zoom link and password will be emailed on April 26th to all registered...
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Location: Online
View a recording of the event
Media representations of minorities, and how they’re shared in our society in the news, media, and social media can adversely affect how minorities see themselves and how others perceive them.
Despite these challenges, continued and unjust disadvantages are known to empower collective action...
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- Fri, 04/16/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 04/23/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 04/30/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This three-week workshop series co-taught between UC Merced and UC Santa Barbara teaches the fundamentals of working with messy data. If you're in the humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences and you have messy data, this workshop will help you:
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- Wed, 04/21/2021 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: Online
Register Here for this virtual event.
Pour a glass of wine and join the UCSB Library for a screening of America’s Wine: The Legacy of Prohibition, a documentary that offers an unprecedented overview of the legacy of National Prohibition and its continuing impact on the wine industry...
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Location: Online
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There is mounting evidence that economically disadvantaged and racial minority communities bear a greater share of environmental harms. This systematic pattern can be found across the world and over time. In California, existing large disparities in pollution exposure underlie many environmental justice concerns.
At the same time, policymakers increasingly rely on market-...
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- Fri, 04/16/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 04/23/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 04/30/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This three-week workshop series co-taught between UC Merced and UC Santa Barbara teaches the fundamentals of working with messy data. If you're in the humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences and you have messy data, this workshop will help you:
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Location: Online
Register Here
Want to meet other Gauchos who care about racial justice?
The UCSB Library is organizing student-led small group reading discussions for UCSB students to dive into the UCSB Reads 2021 book When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by...
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- Fri, 04/02/2021 - 12:00pm
Location: Online
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Want to meet other Gauchos who care about racial justice?
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Location: Online
Event video linked here.
UCSB Library and the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music present a talk by Alexandra Hui, part of the annual CISM in the Archive series featuring presentations by scholars highlighting sound recording materials in the Library’s Special Research Collections.
Hui will discuss the internal studies and large public survey performed by the Edison-Carnegie...
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- Wed, 03/17/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Online
Join the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity and the UCSB Library for a zine making club! Join us via Zoom for drop-in zine making sessions from 12:00 to 1:00PM. All contributions to the zine will be included in the 2020-21 issue!
Everyone is welcome. You can even request a zine kit to be mailed to you!...
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Location: Online
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Want to meet other Gauchos who care about racial justice?
The UCSB Library is organizing student-led small group reading discussions for UCSB students to dive into the UCSB Reads 2021 book When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Cullors and asha bandele. You’ll have...
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- Fri, 03/12/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: Online
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Counseling, Clinical, & School Psychology and Physics. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the ...
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Location: Online
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Want to meet other Gauchos who care about racial justice?
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Location: Online
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Event is free and open to the public. A Zoom link and password will be emailed on February 22nd to all registered attendees.
Join UCSB Library for the third annual UCSB Reads Zine workshop, now...
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- Thu, 02/18/2021 - 8:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 02/19/2021 - 8:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven two day workshop on February 18 and 19, 2021 for introduction to data visualization with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface. We will work with the Pandas and Plotnine packages going over data frames and plotting.
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- Tue, 02/09/2021 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 02/18/2021 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: Online
The UCSB Library will be offering two Zotero workshops for graduate students during the Winter quarter. The workshops will be conducted over Zoom and are scheduled for:
Tuesday, February 9: 10 am – 12 pm
Thursday, February 18: 1-3 pm
Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. These workshops are designed for beginners, but tips will be shared that...
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- Thu, 02/18/2021 - 8:00am to 12:00pm
- Fri, 02/19/2021 - 8:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven two day workshop on February 18 and 19, 2021 for introduction to data visualization with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface. We will work with the Pandas and Plotnine packages going over data frames and plotting.
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- Wed, 02/17/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Online
Join the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity and the UCSB Library for a zine making club! Join us via Zoom for drop-in zine making sessions from 12:00 to 1:00PM. All contributions to the zine will be included in the 2020-21 issue!
Everyone is welcome. You can even request a zine kit to be mailed to you!...
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- Fri, 02/12/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Online
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Linguistics and Computer Science. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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- Fri, 02/12/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Online
Have you ever wanted to harvest data off a website that was not already in an analysis-friendly format? If so, this web scraping workshop is for you! Web scraping can be done entirely manually but it is usually faster, more efficient and less error-prone if automated. UCSB Research Data Services will navigate you through some basic web scraping techniques including how to use XPath and the Chrome web...
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- Thu, 02/11/2021 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Location: Online
This is a demo for using twarc. twarc is a command line tool and Python library for gathering and working with Twitter JSON data via the public Twitter API. Emerging from the Black Lives Matter and Document the Now movements, twarc comes along with a loose set of community standards that respect the autonomy of the user and aligns with the EU's GDPR and Twitter's terms of service. As part of...
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- Tue, 02/09/2021 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 02/18/2021 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: Online
The UCSB Library will be offering two Zotero workshops for graduate students during the Winter quarter. The workshops will be conducted over Zoom and are scheduled for:
Tuesday, February 9: 10 am – 12 pm
Thursday, February 18: 1-3 pm
Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. These workshops are designed for beginners, but tips will be shared that...
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Location: Online
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In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2021, UCSB Library, the Art Department, and the College of Creative Studies are happy to present this event with Tia Blassingame, a book artist and printmaker whose work explores the...
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Join Sameer Pandya and Terence Keel for a discussion of Pandya’s recent novel Members Only, which engages with issues of racial politics and campus culture and considers the nature of brownness.
Sameer Pandya is an Assistant Professor in UCSB’s Department of Asian American Studies and author of the story collection The Blind Writer, which was long-listed...
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- Fri, 01/22/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven morning workshop on ...
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- Thu, 01/21/2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven morning workshop on ...
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- Wed, 01/20/2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Online
This event has been canceled. We hope you will join us for the February Zine Club.
Join the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity and the UCSB Library for a zine making club! Join us via Zoom for drop-in zine making sessions from 12:00 to 1:00PM. All contributions to the zine will be included in the 2020-21 issue!
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- Fri, 01/15/2021 - 12:00pm to 12:15pm
Location: Online
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in English and Psychological & Brain Sciences. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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- Mon, 01/11/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
- Tue, 01/12/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
- Wed, 01/13/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
- Thu, 01/14/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
- Fri, 01/15/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
Students living on or near campus will have the option to pick up a free copy of the UCSB Reads 2021 book from UCSB Bookstore daily January 11th - January 15th during the window walk up hours 11AM to 1pm while supplies last. The 2021 selection is When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Cullors and asha...
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- Mon, 01/11/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
- Tue, 01/12/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
- Wed, 01/13/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
- Thu, 01/14/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
- Fri, 01/15/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
Students living on or near campus will have the option to pick up a free copy of the UCSB Reads 2021 book from UCSB Bookstore daily January 11th - January 15th during the window walk up hours 11AM to 1pm while supplies last. The 2021 selection is When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Cullors and asha...
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- Mon, 01/11/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
- Tue, 01/12/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
- Wed, 01/13/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
- Thu, 01/14/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
- Fri, 01/15/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
Students living on or near campus will have the option to pick up a free copy of the UCSB Reads 2021 book from UCSB Bookstore daily January 11th - January 15th during the window walk up hours 11AM to 1pm while supplies last. The 2021 selection is When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Cullors and asha...
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- Mon, 01/11/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
- Tue, 01/12/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
- Wed, 01/13/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
- Thu, 01/14/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
- Fri, 01/15/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
Students living on or near campus will have the option to pick up a free copy of the UCSB Reads 2021 book from UCSB Bookstore daily January 11th - January 15th during the window walk up hours 11AM to 1pm while supplies last. The 2021 selection is When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Cullors and asha...
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- Mon, 01/11/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
- Tue, 01/12/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
- Wed, 01/13/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
- Thu, 01/14/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
- Fri, 01/15/2021 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
Students living on or near campus will have the option to pick up a free copy of the UCSB Reads 2021 book from UCSB Bookstore daily January 11th - January 15th during the window walk up hours 11AM to 1pm while supplies last. The 2021 selection is When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Cullors and asha...
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Location: Online
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Audio cylinders contain some of the earliest recordings made and heard by the public over a century ago. The UCSB Library has long played a leadership role in preserving and making these recordings accessible. Less well known is the important role of private collectors in these preservation efforts.
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- Thu, 10/15/2020 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
- Thu, 11/12/2020 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
- Thu, 12/17/2020 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Online
Join the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity (RCSGD) and the UCSB Library for a zine making club! Join us via Zoom for drop-in zine making sessions from 6:00 to 7:00PM. All contributions to the zine will be included in the Fall issue, dropping in December!
Everyone is welcome. You can even request a zine kit to be...
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- Wed, 12/16/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 12/17/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
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Join us for a carpentry-style R Markdown workshop for scientific authoring developed by your own UCSB Carpentry Team. Participants will build on using their R data analysis skills in R Studio by learning how to create R Markdown documents that combine analysis and narrative. R Markdown makes it possible to work on a whole research project from within R Studio in an easily reproducible manner: from data upload, cleaning, and analysis, to writing your paper, adding figures,...
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- Wed, 12/16/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 12/17/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
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Join us for a carpentry-style R Markdown workshop for scientific authoring developed by your own UCSB Carpentry Team. Participants will build on using their R data analysis skills in R Studio by learning how to create R Markdown documents that combine analysis and narrative. R Markdown makes it possible to work on a whole research project from within R Studio in an easily reproducible manner: from data upload, cleaning, and analysis, to writing your paper, adding figures,...
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- Thu, 11/19/2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Online
UCSB Library is pleased to co-sponsor this lecture with artist, writer and producer Mitchell Kriegman. Kriegman will discuss how writers, choreographers, painters, composers and other creatives assert “authorship” and what it means to be an artist and the creative endeavor in the broad all...
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- Tue, 11/17/2020 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Online
Come Join Us For First-Gen Zine Night
Join us for a night of community-building and artistic expression! Learn from librarians about the craft of zine-making while developing your own artwork. Students will have the option of submitting their work to UCSB Library's Covid-19 Community Archives Project.
This event is co-sponsored by Ondas Student Center, UCSB EOP, and UCSB Library.
Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/...
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- Tue, 11/17/2020 - 11:00am to Thu, 11/19/2020 - 5:00pm
Location: Online
The UC GIS Week committee is proud to announce the first UC-Wide Gis Week. Join us for a 3-day virtual conference which celebrates the GIS work of the University of California faculty, staff, and students. The University of California System is holding an inaugural UC GIS Week on November 17th – 19th, 2020. We will celebrate all things mapping and geospatial. In light of the challenging times, we are coming together virtually to share our work with our community. If you are...
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- Mon, 11/16/2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Online
Students Wanted for "Deep Dish" Focus Group
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Join the University Librarian for a focus group conversation on how the Library can continue to serve and engage students during this time. Confirmed attendees will each receive a $15 Amazon gift card.
Monday, November 16, 4-5PM
- Fri, 11/13/2020 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Online
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Sociology and Computer & Electrical Engineering. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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- Thu, 10/15/2020 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
- Thu, 11/12/2020 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
- Thu, 12/17/2020 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Online
Join the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity (RCSGD) and the UCSB Library for a zine making club! Join us via Zoom for drop-in zine making sessions from 6:00 to 7:00PM. All contributions to the zine will be included in the Fall issue, dropping in December!
Everyone is welcome. You can even request a zine kit to be...
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- Mon, 11/09/2020 - 9:00am to 11:30am
- Tue, 11/10/2020 - 9:00am to 11:30am
Location: Online
This event is a two day, example-driven workshop introducing data scrubbing with OpenRefine. OpenRefine is a free, Open Source tool for working with messy tabular data. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged to help one another and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. The workshop runs from 9AM - 11:30AM.
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- Mon, 11/09/2020 - 9:00am to 11:30am
- Tue, 11/10/2020 - 9:00am to 11:30am
Location: Online
This event is a two day, example-driven workshop introducing data scrubbing with OpenRefine. OpenRefine is a free, Open Source tool for working with messy tabular data. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged to help one another and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. The workshop runs from 9AM - 11:30AM.
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- Thu, 11/05/2020 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm
- Thu, 11/05/2020 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: Online
UCSB Library is pleased to co-sponsor two events organized by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) as part of their Critical Mass series. The first event is a discussion on collecting and hording between William Davies King (UCSB Theater & Dance) and Rebecca Falkoff (New York University). The second is a staged reading of King's play...
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- Thu, 11/05/2020 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm
- Thu, 11/05/2020 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: Online
UCSB Library is pleased to co-sponsor two events organized by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) as part of their Critical Mass series. The first event is a discussion on collecting and hording between William Davies King (UCSB Theater & Dance) and Rebecca Falkoff (New York University). The second is a staged reading of King's play...
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- Fri, 10/30/2020 - 9:00am to 11:45am
Location: Online
This half-day workshop will be presented by ESRI Senior Researcher for Spatial Statistics Dr. Orhun Adyin. The workshop is intended for data scientists who want to gain understanding at the intersection of spatial analysis and machine learning. Attendees will gain understanding and working knowledge of spatial machine learning and...
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- Thu, 10/29/2020 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Online
Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. These workshops are designed for beginners, but tips will be shared that will help even experienced users. While the workshops are designed for graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
Please sign up for a specific session by filling out the registration form at ...
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- Wed, 10/28/2020 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Online
Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. These workshops are designed for beginners, but tips will be shared that will help even experienced users. While the workshops are designed for graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
Please sign up for a specific session...
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Location: Online
View a recording of the event.
Like today’s Movement for Black Lives, the 1960s Black Power movement was a critical moment when radical ideas suddenly took hold and unprecedented opportunities emerged for transformational change. While today’s activists look to the Black Panther Party (BPP) for inspiration and lessons, the...
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- Fri, 10/09/2020 - 8:30am to 11:30am
- Fri, 10/16/2020 - 8:30am to 11:30am
- Fri, 10/23/2020 - 8:30am to 11:30am
Location: Online
This is a 3 day, example-driven workshop for introduction to R programming. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. This workshop will focus on data...
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Location: Online
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Please join UCSB Library for an inspired by a class project and exhibition highlighting the history of disability culture and activism at UCSB.
Students from Jesse Miller's Winter 2020 “Disability Aesthetics" (ENGL 170DA) course will discuss their class...
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- Wed, 10/21/2020 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. These workshops are designed for beginners, but tips will be shared that will help even experienced users. While the workshops are designed for graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
Please sign up for a specific session by filling out the registration form at ...
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Location: Online
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In honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month and the 30th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Carsey-Wolf Center and UCSB Library are delighted to host a virtual discussion with the...
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- Tue, 10/20/2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Online
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Please join us for a “behind the stacks” look into the fascinating work performed by our Library curators, librarians, and specialists. While the physical Library space may be closed, our staff is still hard at work curating collections, expanding subject libraries, and developing innovative methods of academic support.
Featured Panelists:
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- Fri, 10/16/2020 - 12:00pm
Location: Online
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Sociology and Computer & Electrical Engineering. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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- Fri, 10/09/2020 - 8:30am to 11:30am
- Fri, 10/16/2020 - 8:30am to 11:30am
- Fri, 10/23/2020 - 8:30am to 11:30am
Location: Online
This is a 3 day, example-driven workshop for introduction to R programming. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. This workshop will focus on data...
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- Thu, 10/15/2020 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
- Thu, 11/12/2020 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
- Thu, 12/17/2020 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Online
Join the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity (RCSGD) and the UCSB Library for a zine making club! Join us via Zoom for drop-in zine making sessions from 6:00 to 7:00PM. All contributions to the zine will be included in the Fall issue, dropping in December!
Everyone is welcome. You can even request a zine kit to be...
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- Tue, 10/13/2020 - 1:00pm to Fri, 10/30/2020 - 11:00am
Location: Online
Want to meet other Gauchos who care about racial justice?
UCSB Library is organizing student-led small group reading discussions for UCSB students to dive into the titles on the UCSB Reads shortlist, which includes memoirs,...
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- Fri, 10/09/2020 - 8:30am to 11:30am
- Fri, 10/16/2020 - 8:30am to 11:30am
- Fri, 10/23/2020 - 8:30am to 11:30am
Location: Online
This is a 3 day, example-driven workshop for introduction to R programming. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. This workshop will focus on data...
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- Tue, 10/06/2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Online
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Please join us for a “behind the stacks” look into the fascinating work performed by our Library curators, librarians, and specialists. While the physical Library space may be closed, our staff is still hard at work curating collections, expanding subject libraries, and developing innovative methods of academic support.
Featured panelists:
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- Thu, 10/01/2020 - 8:00am to Thu, 10/08/2020 - 11:30pm
Location: Online
The Library is pleased to present its first virtual escape room “Escape the Library” created by Librarians Heather Nisen, Mary-Michelle Moore, and Staff Marcos Aguilar for this year's Fall Campus Welcome.
Join us with your friends or solo and escape the library after hours, in this 60 minute race against the clock!
Those who complete the Escape and a short survey between October 1st and October 8th will be entered into a raffle of $300 of...
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- Tue, 09/22/2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Online
Please join us for a “behind the stacks” look into the fascinating work performed by our Library curators, librarians, and specialists. While the physical Library space may be closed, our staff is still hard at work curating collections, expanding subject libraries, and developing innovative methods of academic support.
Featured panelists:
- Danelle Moon, Head of Special Research Collections
- David Seubert, Curator of the Performing Arts...
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- Wed, 09/09/2020 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Online
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Psychological and Brain Sciences and English. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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- Thu, 07/30/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/06/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/13/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/20/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/27/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 09/03/2020 - 5:00pm
Location: Online
In collaboration with UCSB Library, Health & Wellness is hosting its first Health & Wellness book club! Each week through September 10, UCSB Health & Wellness staff will lead a discussion of Brené Brown's book The Gifts of Imperfection. Didn't get to the reading this week? Join us anyway! Come as you are and explore what it might look like to live a "whole hearted" life.
Book: The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
Thursdays: 5:00...
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- Wed, 08/19/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 08/20/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 08/26/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 08/27/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 09/02/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example driven workshop series for basic python computing. non-programmers or novice programmers in this series will learn to write code and learn best practices for using Python for data analysis. Python is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis and computing. We will meet for 3 hours from 9AM - 12PM every Wednesday and Thursday on August 19, 20, 26, 27, and September 2. Short tutorials alternate...
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- Mon, 08/17/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 08/18/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Mon, 08/24/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 08/25/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 09/01/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven workshop series for basic computing covering the R Studio Interface and data skills and analysis for R. We will meet for 3 hours from 9AM - 12PM every Monday and Tuesday on August 17, 18, 24, 25, and September 1. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help...
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- Thu, 07/30/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/06/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/13/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/20/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/27/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 09/03/2020 - 5:00pm
Location: Online
In collaboration with UCSB Library, Health & Wellness is hosting its first Health & Wellness book club! Each week through September 10, UCSB Health & Wellness staff will lead a discussion of Brené Brown's book The Gifts of Imperfection. Didn't get to the reading this week? Join us anyway! Come as you are and explore what it might look like to live a "whole hearted" life.
Book: The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
Thursdays: 5:00...
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- Wed, 08/19/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 08/20/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 08/26/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 08/27/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 09/02/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example driven workshop series for basic python computing. non-programmers or novice programmers in this series will learn to write code and learn best practices for using Python for data analysis. Python is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis and computing. We will meet for 3 hours from 9AM - 12PM every Wednesday and Thursday on August 19, 20, 26, 27, and September 2. Short tutorials alternate...
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- Wed, 08/19/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 08/20/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 08/26/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 08/27/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 09/02/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example driven workshop series for basic python computing. non-programmers or novice programmers in this series will learn to write code and learn best practices for using Python for data analysis. Python is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis and computing. We will meet for 3 hours from 9AM - 12PM every Wednesday and Thursday on August 19, 20, 26, 27, and September 2. Short tutorials alternate...
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- Mon, 08/17/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 08/18/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Mon, 08/24/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 08/25/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 09/01/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven workshop series for basic computing covering the R Studio Interface and data skills and analysis for R. We will meet for 3 hours from 9AM - 12PM every Monday and Tuesday on August 17, 18, 24, 25, and September 1. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help...
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- Mon, 08/17/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 08/18/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Mon, 08/24/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 08/25/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 09/01/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven workshop series for basic computing covering the R Studio Interface and data skills and analysis for R. We will meet for 3 hours from 9AM - 12PM every Monday and Tuesday on August 17, 18, 24, 25, and September 1. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help...
More
- Thu, 07/30/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/06/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/13/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/20/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/27/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 09/03/2020 - 5:00pm
Location: Online
In collaboration with UCSB Library, Health & Wellness is hosting its first Health & Wellness book club! Each week through September 10, UCSB Health & Wellness staff will lead a discussion of Brené Brown's book The Gifts of Imperfection. Didn't get to the reading this week? Join us anyway! Come as you are and explore what it might look like to live a "whole hearted" life.
Book: The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
Thursdays: 5:00...
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- Wed, 08/19/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 08/20/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 08/26/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 08/27/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 09/02/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example driven workshop series for basic python computing. non-programmers or novice programmers in this series will learn to write code and learn best practices for using Python for data analysis. Python is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis and computing. We will meet for 3 hours from 9AM - 12PM every Wednesday and Thursday on August 19, 20, 26, 27, and September 2. Short tutorials alternate...
More
- Wed, 08/19/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 08/20/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 08/26/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 08/27/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 09/02/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example driven workshop series for basic python computing. non-programmers or novice programmers in this series will learn to write code and learn best practices for using Python for data analysis. Python is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis and computing. We will meet for 3 hours from 9AM - 12PM every Wednesday and Thursday on August 19, 20, 26, 27, and September 2. Short tutorials alternate...
More
- Tue, 08/18/2020 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Online
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Chemical Engineering and Linguistics. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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- Mon, 08/17/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 08/18/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Mon, 08/24/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 08/25/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 09/01/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven workshop series for basic computing covering the R Studio Interface and data skills and analysis for R. We will meet for 3 hours from 9AM - 12PM every Monday and Tuesday on August 17, 18, 24, 25, and September 1. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help...
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- Mon, 08/17/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 08/18/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Mon, 08/24/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 08/25/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 09/01/2020 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven workshop series for basic computing covering the R Studio Interface and data skills and analysis for R. We will meet for 3 hours from 9AM - 12PM every Monday and Tuesday on August 17, 18, 24, 25, and September 1. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help...
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- Thu, 07/30/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/06/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/13/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/20/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/27/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 09/03/2020 - 5:00pm
Location: Online
In collaboration with UCSB Library, Health & Wellness is hosting its first Health & Wellness book club! Each week through September 10, UCSB Health & Wellness staff will lead a discussion of Brené Brown's book The Gifts of Imperfection. Didn't get to the reading this week? Join us anyway! Come as you are and explore what it might look like to live a "whole hearted" life.
Book: The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
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- Wed, 08/12/2020 - 9:00am to 11:30am
- Thu, 08/13/2020 - 9:00am to 11:30am
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven workshop for version control using Git. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. Learners should create a github account if they do not have one already.
The workshop runs from 9AM - 11:30AM.
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- Wed, 08/12/2020 - 9:00am to 11:30am
- Thu, 08/13/2020 - 9:00am to 11:30am
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven workshop for version control using Git. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. Learners should create a github account if they do not have one already.
The workshop runs from 9AM - 11:30AM.
Registration is at:...
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- Mon, 08/10/2020 - 9:00am to 11:30am
- Tue, 08/11/2020 - 9:00am to 11:30am
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven workshop for introduction to the bash-shell. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged to help one another and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. Learners should confirm if they have a terminal shell or git-bash. If not, please refer to the setup for instructions on installing git-bash. The workshop runs from 9AM - 11:30AM.
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- Mon, 08/10/2020 - 9:00am to 11:30am
- Tue, 08/11/2020 - 9:00am to 11:30am
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven workshop for introduction to the bash-shell. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged to help one another and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. Learners should confirm if they have a terminal shell or git-bash. If not, please refer to the setup for instructions on installing git-bash. The workshop runs from 9AM - 11:30AM.
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- Thu, 07/30/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/06/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/13/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/20/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/27/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 09/03/2020 - 5:00pm
Location: Online
In collaboration with UCSB Library, Health & Wellness is hosting its first Health & Wellness book club! Each week through September 10, UCSB Health & Wellness staff will lead a discussion of Brené Brown's book The Gifts of Imperfection. Didn't get to the reading this week? Join us anyway! Come as you are and explore what it might look like to live a "whole hearted" life.
Book: The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
Thursdays: 5:00...
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- Thu, 07/30/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/06/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/13/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/20/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 08/27/2020 - 5:00pm
- Thu, 09/03/2020 - 5:00pm
Location: Online
In collaboration with UCSB Library, Health & Wellness is hosting its first Health & Wellness book club! Each week through September 10, UCSB Health & Wellness staff will lead a discussion of Brené Brown's book The Gifts of Imperfection. Didn't get to the reading this week? Join us anyway! Come as you are and explore what it might look like to live a "whole hearted" life.
Book: The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
Thursdays: 5:00...
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- Tue, 07/28/2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Online
Lunch & Learn is back by popular demand!
Join us for the first-ever virtual Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by fellow students in Environmental Science & Management and Spanish & Portuguese.
While we won't be able to share pizza together in person, all attendees will be entered into a raffle to win one of ten $15 Grubhub gift cards.
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- Wed, 06/03/2020 - 12:00pm to 5:00pm
- Wed, 06/10/2020 - 12:00pm to 5:00pm
- Wed, 06/17/2020 - 12:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven weekly half-day workshop on June 3, 10, and 17 for introduction to the Bash-shell and introductory techniques for web scraping. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. We will be applying our own Library Desktracker data for automating workflows in the workshop.
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- Mon, 05/18/2020 - 6:00pm
- Mon, 06/01/2020 - 6:00pm
- Mon, 06/15/2020 - 6:00pm
Location: Online
Join the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity and the UCSB Library for a zine making club! This quarter the club is going remote, so join us via Zoom for drop-in zine making sessions from 6:00 to 7:00PM every other Monday. All contributions to the zine will be included in the June issue, dropping on June 16! For more info and the Zoom link, visit the Zine Club site.
- Wed, 06/03/2020 - 12:00pm to 5:00pm
- Wed, 06/10/2020 - 12:00pm to 5:00pm
- Wed, 06/17/2020 - 12:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven weekly half-day workshop on June 3, 10, and 17 for introduction to the Bash-shell and introductory techniques for web scraping. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. We will be applying our own Library Desktracker data for automating workflows in the workshop.
Registration is...
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- Wed, 06/03/2020 - 12:00pm to 5:00pm
- Wed, 06/10/2020 - 12:00pm to 5:00pm
- Wed, 06/17/2020 - 12:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven weekly half-day workshop on June 3, 10, and 17 for introduction to the Bash-shell and introductory techniques for web scraping. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. We will be applying our own Library Desktracker data for automating workflows in the workshop.
Registration is...
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- Mon, 05/18/2020 - 6:00pm
- Mon, 06/01/2020 - 6:00pm
- Mon, 06/15/2020 - 6:00pm
Location: Online
Join the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity and the UCSB Library for a zine making club! This quarter the club is going remote, so join us via Zoom for drop-in zine making sessions from 6:00 to 7:00PM every other Monday. All contributions to the zine will be included in the June issue, dropping on June 16! For more info and the Zoom link, visit the Zine Club site.
- Fri, 05/29/2020 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
This event was cancelled due to the Covid-19 campus closure.
In 1954, UC Santa Barbara (then known as Santa Barbara College of the University of California) relocated from the city proper and found a home in a former Marine Corps airbase used in World War II. So began...
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- Fri, 05/22/2020 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Fri, 05/29/2020 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven two-day half-day workshop on May 22 and 29 for basic computing covering the R Studio Interface and data skills for R. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during, and between sessions. Registration is at: ...
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- Thu, 05/28/2020 - 4:00pm to 4:30pm
Location: Online
Please join us on Zoom for a virtual awards ceremony honoring the six recipients of the Library Award for Undergraduate Research. Prizes of $750 for first place and $500 for second place will go to two students from each of three main disciplines: Sciences & Engineering, Humanities & Fine Arts, and Social Sciences.
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Location: Online
Take a healthy study break before finals. Join the UCSB Library and Health & Wellness for a virtual trivia game followed by meditation. The trivia game (via Kahoots!) will include a variety of topics, including some questions about UCSB. All UCSB questions are from the "Campus by the Sea" Online Exhibition.
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- Fri, 05/22/2020 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Fri, 05/29/2020 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Online
This event is an example-driven two-day half-day workshop on May 22 and 29 for basic computing covering the R Studio Interface and data skills for R. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during, and between sessions. Registration is at: ...
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- Tue, 05/19/2020 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: Online
The Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory will host Stacy Penna from QSR, the makers of NVIVO. Stacy will present on the best practices for NVIVO collaboration with colleagues and research teams. With a shared goal of creating a community of practice around qualitative research, Stacy is hoping to do this community building across California.
Stacy’s presentation will be followed by a discussion lead by Jon Jablonski, Director Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory...
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- Mon, 05/18/2020 - 6:00pm
- Mon, 06/01/2020 - 6:00pm
- Mon, 06/15/2020 - 6:00pm
Location: Online
Join the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity and the UCSB Library for a zine making club! This quarter the club is going remote, so join us via Zoom for drop-in zine making sessions from 6:00 to 7:00PM every other Monday. All contributions to the zine will be included in the June issue, dropping on June 16! For more info and the Zoom link, visit the Zine Club site.
Location: UCSB Campbell Hall
Because of COVID-19, this in person talk was canceled, but Elizabeth Rush will give a community talk online.
A free lecture and book-signing by Elizabeth Rush, author of the UCSB Reads 2020 selection Rising:...
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- Sun, 05/03/2020 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Location:
Location: Special Research Collections
This event was cancelled due to the Covid-19 campus closure.
CISM in the Archive presents a talk by Alexandra Hui, Associate Professor in the Department of History at Mississippi State University.
Hui is an historian of science whose recent research focuses on auditory perception. Stay tuned for more details about Hui's April 29 talk.
Co-sponsored by the UCSB Library and the Center for...
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- Mon, 04/27/2020 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
This event was cancelled due to the Covid-19 campus closure.
In conjunction with the
UCSB Reads 2020 book
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, please join Cris...
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Location:
The recorded discussion is now available on the Library's Vimeo page. Watch now.
Join UCSB Reads 2020 author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore for a free online community talk on Earth Day about Rising and the impact of sea level rise on the United States. Event moderated by David...
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- Wed, 04/15/2020 - 5:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
In response to the Chancellor’s recent email about mitigation efforts for covid-19 transmission, we will be canceling this event. Thank you for understanding.
On Wednesday, April 15th from 4:30-8 pm, UC Santa Barbara will host the 3rd Annual UCSB Arts Walk at various locations across campus. Students, faculty, staff, and community members will have the opportunity to visit galleries and studios, watch preview performances and behind the scenes...
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Location: Pacific View Room
Watch Now: Pacific Views Talk with Ethan Chang.
As part of its Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series, UCSB Library presents a talk by Ethan Chang, a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American Studies and Black Studies.
How do ordinary people learn to lead and dedicate their lives to movements for social change? This lecture examines the people, pedagogy, and practices of the...
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Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event was cancelled due to the Covid-19 campus closure.
Join the UCSB Library and Health & Wellness for an interactive afternoon of speed friending (like speed dating, but for...
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Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event was cancelled due to the Covid-19 campus closure.
Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, says the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. In fact, they report that climate-related disasters (ie. floods, storms, droughts) accounted...
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- Tue, 03/10/2020 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
EcoDataScience is an environmental data science study group at UCSB. This volunteer-driven group provides hands-on, lunch-time workshops on various data science tools relevant to environmental science. Lessons in the past have included Spatial Analysis in R, an introduction to Python, advanced GitHub and building R Shiny applications. All sessions take place at the UCSB Library Collaboratory and anyone is welcome to sign up to attend using the link:
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Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The UCSB Library and UCSB Sustainability invites you to a Jeopardy-style discussion based on Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush. Rising is UCSB Reads...
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- Tue, 03/03/2020 - 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Location: UCSB Pollock Theater
UCSB Library and the Carsey-Wolf Center are pleased to bring you a special screening of the Stars of Jazz series. Stars of Jazz aired weekly on KABC-TV in Los Angeles from June 25, 1956 to December 29, 1958, with additional national broadcasts on the ABC network. Hosted by musician and actor Bobby Troup, the series offered viewers the highest possible caliber of live jazz performers and performances. During the civil...
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- Tue, 02/25/2020 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
EcoDataScience is an environmental data science study group at UCSB. This volunteer-driven group provides hands-on, lunch-time workshops on various data science tools relevant to environmental science. Lessons in the past have included Spatial Analysis in R, an introduction to Python, advanced GitHub and building R Shiny applications. All sessions take place at the UCSB Library Collaboratory and anyone is welcome to sign up to attend using the link:
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- Sat, 02/22/2020 - 9:00am to 11:00am
Location: Other, on-campus
In conjunction with the
UCSB Reads 2020 book
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush, UCSB Library is pleased to sponsor a tour of the North Campus Open Space Restoration Project. Join Lisa Stratton, Director of Ecosystem Management for UCSB's Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER) for a tour highlighting how restoration of the estuary will support a...
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- Thu, 02/20/2020 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Grad students, need help managing your research? UCSB Library is offering a workshop on Zotero, a popular open source citation manager. Learn how Zotero can help you efficiently collect and organize your research, create bibliographies, collaborate with your colleagues, streamline your research process, and more!
Space is limited. Please register by Friday, February 14th to secure your seat.
When: 10am - 12pm,...
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- Tue, 02/18/2020 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Dr. Ken Hiltner, a professor of environmental humanities, will facilitate a book discussion on the UCSB Reads 2020 selection Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush. For more information about the book selection, please...
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- Wed, 02/12/2020 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This year, the UCSB library acquired the complete 44-volume facsimile edition of William Faulkner’s most important manuscripts, now housed in the UCSB Library's Special Research Collections. To celebrate this, the UCSB library and the English Department invites everyone to an afternoon of lively presentations that uncover the creative process of this celebrated author.
Talks by undergraduate and graduate students who have engaged in archival research on William...
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- Wed, 02/05/2020 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
Not all research requires lab coats! This drop-in event will introduce you to UCSB Library's archives and special collections resources, and how to use these unique materials to explore historical topics and develop research projects. Join us in exploring archival collections and research.
- Tue, 02/04/2020 - 5:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join the UCSB Library for a free zine workshop, no experience necessary! Zines (pronounced “zeens”) are self-published, DIY collections of photos and text that are printed by hand or photocopied, and independently distributed by the author or ‘zinester.’ You can learn more about zines and how they are made here.
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- Tue, 02/04/2020 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
EcoDataScience is an environmental data science study group at UCSB. This volunteer-driven group provides hands-on, lunch-time workshops on various data science tools relevant to environmental science. Lessons in the past have included Spatial Analysis in R, an introduction to Python, advanced GitHub and building R Shiny applications. All sessions take place at the UCSB Library Collaboratory and anyone is welcome to sign up to attend using the link:
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- Fri, 01/31/2020 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join UCSB CALPIRG and UCSB Library for a screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary ‘Gasland.” A panel discussion following the screening will discuss the effects of fracking as it relates to public health, the environment, and communities. The panel includes: Sharon Tettegah (Director, Center for Black Studies Research),...
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- Fri, 01/31/2020 - 9:00am to 12:30pm
Location: DREAM Lab
Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management... More
- Thu, 01/30/2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Please join UCSB Library, the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships, and the California NanoSystems Institute at a workshop to help you craft a caption that quickly, clearly, and succinctly shares the importance of your artwork. Amanda Stansell (Lecturer, UCSB Writing Program) will use the Art of Science
submission framework to provide tips and tricks for writing strong captions for communicating...
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Location: Pacific View Room
In conjunction with UCSB
Reads 2020 UCSB Library presents a talk by Leah Stokes, Assistant Professor of Political Science, to be followed by a public reception.
Whether it’s sea level rise in the Bay Area, hurricanes in New York City and the Bahamas, or fires and extreme rainfall leading to mudslides in our own Santa Barbara, we are already experiencing climate change. Stokes will discuss the...
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Location: Instruction & Training 1312
UCSB Library presents a panel discussion that will provide a national and international perspective on climate justice in conjunction with UCSB Reads 2020. Climate justice frames climate change as a civil rights issue in addition to an environmental issue. In Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, UCSB Reads 2020 author Elizabeth Rush combines rigorous reporting and lyrical storytelling to depict the impact of sea level rise in the United States and ...
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- Fri, 01/17/2020 - 12:30pm to 5:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own...
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- Fri, 01/17/2020 - 8:30am to 12:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems....
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- Tue, 01/14/2020 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
EcoDataScience is an environmental data science study group at UCSB. This volunteer-driven group provides hands-on, lunch-time workshops on various data science tools relevant to environmental science. Lessons in the past have included Spatial Analysis in R, an introduction to Python, advanced GitHub and building R Shiny applications. All sessions take place at the UCSB Library Collaboratory and anyone is welcome to sign up to attend using the link:
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- Tue, 01/14/2020 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Paseo
Chancellor Henry T. Yang, Executive Vice Chancellor David Marshall, University Librarian Kristin Antelman, and Alison Sir, the President of Associated Students will hand out free copies of the UCSB Reads 2020 book to UCSB students while supplies last. The 2020 selection is Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, a work of creative nonfiction ...
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- Fri, 12/06/2019 - 11:00am to 3:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Take a healthy study break before finals. Nap, meditate, grab snacks and get a free chair massage. In collaboration with UCSB Health & Wellness.
- Wed, 12/04/2019 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
UCSB Library is excited to present this UCSB History Trivia Event in conjunction with the Associated Students Living History Project, which works with student groups to document the history of student activism at UCSB. Learn about campus activism including the New Free University, CIA Officer-in-Residence Program, and the Oil Spill. Copies of primary sources from UCSB Library's Special Research Collections documenting these...
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- Tue, 12/03/2019 - 12:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
This workshop will be taught by An Bui, a graduate student in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology who broadly focuses on community composition and function in the context of global climate change. She will introduce the basics of community analysis in the R package vegan and work through some of the most useful functions within the package with data in a format that is typically used in community ecology. The workshop is designed for anyone who...
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- Fri, 11/22/2019 - 9:00am to 12:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This is a series of example-driven half-day workshops to provide an introduction to R for learners working with geospatial data. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring their own laptop to...
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- Thu, 11/21/2019 - 9:00am to 12:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This is a series of example-driven half-day workshops to provide an introduction to R for learners working with geospatial data. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring their own laptop to...
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- Tue, 11/19/2019 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Grad students, need help managing your research? UCSB Library is offering a workshop on Zotero, a popular open source citation manager. Learn how Zotero can help you efficiently collect and organize your research, create bibliographies, collaborate with your colleagues, streamline your research process, and more!
Space is limited. Please register by Friday, November 15 to secure...
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- Tue, 11/19/2019 - 12:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
This workshop will be taught by Gavin McDonald, a project researcher with the Environmental Market Solutions Lab (emLab) at UCSB. He will provide an introduction to the 'tidymodels' universe of R packages. This suite of packages provides tools for predictive model training and testing that leverage modern 'tidyverse' design philosophy. Some of the packages that will be discussed include rsample, recipes, parsnip, and yardstic.
EcoDataScience is an...
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Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The capacities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are growing rapidly and new technologies are impacting society in a variety of ways, such as social media analytics (think “Cambridge Analytica”) and policy-oriented simulation scenarios, all of which raise significant ethical issues. LeRon Shults (University of Adger, Norway) argues that the Humanities are needed to help guide the ethical conversations around AI by becoming more engaged in “Human Simulation,” a new...
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- Fri, 11/15/2019 - 9:00am to 12:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This is a series of example-driven half-day workshops to provide an introduction to R for learners working with geospatial data. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring their own laptop to...
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- Thu, 11/14/2019 - 9:00am to 12:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This is a series of example-driven half-day workshops to provide an introduction to R for learners working with geospatial data. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, not a Chromebook or tablet...
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- Fri, 11/08/2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join us for our November Lunch & Learn! Friday, November 8th from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Come socialize and enjoy free pizza while you hear about some of the graduate research being done on campus. Sponsored by UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and the UCSB Graduate Student Association.
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Location: Pacific View Room
UCSB Library presents a talk by Ann Taves, Professor of Religious Studies, to be followed by a public reception.
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Location: Paseo
Meet in the UCSB Library, Paseo West Lobby (across from Arbor/Girvetz Hall)
The UCSB Library serves as the hub of intellectual and cultural activity on campus, providing 24-hour study space; more than 3 million books and 400 online databases; research consultations and classes; and technologies essential for student success. A cafe, art exhibitions, nap pods (ok, sometimes we sleep), and stunning views from the 8th floor also provide students a respite in their...
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- Fri, 11/01/2019 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
Meet in the UCSB Library, Special Research Collections (3rd Floor Mountain Side)
UCSB 75th Anniversary Exhibition Open House: “Campus by the Sea” is part of Parents & Family Weekend.
Learn about UCSB’s history from its roots as a manual training school in 1891 to its years as the liberal arts Santa Barbara College and, finally, its birth in 1944 as part of the UC system. The curators will walk you through archival documents and photographs...
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- Thu, 10/31/2019 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This is a two day half-day workshop for non-programmers or novice programmers to provide introduction to version control with Git and Bash. Learners will learn to use the unix shell and git through short tutorials and hands-on exercises Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, not a Chromebook or tablet. You should also be sure to have admin privileges on your laptop. Learners should also create a github account in...
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- Wed, 10/30/2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
UCSB Library presents a talk-and-record-listening event by researcher and record producer Ian Nagoski. At the height of immigration to the United States 100 years ago, a wave of people from the collapsing Ottoman Empire settled in the U.S. At the same time, the burgeoning record industry in and around New York City radically hastened the distribution of musical cultures and documented thousands of performances by performers from present-day Turkey, Syria, Armenia, Lebanon,...
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- Tue, 10/29/2019 - 12:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
This workshop will be taught by Dan Ovando, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington School of Aquatic and Fishery Science. He will give an introduction to Bayesian statistical inference using R and Stan (https://mc-stan.org/). Been interested in using...
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Location: Instruction & Training 1312
It's time for the Fall Quarter Deep Dish with University Librarian Kristin Antelman. Stop by on Monday, October 28th beginning at 5pm to grab some FREE pizza and share your feedback with the Library. For UCSB students.
- Thu, 10/24/2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
Opening reception for UCSB Library's exhibition Campus by the Sea, which celebrates the 75th anniversary of UC Santa Barbara. Featuring items from UCSB Library's Special Research Collections, this exhibition examines how and when UCSB transformed from a sleepy liberal arts college into a world class research institution.
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- Thu, 10/24/2019 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1575
This is a two day half-day workshop for non-programmers or novice programmers to provide introduction to version control with Git and Bash. Learners will learn to use the unix shell and git through short tutorials and hands-on exercises Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, not a Chromebook or tablet. You should also be sure to have admin privileges on your laptop. Learners should also create a github account in...
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- Wed, 10/23/2019 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The Journal Editors Wine and Cheese Social is intended to launch the new Journal Editors Initiative. As part of the Library’s suite of scholarly publishing and communication services, the Initiative is focused on understanding the unique perspectives of UCSB editors, giving editors a space to communicate and share experiences, and to generally support editors in navigating the complex and constantly changing scholarly publishing environment. Brief remarks will occur at 4:45...
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- Mon, 10/21/2019 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
Monday, October 21, 10am-12pm
Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory,2nd Floor, Mountain Side
Presenters: Des Alaniz & Trang Le. RSVP to dalaniz@ucsb.edu
Wikidata, like its sister organization Wikipedia, is a linked data repository that’s free and open to the community at large to edit, copy, use and re-use. Unlike traditional...
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- Mon, 10/21/2019 - 8:00am to Fri, 10/25/2019 - 8:00pm
Location: Paseo
Please join the Library in recognizing International Open Access Week, a global event now entering its tenth year. Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of openness, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make open access research and scholarship sustainable.
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- Fri, 10/18/2019 - 1:00pm to 4:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
UCSB Library is offering a series of half - day workshops for non-programmers or novice programmers in our software carpentry series to write code and learn best practices for using Python for data analysis. Python is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis and computing. Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, not a Chromebook or tablet. You should also be sure to have admin...
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- Thu, 10/17/2019 - 1:00pm to 4:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1575
UCSB Library is offering a series of half - day workshops for non-programmers or novice programmers in our software carpentry series to write code and learn best practices for using Python for data analysis. Python is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis and computing. Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, not a Chromebook or tablet. You should also be sure to have admin...
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- Fri, 10/11/2019 - 1:00pm to 4:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1575
UCSB Library is offering a series of half - day workshops for non-programmers or novice programmers in our software carpentry series to write code and learn best practices for using Python for data analysis. Python is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis and computing. Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, not a Chromebook or tablet. You should also be sure to have admin...
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- Fri, 10/11/2019 - 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join us for our October Lunch & Learn! Friday, October 11th from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Come socialize and enjoy free pizza while you hear about some of the graduate research being done on campus. Sponsored by UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and the UCSB Graduate Student Association.
October Lunch & Learn: Topics and Time Here ...
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- Thu, 10/10/2019 - 1:00pm to 4:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
UCSB Library is offering a series of half - day workshops for non-programmers or novice programmers in our software carpentry series to write code and learn best practices for using Python for data analysis. Python is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis and computing. Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, not a Chromebook or tablet. You should also be sure to have admin...
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- Tue, 10/08/2019 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1575
Start the quarter off on the right foot with this 75 minute hands-on workshop where we'll go over how to start organizing your research, study needs and other important information in one place. We'll be using bullet journal techniques to create a temporal map of the quarter, highlighting times that are important to you and your class schedule.
Bring your class syllabi, list of important dates, and your creativity. We'll provide supplies (...
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- Wed, 10/02/2019 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
The Library's Annual Reception for Faculty brings together new and returning faculty from across campus to kick off another productive year and get an exclusive preview of the UCSB Reads 2020 book.
- Tue, 10/01/2019 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Grad students, need help managing your research? UCSB Library is offering a workshop on Zotero, a popular open source citation manager. Learn how Zotero can help you efficiently collect and organize your research, create bibliographies, collaborate with your colleagues, streamline your research process, and more!
Space is limited. Please register by Friday, September 27 to secure your seat.
When: 10 am - 12 pm,...
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- Tue, 09/24/2019 - 11:00am
- Wed, 09/25/2019 - 11:00am
- Thu, 09/26/2019 - 1:00pm
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Meet the friendly Music Library staff and learn about our books, scores, recordings, listening rooms, and study spaces!
Tours will take place:
Tues., Sept. 24, 11 AM
Wed., Sept. 25, 11 AM
Thurs., Sept. 26, 1 PM
Meet at the Music Library, in the Music Building, on the second floor.
Tours are 25-30 minutes.
- Wed, 09/25/2019 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Visit the Library anytime this week to take a self-guided mobile tour that will help you become familiar with important resources and services available to students. Tour finishers are invited to join us for a special social event in Instruction & Training Room 1312 (located on the 1st Floor, Mountain Side). Enjoy snacks and meet fellow students as well as librarians, staff, and library student workers as you learn more...
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- Tue, 09/24/2019 - 11:00am
- Wed, 09/25/2019 - 11:00am
- Thu, 09/26/2019 - 1:00pm
Location:
Meet the friendly Music Library staff and learn about our books, scores, recordings, listening rooms, and study spaces!
Tours will take place:
Tues., Sept. 24, 11 AM
Wed., Sept. 25, 11 AM
Thurs., Sept. 26, 1 PM
Meet at the Music Library, in the Music Building, on the second floor.
Tours are 25-30 minutes.
- Mon, 09/23/2019 - 8:00am to 5:00pm
- Tue, 09/24/2019 - 8:00am to 5:00pm
- Wed, 09/25/2019 - 8:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Paseo
- Tue, 09/24/2019 - 11:00am
- Wed, 09/25/2019 - 11:00am
- Thu, 09/26/2019 - 1:00pm
Location:
Meet the friendly Music Library staff and learn about our books, scores, recordings, listening rooms, and study spaces!
Tours will take place:
Tues., Sept. 24, 11 AM
Wed., Sept. 25, 11 AM
Thurs., Sept. 26, 1 PM
Meet at the Music Library, in the Music Building, on the second floor.
Tours are 25-30 minutes.
- Mon, 09/23/2019 - 8:00am to 5:00pm
- Tue, 09/24/2019 - 8:00am to 5:00pm
- Wed, 09/25/2019 - 8:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Paseo
- Mon, 09/23/2019 - 8:00am to 5:00pm
- Tue, 09/24/2019 - 8:00am to 5:00pm
- Wed, 09/25/2019 - 8:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Paseo
- Wed, 09/04/2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join us for our September Lunch & Learn! Wednesday, September 4 from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Come socialize and enjoy free pizza while you hear about some of the graduate research being done on campus. Sponsored by UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and the UCSB Graduate Student Association.
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- Wed, 08/07/2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join us for our August Lunch & Learn! Wednesday, August 7 from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Come socialize and enjoy free pizza while you hear about some of the graduate research being done on campus. Sponsored by UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and the UCSB Graduate Student Association.
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- Wed, 07/10/2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join us for our June Lunch & Learn! Wednesday, July 10 from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Come socialize and enjoy free pizza while you hear about some of the graduate research being done on campus. Sponsored by UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and the UCSB Graduate Student Association.
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- Tue, 06/25/2019 - 9:30am to 11:00am
Location: DREAM Lab
UCSB Library is offering a 12 week series of lessons for non-programmers or novice programmers in our
Software Carpentry series to write code and learn best practices for using Python for data analysis. Python is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis and computing. Lessons are sequential and build on top of each other, but attendance for all twelve lessons is not required.
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- Tue, 06/11/2019 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
This tutorial will focus on Python packages, Xarray and Dask provides a powerful interface for working with and running computations on larger N-D datasets (multidimensional) utilizing encoded labels such as space and time information to make computation easier. In short, Xarray is very useful in keeping your...
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Location: Instruction & Training 1312
In the 1970s, feminist communication scholars first proposed the term “symbolic annihilation” to describe the ways in which women are absent, underrepresented, or misrepresented in mainstream media. Taking this concept as a starting point, Michelle Caswell (UCLA) will examine the ways in which mainstream archival practice has symbolically annihilated communities of color and LGBTQ communities through absence, underrepresentation, and misrepresentation. She will invite us to...
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Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Are you interested in archival studies or archival work? Are you interested in working in archives as a away to further social justice and dismantle oppressive power structures? Bring your questions and join us for an open informational session with Professor Michelle Caswell at 2:00PM. Caswell will also present her public talk
Past Imperfect: Imagining Our Way Out of Annihilation in... More
- Fri, 06/07/2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join us for our June Lunch & Learn! Friday, June 7 from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Come socialize and enjoy free pizza while you hear about some of the graduate research being done on campus. Sponsored by UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and the UCSB Graduate Student Association.
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- Thu, 06/06/2019 - 11:00am to 3:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Take a healthy study break before finals. Nap, meditate, grab snacks and get a free chair massage. In collaboration with UCSB Health & Wellness.
- Fri, 05/31/2019 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
- Sat, 06/01/2019 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This two-day workshop taught by Dr. Ziad Matni uses the Python programming language, a versatile and very popular data analysis technology. Little or no prior experience with programming is assumed. The workshop will aim at teaching basic use of Python language features to obtain data from social media, what initial steps can be taken to curate it for analytical use, and how to analyze them in a variety of ways fo interest to the social sciences and humanities (e.g.,...
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- Fri, 05/31/2019 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
- Sat, 06/01/2019 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This two-day workshop taught by Dr. Ziad Matni uses the Python programming language, a versatile and very popular data analysis technology. Little or no prior experience with programming is assumed. The workshop will aim at teaching basic use of Python language features to obtain data from social media, what initial steps can be taken to curate it for analytical use, and how to analyze them in a variety of ways fo interest to the social sciences and humanities (e.g.,...
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- Thu, 05/30/2019 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Please join us for a reception and awards ceremony honoring the six recipients of the first-ever Library Award for Undergraduate Research. Prizes of $750 for first place and $500 for second place will go to two students from each of three main disciplines: Sciences & Engineering,...
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- Wed, 05/29/2019 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
It's time for the Spring Quarter Deep Dish with University Librarian Kristin Antelman. Stop by on Wednesday, May 29 beginning at 5pm to grab some FREE pizza and share your feedback with the Library. For UCSB students.
- Wed, 05/22/2019 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Please join us for the opening of We Remember Them: Acts of Love and Compassion in Isla Vista, an online exhibition honoring the acts of love and compassion that emerged in Isla Vista and on the University of California, Santa Barbara campus after the May 23, 2014 tragedy. Lauren Trujillo, a UCSB alumna and current UCLA MLIS graduate student, will speak about the Isla Vista Memorial Project and her work curating the online exhibition. Lauren was a student at the...
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- Wed, 05/22/2019 - 9:30am to 10:45am
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join students in the upper division English 197 Spring Quarter 2019 class "Reading in Santa Barbara: Past, Present, and Future." ...
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- Tue, 05/21/2019 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
UCSB Library is excited to present this UCSB History Trivia Event in conjunction with the Associated Students Living History project, which works with student groups to document student history and life at UCSB. Learn about campus activism including the Vietnam War Protests, the Hunger Strikes, and the North Hall Takeover. Copies of primary sources documenting the protests will be available to help answer trivia questions. The...
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- Tue, 05/21/2019 - 11:00am to 12:30pm
Location: DREAM Lab
Join us for our first #TidyTuesday event! A raw dataset will be posted along with a chart to that dataset, and you are tasked with exploring the data. While the dataset will be "tamed", it will not always be tidy! As such, you might need to apply various R for Data Science techniques to wrangle the data into a truly tidy format. The goal of TidyTuesday is to apply your R skills, get feedback,...
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- Thu, 05/16/2019 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This one-day workshop taught by Devin Cornell, will cover the practical and theoretical foundations of Social Network Analysis methodologies. The workshop will begin with some fundamental concepts and a basic history of the methodology up to current active areas of research. Next, we will review both traditional network data collection through surveys and modern tools for collecting digital...
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- Wed, 04/17/2019 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
- Wed, 05/15/2019 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
UCSB Library is offering two two-hour, hands-on workshops aimed to familiarize participants with NVivo, a qualitative data analysis software tool, designed for researchers working with text-based and multimedia information. NVivo allows for researchers to complete deep analysis on large and small groups of data.
Due to the size of the Collaboratory, we will need to cap the first workshop at 60 people, so if you're interested sign up soon!
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- Thu, 05/09/2019 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
- Fri, 05/10/2019 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is an example-driven two-day workshop on basic computing skills. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring their own laptop to work on which should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux...
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- Thu, 05/09/2019 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
- Fri, 05/10/2019 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is an example-driven two-day workshop on basic computing skills. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring their own laptop to work on which should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux...
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- Fri, 05/03/2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join us for our May Lunch & Learn! Friday, May 3 from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Come socialize and enjoy free pizza while you hear about some of the graduate research being done on campus. Sponsored by UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and the UCSB Graduate Student Association.
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Location: Pacific View Room
Oil has been leaking into the ocean off California's coast for millennia, creating spectacular geologic structures and hosting unusual ecosystems thousands of feet beneath the waves. Professor Valentine will share amazing and disturbing stories of discovery of these vivid sea floor environments.
This talk is part of the Pacific Views: Library Lecture Series, and is also in conjunction with UCSB Library's exhibition...
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Location: Other, on-campus
Location: UCSB Campbell Hall.
A free lecture and book-signing by Thi Bui, author of the UCSB Reads 2019 selection The Best We Could Do. UCSB Library is pleased to partner with UCSB Alumni to offer this author talk as the kick-off event for All Gaucho Reunion 2019.
The Best We Could Do...
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- Tue, 04/23/2019 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the cost of college textbooks rose 88% between 2006 and 2016. The high cost of college textbooks leads many students to forgo purchasing the textbook for one or more of their classes. Join students from
CALPIRG who have organized this faculty and student panel to discuss how the use of OER and affordable textbook alternatives can help students succeed using high-quality, low-...
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- Sat, 04/20/2019 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This is a one day (6-8 hr) workshop taught by Dr. Ziad Matni explores uses of Big Data (and more generally, Data Science) methods for use with extracting, analyzing, and visualizing social media data in the context of social science and humanities research questions. The workshop covers basic concepts of Big Data and Data Science, including hands-on exercises of data analysis and data visualization utilizing a "Big" data set extracted from one or several social media sources....
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- Wed, 04/17/2019 - 4:30pm to 8:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
- Wed, 04/17/2019 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
- Wed, 05/15/2019 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
UCSB Library is offering two two-hour, hands-on workshops aimed to familiarize participants with NVivo, a qualitative data analysis software tool, designed for researchers working with text-based and multimedia information. NVivo allows for researchers to complete deep analysis on large and small groups of data.
Due to the size of the Collaboratory, we will need to cap the first workshop at 60 people, so if you're interested sign up soon!
...
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- Tue, 04/16/2019 - 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1575
Grad students, need help managing your research? UCSB Library is offering a workshop on Zotero, a popular open source citation manager. Learn how Zotero can help you efficiently collect and organize your research, create bibliographies, collaborate with your colleagues, streamline...
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- Thu, 04/11/2019 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
- Fri, 04/12/2019 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is an example-driven two-day workshop fon basic computing skills. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, not a Chromebook or tablet. You should also be sure to have admin privileges...
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- Thu, 04/11/2019 - 7:00pm to 9:15pm
Location:
Location: UCSB Pollock Theater.
Presented in conjunction with UCSB Reads 2019, this program of six shorts by filmmakers from the Vietnamese diaspora includes documentary, narrative, and experimental films. Like this year’s UCSB Reads text The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui, these short films take up questions of Vietnamese heritage, family, and memory. This selection of films was curated in cooperation with...
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- Thu, 04/11/2019 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
- Fri, 04/12/2019 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is an example-driven two-day workshop fon basic computing skills. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, not a Chromebook or tablet. You should also be sure to have admin privileges...
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Location: Other, on-campus
Location: UCSB MultiCultural Center Lounge.
As part of UCSB Reads 2019, UCSB Library is bringing chef and immigrant workers' activist Diep Tran to campus for a discussion about Vietnamese cuisine and how it fits in with a broader conversation about immigrant cuisine in America, with an emphasis on...
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- Tue, 04/09/2019 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
This workshop will introduce users to resources available at UCSB for high performance computing.
- Thu, 04/04/2019 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join us at UCSB Library for a free zine workshop, no experience necessary! Zines (pronounced “zeens”) are self-published, DIY collections of photos and text that are printed by hand or photocopied, and independently distributed by the author or ‘zinester.’ You can learn more about zines and how they are made
here.
Participants will learn how to make a zine and are welcome to contribute pages to a group zine or their...
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- Thu, 03/21/2019 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
- Fri, 03/22/2019 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is an example-driven two-day workshop for FACULTY on basic computing skills. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, not a Chromebook or tablet. You should also be sure to have admin...
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- Thu, 03/21/2019 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
- Fri, 03/22/2019 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is an example-driven two-day workshop for FACULTY on basic computing skills. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, not a Chromebook or tablet. You should also be sure to have admin...
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Location: Impact Hub Santa Barbara, 1117 State Street.
In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2019, UCSB Library is pleased to co-sponsor with UCSB Alumni this talk by John Park. The Profs in the Pub series features talks by UCSB faculty in Santa Barbara's favorite watering holes. In this talk, Park will address the...
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- Fri, 03/15/2019 - 11:00am to 3:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Take a healthy study break before finals. Nap, meditate, grab snacks and get a free chair massage. In collaboration with UCSB Health & Wellness.
- Thu, 03/07/2019 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
It's time for the Winter Quarter Deep Dish with University Librarian Kristin Antelman. Stop by on Thursday, March 7 beginning at 5PM to grab some FREE pizza and share your feedback with the Library. For UCSB Students...
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- Fri, 03/01/2019 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
In collaboration with the UCSB Library, join Health and Wellness for an interactive afternoon of Speed Friending (like speed dating, but for friendships!). Participants will be given a set of questions with topics related to the 2019 UCSB Reads illustrated memoir The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui and engage in a fun activity centered around cultivating new friendships. Join other students in a safe space to discuss common themes in the book such as identity, family,...
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- Fri, 03/01/2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join us for our March Lunch & Learn! Friday, March 1 from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Come socialize and enjoy free pizza while you hear about some of the graduate research being done on campus. Sponsored by UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and the UCSB Graduate Student Association.
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- Sat, 02/16/2019 - 8:00pm
- Sun, 02/17/2019 - 2:00pm
Location:
University of California Santa Barbara Opera Theatre presents the North American premiere of Franz Lehár’s The Mock Marriage (Die Juxheirat), which was selected from the collection of the Michael and Nan Miller Operetta Archive, in celebration of the Michael and Nan Miller Operetta Archive bequest to UC Santa Barbara Library. The Mock Marriage was written one year before Franz Lehár set the operetta world on fire with The Merry Widow.
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- Sat, 02/16/2019 - 8:00pm
- Sun, 02/17/2019 - 2:00pm
Location:
University of California Santa Barbara Opera Theatre presents the North American premiere of Franz Lehár’s The Mock Marriage (Die Juxheirat), which was selected from the collection of the Michael and Nan Miller Operetta Archive, in celebration of the Michael and Nan Miller Operetta Archive bequest to UC Santa Barbara Library. The Mock Marriage was written one year before Franz Lehár set the operetta world on fire with The Merry Widow.
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- Fri, 02/15/2019 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Sunrise Room
In conjunction with its new exhibition "Viennese Operetta and the World of Franz Lehár," UCSB Library is pleased to present a talk by Viennese operetta expert Dr. Micaela K. Baranello, Assistant Professor, Musicology, University of Arkansas . There will be a reception following the program and an opportunity to...
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- Thu, 02/14/2019 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1575
Grad students, do you need help managing your research? UCSB Library is offering two workshops on Zotero, a popular open source citation manager. Learn how Zotero can help you efficiently collect and organize your research, create bibliographies, collaborate with your colleagues, streamline your research process, and more!
Space is limited. Please RSVP ...
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- Wed, 02/13/2019 - 10:00am to 11:30am
Location: Instruction & Training 1575
Grad students, do you need help managing your research? UCSB Library is offering two workshops on Zotero, a popular open source citation manager. Learn how Zotero can help you efficiently collect and organize your research, create bibliographies, collaborate with your colleagues, streamline your research process, and more!
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- Fri, 02/08/2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join us for our February Lunch & Learn! Friday, February 8 from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Come socialize and enjoy free pizza while you hear about some of the graduate research being done on campus. Sponsored by UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and the UCSB Graduate Student Association.
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- Wed, 02/06/2019 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
Location: MCC Theater
This unscripted documentary series presents an exclusive look into an academic year at suburban Chicago's Oak Park and River Forest High Schools. Students, teachers, and administrators from one of the country's highest performing and diverse public schools are profiled in the face of decades-old racial and educational inequities. The series delves into the experiences of the racially diverse student population, sparking conversations about what has...
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Location: Other, on-campus
UCSB Buchanan Hall 1910
In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2019 and its companion exhibition In Her Own Image, Professor Brian Donnelly is opening up his undergraduate English class to campus and the community for a discussion of comics by and about women. Chizu Morihara, Art & Architecture Librarian, will first provide a preview of the upcoming Library exhibition that explores and celebrates female comic book...
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- Fri, 02/01/2019 - 10:00am
Location: Special Research Collections
We invite you to a public lecture and a reception to celebrate the exhibition of works of Didier Mutel, pre-eminent French engraver and book artist, on Friday, February 1. This is a unique opportunity for students, faculty, and the community to meet one of the most skilled and best known French engravers of the 21st Century.
This event is free and open to the public and wll be followed by a public reception at 11:00AM
Sponsored by UCSB Library and The College of...
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Location: Special Research Collections
CISM in the Archive presents "Re-collecting the Global South" with sound artist Robert Millis and filmmaker Hisham Mayet of the Sublime Frequencies collective on Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 3:30 pm at UCSB Library, Special Research Collections (3rd floor, Mountain Side). Millis and Mayet will share their work reissuing global popular and folk music recordings on Sublime...
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- Mon, 01/28/2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
UCSB Library invites you to an opening talk and reception celebrating its new exhibition "Anguish, Anger, and Activism," which examines the connections between the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill and environmental activism in the local area. There will be an opportunity to view the exhibition with UCSB librarians and curators Kristen LaBonte and Annie Platoff.
Marc McGinnes...
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Location: Pacific View Room
UCSB Library presents a talk by Maryam Kia-Keating, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education to be followed by a public reception.
Mass migration and forced displacement of communities due to disruptions by violence, climate change, and economic and political instability, have heralded an era of global movement that has reached crisis levels. Approximately half of the world’s refugees are...
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- Fri, 01/18/2019 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join us for our January Lunch & Learn! Friday, January 18 from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Enjoy free pizza while learning about some of the graduate research being done on campus. Rebecca Baker (UCSB English) and Luke Rosedahl (UCSB Dynamic Neuroscience) will be the featured speakers. Sponsored by UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and the UCSB Graduate Student Association. ...
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- Thu, 01/17/2019 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
One of the central challenges facing democracies today is finding ways to build the power and voice of all people. With a rising number of right wing movements threatening democracy across the world, the question is more urgent than ever.
This panel will feature discussions about the role of organizing in this moment by Harvard professor Marshall Ganz, a famed organizer with the Civil Rights Movement and the California Farmworker Movement, and Elizabeth McKenna, a PhD...
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- Thu, 01/17/2019 - 12:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus, Sunrise Room
Join the UCSB Community in honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gathering at the Eternal Flame, Buchanan Courtyard, UCSB
Guest Speaker: Dr. Hymon Johnson
"Walk with Us" led by Dr. Aaron Jones with Sal Guerena: We will walk from the Eternal Flame to UCSB Library's Ethnic & Gender Studies Collection to View the
A Luta Continua exhibition
RAIN PLAN: If it is raining, all events...
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- Thu, 01/10/2019 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Paseo
Chancellor Henry T. Yang, Executive Vice Chancellor David Marshall, and University Librarian Kristin Antelman will hand out free copies of the UCSB Reads 2019 book to UCSB students while supplies last. The 2019 selection is the graphic novel The Best We Could...
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- Fri, 12/07/2018 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The Library will host a free Study Break for UCSB students with chair massages, puzzles, coloring books, a stretching station, tea and healthy snacks. Co-sponsored with Health & Wellness.
- Fri, 11/30/2018 - 10:00am to 11:30am
- Fri, 12/07/2018 - 10:00am to 11:30am
Location: 1st Floor, Ocean Side
Location: Center for Innovative Teaching, Research & Learning (CITRAL) - Room 1506
This two-meeting workshop will help faculty to design effective, innovative research based assignments that will engage students and showcase their learning.
Facilitators: Rebecca Greer, UCSB Library Instruction Program Coordinator; Linda Adler-Kassner, CITRAL Director and Professor of Writing Studies
2 meetings (90 minutes each)
In this highly interactive workshop...
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- Fri, 11/30/2018 - 10:00am to 11:30am
- Fri, 12/07/2018 - 10:00am to 11:30am
Location: 1st Floor, Ocean Side
Location: Center for Innovative Teaching, Research & Learning (CITRAL) - Room 1506
This two-meeting workshop will help faculty to design effective, innovative research based assignments that will engage students and showcase their learning.
Facilitators: Rebecca Greer, UCSB Library Instruction Program Coordinator; Linda Adler-Kassner, CITRAL Director and Professor of Writing Studies
2 meetings (90 minutes each)
In this highly interactive workshop...
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- Wed, 11/28/2018 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1575
UCSB students are invited to join University Librarian Kristin Antelman for pizza and an open student forum to chat about the UCSB Library. Space is limited.
- Fri, 11/02/2018 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
- Sat, 11/03/2018 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Paseo
The UCSB Library serves as the hub of intellectual and cultural activity, providing 24-hour study space; more than 3 million books and 400 online databases; research consultations and classes; and technologies essential for student success. A cafe, art exhibitions, egg chairs, and stunning views from the 8th floor also provide students a respite in their otherwise hectic schedules. Come join the University Librarian and staff for a tour of UCSB’s favorite place to study. (...
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- Fri, 11/02/2018 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
- Sat, 11/03/2018 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Paseo
The UCSB Library serves as the hub of intellectual and cultural activity, providing 24-hour study space; more than 3 million books and 400 online databases; research consultations and classes; and technologies essential for student success. A cafe, art exhibitions, egg chairs, and stunning views from the 8th floor also provide students a respite in their otherwise hectic schedules. Come join the University Librarian and staff for a tour of UCSB’s favorite place to study. (...
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- Fri, 11/02/2018 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Grad Lunch & Learn! Friday, November 2 from noon-1pm in #UCSBLibrary Training & Instruction Room 1312. Graduate students are invited to stop by, grab a free lunch, and hear from your peers. Jacob Kirksey (Gevirtz School, UC Santa Barbara) and Veronica Laos (UCSB Chemistry) will be discussing Immigration & Ions. Sponsored by the UCSB Library...
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Location: Pacific View Room
UCSB Library presents a talk by James Salzman (Bren School) to be followed by a public reception.
Conflicts over drinking water highlight the most pressing issues of our time -- from social justice and globalization to climate change and emerging contaminants. Ensuring provision of safe drinking water has always been one of society's most important challenges and remains highly controversial around the globe. The United Nations has declared a Human Right to Water but...
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Location: DREAM Lab
University Librarian, Kristin Antelman, will discuss strategies for the large scale transition to Open Access (OA) in University of California and at UCSB. Antelman's talk will include an update on negotiations with a major publisher and the potential impact on publishing and access, an update on UCSB's signing the OA2020 Expression of...
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Location: Instruction & Training 1575
Eileen Joy and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, co-directors of punctum books, will discuss their training and careers as scholars in the humanities and social sciences, working both within and outside of traditional university spaces. Joy and van Gerven Oei -- who jointly hold multiple graduate degrees in English, Creative Writing, Medieval Literature, Music Composition, Linguistics, Media & Communication Studies, and Philosophy -- will share their reasons for choosing to run...
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- Wed, 10/24/2018 - 11:00am to 12:30pm
Location: DREAM Lab
GIS use on a university campus is multi-faceted. Faculty, staff, and students use GIS for research, administrative, and instructional purposes. This roundtable discussion, convened by the Center for Spatial Studies and Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory, will discuss barriers to spatial data discovery and sharing encountered by campus stakeholders. The roundtable will also explore opportunities for broadening access to spatial research data. The roundtable will discuss...
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Location: Other, on-campus
A Performance Piece and Lecture in UCSB MultiCultural Theatre.
Co-sponsored by Sponsored by the Transformative Arts Network, the Chicano Studies Institute, and the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music, and UCSB Library.
- Tue, 10/09/2018 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
The Library's Annual Reception for Faculty brings together new and returning faculty from across campus to kick off another productive year and hear about Library initiatives for 2018-2019.
RSVP to outreach@library.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-3605.
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The final event of Santa Barbara Public Library's National Hispanic Heritage Month will feature UCSB Library's Ryan Lynch, Latin American/Iberian Studies Librarian speaking on the art and music flows and conversations in the Americas, focusing on how they have influenced California culture.
The talk will be in the Central Library’s Faulkner Gallery at 40 E Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara.
Drawing from the UCSB Library’s fall exhibition...
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- Mon, 09/24/2018 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 09/25/2018 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 09/26/2018 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Paseo
Welcome, Gauchos! Six UCSB Gnomes are studying in different locations in the Library. Take a self-guided tour to find all six, and enter a raffle to win one to take home!
- Mon, 09/24/2018 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 09/25/2018 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 09/26/2018 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Paseo
Welcome, Gauchos! Six UCSB Gnomes are studying in different locations in the Library. Take a self-guided tour to find all six, and enter a raffle to win one to take home!
- Mon, 09/24/2018 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 09/25/2018 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 09/26/2018 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Paseo
Welcome, Gauchos! Six UCSB Gnomes are studying in different locations in the Library. Take a self-guided tour to find all six, and enter a raffle to win one to take home!
- Thu, 09/20/2018 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
- Fri, 09/21/2018 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
(2 offerings) Thursday, September 20, 1:00-2:00 PM, and Friday, September 21, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Whether it's writing a course paper or conducting your own original research, UCSB Library offers an abundance of comprehensive and invaluable resources for supporting your work. Join us for an informational session to learn about our grad student services – including research methods and advanced search strategies, InterLibrary Loan (ILL), scholarly communication, subject...
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- Thu, 09/20/2018 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
- Fri, 09/21/2018 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
(2 offerings) Thursday, September 20, 1:00-2:00 PM, and Friday, September 21, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Whether it's writing a course paper or conducting your own original research, UCSB Library offers an abundance of comprehensive and invaluable resources for supporting your work. Join us for an informational session to learn about our grad student services – including research methods and advanced search strategies, InterLibrary Loan (ILL), scholarly communication, subject...
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Location: DREAM Lab
The UCSB Library presents a public talk by scholar and artist Johanna Drucker. Drucker's talk is co-sponsored by Transcriptions (UCSB English).
What are the specific ways in which visualizations could be modified to engage interpretative methods for digital humanities? Drucker's talk assesses the challenges of appropriating visualization methods from...
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Location: Other, on-campus
The UCSB Library is pleased to co-sponsor this event with UCSB's MultiCultural Center. This film is part of the MCC's "Cup of Culture Series" and will be shown in the MCC Theater.
This film tells the story of the early Chinese immigrants to the Mississippi Delta during the 19th century, exploring how the community steadily grew in the early part of the 20th century as Chinese families across the Delta opened grocery stores...
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- Wed, 05/23/2018 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
Dan Ovando will lead a session on the purrr package for R, another member of the tidyverse.
Please RSVP here.
As always, arrive anytime between 11 and 11:30 to grab lunch!
eco.data.science, an environmental data science study group at UCSB, hosts...
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- Fri, 04/13/2018 - 9:00am to 4:00pm
- Tue, 05/15/2018 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The Undergraduate Research Slam offers students the chance to give dynamic, 3-minute oral presentations of their research or creative work to a panel of judges. The top 3 students will earn research awards ranging from $1500-$2500.
- Preliminary presentations will be in Library 1312 on Friday, April 13 from 9am-4pm.
- Finals will be in Library 1312 on Tuesday, May 15 from 11am-2pm
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Location: Instruction & Training 1312
UCSB Library is pleased to present Nubian studies scholar, punctum books co-director, and philologist Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei.
Vincent will discuss how community-focused, scholar-led open access publishing can help launch fields of inquiry and study that otherwise would not have adequate resources to establish themselves, because most publishers would consider the discipline too "small" and thus too risky to commit...
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- Fri, 05/04/2018 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
- Sat, 05/05/2018 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
Software Carpentry's mission is to help scientists and engineers get more research done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic lab skills for scientific computing. This two-day, hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
The course is aimed at...
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- Fri, 05/04/2018 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
- Sat, 05/05/2018 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
Software Carpentry's mission is to help scientists and engineers get more research done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic lab skills for scientific computing. This two-day, hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
The course is aimed at...
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- Wed, 04/18/2018 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
Instructor: Casey O'Hara
These monthly gatherings for environmental data science skill sharing, co-working, and community building are co-sponsored by eco.data.science, an environmental data science study group at UCSB, and UCSB Library. Learn more about eco.data.science...
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Location: Pacific View Room
The UCSB Library presents a talk by Kelsey Bisson (Geography) and Eleanor Arrington (Earth Science), PhD candidates in the UCSB Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science, to be followed by a public reception.
This talk will describe the planning and preliminary results from a student research expedition that took place in the Santa Barbara Channel in December 2017 during the Thomas Fire. This trip was funded from the UC Ships Funds program and is the first...
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- Tue, 04/17/2018 - 12:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
Tour of the Library exhibition Botanical Illustrations & Scientific Discovery; Joseph Banks & the Exploration of the South Pacific, 1768–1771.
For more information or to sign up for the tour, please contact Alex Regan at...
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- Fri, 04/13/2018 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: Art & Architecture Collection
The UCSB Library will host an Art+Feminism’s Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Friday, April 13, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. This event is part of a global campaign held during March and April in order to improve the coverage of cis and trans women artists on Wikipedia. 2018 is the fifth anniversary of the campaign. The edit-a-thon will include tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, reference materials, and refreshments.
Founded by Siân Evans, Jacqueline Mabey, Michael...
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- Fri, 04/13/2018 - 9:00am to 4:00pm
- Tue, 05/15/2018 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The Undergraduate Research Slam offers students the chance to give dynamic, 3-minute oral presentations of their research or creative work to a panel of judges. The top 3 students will earn research awards ranging from $1500-$2500.
- Preliminary presentations will be in Library 1312 on Friday, April 13 from 9am-4pm.
- Finals will be in Library 1312 on Tuesday, May 15 from 11am-2pm
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Location: Other, on-campus
Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, Professor of Race Relations, Sociology, and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and host of The History Detectives on PBS will give the 2018 Shirley Kennedy Memorial Lecture in the MultiCultural Center Theater on Tuesday, April 10.
A reception will follow the talk.
The first demographic racial transition occurred toward the end of the fifteenth century, and such transitions continue to be a major driver of social...
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- Mon, 04/09/2018 - 4:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: Pacific View Room
The Library is happy to again host the annual wine and cheese party for graduate students. This event is part of the 2018 Graduate Student Showcase, a two-week series that recognizes and honors the essential contributions of graduate students to UC Santa Barbara.
Bring your photo ID (or proof of age) and join your fellow grad students while enjoying wine, cheese, and the best views on campus!
- Sun, 04/08/2018 - 11:00am
Location: Other, on-campus
Please join the final meeting of the Women-In-STEM Lab Girl book club in the SRB Multipurpose Room. All graduate and undergraduate women in stem are welcome.
Participants will discuss the book as a whole and reflect on author Hope Jahren's April 3 talk.
Refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP at: https://goo.gl/forms/sprjItOVfKngWA4G3
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Location: Paseo
Bruce Tiffney (Earth Science) will lead a 90 minute tour of campus plants and trees. Space is limited. Please contact aregan@ucsb.edu for more information and to reserve a spot (Meet at west Paseo entrance to Library).
A UCSB Reads 2018 event.
- Wed, 04/04/2018 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
Instructor: Ben Best
Monthly gatherings for environmental data science skill sharing, co-working, and community building. Learn more about eco.data.science!
Location: Other, on-campus
The UCSB Library is excited to offer this free lecture and book-signing by Hope Jahren, author of Lab Girl. Lab Girl is the selection for UCSB Reads 2018. No tickets needed; seats are on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors open at 7:20pm. Location: UCSB Campbell Hall.
A UCSB Reads 2018 event.
- Sun, 02/25/2018 - 11:00am
- Sun, 03/11/2018 - 11:00am
- Sun, 04/01/2018 - 11:00am
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Join the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships in discussing the UCSB Reads 2018 book Lab Girl. Open to any graduate or undergraduate student in STEM who identifies as female. Light refreshments will be provided.
Please contact Rachel Alvelais at cnsi-sims@ucsb.edu for more information.
- Fri, 03/16/2018 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The Library will host a free Study Break for UCSB students with chair massages, puzzles, coloring books, a stretching station, tea and healthy snacks. Co-sponsored with Health & Wellness.
- Wed, 03/14/2018 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
Instructor: Jamie Afflerbach
Monthly gatherings for environmental data science skill sharing, co-working, and community building. Learn more about eco.data.science!...
- Sun, 02/25/2018 - 11:00am
- Sun, 03/11/2018 - 11:00am
- Sun, 04/01/2018 - 11:00am
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Join the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships in discussing the UCSB Reads 2018 book Lab Girl. Open to any graduate or undergraduate student in STEM who identifies as female. Light refreshments will be provided.
Please contact Rachel Alvelais at cnsi-sims@ucsb.edu for more information.
- Fri, 03/09/2018 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Grad Lunch & Learn! Friday, February 9 from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Graduate students are invited to stop by, grab a free lunch, and hear from your peers. Sponsored by the UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and UCSB Graduate Student Association.
RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/lunch-and-learn-rsvp
- Wed, 03/07/2018 - 11:00am to 3:00pm
Location: Paseo
Free copies of the UCSB Reads 2018 book Lab Girl by Hope Jahren will be available for students only in the Library Paseo between 11:00AM and 3:00PM while supplies last. If you don't already have the book, come get your copy to read over spring break. The author will be giving a free talk and book-signing in Campbell Hall right at the start of spring quarter -- Tuesday, April 3 at 8PM.
A UCSB Reads 2018 event.
- Thu, 03/01/2018 - 12:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
Open to all UCSB students, staff and faculty.
Location: Student Affairs & Administrative Services Building, 2nd Floor SIS&T Conference Room). Book group meets on three Thursdays during the winter quarter. Feel free to come to any and all of the three dates: February 1, February 15, & March 1.
For more information, contact Sharon Solis at...
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- Wed, 02/28/2018 - 12:00pm
Location: Sunrise Room
Free lunch and discussion of Lab Girl. Discussion will be led by Kathy Foltz (Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology) and Meredith Murr (Assistant Vice Chancellor, Research Development and Strategic Planning). For more information, contact Kelly Pillsbury in Ellison 2709 or at pillsbury@research.ucsb.edu....
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- Wed, 02/28/2018 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
Monthly gatherings for environmental data science skill sharing, co-working, and community building. Learn more about eco.data.science!
- Mon, 02/26/2018 - 12:00pm to Fri, 03/02/2018 - 1:00pm
Location: Paseo
UCSB Library is participating in Fair Use Week, a national event coordinated annually by the Association of Research Libraries that celebrates and explores fair use rights under the copyright statute. We invite you to learn more about fair use in academia by visiting our information table in the Library Paseo during Fair Use Week, February 26 – March 2, 2018.
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- Sun, 02/25/2018 - 11:00am
- Sun, 03/11/2018 - 11:00am
- Sun, 04/01/2018 - 11:00am
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Join the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships in discussing the UCSB Reads 2018 book Lab Girl. Open to any graduate or undergraduate student in STEM who identifies as female. Light refreshments will be provided.
Please contact Rachel Alvelais at cnsi-sims@ucsb.edu for more information.
- Thu, 02/22/2018 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
Molly Morin, Assistant Professor of Art, Weber State University, is an artist and educator working at the intersection of digital and analog practices. She makes material representations of information through generative drawing, soft sculpture, and digital fabrication. Through her creative practice, she develops critical and poetic approaches to making art with digital tools. Her projects set out to challenge assumed hierarchies, question our faith in...
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Location: Special Research Collections
Aaron Fox will present a broad view of “repatriation” and “recovery” projects that have been undertaken in recent years by activists and ethnomusicologists who work with archives of recorded sound. Professor Fox connects the history of recording and collecting Native American music in the early 20th century to the later Cold War context, in which contemporary ethnographic ethnomusicology emerged in its current institutionalized form. He interrogates the view of sound “...
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- Tue, 02/20/2018 - 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1575
UCSB librarians will help you tackle the research process in a series of three Tuesday workshops for transfer students. This workshop is the last in the series.
- Fri, 02/16/2018 - 9:00am to 11:00am
Location: Other, on-campus
Please join us at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER) for an open house and tours of their Natural History Collection, which includes the UCSB herbarium of over 125,000 plant specimens. In collaboration with UCSB Reads, a program of the UCSB Library, and its 2018 book selection Lab Girl, Dr. Jennifer Thorsch will say a...
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