Past Events
- Mon, 05/19/2025 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a hands-on workshop where we'll walk you through a simple sewing project. Learn the basics of using a sewing machine and following a simple pattern.
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- Fri, 05/16/2025 - 1:30pm to 3:00pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a guided electronics project! We will discover the basics of wiring a circuit and show how you can use electronic components to create your ideas. All materials will be provided.
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- Fri, 05/16/2025 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Lunch & Learn is a quarterly series that features two graduate students, one from a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and one from a SHEF discipline (Social Sciences, Humanities, Education and Fine Arts). Each presenter is able to share a 15 minute talk on any topic they want in a moderated, low stakes environment to their peers in the graduate student body.
Lunch & Learns are on Fridays during the year, and best of all, FREE LUNCH IS...
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- Thu, 05/15/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a hands-on workshop where we'll walk you through a simple sewing project. Learn the basics of using a sewing machine and following a simple pattern.
Register now to save your spot!
- Thu, 05/15/2025 - 4:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URCA) and UCSB Library invite you to join us for an exhilarating event celebrating knowledge, innovation, and the art of effective communication. Hear students from diverse disciplines condense their research, insights, and enthusiasm into a three-minute presentation that captivates, enlightens, and leaves a lasting impact.
Community members, students, faculty,...
- Thu, 05/15/2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
The UCSB Library is offering a workshop for graduate students on managing professional identities online.
In this workshop we will cover:
- Identifying goals for communicating your professional identity, values, and your work
- Researcher profiles
- Capturing and measuring your research...
- Wed, 05/14/2025 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Makerspace
Meet up with your fellow fiber artists at the Makerspace. This event is a casual, drop-in event where you can work on crochet, knitting, or any other yarn art. Feel free to start a new project, or bring a project you've been working on. We will provide yarn, crochet hooks, and knitting needles. A sample pattern will be provided for anyone who wishes to follow along.
This event is open to experts and beginners alike. We will not have formal instruction...
- Tue, 05/13/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
This is a hands-on workshop where we will introduce participants to APIs and how to interact with them using Postman, without requiring programming knowledge. Attendees will learn key API concepts, authentication methods, and how to perform requests (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE) using the GitHub API. The workshop is designed for faculty, students, and researchers interested in working with APIs for data retrieval and analysis.
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- Mon, 05/12/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a guided tutorial where you will learn to 3D model in Autodesk Fusion. You will be able to send your models directly to our 3D printers and later pick up your one-of-a-kind design. No experience needed!
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- Mon, 05/12/2025 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Online
Join us for a virtual lecture by the 2024 Kenneth Karmiole Research Fellow, Pete Johnson, who used primary sources materials from the Library's Special Research Collections in support of his dissertation research at University of Texas, Austin.
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, independent television producers pioneered financial and production models that...
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- Fri, 05/09/2025 - 9:30am to 11:30am
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to transform and clean messy spreadsheets using OpenRefine, an open-source tool designed for data wrangling. Whether you're dealing with inconsistent data, duplicates, or complex formatting issues, OpenRefine will help you automate and streamline the process, making your spreadsheets more manageable and accurate. No coding is required. This workshop welcomes anyone looking to improve their data management skills, regardless of...
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- Thu, 05/08/2025 - 7:30pm
Location: UCSB Campbell Hall
Ross Gay, the author of the UCSB Reads 2025 book The Book of Delights: Essays, will present a free, public talk in UCSB’s Campbell Hall, followed by Q&A and a book signing. This event is presented by UCSB Library in partnership with UCSB Arts & Lectures.
This event is free but advance registration through the...
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- Thu, 05/08/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a hands-on journey into the world of laser cutting, where you'll learn how to turn your digital design ideas into physical objects. We will provide template designs available for you to customize so that you get to experience the process from start to finish. No experience needed!
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- Thu, 05/01/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
- Fri, 05/02/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
- Thu, 05/08/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
This is an introduction to R designed for participants with no programming experience. It starts with information about the R programming language and the RStudio interface. It then moves to loading in data and exploring how to visualise it with ggplot2. The next episode takes learners through an exploration of data frames and some common data cleaning operations, before discussing vectors and factors. The final episode introduces the flow of data in R, and how to combine...
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- Wed, 03/05/2025 - 5:00pm
- Wed, 03/12/2025 - 5:00pm
- Wed, 03/19/2025 - 5:00pm
- Wed, 03/26/2025 - 5:00pm
- Wed, 04/02/2025 - 5:00pm
- Wed, 04/09/2025 - 5:00pm
- Wed, 04/16/2025 - 5:00pm
- Wed, 04/23/2025 - 5:00pm
- Wed, 04/23/2025 - 5:00pm
- Wed, 04/30/2025 - 5:00pm
- Wed, 05/07/2025 - 5:00pm
Location: Online
UCSB Reads on KCSB-FM 91.9
Starting March 5th, tune in to KCSB-FM 91.9 every Wednesday at 5:00 PM for weekly readings of The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay. Each 15-minute segment will feature a reading, along with related interviews and discussions about the essays. Don’t miss this engaging weekly broadcast on 91.9 FM and streaming at www.kcsb.org.
- Wed, 05/07/2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
The UCSB Library is offering a workshop for graduate students on publishing. This workshop is designed to teach students about the different venues available for publishing articles, manuscripts, and data. Additionally, the workshop will highlight critical resources available for your success.
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:...
- Mon, 05/05/2025 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a hands-on workshop where we'll walk you through a simple sewing project. Learn the basics of using a sewing machine and following a simple pattern.
Register now to save your spot!
- Fri, 05/02/2025 - 2:30pm to 4:00pm
Location: Other, off-campus
Location: St. Michael’s Community Garden, 6586 Picasso Rd, Goleta, CA 93117
Join the UCSB Library and the Edible Campus Program for a peaceful afternoon of literature, nature, and reflection in the garden. In celebration of the 2025 UCSB Reads selection, The...
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- Thu, 05/01/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
- Fri, 05/02/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
- Thu, 05/08/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
This is an introduction to R designed for participants with no programming experience. It starts with information about the R programming language and the RStudio interface. It then moves to loading in data and exploring how to visualise it with ggplot2. The next episode takes learners through an exploration of data frames and some common data cleaning operations, before discussing vectors and factors. The final episode introduces the flow of data in R, and how to combine...
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- Thu, 05/01/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
In celebration of the 2025 UCSB Reads book, The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay, the Library invites you to learn a new skill. Join us for a free 3D modeling workshop where you create a design that can be printed in the Makerspace. We will use a beginner friendly app called TinkerCAD. No download is required, but you can make a free account in...
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- Thu, 05/01/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
- Fri, 05/02/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
- Thu, 05/08/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
This is an introduction to R designed for participants with no programming experience. It starts with information about the R programming language and the RStudio interface. It then moves to loading in data and exploring how to visualise it with ggplot2. The next episode takes learners through an exploration of data frames and some common data cleaning operations, before discussing vectors and factors. The final episode introduces the flow of data in R, and how to combine...
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- Wed, 03/05/2025 - 5:00pm
- Wed, 03/12/2025 - 5:00pm
- Wed, 03/19/2025 - 5:00pm
- Wed, 03/26/2025 - 5:00pm
- Wed, 04/02/2025 - 5:00pm
- Wed, 04/09/2025 - 5:00pm
- Wed, 04/16/2025 - 5:00pm
- Wed, 04/23/2025 - 5:00pm
- Wed, 04/23/2025 - 5:00pm
- Wed, 04/30/2025 - 5:00pm
- Wed, 05/07/2025 - 5:00pm
Location: Online
UCSB Reads on KCSB-FM 91.9
Starting March 5th, tune in to KCSB-FM 91.9 every Wednesday at 5:00 PM for weekly readings of The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay. Each 15-minute segment will feature a reading, along with related interviews and discussions about the essays. Don’t miss this engaging weekly broadcast on 91.9 FM and streaming at www.kcsb.org.
- Tue, 04/29/2025 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join UCSB Reads and Goleta Valley Library for an afternoon of poetry readings in celebration of National Poetry Month!
The event will kick off with a reading by local poet and...
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- Tue, 04/29/2025 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join us for this 1.5-hour seminar on using Research Computing resources at UCSB. We’ll present several case studies for putting High Performance Computing (HPC) resources to use, including moving from GUI interfaces run locally (e.g. R, Jupyter, etc.) to workflows for using HPC machines with web interfaces, the command line, or queue based methods.
The seminar is designed for researchers tackling complex projects that exceed their laptop's capabilities. We will have...
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