Past Events
- Sat, 04/20/2024 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: UCSB MultiCultural Center
UCSB Library is proud to co-sponsor this event presented by the Department of Asian American Studies.
Kingston’s work has shaped fifty years of Asian American literature while inspiring feminist thinking across disciplines. Come for an intimate talk-story about her writing, family, activism, and what it's been like to be Maxine Hong Kingston...
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- Wed, 04/17/2024 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a guided 3D modeling tutorial on creating beautiful vases and vessels using Autodesk Fusion. During the workshop, our Makerspace Mentors will guide you through the entire 3D modeling process - from sketching your initial design ideas to bringing them to life in 3D. You'll explore techniques for creating elegant organic forms and unique shapes that would be difficult or nearly impossible to achieve through traditional methods.
Once you've finalized your 3D...
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- Wed, 04/10/2024 - 5:00pm to 5:45pm
- Wed, 04/17/2024 - 5:00pm to 5:45pm
- Wed, 04/24/2024 - 5:00pm to 5:45pm
Location: 1st Floor, Ocean Side
Room 1359, the "Fish Bowl"
Sign up for a Book Club
The Library invites you to join a peer-led book club! Each meet up will include a book discussion and related craft activity in conjunction with the UCSB Reads 2024 book Your Brain on Art.
April 10: Book...
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- Tue, 04/16/2024 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us at the Makerspace for a hands-on workshop where you will learn how to turn your digital design ideas into physical objects.
Dive into the process of laser cutting as we guide you through creating wooden name tags. From sleek initials to intricate designs, the possibilities are endless.
No Experience Needed: Never touched a laser cutter before? No worries! Our expert guides will walk you through every step, making this workshop perfect for beginners and...
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- Tue, 04/16/2024 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 1st Floor, Ocean Side, Fish Bowl
UCSB Library invites you to sign up for a free two-hour Stencil Screen Printing workshop led by Self Help Graphics & Art Barrio Mobile Art Studio.
Registration is full. If you wish to be added to the waitlist, please complete this form.
Participants will learn how to create a handmade stencil with their own designs using cardstock and...
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- Sat, 04/13/2024 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
Location: College of Creative Studies
The College of Creative Studies (CCS) and UCSB Reads 2024 invites you to an open studios event hosted by CCS students in the Book Arts, Sculpture, and Painting programs.
Details and a map of the studios will be posted soon.
This event is in conjunction with this year’s...
- Wed, 04/10/2024 - 5:00pm to 5:45pm
- Wed, 04/17/2024 - 5:00pm to 5:45pm
- Wed, 04/24/2024 - 5:00pm to 5:45pm
Location: 1st Floor, Ocean Side
Room 1359, the "Fish Bowl"
Sign up for a Book Club
The Library invites you to join a peer-led book club! Each meet up will include a book discussion and related craft activity in conjunction with the UCSB Reads 2024 book Your Brain on Art.
April 10: Book...
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- Tue, 04/09/2024 - 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a hands-on workshop where we will walk you through a simple sewing project. No prior sewing experience needed.
Pre-Event Preparation: Please enroll in our Canvas course and complete the introductory orientation to familiarize yourself with the basics of the Makerspace. Find the course on Canvas
Limited Spots: Secure your spot in this exciting workshop! Space is limited, and creativity knows no...
- Mon, 04/08/2024 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for our Makerspace Crochet Circle! Whether you're a seasoned crocheter or just starting out, all are welcome. Bring your current projects and crochet supplies, or use our supplies to learn.
It's a relaxed, friendly environment to work on your crochet crafts, get tips and advice, and socialize with fellow fiber arts enthusiasts. All levels of experience welcome, register on Shoreline.
- Fri, 04/05/2024 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Makerspace
Get ready for a night of making and gaming fun! Interact with games made here in the Makerspace and meet your Makerspace peers. This is a drop-in event open to all Makerspace users. Register on Shoreline
- Wed, 04/03/2024 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Makerspace
Discover the Magic of Laser Cutting: Ever wanted to turn your keys into a personalized style statement? Look no further! 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.
Craft Your Signature Keychain: Dive into the process of laser cutting as we guide you through creating wooden keychains. From sleek initials to intricate designs, the possibilities are endless.
No...
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- Tue, 04/02/2024 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a guided tutorial where you will learn to model your own nameplate for your desk or door. You will be able to send your models directly to our 3D printers and later pick up your one-of-a-kind decoration.
Pre-Event Preparation: Please enroll in our Canvas course and complete the introductory orientation and 3D printing module to familiarize yourself with the basics of the Makerspace and 3D Printing. Find...
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- Tue, 04/02/2024 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312, Mountain Courtyard
Join the UCSB Library and Graduate Division for this fun social event. This event is FREE to all current graduate students.
RSVP Link TBA
**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.
- Wed, 03/27/2024 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
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Join the UC Santa Barbara Library’s Special Research Collections for a special evening highlighting the work of three distinguished faculty emeriti and their continued research during retirement. Presented in partnership with the UCSB Faculty Emeriti Association.
About the Speakers
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- Fri, 03/15/2024 - 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.
- Thu, 03/07/2024 - 2:00pm
Location: Online, Other, on-campus
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. Your container is a single file, and you don’t have to worry about how to install all the software you need on each different operating...
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- Wed, 03/06/2024 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a guided tutorial where you will learn about electrical circuits using Play-Doh as the conductor of electricity and learn how to combine this with our Makey Makey and with coding. Discover the unique ways we can power our creations and learn how to control them with coding.
Pre-Event Preparation: Please enroll in our Canvas course and complete the introductory orientation to familiarize yourself with the basics of the Makerspace. Find the course at...
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- Wed, 03/06/2024 - 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.
Light refreshments will be provided.
In this workshop we will cover:
• Creating a free ORCID ID and managing your ORCID account
• Placing your publications in ORCID
• Funding, publisher, and...
- Wed, 03/06/2024 - 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
More details can be found at http://ecodatascience.github.io/events
- Tue, 03/05/2024 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a guided tutorial where you will learn to model your own nameplate for your desk or door. You will be able to send your models directly to our 3D printers and later pick up your one-of-a-kind decoration.
Pre-Event Preparation: Please enroll in our Canvas course and complete the introductory orientation and 3D printing module to familiarize yourself with the basics of the Makerspace and 3D Printing. Find the course at...
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- Wed, 02/28/2024 - 2:00pm
Location: Online, Other, on-campus
The high-performance computing (HPC) workshop is for students, staff, and faculty from UCSB who want to use cluster computing resources to run computational jobs. It is an introduction for new users who want to get started quickly in using HPC resources for research or education. The workshop continues the previous workshop and introduces some common applications in the HPC. Specifically, the SLURM array, SLURM-dependent jobs, running the Jupyter Notebook/Lab and Visual Studio...
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- Wed, 02/28/2024 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Open to all graduate students and other UCSB affiliates.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Please register for the presentation in advance.
This presentation you will learn the basics of copyright under US Law, including:
· What is copyright? What does it cover?
· How does a creator get their work copyrighted? What is "work for hire"?
· How long...
- Tue, 02/27/2024 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
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More Advance registration is appreciated but not required.
UCSB Library is pleased to present Kim Yasuda (Art) in the ...
- Tue, 02/27/2024 - 1:00pm to 4:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
This one day carpentry workshop introduces tools for turning web pages into analyzable data. We will explore common web scraping scenarios and learn how to use XPath and a web browser to extract data from websites without needing to write code. We will also discuss the ethics of web scraping.
Registration will open February 5, 2024 at 8:00 am at: https://cglink.me/2dD/r2258697
