Past Events
- Wed, 10/15/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Special Research Collections
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UC Santa Barbara Library invites you to the opening event for Unyielding Voices: Global Resistance and the Black Radical Tradition, an exhibition documenting the life’s work of Cedric J. Robinson and Elizabeth Peters Robinson, whose seminal scholarship and activism had wide-ranging influence at UCSB,...
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- Wed, 10/15/2025 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
This workshop has now reached capacity. We hope you'll consider registering for our online version of this workshop, offered on Wednesday, October 22, 2025.
Research isn’t just about collecting sources or writing papers, there’s a crucial middle stage where ideas take shape: reading, reflecting, drafting, and making connections.
This workshop explores how to treat...
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- Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
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Celebrate Día de Los Muertos (November 1-2) by creating and decorating your own shoebox altar in the Library's Makerspace. Learn to craft tissue paper flowers and mini papel picado—we'll provide all materials. Please bring one or more printed photos of loved ones who have passed that you'd like to honor.
Completed altars will be displayed at the...
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- Tue, 10/14/2025 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
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Find out what to consider when launching a podcast, from choosing a theme, topics and guests, and incorporating sound elements. You’ll learn what to know about using copyrighted material and how to streamline the production process. For most successful podcasters and reporters, interviewing skills are a key to success. Learn a standard process for journalism interviewing that will help you prepare, get...
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- Tue, 10/14/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
- Thu, 10/16/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Register at Shoreline: https://cglink.me/2dD/r2268290
This two-day workshop introduces git, a command line tool for managing revisions in coding projects, and GitHub, a web-based platform for sharing your work and collaborating with others. The workshop is oriented toward learners with little or no previous experience with either git or GitHub. It will cover steps for setting up a git project, making changes, navigating the...
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- Sun, 10/12/2025 - 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Other, off-campus
Location: Art Learning Lab, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Join the Santa Barbara Community Archives Project in preserving local history at Free Second Sunday for community members at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art! Bring your cherished family photographs and get free access to the museum. Your photos will be scanned onsite and returned to you. Once processed, you will receive free digital copies, and your photos will be in a digital collection. As an...
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- Thu, 10/09/2025 - 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 create custom designs through a free, open-source software called Graphite and show you how to send these files to the laser cutter. Everyone will take home a small wooden magnet that they designed themselves. No experience needed!
We will provide material for laser cutting. All...
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- Thu, 10/09/2025 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Other, off-campus
SBHS Alumni Room
700 E Anapamu St
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Are you or a family member an SBHS graduate?
Join the Santa Barbara Community Archives Project (SBCAP), in partnership with the Santa Barbara High School Alumni Association, for our next round of Community Archiving Days!
Bring your photos to be scanned and help preserve the rich history of SBHS by contributing to the ...
- Thu, 10/09/2025 - 12:00pm to 12:30pm
Location: Online
Want to sharpen your data and open science skills? Join the Data to Discovery series—30-min online sessions with practical tools, tips, and ideas to grow your research skills.
This week, come along for a casual conversation about how R and Python fit into real research workflows. Whether you’re Team R, Team Python, or still deciding, you’ll...
- Wed, 10/08/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a hands-on workshop where we'll walk you through a simple sewing machine project. Everyone will get to take home a mini snack-sized tote bag they made themselves. We will cover sewing machine operation plus some basic construction techniques. No experience needed and all materials are provided!
- Wed, 10/08/2025 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
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Not sure where to start—or how to keep up—with the flood of new papers in your field? Got a bunch of unread PDFs in your downloads folder? In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn practical strategies for finding relevant literature (beyond just Google), managing your growing collection of papers, and reading and annotating efficiently so you actually remember what you’ve read. We’ll...
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- Tue, 10/07/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
Learn to 3D print by creating your own 3D model in TinkerCAD. During the workshop we will cover the basics of designing in TinkerCAD, learn how to remix existing 3D models licensed through Creative Commons, and get acquainted with the 3D printing process. At the end of the workshop, everyone will send a small lidded container to be 3D printed. No experience needed!
All you need to bring is a laptop (and ideally, a mouse). There is no software that needs to be installed...
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- Tue, 10/07/2025 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
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Join us for a lecture by Nicholas van Hoogstraten, author of Broadway Poster Art: 1945–1969 (Schiffer Publishing, 2024). Van Hoogstraten will explore the vibrant advertising art of Broadway’s golden age, sharing behind-the-scenes stories of designers, illustrators,...
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- Tue, 10/07/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The Unix Shell is a powerful command-line interface that allows you to control your computer more efficiently than a traditional graphical interface. This hands-on workshop will introduce fundamental skills, including navigating files and directories, manipulating data, and writing simple scripts.
No prior experience is required to attend, just curiosity and a desire to work more efficiently with your computer. Learning these basics will open the door to advanced...
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- Thu, 10/02/2025 - 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 during this time,...
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- Wed, 10/01/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a guided tutorial where you will learn to 3D model in Autodesk Fusion by modeling vases in three different styles. You will be able to send your design directly to our 3D printers and later pick up your model. No experience needed!
All you need to bring is a laptop (and ideally, a mouse). Before the event, create a free educational Autodesk account and download the Fusion software. Select...
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- Wed, 10/01/2025 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
UCSB Library Room 1312 is on the 1st Floor, Mountain Side, adjacent to the Learning Commons.
Are you experienced with open source software or hardware, or just curious about open source?
This month, we'll be joined by a panel of special guests: Trissalyn Nelson (Geography), Rich Wolski (Computer Science), and Chrissy Rissmeyer (Library) will tell us about their experiences building healthy, inclusive open source communities. We'll be back in room 1312 in the UCSB...
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- Tue, 09/30/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a hands-on workshop where we'll walk you through a simple sewing machine project. Everyone will get to take home a mini snack-sized tote bag they made themselves. We will cover sewing machine operation plus some basic construction techniques. No experience needed and all materials are provided!
- Tue, 09/30/2025 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
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UCSB Library is pleased to present Andy Merolla (Communication) in the Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series for Fall 2025. In his talk “What Hope Do We Have? Searching in the Small Moments of Everyday Communication,” Merolla will examine how hope—as well as the social connection underlying it—is...
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- Mon, 09/15/2025 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Tue, 09/16/2025 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Wed, 09/17/2025 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Thu, 09/18/2025 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Fri, 09/19/2025 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Mon, 09/22/2025 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Tue, 09/23/2025 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Wed, 09/24/2025 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Thu, 09/25/2025 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Online
This is an 9-Day Carpentries workshop that aims to teach participants basic concepts, skills, and tools for R in RStudio, Python, an introduction to the Unix Shell, Version Control with Git, SQL, and Tidy Data. This workshop is designed for researchers and enables non-experts to develop computing skills for research analysis. We will cover basic concepts and tools, such as - working with libraries and data frames; reading and plotting data; creating and using functions; the...
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- Wed, 09/24/2025 - 3:30pm to 5:30pm
Location: Mountain Courtyard
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The Library invites UCSB faculty to connect with colleagues and leaders from across campus, welcome new faculty, and meet Library experts – including their department's liaison librarian – over food and wine. This social...
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- Mon, 09/22/2025 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
- Tue, 09/23/2025 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
- Wed, 09/24/2025 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: Paseo
Join us in the Library Paseo (1st Floor) to collect some free goodies, enter a chance to win a prize or two, and learn more about how our services and library partners support you in your research! Read on for a sneak peek of what awaits you at the UCSB Library Week of Welcome tables:
Makerspace
Chat with Makerspace staff in the Paseo to get free goodies, and enter a contest for a chance to win a UCSB-themed...
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- Mon, 09/15/2025 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Tue, 09/16/2025 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Wed, 09/17/2025 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Thu, 09/18/2025 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Fri, 09/19/2025 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Mon, 09/22/2025 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Tue, 09/23/2025 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Wed, 09/24/2025 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Thu, 09/25/2025 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Online
This is an 9-Day Carpentries workshop that aims to teach participants basic concepts, skills, and tools for R in RStudio, Python, an introduction to the Unix Shell, Version Control with Git, SQL, and Tidy Data. This workshop is designed for researchers and enables non-experts to develop computing skills for research analysis. We will cover basic concepts and tools, such as - working with libraries and data frames; reading and plotting data; creating and using functions; the...
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- Mon, 09/22/2025 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
- Tue, 09/23/2025 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
- Wed, 09/24/2025 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: Paseo
Join us in the Library Paseo (1st Floor) to collect some free goodies, enter a chance to win a prize or two, and learn more about how our services and library partners support you in your research! Read on for a sneak peek of what awaits you at the UCSB Library Week of Welcome tables:
Makerspace
Chat with Makerspace staff in the Paseo to get free goodies, and enter a contest for a chance to win a UCSB-themed...
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