Past Events
- Tue, 08/30/2022 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: Paseo
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 colorful art piece to the Library - a painting by Jane Gottlieb. The work, titled “Check It Out,” depicts the UCSB Library and has both a futuristic and retro...
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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
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 art collector Amanda McIntyre generously gifted Mary Heebner’s mixed-media work to the UCSB Library entitled “Ocean: The Pacific,” a 9-panel mural made with...
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- Thu, 07/07/2022 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: Special Research Collections
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 the Lifshitzes as part of a 2018 gift grace the UC Santa Barbara Library’s permanent collection. The majority of these works are from Brazil and Peru, where Fima...
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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
Library Carpentry: Harvesting Twitter Data with Twarc
May 26 and 27, 2022 from 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
This event is a hybrid, two-day, example-driven workshop on May 26 and 27, 2022 for using twarc to collect Twitter data...
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- Thu, 05/26/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:30pm
- Fri, 05/27/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509, Online
Library Carpentry: Harvesting Twitter Data with Twarc
May 26 and 27, 2022 from 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
This event is a hybrid, two-day, example-driven workshop on May 26 and 27, 2022 for using twarc to collect Twitter data...
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- 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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- Wed, 05/18/2022 - 3:30pm
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.
- Mon, 05/16/2022 - 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 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 Webscraping
May 12 and 13, 2022 from 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
This event is a hybrid, two-day, example-driven workshop on May 12 and 13, 2022 for using Xpath and Scrapy to turn web pages into analyzable data. Both synchronous remote and in-person attendance...
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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 Webscraping
May 12 and 13, 2022 from 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
This event is a hybrid, two-day, example-driven workshop on May 12 and 13, 2022 for using Xpath and Scrapy to turn web pages into analyzable data. Both synchronous remote and in-person attendance...
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- Tue, 05/10/2022 - 7:30pm
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.
UCSB Library is thrilled to present Ted Chiang,...
- 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!
RSVP: bit.ly/tdm-rds
