Past Events
- Tue, 11/14/2023 - 11:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Online, Other, on-campus
The CSC will be offering a class, Introduction to Linux and High Performance Computing on Wednesday, November 14th from 11:30am - 12:30pm in CNSI/Elings Hall 1605 (zoom options available). There will be a 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, basic slurm and linux commands, and national HPC and commercial cloud computing resources.
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- Tue, 11/14/2023 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 11/15/2023 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 11/16/2023 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This three-day, example-driven workshop on Nov 14-16, 2023 is an introduction to programming in Python for people with little or no previous programming experience. The workshop will start on how to use the Jupyter notebook interface through JupyterLabs. The workshop will then go over with the basics of...
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- Tue, 11/14/2023 - 9:00am to 4:00pm
- Wed, 11/15/2023 - 9:00am to 4:00pm
- Thu, 11/16/2023 - 9:00am to 4:00pm
Location: Online
- Thu, 11/09/2023 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This is a one day workshop on Thursday, Nov 9, 2023 on a hands-on introduction to the Esri universe.
ArcGIS Online supports geospatial data processing, analysis, visualization, and the cloud-based sharing of geospatial products. In this one-day, example-driven workshop, you will learn the components of the Esri product family...
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- Wed, 11/08/2023 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
UCSB Librarians are offering a Zotero Basics workshop for graduate students. Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. While geared to graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
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- Tue, 11/07/2023 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Location: DREAM Lab
After a long hiatus, EcoDataScience's workshop series is returning!
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. Some sessions take place at the UCSB Library Collaboratory and...
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- Thu, 11/02/2023 - 5:30pm
Location: Special Research Collections
Despite the way the Internet connects us with vast quantities of music, 43% of all albums sold in the U.S. last year were vinyl LPS. Why is this? Why is it that, today, the disc record is the only physical audio format with increasing sales?
A panel of industry and audio experts explores the 130- year history of the disc record and explains why – despite frequent predictions of its demise – the format’s popularity continues to grow. Intertwined with their...
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- Wed, 11/01/2023 - 6:00pm
Location: Ethnic & Gender Studies Collection
UCSB Library and Las Maestras Center invite you to attend a vigil for the Day of the Dead in the Library's Ethnic & Gender Studies Collection (2nd Floor, Ocean Side). The vigil will be next to an altar created by the Center's Altaristas team.
Everyone is welcome to attend and bring a picture or an ofrenda for a...
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- Wed, 11/01/2023 - 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
UCSB librarians will provide a presentation on patents geared to graduate students, although everyone is welcome. Learn more about the valuable legal, business, and technical information patents provide, how to find them using open and proprietary databases, and what UCSB inventors need to know about applying for patents.
Event is co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Resource Center.
- Wed, 10/25/2023 - 5:00pm
Location: Special Research Collections
UCSB Library is grateful to The Fund for Santa Barbara for their generous contribution to this event.
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UCSB Library invites you to a public reception and panel discussion to celebrate the opening of ...
- Wed, 10/25/2023 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Open to all graduate students. Pizza will be provided.
Please register here
In this workshop, you will learn how to get started creating a Literature Review, including:
● 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...
- Mon, 10/23/2023 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 10/24/2023 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is a two-day, example-driven workshop on October 23 and 24, 2023 ...
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- Mon, 10/23/2023 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
- Tue, 10/24/2023 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is a two-day, example-driven workshop on October 23 and 24, 2023 ...
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- Fri, 10/13/2023 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch. They also say that knowledge is the food of the soul. What if you could have both?
Lunch & Learn is a monthly informal seminar series that provides grad students with two important things: free lunch and a chance to socialize with and learn from their peers from across the campus.
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- Thu, 10/12/2023 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Location: DREAM Lab
This is our first Fall community meeting of the academic year. We will discuss the Carpentries Program, and instructor training for the upcoming year. If you are interested in becoming a certified Carpentries Instructor, or are interested in being a helper, please join us at the DREAM Lab, Rm 2322.
- Wed, 10/11/2023 - 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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- Tue, 10/10/2023 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
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Event is free and open to the public.
UCSB Library is pleased to present Nelson Lichtenstein in the Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series for Fall 2023. Lichtenstein will talk about his new book ...
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- Wed, 09/27/2023 - 3:30pm to 5:30pm
Location: Mountain Courtyard
Please RSVP for the reception here.
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 2023-2024 academic year, meet their department's liaison librarian, and hear about current and upcoming Library initiatives...
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- Fri, 09/22/2023 - 11:00am to Wed, 09/27/2023 - 2:00pm
- Mon, 09/25/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
- Tue, 09/26/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
- Wed, 09/27/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: Paseo
Welcome all students to the new academic year! Did you know you can borrow a laptop, bike lock, umbrella, board games, and more from UCSB Library?
Whether you are a new or returning student, stop by the Library's Week of Welcome (WoW) table in the Paseo where you can spin the wheel, enjoy a treat, and learn more about your library. Library staff are eager to meet you and answer whatever...
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- Fri, 09/22/2023 - 11:00am to Wed, 09/27/2023 - 2:00pm
- Mon, 09/25/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
- Tue, 09/26/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
- Wed, 09/27/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: Paseo
Welcome all students to the new academic year! Did you know you can borrow a laptop, bike lock, umbrella, board games, and more from UCSB Library?
Whether you are a new or returning student, stop by the Library's Week of Welcome (WoW) table in the Paseo where you can spin the wheel, enjoy a treat, and learn more about your library. Library staff are eager to meet you and answer whatever...
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- Fri, 09/22/2023 - 11:00am to Wed, 09/27/2023 - 2:00pm
- Mon, 09/25/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
- Tue, 09/26/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
- Wed, 09/27/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: Paseo
Welcome all students to the new academic year! Did you know you can borrow a laptop, bike lock, umbrella, board games, and more from UCSB Library?
Whether you are a new or returning student, stop by the Library's Week of Welcome (WoW) table in the Paseo where you can spin the wheel, enjoy a treat, and learn more about your library. Library staff are eager to meet you and answer whatever...
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- Fri, 09/22/2023 - 11:00am to Wed, 09/27/2023 - 2:00pm
- Mon, 09/25/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
- Tue, 09/26/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
- Wed, 09/27/2023 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: Paseo
Welcome all students to the new academic year! Did you know you can borrow a laptop, bike lock, umbrella, board games, and more from UCSB Library?
Whether you are a new or returning student, stop by the Library's Week of Welcome (WoW) table in the Paseo where you can spin the wheel, enjoy a treat, and learn more about your library. Library staff are eager to meet you and answer whatever...
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- Mon, 09/11/2023 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Tue, 09/12/2023 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Wed, 09/13/2023 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Thu, 09/14/2023 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Mon, 09/18/2023 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Tue, 09/19/2023 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Wed, 09/20/2023 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Thu, 09/21/2023 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Online
This is an 8-Day Carpentries workshop that aims to teach participants basic concepts, skills, and tools for R in RStudio, Python in Jupyter Notebook, 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...
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- Mon, 09/11/2023 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Tue, 09/12/2023 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Wed, 09/13/2023 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Thu, 09/14/2023 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Mon, 09/18/2023 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Tue, 09/19/2023 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Wed, 09/20/2023 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
- Thu, 09/21/2023 - 8:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Online
This is an 8-Day Carpentries workshop that aims to teach participants basic concepts, skills, and tools for R in RStudio, Python in Jupyter Notebook, 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...
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