Past Events
- Fri, 06/09/2023 - 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 10:50 am).
In collaboration with UCSB Health & Wellness and UCSB ONDAS Student Center.
- Wed, 06/07/2023 - 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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- Fri, 06/02/2023 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in History & Physics. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the ...
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- Thu, 06/01/2023 - 4:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Please join us for a reception and awards ceremony honoring the recipients of the 2023 Library Award for Undergraduate Research. Prizes of $750 for first place and $500 for second place will be awarded in each of three categories: Sciences & Engineering, Humanities & Fine Arts, and Social Sciences.
The 2023 Library Award for Undergraduate Research is generously supported by a gift from Dr. Jenny Cook-Gumperz, faculty emerita.
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- Tue, 05/30/2023 - 4:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
UCSB Campus Location: McCune Conference Room, Humanities & Social Sciences Building (6020 HSSB)
Luis J. Rodríguez is an award-winning author and activist whose memoir about life in a gang, "Always Running," is as popular as ever in 2023, its 30th anniversary. The UCSB Library Special Research Collections recently acquired Rodríguez’s personal papers, giving scholars and students an opportunity to see the personal and social context behind Always Running...
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- Tue, 05/23/2023 - 4:00pm
Location: Online
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Join us for a virtual conversation between Grammy award-winning musician, composer, and tango expert Pablo Aslan and David Seubert, Curator for the Performing Arts for UC Santa Barbara Library, Special Research Collections. Moderated by Alejandra Folguera, a promoter and organizer of the dance, music and art of...
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- Fri, 05/19/2023 - 12:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
Event Location: UCSB Henley Hall 1010
Click here to register or access the live stream option
ChatGPT has become a central topic of interest at the UCSB campus, prompting numerous discussions on its research, educational, and societal impacts. As educators, researchers, and society members, it's crucial to delve deeper into understanding ChatGPT's functionality,...
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- Fri, 05/12/2023 - 7:30pm
- Sat, 05/13/2023 - 3:00pm
- Sat, 05/13/2023 - 7:30pm
- Sun, 05/14/2023 - 7:30pm
Location: UCSB Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
The UCSB 2023 Opera "Burning to Sing" is a comedic and charming production that promises to leave audiences thoroughly entertained. This ironic tale of Madame Tremolini, voice teacher extraordinaire and cast of colorful characters in a 1950's apartment building that is slowly catching fire, will have you grinning from ear to ear with delight. The witty score sets the perfect backdrop for this amusing operetta.
Whether you're an opera enthusiast or just...
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- Fri, 05/12/2023 - 7:30pm
- Sat, 05/13/2023 - 3:00pm
- Sat, 05/13/2023 - 7:30pm
- Sun, 05/14/2023 - 7:30pm
Location: UCSB Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
The UCSB 2023 Opera "Burning to Sing" is a comedic and charming production that promises to leave audiences thoroughly entertained. This ironic tale of Madame Tremolini, voice teacher extraordinaire and cast of colorful characters in a 1950's apartment building that is slowly catching fire, will have you grinning from ear to ear with delight. The witty score sets the perfect backdrop for this amusing operetta.
Whether you're an opera enthusiast or just...
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- Fri, 05/12/2023 - 7:30pm
- Sat, 05/13/2023 - 3:00pm
- Sat, 05/13/2023 - 7:30pm
- Sun, 05/14/2023 - 7:30pm
Location: UCSB Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
The UCSB 2023 Opera "Burning to Sing" is a comedic and charming production that promises to leave audiences thoroughly entertained. This ironic tale of Madame Tremolini, voice teacher extraordinaire and cast of colorful characters in a 1950's apartment building that is slowly catching fire, will have you grinning from ear to ear with delight. The witty score sets the perfect backdrop for this amusing operetta.
Whether you're an opera enthusiast or just...
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- Fri, 05/12/2023 - 7:30pm
- Sat, 05/13/2023 - 3:00pm
- Sat, 05/13/2023 - 7:30pm
- Sun, 05/14/2023 - 7:30pm
Location: UCSB Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
The UCSB 2023 Opera "Burning to Sing" is a comedic and charming production that promises to leave audiences thoroughly entertained. This ironic tale of Madame Tremolini, voice teacher extraordinaire and cast of colorful characters in a 1950's apartment building that is slowly catching fire, will have you grinning from ear to ear with delight. The witty score sets the perfect backdrop for this amusing operetta.
Whether you're an opera enthusiast or just...
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- Fri, 05/12/2023 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This is a one-day workshop to learn about UCSB's new three-year licenses for accessing Planet Labs imagery, web applications, and visualization tools. Planet provides daily satellite imagery of the Earth’s land surfaces and coastal areas. UCSB’s access includes the RapidEye Archive, SkySat Archive, and daily PlanetScope imagery. In the morning we will introduce Planet and the available products, some use cases, and...
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- Wed, 05/10/2023 - 7:30pm
Location: UCSB Campbell Hall
UCSB Library is excited to present Charles Montgomery, UCSB Reads 2023 author of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design for a free community talk at Campbell Hall.
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Event is free but registration through the Arts & Lectures portal is...
- Mon, 04/17/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 05/10/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The UCSB Library will be offering two Zotero 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...
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- Tue, 05/09/2023 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Snacks and drinks will be provided! Sign up here! Join a student-led book club to discuss this year’s UCSB Reads book selection, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery, which explores...
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- Fri, 05/05/2023 - 9:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online are a powerful software duo that support geospatial data processing, analysis, visualization, and the cloud-based sharing of geospatial products. In this one-day, example-driven workshop, we’ll review how to most effectively use...
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- Fri, 04/28/2023 - 2:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: Other, on-campus
UCSB’s Department of Theater and Dance, Department of Art, College of Creative Studies, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, MultiCultural Center and Library will host the Annual UCSB Arts Walk.
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- Fri, 04/28/2023 - 8:00am to Mon, 05/01/2023 - 5:00pm
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Join UCSB Reads 2023 in participating in the Santa Barbara City Nature Challenge! Let's celebrate the nature in and around our urban areas by documenting all the species we can find. The City Nature Challenge is an international community science effort for people to find and document plants and wildlife in cities across the globe.
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- Tue, 04/25/2023 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 04/26/2023 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is a two-day, example-driven workshop on April 25-26, 2023 for an introduction on utilizing the terminal to use version control with Git. We will get you started on how to use the command shell/bash to use git. The use of a shell allows you to perform complex and powerful tasks, often with just...
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- Tue, 04/25/2023 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 04/26/2023 - 9:30am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
This event is a two-day, example-driven workshop on April 25-26, 2023 for an introduction on utilizing the terminal to use version control with Git. We will get you started on how to use the command shell/bash to use git. The use of a shell allows you to perform complex and powerful tasks, often with just...
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- Fri, 04/21/2023 - 12:00pm to 1:15pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Global Studies and Geography. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division,...
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- Wed, 04/19/2023 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Snacks and drinks will be provided! ...
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- Mon, 04/17/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
- Wed, 05/10/2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
The UCSB Library will be offering two Zotero 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...
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- Wed, 04/12/2023 - 5:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Please RSVP here!
Join us at UCSB Library for a free zine workshop, no experience necessary! Participants will learn how to make a zine exploring themes in the UCSB Reads 2023 book “Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design” by Charles Montgomery....
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