Past Events
- 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
- Wed, 04/27/2022 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312, Online
Join the Research Data Services team to discuss some good practices for crafting insightful and trustworthy data stories. Faculty, staff, and students are welcome! This event is hybrid and refreshments will be provided for those attending in person.
Location: In-person (UCSB Library RM 1312)/Virtual (Zoom)
- Thu, 04/07/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
- Wed, 04/13/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
- Thu, 04/21/2022 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Undergraduate students are invited to join UCSB Library and UCSB Reads 2022 for a three-part Sci-Fi creative writing workshop. The goal of the workshop is to spark the imagination of both novice and experienced writers, and to guide them toward the creation...
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- Tue, 04/19/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
- Thu, 04/21/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Online
This event is an online, two-day, example-driven workshop on April 19 and 21, 2022 for 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 Python syntax and work up to basic plotting/data visualizations. We will work with the...
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- Tue, 04/19/2022 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
The UCSB Library presents a Pacific Views Series Talk by Roland Geyer, Professor of Industrial Ecology. This event is free and open to the public. If you are unable to attend in person, this event will be live-streamed on the ...
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- Tue, 04/19/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
- Thu, 04/21/2022 - 9:30am to 12:30pm
Location: Online
This event is an online, two-day, example-driven workshop on April 19 and 21, 2022 for 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 Python syntax and work up to basic plotting/data visualizations. We will work with the...
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- Fri, 04/15/2022 - 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 Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology & Anthropology. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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- Thu, 04/14/2022 - 4:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Join industry and academic experts in the quantum field for a panel inspired by Ted Chiang's story "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom." Ted Chiang's Exhalation: Stories is the UCSB Reads pick for 2022.
Panelists include...
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- Thu, 04/14/2022 - 2:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Online
This event is an online, one-day, example-driven workshop on April 14, 2022 for an introduction to using OpenRefine. OpenRefine is an open-source tool that runs inside of a web browser. It is used for working with messy tabular data and is applicable to all sorts of practical challenges that data scientists face regularly. There is no prior programming knowledge required.
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- Thu, 04/14/2022 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
In the final story in this year’s UCSB Reads book Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang, quantum computers allow people to explore divergent timelines. At UCSB, scientists are working on developing real quantum computers that do not allow for divergent timelines, but will help address pressing problems such as optimizing delivery routes and strengthening password encryption.
Quantum...
