Past Events
- Fri, 02/13/2026 - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Location: UCSB MultiCultural Center
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Celebrate Douglass Day and Black History Month by participating in a national transcribe-a-thon. You’ll learn how to bring 19th century Black history to life by transforming digitized documents from the Colored Conventions Project into legible text. This groundbreaking archive documents how nineteenth-century African Americans organized around critical issues such as...
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- Thu, 02/12/2026 - 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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- Thu, 01/29/2026 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
- Thu, 02/12/2026 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
- Thu, 02/26/2026 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
Location: Women's Center Community Room
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Join the Women’s Center in partnership with UCSB Reads this winter for the Feminist Book Club, featuring the UCSB Reads selection ...
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- Thu, 02/12/2026 - 12:00pm to 12:30pm
Location: Online
Interactive graphics offer new ways to explore and communicate data beyond static figures. This session introduces beginner-friendly examples using tools such as Plotly, Shiny, and interactive tables, along with practical considerations for sharing your interactive work.
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- Wed, 02/11/2026 - 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, 02/11/2026 - 1:00pm to 3:30pm
- Fri, 02/13/2026 - 1:00pm to 3:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Register in Shoreline: https://cglink.me/2dD/r2270653
This workshop provides a practical introduction to fundamental machine learning concepts, with a special focus on neural networks. In this hands-on session, participants will utilize Scikit-learn and TensorFlow Keras to master the essential workflow: preparing data, training predictive models, and evaluating results.
Prerequisites: No machine learning knowledge is...
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- Tue, 02/10/2026 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
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Celebrate Douglass Day and Black History Month by contributing to a collaborative community quilt! Create a unique fabric square using collage and appliqué techniques. Share your story side-by-side with the campus community while we contemplate themes of citizenship, community, and home.
At the end of the workshop, your decorated squares will be sewn into a...
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- Tue, 02/10/2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Online
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Do you enjoy the flexibility of Airtable but find the cost limits frustrating? Do spreadsheets work for you until you need to link multiple tables or track relationships? Are you interested in organizing your research data in a proper database, but SQL still feels like too big a leap?
No-code databases provide a middle ground. They allow you to create structured, relational...
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- Mon, 02/09/2026 - 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!
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- Mon, 02/09/2026 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Registration for this event is currently full. Please contact Sara Kelly, Exhibitions & Events Manager, sarakelly@ucsb.edu for more information.
Join us for the launch of UCSB Library’s new speaker series AI in Action Conversations with UCSB Researchers. The event features short presentations by Tobias Fischer (Director, Earth Research Institute), Ben Halpern (Executive...
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- Mon, 02/09/2026 - 10:00am to Fri, 02/13/2026 - 2:30pm
Location: Online
Save the date! February 9-13, 2026, is the 6th annual UC Love Data Week.
UC Love Data Week is a week-long offering of presentations and workshops focused on data access, management, security, sharing, and preservation. All members of the University of California community are welcome to attend this free, virtual event. With over 20 presentations and workshops, whether you’re working on qualitative or quantitative data, there’s plenty...
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- Wed, 02/04/2026 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: Makerspace
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In celebration of the 2026 UCSB Reads book, Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner, join us for a zine making session and recipe swap. Zines (pronounced "zeens," short for magazines) are small, self-published booklets created and distributed by individuals or small groups. Zines are a cornerstone of...
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- Wed, 02/04/2026 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
- Wed, 03/04/2026 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
- Wed, 04/01/2026 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
- Wed, 04/29/2026 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
- Wed, 06/03/2026 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: Sara Miller McCune Arts Library, Room 1411
Hybrid Event - Join on Zoom
Would you like to work on your open source goals in a focused and motivating environment?
In partnership with UC's new Open Source Program Office (OSPO) Network, the UCSB Open Source Program presents the Open Source Lounge, a monthly co-working space for open source activities. Bring your laptop and some work to do, such as programming exercises, a bug to fix, some...
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- Wed, 02/04/2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Online
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Join UCSB Librarians for an introduction on patents. Learn 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.
This workshop is open to all but will be of particular interest to graduate students and faculty.
This event may...
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- Tue, 02/03/2026 - 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, 02/03/2026 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm
Location: Special Research Collections
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Join UCSB librarians to learn how to get started in archival and primary source research. In this hands-on 75-minute workshop, you’ll learn how to search and navigate finding aids, request materials, and gain practical tips for visiting archives or reading rooms. We’ll touch on digitized archival collections, but the focus will be on physical collections. Bonus: You’ll hear about the...
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- Mon, 02/02/2026 - 4:00pm
Location: Pacific View Room
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UCSB Library is pleased to present Heejung Kim (Psychological and Brain Sciences) in the Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series for Winter 2026. In her talk, “Culture and Social Support: Implications for Health and Well-Being,” she explores how relationships lie at the heart of human life, strongly influencing our health and well-...
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- Thu, 01/29/2026 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
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In celebration of the 2026 UCSB Reads book, Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner, join the Makerspace in designing wooden recipe boxes to hold space for all of our favorite meals and memories.
Learn about the laser cutting process and design principles for creating 3D assemblies out of 2D...
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- Thu, 01/29/2026 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
- Thu, 02/12/2026 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
- Thu, 02/26/2026 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Other, on-campus
Location: Women's Center Community Room
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Join the Women’s Center in partnership with UCSB Reads this winter for the Feminist Book Club, featuring the UCSB Reads selection ...
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- Thu, 01/29/2026 - 12:00pm to 12:30pm
Location: Online
Bar graphs are widely used to compare groups, but that simplicity can come at a cost of transparency. In this session, we will unpack common pitfalls of bar graphs and explore practical alternatives that help make group comparisons clearer and more transparent.
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The Data to Discovery Series is hosted by Research Data Services (RDS) @ the UCSB Library....
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- Thu, 01/29/2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: Online
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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 research notes as valuable data — information that deserves to be organized, preserved, and revisited. We’ll use Obsidian, a free, flexible, and local-first note-...
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- Tue, 01/27/2026 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
- Thu, 01/29/2026 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
Register in Shoreline: https://cglink.me/2dD/r2270303
Turn websites into usable data. In this intermediate workshop, you will master web scraping using Python's Requests, Beautiful Soup, and Selenium. Learn to read and navigate the backbone of a website (its HTML content) and automate data extraction from both static and dynamic web pages.
Designed for participants with basic knowledge of Python programming.
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- Wed, 01/28/2026 - 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, 01/28/2026 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
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Join the UCSB Library for a relaxing and creative experience inspired by the UCSB Reads 2026 book selection Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner. While listening to Japanese Breakfast’s Psychopomp, participants will create their own CD art and explore themes that shape Zauner’s memoir,...
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