Past Events
- Thu, 10/23/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
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In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to get started creating a Literature Review or environmental scan, including:
- What Literature Reviews are, and where to find them
- How to use concept mapping to identify secondary sources
- When and how to use Generative AI tools
- Advanced tips and strategies for searching library databases
- How to find...
- Thu, 10/23/2025 - 12:00pm to 12:30pm
Location: Online
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Want to sharpen your data and open science skills? Join the Data to Discovery series—30-min online sessions with practical tools, tips, and ideas to grow your research skills. In this #OpenAccessWeek session, we’ll explore policies, data sharing options, repositories, and licensing choices—and highlight tools and resources to help you care for...
- Thu, 10/23/2025 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
Are you an R user eager to work with text data and explore techniques like sentiment analysis? This workshop, the first in a series, will guide you through essential preprocessing steps to turn messy text into structured, analyzable data.
Registrations: cglink.me/2dD/r2268707
- Wed, 10/22/2025 - 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, 10/22/2025 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
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...
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- Tue, 10/21/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a guided tutorial where you will learn to 3D model in Autodesk Fusion by modeling vases in three different styles. You will be able to send your design directly to our 3D printers and later pick up your model. No experience needed!
All you need to bring is a laptop (and ideally, a mouse). Before the event, create a free educational Autodesk account and download the Fusion software. Select...
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- Tue, 10/21/2025 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: Online
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This workshop is designed to teach you about the different avenues for publishing articles, manuscripts, and data. Additionally, the workshop will highlight resources and considerations as you start your publishing journey.
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
- Identify where to find key publications in your field
- Understand the publishing cycle
- Set...
- Mon, 10/20/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
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Celebrate Día de Los Muertos (November 1-2) by creating and decorating your own shoebox altar in the Library's Makerspace. Learn to craft tissue paper flowers and mini papel picado—we'll provide all materials. Please bring one or more printed photos of loved ones who have passed that you'd like to honor.
Completed altars will be displayed at the...
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- Thu, 10/16/2025 - 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!
- Thu, 10/16/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Online
Register Now
In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to get started creating a Literature Review or environmental scan, including:
- What Literature Reviews are, and where to find them
- How to use concept mapping to identify secondary sources
- When and how to use Generative AI tools
- Advanced tips and strategies for searching library databases
- How to find...
- Tue, 10/14/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
- Thu, 10/16/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Register at Shoreline: https://cglink.me/2dD/r2268290
This two-day workshop introduces git, a command line tool for managing revisions in coding projects, and GitHub, a web-based platform for sharing your work and collaborating with others. The workshop is oriented toward learners with little or no previous experience with either git or GitHub. It will cover steps for setting up a git project, making changes, navigating the...
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- Wed, 10/15/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
Join us for a guided electronics project where we will create a prototype for a light up piano. Discover the basics of wiring a circuit with components such as an Arduino (aka the 'brain' of the circuit), a speaker, buttons, and a LED to create your ideas. All materials will be provided.
Enroll in our Canvas course and complete the introductory orientation to familiarize yourself with the basics of the Makerspace.
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- Wed, 10/15/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Special Research Collections
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UC Santa Barbara Library invites you to the opening event for Unyielding Voices: Global Resistance and the Black Radical Tradition, an exhibition documenting the life’s work of Cedric J. Robinson and Elizabeth Peters Robinson, whose seminal scholarship and activism had wide-ranging influence at UCSB,...
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- Wed, 10/15/2025 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
This workshop has now reached capacity. We hope you'll consider registering for our online version of this workshop, offered on Wednesday, October 22, 2025.
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...
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- Tue, 10/14/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
Register now to save your spot!
Celebrate Día de Los Muertos (November 1-2) by creating and decorating your own shoebox altar in the Library's Makerspace. Learn to craft tissue paper flowers and mini papel picado—we'll provide all materials. Please bring one or more printed photos of loved ones who have passed that you'd like to honor.
Completed altars will be displayed at the...
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- Tue, 10/14/2025 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 2509
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Find out what to consider when launching a podcast, from choosing a theme, topics and guests, and incorporating sound elements. You’ll learn what to know about using copyrighted material and how to streamline the production process. For most successful podcasters and reporters, interviewing skills are a key to success. Learn a standard process for journalism interviewing that will help you prepare, get...
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- Tue, 10/14/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
- Thu, 10/16/2025 - 10:00am to 1:00pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
Register at Shoreline: https://cglink.me/2dD/r2268290
This two-day workshop introduces git, a command line tool for managing revisions in coding projects, and GitHub, a web-based platform for sharing your work and collaborating with others. The workshop is oriented toward learners with little or no previous experience with either git or GitHub. It will cover steps for setting up a git project, making changes, navigating the...
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- Sun, 10/12/2025 - 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: Other, off-campus
Location: Art Learning Lab, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Join the Santa Barbara Community Archives Project in preserving local history at Free Second Sunday for community members at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art! Bring your cherished family photographs and get free access to the museum. Your photos will be scanned onsite and returned to you. Once processed, you will receive free digital copies, and your photos will be in a digital collection. As an...
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- Thu, 10/09/2025 - 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!
We will provide material for laser cutting. All...
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- Thu, 10/09/2025 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Other, off-campus
SBHS Alumni Room
700 E Anapamu St
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Are you or a family member an SBHS graduate?
Join the Santa Barbara Community Archives Project (SBCAP), in partnership with the Santa Barbara High School Alumni Association, for our next round of Community Archiving Days!
Bring your photos to be scanned and help preserve the rich history of SBHS by contributing to the ...
- Thu, 10/09/2025 - 12:00pm to 12:30pm
Location: Online
Want to sharpen your data and open science skills? Join the Data to Discovery series—30-min online sessions with practical tools, tips, and ideas to grow your research skills.
This week, come along for a casual conversation about how R and Python fit into real research workflows. Whether you’re Team R, Team Python, or still deciding, you’ll...
- Wed, 10/08/2025 - 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, 10/08/2025 - 4:00pm to 5:15pm
Location: Instruction & Training 1312
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Not sure where to start—or how to keep up—with the flood of new papers in your field? Got a bunch of unread PDFs in your downloads folder? In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn practical strategies for finding relevant literature (beyond just Google), managing your growing collection of papers, and reading and annotating efficiently so you actually remember what you’ve read. We’ll...
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- Tue, 10/07/2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Location: Makerspace
Learn to 3D print by creating your own 3D model in TinkerCAD. During the workshop we will cover the basics of designing in TinkerCAD, learn how to remix existing 3D models licensed through Creative Commons, and get acquainted with the 3D printing process. At the end of the workshop, everyone will send a small lidded container to be 3D printed. No experience needed!
All you need to bring is a laptop (and ideally, a mouse). There is no software that needs to be installed...
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