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The UCSB Library and the Office of Research would like to announce the launch of a new web resource:  Research Computing and Data  https://rcd.ucsb.edu This website serves as UCSB's portal for faculty, students, and researchers to locate the campus computing and data resources that are broadly...
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Tue, Aug 23, 2:53 pm | DREAM Lab
The Data, Research, Exploration, Access & Methods (DREAM) Lab, formerly known as the Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory, is a Library initiative to help UCSB scholars learn new skills, access specialized computational resources, and build data collections. Established in 2016 and led by...
Dream Lab Hex
Tue, Aug 2, 12:46 pm | DREAM Lab
The Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory at UCSB Library is now DREAM Lab. Our mission hasn’t changed: We support data-intensive research, experimentation and learning with new technologies, and access to advanced computational methods for students, faculty, and staff across the campus. Our new...
A laptop with carpentry work on the screen on a table. In the background are more students taking a carpentry class.
Mon, Oct 4, 1:09 pm | DREAM Lab
The UCSB Library Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory is UCSB's home for data-centric research support. The Collaboratory team offers expert guidance on access to the Library's data collections and supports software tools to analyze and visualize quantitative, qualitative, and spatial data. ...
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In a room at the UC Santa Barbara Library, Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy and her students prepare for revolution. They wield no weapons, only words. They seek not to overthrow a government, but to disrupt the multibillion-dollar academic publishing industry. Joy leads the Arnhold Punctum Publishing Lab...
Victoria Mansfield
Mon, May 15, 4:33 pm | DREAM Lab, Student Success
The Twitter hashtag #NoDAPL has inspired a timely UCSB undergraduate research project. Environmentalists and social activists are using the hashtag to indicate their disapproval of the Dakota Access pipeline, a controversial underground oil pipeline from North Dakota to Illinois. Victoria Mansfield...
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Fifty years ago, the UCSB Library created a separate unit to collect maps and aerial photographs. In 1979, the Map Room was renamed the Map & Imagery Laboratory (MIL) in order to acknowledge its role in supporting research and teaching on campus.  In the time since, MIL has evolved into one of...