Events & Exhibitions

The Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor, and Interim University Librarian will hand out free copies of the UCSB Reads 2025 book to UCSB students while supplies last. The 2025 selection is The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross...

This three-day workshop offers a comprehensive introduction to Python, specifically designed for participants with no prior programming experience. Through the use of Jupyter notebooks, learners will get started coding in Python. The workshop will cover essential skills such as data loading and...

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The “Zotero Basics” workshops last two hours and will cover all aspects of using Zotero to manage citations for your personal research. While the basic workshops are designed for beginners, tips will be...

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Join the UCSB Reads Student-Led Book Club for an engaging, student-driven exploration of this year’s UCSB Reads selection,...

This workshop covers the fundamentals of working with raster and vector geospatial data in R. Participants will learn to plot and analyze raster data, change projections, perform raster math, and work with multi-band rasters. The workshop also explores vector data, including points, lines, and...

Lunch & Learn is a quarterly series that features two graduate students, one from a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and one from a SHEF discipline (Social Sciences, Humanities, Education and Fine Arts). Each presenter is able to share a 15 minute talk on any topic...

UCSB Library is excited to present the works of Macduff Everton and Mary Heebner in the exhibition Polar Opposites.

For over three decades of love and collaboration, photographer Macduff Everton and painter Mary Heebner explore the world, both in image and word. Both artists are alumni of...

In celebration of the 2025 UCSB Reads book, The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay, the Library invites you to create zines that capture moments of joy. Join us for a free art making workshop where you can...

In partnership with UCSB Reads, join UCSB Health & Wellness for a 3-week series exploring The Book of Delights, by Ross Gay through three engaging creative projects!

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Join us for a guided electronics project! We will discover the basics of wiring a circuit and show how you can use electronic components to create your ideas. All materials will be provided.

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Join us for this 1-hour seminar on Research Computing resources at UCSB, designed for researchers tackling complex projects that exceed their laptop's capabilities. This session will cover fundamental computing concepts (CPU, GPU, RAM, hard drive), what computer clusters are, and clarify what...

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UCSB Library is pleased to present Haewon Jeong (Electrical and Computer Engineering) in the...

Do you enjoy working on data science but not installing the software environment? Do you have nightmares about software library dependencies? Is your laptop slowing you down and want to use a more powerful remote server or cloud platform? In this workshop, we will show a reproducible and user-...

In celebration of the 2025 UCSB Reads book, The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay, the Library invites you to create a journal for logging your own daily insights of delight. Join us for a free bookbinding...

Bees are essential for global food production and the pollination of wild and cultivated plants, yet their numbers and diversity are declining. Understanding the causes is challenging due to limited data on bee species distribution and their traits that influence their vulnerability or...

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The UCSB Library is offering a workshop for graduate students on publishing. This workshop is designed to teach students about the different venues available for publishing articles, manuscripts,...

Registration is required.

UCSB librarians will provide a presentation on patents geared to graduate students, although everyone is welcome. Learn more about the valuable legal, business, and technical information patents...

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 10:50am).

In collaboration with UCSB Health & Wellness and...

UCSB Reads on KCSB-FM 91.9

Starting March 5th, tune in to KCSB-FM 91.9 every Wednesday at 5:00 PM for weekly readings of The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay. Each 15-minute segment will feature a reading, along with...

RSVP in advance.

Join the UCSB Reads Student-Led Book Club for an engaging, student-driven exploration of this year’s UCSB Reads selection,...

UCSB Reads on KCSB-FM 91.9

Starting March 5th, tune in to KCSB-FM 91.9 every Wednesday at 5:00 PM for weekly readings of The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay. Each 15-minute segment will feature a reading, along with...

UCSB Reads on KCSB-FM 91.9

Starting March 5th, tune in to KCSB-FM 91.9 every Wednesday at 5:00 PM for weekly readings of The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay. Each 15-minute segment will feature a reading, along with...

UCSB Reads on KCSB-FM 91.9

Starting March 5th, tune in to KCSB-FM 91.9 every Wednesday at 5:00 PM for weekly readings of The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay. Each 15-minute segment will feature a reading, along with...

Please join us for a reception and awards ceremony honoring the recipients of the 2025 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...