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UCSB Library is pleased to present Haewon Jeong (Electrical and Computer Engineering) in the Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series for Winter 2025.
In her talk "Ethical AI: Serving Humanity or Falling Short?", Jeong will explore the ethical...
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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 these mean for your research. Explore the full compute spectrum, from laptops to high-performance clusters, and discover campus and national resources available to optimize your workflows...
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Join us for a hands-on workshop where we'll walk you through a simple sewing project. Learn the basics of using a sewing machine and following a simple pattern.
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 these mean for your research. Explore the full compute spectrum, from laptops to high-performance clusters, and discover campus and national resources available to optimize your workflows...
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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 polygons, and demonstrates how to combine multiple layers in a single map. Additionally, participants will work with time series rasters and compute summary statistics from this data....
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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.
Join us for a guided tutorial where you will learn to 3D model in Autodesk Fusion. You will be able to send your models directly to our 3D printers and later pick up your one-of-a-kind design. No experience needed!
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!
Week 1: Journaling Like Ross
1/23/2025 4:30pm-5:30pm
Kick off your own "book of delights" with a free journal...
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 polygons, and demonstrates how to combine multiple layers in a single map. Additionally, participants will work with time series rasters and compute summary statistics from this data....
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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 share what brings you delight. Participants will learn how to make a zine and collage together a collection of found images.
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Join us for a hands-on workshop where we'll walk you through a simple sewing project. Learn the basics of using a sewing machine and following a simple pattern.
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 polygons, and demonstrates how to combine multiple layers in a single map. Additionally, participants will work with time series rasters and compute summary statistics from this data....
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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 they want in a moderated, low stakes environment to their peers in the graduate student body.
Lunch & Learns are on Fridays during the year, and best of all, FREE LUNCH IS...
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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!
Week 1: Journaling Like Ross
1/23/2025 4:30pm-5:30pm
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 polygons, and demonstrates how to combine multiple layers in a single map. Additionally, participants will work with time series rasters and compute summary statistics from this data....
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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 provide template designs available for you to customize so that you get to experience the process from start to finish. No experience needed!
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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, The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay. Connect with peers, share insights, and dive deeper into the themes, and ideas of the book through lively discussions. This is...
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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 analysis, automation of data processing tasks, and the creation of basic plots for data visualization.
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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 shared that will also help experienced users make better use of Zotero.
By the end of this workshop you will be able to:
Please register in advance.
UCSB Library invites faculty, graduate students, and others actively engaged in research to a workshop that offers the practical benefits of open research. Join us for a collaborative discussion on the benefits of adopting open research practices. This approach can foster better reproducibility, collaboration, and transparency in scholarly work. We will explore the...
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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 analysis, automation of data processing tasks, and the creation of basic plots for data visualization.
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Meet up with your fellow fiber artists at the Makerspace. This event is just 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...
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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 Gay.
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This event is for Transfer Students to meet and craft together. Envision the new year by collaging together a vision board in the form of a zine (DIY booklet). The Makerspace will provide all materials. Join us for free crafting and coffee!
Join us for a guided tutorial where you will learn to 3D model in Autodesk Fusion. You will be able to send your models directly to our 3D printers and later pick up your one-of-a-kind design. No experience needed!
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 analysis, automation of data processing tasks, and the creation of basic plots for data visualization.
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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 shared that will also help experienced users make better use of Zotero.
By the end of this workshop you will be able to:
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 ONDAS Student Center.
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, and data. Additionally, the workshop will highlight critical resources available for your success.
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
Identify where to go to find key publications in...
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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 provide template designs available for you to customize so that you get to experience the process from start to finish. No experience needed!
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Learn how to bind a book during a hands-on workshop where we'll make a gratitude journal. Learn the basics of book structures and hand stitching. Everyone will get to take home a bound sketchbook they made themselves. No experience needed and all materials are provided!
Open to all graduate students and other UCSB affiliates.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Please register for the presentation in advance.
This presentation you will learn the basics of copyright under US Law, including:
· What is copyright? What does it cover?
· How does a creator get their work copyrighted? What is "work for hire"?
· How long...
Join us for a hands-on workshop where we'll walk you through a simple sewing project. Learn the basics of using a sewing machine and following a simple pattern.
As a CAPS-Makerspace partnership, Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS) will be presenting a communication and collaboration skills workshop. During a two hour event, students will collaborate to rapidly create and design an art exhibition. Themes explored include problem solving, iterative design, and self-reflection.
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Carpinteria Valley Museum of History (956 Maple Ave., Carpinteria)
The UCSB Library’s Santa Barbara Community Archives Project is partnering with the Carpinteria Valley Museum of History to digitize and preserve the histories of Carpinteria Valley families. Participants’ family photographs and family films will be digitized for free by UCSB Library and preserved for future...
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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.
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 they want in a moderated, low stakes environment to their peers in the graduate student body.
Lunch & Learns are on Fridays during the year, and best of all, FREE LUNCH IS...
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Meet up with your fellow fiber artists at the Makerspace. This event is just 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.
Register now to save your spot!...
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Qualitative data allow researchers to delve deeply into human behavior, perceptions, and attitudes, offering a comprehensive perspective beyond what quantitative data can provide. This two-day workshop will guide attendees on how to ethically and effectively manage qualitative data from studies involving human subjects throughout its entire life cycle, from planning to sharing for future reuse. Participants will engage with de-identification and coding techniques using the...
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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 provide template designs available for you to customize so that you get to experience the process from start to finish. No experience needed!
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UCSB Library invites graduate students to learn how to use ORCID in your research. ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a unique, persistent digital identifier that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher.
In this workshop we will cover:
• Creating a free ORCID ID and managing your ORCID account
• Placing your publications in ORCID
• Funding, publisher, and research institution requirements
• Tips and...
Join us for a guided tutorial where you will learn to 3D model in Autodesk Fusion. You will be able to send your models directly to our 3D printers and later pick up your one-of-a-kind design. No experience needed!
"Garrett Hardin and the Untold History of Abortion and Population Control"
Join us for a virtual lecture by the 2023 Kenneth Karmiole Research Fellow, Lina-Maria Murillo, who used primary sources materials from the Library's Special Research Collections to create her most recent body of scholarship on Garrett...
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Qualitative data allow researchers to delve deeply into human behavior, perceptions, and attitudes, offering a comprehensive perspective beyond what quantitative data can provide. This two-day workshop will guide attendees on how to ethically and effectively manage qualitative data from studies involving human subjects throughout its entire life cycle, from planning to sharing for future reuse. Participants will engage with de-identification and coding techniques using the...
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Join us for a hands-on workshop where we'll walk you through a simple sewing project. Learn the basics of using a sewing machine and following a simple pattern.
Learn how to extract data from websites in this two-day workshop on web scraping with Python. We’ll begin by reviewing the structure of websites in HTML and how to retrieve information using your browser, the Requests library, and Beautiful Soup. You’ll also learn about the differences between static and dynamic web pages, and how to scrape the latter with the Selenium library. This workshop is designed for participants who already have a basic understanding of Python...
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The UCSB Library will be offering two Zotero Basics workshops for researchers during the fall quarter. Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies.
The “Zotero Basics” workshops last two hours and will cover all aspects of using Zotero to manage citations for your personal research. ...
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Learn how to extract data from websites in this two-day workshop on web scraping with Python. We’ll begin by reviewing the structure of websites in HTML and how to retrieve information using your browser, the Requests library, and Beautiful Soup. You’ll also learn about the differences between static and dynamic web pages, and how to scrape the latter with the Selenium library. This workshop is designed for participants who already have a basic understanding of Python...
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On Election Day, Tuesday November 5th, make your voice heard and go vote! After you've submitted your ballot, visit the Makerspace to make an "I Voted" pin button. We will have button making and drawing supplies set up all day ready for your use. All are welcome to join. Whether you voted early, by mail, or in-person on Election Day, stop by and make a pin button to encourage those around you to go vote!
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Visit the Makerspace at our open house where students and their families can experience the creative technologies available on campus. Drop by during this two hour window to participate in a screen printing or button making activity and make new memories.
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.
Register now to save your spot!
In celebration of Family History Month and international Home Movie Day, the UCSB Library’s Santa Barbara Community Archives Project is partnering with the Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society (SBCGS) to promote the importance of home movie collections and to provide free digitization services for Santa Barbara community members. Digitized materials will be preserved for future generations in the Library’s Local History...
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Drop by the Makerspace for the spookiest event yet: our first ever Halloween Costume Competition! Visit anytime between 12pm - 4pm to enter your costume. Library staff will pick the top three costumes to be posted on the Library Instagram. The costume with the most Instagram likes will win a $25 gift card!
We'll have candy, music, and crafts for those who'd like to make a Halloween decoration.
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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 revision history, sharing work on GitHub, and using GitHub pages to publish a website.
Register in...
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In celebration of Family History Month and international Home Movie Day, the UCSB Library’s Santa Barbara Community Archives Project is partnering with the Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society (SBCGS) to promote the importance of home movie collections and to provide free digitization services for Santa Barbara community members. Digitized materials will be preserved for future generations in the Library’s Local History...
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In this workshop, you will learn how to get started creating a Literature Review, including:
Join us for a guided tutorial where you will learn to 3D model in Autodesk Fusion. You will be able to send your models directly to our 3D printers and later pick up your one-of-a-kind design. No experience needed!
Register now to save your spot!
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 revision history, sharing work on GitHub, and using GitHub pages to publish a website.
Register in...
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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.
Register now to save your spot!
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 provide template designs available for you to customize so that you get to experience the process from start to finish. Everyone will get to take home a small laser cut "carved pumpkin" magnet. No experience needed!
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UC Santa Barbara Library invites you to the opening reception of Readymade Emanations: Trianon Press and the Art of Tearing Apart, an exhibition examining the legacy of Trianon Press, a 20th century fine art publisher based in Paris founded by visionary...
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Join us for a hands-on workshop where we'll walk you through a simple sewing project. Learn the basics of using a sewing machine and following a simple pattern.
Register now to save your spot!
This is an introduction to R designed for participants with no programming experience. The workshop will start with some basic information about R syntax, the RStudio interface, and move through how to import CSV files, the structure of data frames, how to deal with factors, how to add/remove rows and columns, how to calculate summary statistics from a data frame, and a brief introduction to plotting.
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This is an introduction to R designed for participants with no programming experience. The workshop will start with some basic information about R syntax, the RStudio interface, and move through how to import CSV files, the structure of data frames, how to deal with factors, how to add/remove rows and columns, how to calculate summary statistics from a data frame, and a brief introduction to plotting.
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Meet up with your fellow fiber artists at the Makerspace. This event is just 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.
Register now to save your spot!
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 provide template designs available for you to customize so that you get to experience the process from start to finish. Everyone will get to take home a small laser cut keychain. No experience needed!
Register now to save your spot!
Join us for a guided tutorial where you will learn to 3D model in Autodesk Fusion. You will be able to send your models directly to our 3D printers and later pick up your one-of-a-kind design. No experience needed!
Register now to save your spot!
This is an introduction to R designed for participants with no programming experience. The workshop will start with some basic information about R syntax, the RStudio interface, and move through how to import CSV files, the structure of data frames, how to deal with factors, how to add/remove rows and columns, how to calculate summary statistics from a data frame, and a brief introduction to plotting.
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Join us for a hands-on workshop where we'll walk you through a simple sewing project. Learn the basics of using a sewing machine and following a simple pattern.
Register now to save your spot!
The UCSB Library will be offering two Zotero Basics workshops for researchers during the fall quarter. Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies.
The “Zotero Basics” workshops last two hours and will cover all aspects of using Zotero to manage citations for your personal research. ...
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The Library's Annual Reception for Faculty returns this year to the Mountain Courtyard. This social event bring together new and returning faculty from across campus to kick off the 2024-2025 academic year, meet their department's liaison librarian, and hear about current and upcoming Library initiatives.
Stop by the Library's Week of Welcome tables in the Paseo (1st floor) to get free treats and Library swag, meet friendly Library staff, learn about Library resources, play games, create a zine, and enter a contest for a chance to win an Amazon gift card.
Pick up some treats and library swag and create a zine. For a chance to win an Amazon gift card,...
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Stop by the Library's Week of Welcome tables in the Paseo (1st floor) to get free treats and Library swag, meet friendly Library staff, learn about Library resources, play games, create a zine, and enter a contest for a chance to win an Amazon gift card.
Pick up some treats and library swag and create a zine. For a chance to win an Amazon gift card,...
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Stop by the Library's Week of Welcome tables in the Paseo (1st floor) to get free treats and Library swag, meet friendly Library staff, learn about Library resources, play games, create a zine, and enter a contest for a chance to win an Amazon gift card.
Pick up some treats and library swag and create a zine. For a chance to win an Amazon gift card,...
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Join us THIS WEEK for the Grad Success Series, a dynamic lineup of workshops and events designed to empower you throughout your graduate journey. Connect with fellow grad students, learn from experts, and gain practical tools to thrive academically, professionally, and personally.
Find all of our events on Shoreline and join the Graduate Student...
Join us THIS WEEK for the Grad Success Series, a dynamic lineup of workshops and events designed to empower you throughout your graduate journey. Connect with fellow grad students, learn from experts, and gain practical tools to thrive academically, professionally, and personally.
Find all of our events on Shoreline and join the Graduate Student...
Join us THIS WEEK for the Grad Success Series, a dynamic lineup of workshops and events designed to empower you throughout your graduate journey. Connect with fellow grad students, learn from experts, and gain practical tools to thrive academically, professionally, and personally.
Find all of our events on Shoreline and join the Graduate Student...
Join us THIS WEEK for the Grad Success Series, a dynamic lineup of workshops and events designed to empower you throughout your graduate journey. Connect with fellow grad students, learn from experts, and gain practical tools to thrive academically, professionally, and personally.
Find all of our events on Shoreline and join the Graduate Student...
UCSB Library invites faculty, graduate students, and others actively engaged in research to a workshop that offers the practical benefits of open research. Join us for a collaborative discussion on the benefits of adopting open research practices. This approach can foster better reproducibility, collaboration, and transparency in scholarly work. We will explore the potential of publishing open access and openly sharing your research data and code. Library staff will share...
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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 revision history, sharing work on GitHub, and using GitHub pages to publish a website.
Register in...
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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 revision history, sharing work on GitHub, and using GitHub pages to publish a website.
Register in...
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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 analysis, automation of data processing tasks, and the creation of basic plots for data visualization.
Register in Shoreline: https://...
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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 analysis, automation of data processing tasks, and the creation of basic plots for data visualization.
Register in Shoreline: https://...
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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 analysis, automation of data processing tasks, and the creation of basic plots for data visualization.
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Are you a frequent user of spreadsheets? In this hands-on, example-driven workshop, we will learn best practices for data organization. Topics covered include good data entry practices, approaches for handling dates, data quality control and manipulation, and exporting data to universal file formats. This workshop will assume no prior knowledge of the skills or tools.
Register in Shoreline: https://cglink.me/2dD/r2261219
DREAM Lab is developing a version of Carpentry’s “Introduction to Geospatial Raster and Vector Data with R” using local data sources. Join us for a full run-through of the workshop. We are seeking feedback for the purposes of improving our delivery of this popular workshop, as well as lesson improvement for the Carpentries. We are seeking both Instructors to lead episodes, as well as Learners with geospatial experience to get the best feedback possible. Lunch will be provided...
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Join us for our Makerspace Crochet Circle! Whether you're a seasoned crocheter or just starting out, all are welcome. Bring your current projects and crochet supplies, or use our supplies to learn.
It's a relaxed, friendly environment to work on your crochet crafts, get tips and advice, and socialize with fellow fiber arts enthusiasts. Drop in anytime, all levels of experience welcome. Register for this event on Shoreline....
DREAM Lab is developing a version of Carpentry’s “Introduction to Geospatial Raster and Vector Data with R” using local data sources. Join us for a full run-through of the workshop. We are seeking feedback for the purposes of improving our delivery of this popular workshop, as well as lesson improvement for the Carpentries. We are seeking both Instructors to lead episodes, as well as Learners with geospatial experience to get the best feedback possible. Lunch will be provided...
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Get ready to level up your game night experience! Join us for an evening of friendly competition, creativity, and hands-on fun at our Makerspace Game Night.
This monthly gathering is a celebration of game design and development, where everyone is welcome to play, explore, and share their creations. Drop into our workshop space and discover a selection of games made right here in the Makerspace - from 3D printed chess to programmable games on the Makey Makey to our...
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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 ONDAS Student Center.
UCSB Library invites you to a drop in event showcasing "Art & Reproductive Biology," an exhibition of student work created as part of a quarter-long interdisciplinary class in Anthropology and Art.
Science tells us that an egg cell met a sperm cell and their respective haploid DNA combined into a complete diploid genotype that replicated itself in a chain of developmental events to create a human. Chemically mediated through hormones and electrically mediated...
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Join us at the Makerspace for our monthly bookbinding workshop and learn the process involved in creating your own books. This is an easy, beginner friendly workshop - no experience necessary! Our Makerspace Mentors will guide you through each step and you will leave with your very own notebook.
Pre-Event Preparation: To ensure you are ready for this workshop, please enroll in our Canvas course and complete the...
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Location: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Family Resource Center
UCSB Library is pleased to present winners from the 11th Annual Art of Science Competition, a co-sponsored program between the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships and the UCSB Library, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
Artists, some say, are more right-brained, prone to feeling and imagination. Scientists,...
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Please join us for a reception and awards ceremony honoring the recipients of the 2024 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 Social Sciences.
The 2024 Library Award for Undergraduate Research is generously supported by a gift from Dr. Jenny Cook-Gumperz, faculty emerita...
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Join us for a guided 3D modeling tutorial on creating beautiful vases and vessels using Autodesk Fusion. During the workshop, our Makerspace Mentors will guide you through the entire 3D modeling process - from sketching your initial design ideas to bringing them to life in 3D. You'll explore techniques for creating elegant organic forms and unique shapes that would be difficult or nearly impossible to achieve through traditional methods.
Once you've finalized your 3D...
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UCSB Librarians are offering a Zotero Basics workshop for graduate students. Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. While geared to graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
The “Zotero Basics” workshop lasts two hours and will cover all aspects of using Zotero to manage citations for your personal research. This ...
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Join us at the Makerspace for a hands-on workshop where you will learn how to turn your digital design ideas into physical objects.
Dive into the process of laser cutting as our Makerspace Mentors guide you through creating wooden name plates. From sleek initials to intricate designs, the possibilities are endless.
No Experience Needed: Never touched a laser cutter before? No worries! Our expert guides will walk you through every step, making this workshop...
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Join us in the Library's AR/VR Studio to learn how we can 3D scan objects, people, and our environment. Just bring your cell phone to take videos and photographs that we'll transform into 3D models. After this workshop, you'll understand how to 3D scan, what software to use, and how to access these resources in the Library.
The AR/VR Studio is located in the Library on the Mountain Side, in room 2511. Register on Shoreline....
This origami crane folding workshop is a walk-in event scheduled May 23, 2024 from 2:00- 4:00 PM, in the FishBowl art space located by the Davidson entrance of the Ocean side of the library. The origami cranes will be collected during the event and donated to the Associated Students.
This workshop is part of the Isla Vista Memorial Exhibition, located in the Library’s Mountain Gallery. The exhibition is...
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Tired of rummaging through drawers and couch cushions every time you need dice? Join us for a hands-on electronics project night where you'll learn how to create a customized dice roller. With the help of our Makerspace Mentors, you'll learn how to set up the microcontroller, wire the components, and write the code that will create your dice roller.
Pre-Event Preparation: Please enroll in our Canvas course and...
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Open to all graduate students.
Light refreshments will be provided.
In this workshop, you will learn how to get started creating a Literature Review, including:
● What Literature Reviews are, and where to find them
● How to use concept mapping to identify secondary sources
● How to find and organize your sources to facilitate your writing
●...
Join us for a hands-on workshop where we will walk you through a simple sewing project. No prior sewing experience needed.
Pre-Event Preparation: Please enroll in our Canvas course and complete the introductory orientation to familiarize yourself with the basics of the Makerspace.
Limited Spots: Secure your spot in this exciting workshop! Space is limited, and creativity knows no bounds....
Come learn how to make your own custom buttons at the UCSB Library Makerspace! We will give a brief tour of the Makerspace then demonstrate how to use the button maker. You can draw your own designs using the provided materials or use some of the previous RCSGD limited edition pins that will be making a comeback for one night only. Register on Shoreline.
They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch. They also say that knowledge is the food of the soul. What if you could have both?
Lunch & Learn is a monthly informal seminar series that provides grad students with two important things: free lunch and a chance to socialize with and learn from their peers from across the campus.
The series is co-sponsored by the ...
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Join us for this exciting workshop where you'll learn how to apply custom vinyl decals onto a tote bag. Our Makerspace Mentors will guide you through the process of preparing and applying decals and you will leave with a unique accessory that is both practical and fashionable. No prior experience needed.
Pre-Event Preparation: Please enroll in our Canvas course and complete the introductory orientation to...
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Discover the Magic of Laser Cutting: Ever wanted to turn your keys into a personalized style statement? Look no further! 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.
Craft Your Signature Keychain: Dive into the process of laser cutting as we guide you through creating wooden keychains. From sleek initials to intricate designs, the possibilities are endless.
No...
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Rasters are commonly used to represent continuous spatial data such as elevation and temperature. This workshop will give a gentle introduction to using the R package terra to manipulate and plot raster data. No prior knowledge of spatial data is needed, but basic familiarity with R is assumed. For those migrating from terra’s predecessor package raster, I will describe some of the changes to functions.
Tuesday May 14, 3:00 PM, Remote attendance only (Zoom link TBD) -...
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Before our final eco.data.science meetup of the year, we invite the UCSB community for an update on our Planet Labs offerings. The workshop will begin with an introduction to Planet Labs’ satellite imagery, oriented toward new and prospective users. Afterwards, we will have a lightning talk session from 10:30 AM by our current users showcasing their work from the first year of our three year...
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Join us at the Makerspace for our monthly bookbinding workshop and learn the process involved in creating your own mini journal. Our first workshop in this series will be covering the pamphlet stitch. This is an easy, beginner friendly technique- no experience necessary! Our Makerspace Mentors will guide you through each step and you will leave with your very own notebook.
Pre-Event Preparation: To ensure you are ready for this workshop, please...
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Join us for a hands-on workshop where we will walk you through making your own scrunchie. No prior sewing experience needed and we will provide all the necessary materials to participate in this tutorial.
Pre-Event Preparation: Please enroll in our Canvas course and complete the introductory orientation to familiarize yourself with the basics of the Makerspace.
Limited Spots: Secure your spot in this...
Join us outside the Library for a student hip-hop dance performance!
Inspired by the UCSB Reads 2024 book selection Your Brain On Art: How the Arts Transform Us, students who participated in a free hip-hop dance workshop led by a member of UCSB Untitled Dance Company and Kapatirang Pilipino Modern will perform a groovy combo...
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UCSB Library invites graduate students to learn how to use ORCID in your research. ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a unique, persistent digital identifier that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher.
Light refreshments will be provided.
In this workshop we will cover:
• Creating a free ORCID ID and managing your ORCID account
• Placing your publications in ORCID
• Funding, publisher, and...
Join us for a guided tutorial where you will learn to model your own nameplate for your desk or door. You will be able to send your models directly to our 3D printers and later pick up your one-of-a-kind decoration.
Pre-Event Preparation: Please enroll in our Canvas course and complete the introductory orientation and 3D printing module to familiarize yourself with the basics of the Makerspace and 3D Printing. Find the course at...
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Join us for our Makerspace Crochet Circle! Whether you're a seasoned crocheter or just starting out, all are welcome. Bring your current projects and crochet supplies, or use our supplies to learn.
It's a relaxed, friendly environment to work on your crochet crafts, get tips and advice, and socialize with fellow fiber arts enthusiasts. Drop in anytime, all levels of experience welcome. Register on Shoreline.
Get ready to level up your game night experience! Join us for an evening of friendly competition, creativity, and hands-on fun at our Makerspace Game Night.
This monthly gathering is a celebration of game design and development, where everyone is welcome to play, explore, and share their creations. Drop in and discover a selection of games made right here in the Makerspace - from 3D printed chess to programmable games on the Makey Makey to our custom embroidered board...
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This is a two-day workshop on data analysis and visualization with R. We will introduce the R programming language and RStudio, a desktop application for working with R scripts. Lessons and exercises will rely on Tidyverse, a collection of R packages commonly used in data science. By the end, learners will be able to manipulate data the “tidy” way and produce simple plots with ggplot2.
Prerequisites: None
Registration begins April 8, 2024 8:00AM PST
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This is a two-day workshop on data analysis and visualization with R. We will introduce the R programming language and RStudio, a desktop application for working with R scripts. Lessons and exercises will rely on Tidyverse, a collection of R packages commonly used in data science. By the end, learners will be able to manipulate data the “tidy” way and produce simple plots with ggplot2.
Prerequisites: None
Registration begins April 8, 2024 8:00AM PST
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Join us for a hands-on workshop where we will walk you through a simple sewing project. No prior sewing experience needed.
Pre-Event Preparation: Please enroll in our Canvas course and complete the introductory orientation to familiarize yourself with the basics of the Makerspace. Find the course on Canvas
Limited Spots: Secure your spot in this exciting workshop! Space is limited, and creativity knows no...
They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch. They also say that knowledge is the food of the soul. What if you could have both?
Lunch & Learn is a monthly informal seminar series that provides grad students with two important things: free lunch and a chance to socialize with and learn from their peers from across the campus.
The series is co-sponsored by the ...
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Student Resource Building, Multi-Purpose Room.
In collaboration with this year’s UCSB Reads book, “Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us," UCSB Health & Wellness invites you to an immersive journey into rejuvenation and self-...
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Room 1359, the "Fish Bowl"
Sign up for a Book Club
The Library invites you to join a peer-led book club! Each meet up will include a book discussion and related craft activity in conjunction with the UCSB Reads 2024 book Your Brain on Art.
April 10: Book...
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UCSB Librarians are offering a Zotero Basics workshop for graduate students. Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. While geared to graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
The “Zotero Basics” workshop lasts two hours and will cover all aspects of using Zotero to manage citations for your personal research. This ...
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Illuminate your world with the magic of lithophanes! Join us for a hands-on workshop where you'll dive into the fascinating world of circuitry and electronics design as you build your own UCSB-themed lithophane lamp. Using provided materials and tools, you'll learn how to solder a battery, LED, and switch into a custom housing. But the real magic happens when you integrate 3D printed lithophane walls featuring iconic UCSB scenery and landmarks.
By the end of the session...
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UCSB Library is pleased to present Rae Wynn-Grant, an affiliated researcher with the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, as the spring speaker in the Pacific Views: Library Speaker...
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Join us at the Makerspace on Earth Day! We will have recycled and reclaimed materials available for students, faculty, and staff to glue onto a community artwork that depicts UCSB’s natural beauty. Let’s create something new while raising awareness of how we can reuse or reduce our waste during the creative process.
This event is cosponsored by Art from Scrap, a non profit organization in Santa Barbara dedicated...
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UCSB Library is proud to co-sponsor this event presented by the Department of Asian American Studies.
Kingston’s work has shaped fifty years of Asian American literature while inspiring feminist thinking across disciplines. Come for an intimate talk-story about her writing, family, activism, and what it's been like to be Maxine Hong Kingston...
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Join us for a guided 3D modeling tutorial on creating beautiful vases and vessels using Autodesk Fusion. During the workshop, our Makerspace Mentors will guide you through the entire 3D modeling process - from sketching your initial design ideas to bringing them to life in 3D. You'll explore techniques for creating elegant organic forms and unique shapes that would be difficult or nearly impossible to achieve through traditional methods.
Once you've finalized your 3D...
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Room 1359, the "Fish Bowl"
Sign up for a Book Club
The Library invites you to join a peer-led book club! Each meet up will include a book discussion and related craft activity in conjunction with the UCSB Reads 2024 book Your Brain on Art.
April 10: Book...
More
Join us at the Makerspace for a hands-on workshop where you will learn how to turn your digital design ideas into physical objects.
Dive into the process of laser cutting as we guide you through creating wooden name tags. From sleek initials to intricate designs, the possibilities are endless.
No Experience Needed: Never touched a laser cutter before? No worries! Our expert guides will walk you through every step, making this workshop perfect for beginners and...
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Registration is full. If you wish to be added to the waitlist, please complete this form.
Participants will learn how to create a handmade stencil with their own designs using cardstock and...
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Location: College of Creative Studies
The College of Creative Studies (CCS) and UCSB Reads 2024 invites you to an open studios event hosted by CCS students in the Book Arts, Sculpture, and Painting programs.
Details and a map of the studios will be posted soon.
This event is in conjunction with this year’s...
Room 1359, the "Fish Bowl"
Sign up for a Book Club
The Library invites you to join a peer-led book club! Each meet up will include a book discussion and related craft activity in conjunction with the UCSB Reads 2024 book Your Brain on Art.
April 10: Book...
More
Join us for a hands-on workshop where we will walk you through a simple sewing project. No prior sewing experience needed.
Pre-Event Preparation: Please enroll in our Canvas course and complete the introductory orientation to familiarize yourself with the basics of the Makerspace. Find the course on Canvas
Limited Spots: Secure your spot in this exciting workshop! Space is limited, and creativity knows no...
Join us for our Makerspace Crochet Circle! Whether you're a seasoned crocheter or just starting out, all are welcome. Bring your current projects and crochet supplies, or use our supplies to learn.
It's a relaxed, friendly environment to work on your crochet crafts, get tips and advice, and socialize with fellow fiber arts enthusiasts. All levels of experience welcome, register on Shoreline.
Get ready for a night of making and gaming fun! Interact with games made here in the Makerspace and meet your Makerspace peers. This is a drop-in event open to all Makerspace users. Register on Shoreline
Discover the Magic of Laser Cutting: Ever wanted to turn your keys into a personalized style statement? Look no further! 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.
Craft Your Signature Keychain: Dive into the process of laser cutting as we guide you through creating wooden keychains. From sleek initials to intricate designs, the possibilities are endless.
No...
More
Join us for a guided tutorial where you will learn to model your own nameplate for your desk or door. You will be able to send your models directly to our 3D printers and later pick up your one-of-a-kind decoration.
Pre-Event Preparation: Please enroll in our Canvas course and complete the introductory orientation and 3D printing module to familiarize yourself with the basics of the Makerspace and 3D Printing. Find...
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Join the UCSB Library and Graduate Division for this fun social event. This event is FREE to all current graduate students.
RSVP Link TBA
**If you would like to drink wine at this event, be sure to bring either a passport or driver's license so we can verify that you are over 21.
This event will be photographed or recorded.
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Join the UC Santa Barbara Library’s Special Research Collections for a special evening highlighting the work of three distinguished faculty emeriti and their continued research during retirement. Presented in partnership with the UCSB Faculty Emeriti Association.
About the Speakers
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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 ONDAS Student Center.
Singularity is a container platform. It allows you to create and run containers that package up software in a portable and reproducible way. You can build a container using Singularity on your laptop and then run it on the UCSB High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster or national HPC clusters, a single server, in the cloud, or a workstation. Your container is a single file, and you don’t have to worry about how to install all the software you need on each different operating...
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Join us for a guided tutorial where you will learn about electrical circuits using Play-Doh as the conductor of electricity and learn how to combine this with our Makey Makey and with coding. Discover the unique ways we can power our creations and learn how to control them with coding.
Pre-Event Preparation: Please enroll in our Canvas course and complete the introductory orientation to familiarize yourself with the basics of the Makerspace. Find the course at...
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UCSB Library invites graduate students to learn how to use ORCID in your research. ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is a unique, persistent digital identifier that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher.
Light refreshments will be provided.
In this workshop we will cover:
• Creating a free ORCID ID and managing your ORCID account
• Placing your publications in ORCID
• Funding, publisher, and...
EcoDataScience is an environmental data science study group at UCSB. This volunteer-driven group provides hands-on, lunch-time workshops on various data science tools relevant to environmental science. Lessons in the past have included Spatial Analysis in R, an introduction to Python, advanced GitHub and building R Shiny applications
More details can be found at http://ecodatascience.github.io/events
Join us for a guided tutorial where you will learn to model your own nameplate for your desk or door. You will be able to send your models directly to our 3D printers and later pick up your one-of-a-kind decoration.
Pre-Event Preparation: Please enroll in our Canvas course and complete the introductory orientation and 3D printing module to familiarize yourself with the basics of the Makerspace and 3D Printing. Find the course at...
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The high-performance computing (HPC) workshop is for students, staff, and faculty from UCSB who want to use cluster computing resources to run computational jobs. It is an introduction for new users who want to get started quickly in using HPC resources for research or education. The workshop continues the previous workshop and introduces some common applications in the HPC. Specifically, the SLURM array, SLURM-dependent jobs, running the Jupyter Notebook/Lab and Visual Studio...
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Open to all graduate students and other UCSB affiliates.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Please register for the presentation in advance.
This presentation you will learn the basics of copyright under US Law, including:
· What is copyright? What does it cover?
· How does a creator get their work copyrighted? What is "work for hire"?
· How long...
Advance registration is appreciated but not required.
UCSB Library is pleased to present Kim Yasuda (Art) in the ...
This one day carpentry workshop introduces tools for turning web pages into analyzable data. We will explore common web scraping scenarios and learn how to use XPath and a web browser to extract data from websites without needing to write code. We will also discuss the ethics of web scraping.
Registration will open February 5, 2024 at 8:00 am at: https://cglink.me/2dD/r2258697
Join UCSB Reads 2024 and the Library's new Makerspace in celebrating the 8th Annual World Bookmark Day with DIY Bookmarks. Stop by the Fish Bowl by the Davidson Library entrance from 10am-5pm, while supplies last, and decorate your own bookmark....
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UCSB Library is proud to collaborate with the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center's "...
The high-performance computing (HPC) workshop is for students, staff, and faculty from UCSB who want to use cluster computing resources to run computational jobs. It is an introduction for new users who want to get started quickly in using HPC resources for research or education. This workshop will cover the fundamental concepts of using HPC to run computational jobs. Specifically, how the HPC works, how the submit Slurm job runs computational jobs, and basic Linux commands....
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UCSB Library invites faculty, graduate students, and other authors to join the UCSB Library Open Access team for a conversation about open access publishing, UC's transformative agreements, and UCSB Library's Open Access Publishing Fund. We want to hear what you think about open access publishing, publisher policies, and business...
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Join us for a four-week art series that explores the UCSB Reads book selection, Your Brain on Art. Each week we will have a unique experience that will guide your discovery of art in your daily life through canvas painting, bracelet making, creative writing, and candle making (SRB 1238 Community Room). Advance registration on Shoreline required.
4:00PM-5:00PM Thur. Jan. 24: ...
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UCSB Librarians are offering a Zotero Basics workshop for graduate students. Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. While geared to graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
The “Zotero Basics” workshop lasts one hour and will cover all aspects of using Zotero to manage citations for your personal research. This ...
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Have you ever felt trapped in the maze of packages and library dependencies for your R or Python projects? Join us for a webinar to unravel the 'Dependency Hell' problem and provide practical strategies to tackle this issue while making your research more reproducible.
Registration: https://cglink.me/2dD/r2258166
EcoDataScience is an environmental data science study group at UCSB. This volunteer-driven group provides hands-on, lunch-time workshops on various data science tools relevant to environmental science. Lessons in the past have included Spatial Analysis in R, an introduction to Python, advanced GitHub and building R Shiny applications
More details can be found at http://ecodatascience.github.io/events
Let’s celebrate Valentine’s Day by making pop-up cards for your loved ones. Learn basic paper folding structures for pop-up cards while spending a relaxing hour crafting. We will be providing basic materials, like paper and colored pencils, but feel free to bring in your own patterned paper, stickers, and drawing tools to add to your design.
Pre-Event Preparation: Please enroll in our Canvas course and complete the introductory orientation to familiarize yourself with...
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Let's get into the Valentine's day groove! Join the Makerspace team in learning the basics of electronic circuits with Arduino. We'll be walking everyone through how to make a Love-O-Meter from the Arduino Projects Book. There is no experience needed.
You may wish to bring a laptop computer to follow along, but this is not required.
Pre-Event Preparation: Please enroll in our Canvas course and complete the introductory orientation to familiarize yourself with the...
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Light refreshments will be served.
Join us for a free art making workshop at the Library in conjunction with UCSB Reads 2024 and the Art, Design, and Architecture (AD&A) Museum's new exhibition "A Box of One's Own: Women Beyond...
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Location: Art, Architecture, & Design (AD&A) Museum
In this workshop, we will explore the features of the GitHub website to manage and version content as a team. We will go over how to create a repository, edit files, and leverage the markdown syntax for documenting and tracking your work. We will also demonstrate how to invite collaborators. Participating in this workshop requires no coding skills or pre-installs (including the hands-on session). Everything will be done from your web browser!
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In partnership with Santa Barbara Beautiful, join us for a special evening with British historian Simon Kerry as he discusses his new book, Miss Chase: Santa Barbara’s Trailblazer. Simon will also share his experience reviewing materials from The Community Development and Conservation Collection (CDCC), also known as the Pearl Chase Collection, donated by Ms. Chase to UCSB Library’s...
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Join us for a four-week art series that explores the UCSB Reads book selection, Your Brain on Art. Each week we will have a unique experience that will guide your discovery of art in your daily life through canvas painting, bracelet making, creative writing, and candle making (SRB 1238 Community Room). Advance registration on Shoreline required.
4:00PM-5:00PM Thur. Jan. 24: ...
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Join a free workshop to help you discover your path to creativity and creative expression in fostering well-being, with reference to the UCSB Reads 2024 book, Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross. The focus will be on music and the visual arts.
Refreshments will be served.
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Please join us for a performance by renowned flutist and composer Gary Schocker in celebration of the Library’s acquisition of The Gary Schocker Archives. Schocker will perform a selection of original compositions accompanied by pianist Fumi Kuwajima and featuring special guest Gary Woodward. Don’t miss this opportunity to experience an...
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Have you ever dreamed of turning your imagination into a 3D reality? It's time to dive into the world of Autodesk Fusion 360, the powerful tool that brings your designs to life. Join us for an introductory workshop where you'll learn the basics of this cutting-edge design software.
Why Attend?
Hands-On Learning: Get ready to roll up your sleeves! This workshop is all about practical experience. Learn by doing as you navigate the Fusion 360 interface and bring...
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This event is a two-day, example-driven workshop on Jan 30 and Feb,1 2024 for an introduction on utilizing the terminal to use version control with Git. We will get you started on how to use the command shell/bash to use git. The use of a shell allows you to perform complex and powerful tasks, often with just a few keystrokes or lines of code. It helps automate repetitive tasks and easily combine smaller tasks into larger, more efficient workflows. We then go over how to...
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Join us for a four-week art series that explores the UCSB Reads book selection, Your Brain on Art. Each week we will have a unique experience that will guide your discovery of art in your daily life through canvas painting, bracelet making, creative writing, and candle making (SRB 1238 Community Room). Advance registration on Shoreline required.
4:00PM-5:00PM Thur. Jan. 24: ...
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Discover the Magic of Laser Cutting: Ever wanted to turn your keys into a personalized style statement? Look no further! 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.
Craft Your Signature Keychain: Dive into the process of laser cutting as we guide you through creating wooden keychains. From sleek initials to intricate designs, the possibilities are endless.
No...
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Open to all graduate students.
Light refreshments will be provided.
In this workshop, you will learn how to get started creating a Literature Review, including:
● What Literature Reviews are, and where to find them
● How to use concept mapping to identify which secondary sources you need
● How to find and organize your sources to...
Filmmaker/curator Márton Orosz will join moderator George Legrady (Media Arts & Technology) for a post-screening discussion of the documentary György Kepes: Interthinking Art + Science. This event is presented by the Carsey-Wolf Center as part of the CWC Docs Series, and is in conjunction with...
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This event is a two-day, example-driven workshop on Jan 30 and Feb,1 2024 for an introduction on utilizing the terminal to use version control with Git. We will get you started on how to use the command shell/bash to use git. The use of a shell allows you to perform complex and powerful tasks, often with just a few keystrokes or lines of code. It helps automate repetitive tasks and easily combine smaller tasks into larger, more efficient workflows. We then go over how to...
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They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch. They also say that knowledge is the food of the soul. What if you could have both?
Lunch & Learn is a monthly informal seminar series that provides grad students with two important things: free lunch and a chance to socialize with and learn from their peers from across the campus.
The series is co-sponsored by the ...
More
UCSB Library invites faculty, graduate students, and other authors to join the UCSB Library Open Access team for a conversation about open access publishing, UC's transformative agreements, and UCSB Library's Open Access Publishing Fund. We want to hear what you think about open access publishing, publisher policies, and business...
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Join us for a four-week art series that explores the UCSB Reads book selection, Your Brain on Art. Each week we will have a unique experience that will guide your discovery of art in your daily life through canvas painting, bracelet making, creative writing, and candle making (SRB 1238 Community Room). Advance registration on Shoreline required.
4:00PM-5:00PM Thur. Jan. 24: ...
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We are thrilled to announce the official launch of the UCSB Makerspace, a cutting-edge hub for innovation and creativity. Open to all UCSB students, faculty, and staff, this collaborative space is equipped with state-of-the-art tools and resources to bring your ideas to life. Join us for a week-long celebration from January 16th to 19th, featuring guided tours, new interactive workshops each day, and hands-on experiences with our top-of-the-line equipment. Space is limited for...
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Featuring music and video works by composer Gene Coleman, with Fabio Rambelli (UCSB Department of Religion) joining him on stage to play ancient Japanese musical instruments including the shō, the u, and percussion. The performance...
We are thrilled to announce the official launch of the UCSB Makerspace, a cutting-edge hub for innovation and creativity. Open to all UCSB students, faculty, and staff, this collaborative space is equipped with state-of-the-art tools and resources to bring your ideas to life. Join us for a week-long celebration from January 16th to 19th, featuring guided tours, new interactive workshops each day, and hands-on experiences with our top-of-the-line equipment. Space is limited for...
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The University Librarian, Chancellor, and Executive Vice Chancellor will hand out free copies of the UCSB Reads 2024 book to UCSB students while supplies last. The 2024 selection is Your Brain On Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross.
Location: Social Sciences and Media Studies (SSMS) Building, Conference Room 2135
UCSB Library is proud to co-sponsor "Music Mirrors Mind," as part of UCSB Reads 2024. In his talk, composer and director Gene Coleman, will explore the concepts of Neuroaesthetics and Neuro Music. Coleman defines Neuro Music as an area of research and composition based on the study and application of models...
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Free and Open to the Public. Please RSVP here to help us plan.
Light refreshments with be served.
Please join us for an event to celebrate the opening of a new exhibition of black and white photographs documenting the...
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EcoDataScience is an environmental data science study group at UCSB. This volunteer-driven group provides hands-on, lunch-time workshops on various data science tools relevant to environmental science. Lessons in the past have included Spatial Analysis in R, an introduction to Python, advanced GitHub and building R Shiny applications
More details can be found at http://ecodatascience.github.io/events
We are thrilled to announce the official launch of the UCSB Makerspace, a cutting-edge hub for innovation and creativity. Open to all UCSB students, faculty, and staff, this collaborative space is equipped with state-of-the-art tools and resources to bring your ideas to life. Join us for a week-long celebration from January 16th to 19th, featuring guided tours, new interactive workshops each day, and hands-on experiences with our top-of-the-line equipment. Space is limited for...
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We are thrilled to announce the official launch of the UCSB Makerspace, a cutting-edge hub for innovation and creativity. Open to all UCSB students, faculty, and staff, this collaborative space is equipped with state-of-the-art tools and resources to bring your ideas to life. Join us for a week-long celebration from January 16th to 19th, featuring guided tours, new interactive workshops each day, and hands-on experiences with our top-of-the-line equipment. Space is limited for...
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UCSB Library invites faculty, graduate students, and other authors to join the UCSB Library Open Access team for a conversation about open access publishing, UC's transformative agreements, and UCSB Library's Open Access Publishing Fund. We want to hear what you think about open access publishing, publisher policies, and business...
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This is a two day workshop on Monday - Tuesday, Dec 11-12, 2023 on a hands-on on project organization and scientific authoring with RStudio
Participants will build on using their R data analysis skills in RStudio by learning how to create quarto documents that combine code, analysis, and narrative. RStudio makes it possible to work on a complete research project in a more efficient, integrated and organized manner: from data upload, cleaning, and analysis, to writing and...
This is a two day workshop on Monday - Tuesday, Dec 11-12, 2023 on a hands-on on project organization and scientific authoring with RStudio
Participants will build on using their R data analysis skills in RStudio by learning how to create quarto documents that combine code, analysis, and narrative. RStudio makes it possible to work on a complete research project in a more efficient, integrated and organized manner: from data upload, cleaning, and analysis, to writing and...
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 ONDAS Student Center.
EcoDataScience is an environmental data science study group at UCSB. This volunteer-driven group provides hands-on, lunch-time workshops on various data science tools relevant to environmental science. Lessons in the past have included Spatial Analysis in R, an introduction to Python, advanced GitHub and building R Shiny applications
GitHub is mainly known as a version control platform that facilitates collaborative coding. Effective collaboration (with yourself or...
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Please join UCSB librarians for a presentation all about trademarks. This event is geared to graduate students, although everyone is welcome.
Attendees will learn about:
They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch. They also say that knowledge is the food of the soul. What if you could have both?
Lunch & Learn is a monthly informal seminar series that provides grad students with two important things: free lunch and a chance to socialize with and learn from their peers from across the campus.
The series is co-sponsored by the ...
More
This three-day, example-driven workshop on Nov 14-16, 2023 is 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...
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This three-day, example-driven workshop on Nov 14-16, 2023 is 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...
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The CSC will be offering a class, Introduction to Linux and High Performance Computing on Wednesday, November 14th from 11:30am - 12:30pm in CNSI/Elings Hall 1605 (zoom options available). There will be a lunch afterwards, and you can have a chance to ask additional questions and talk to other researchers and IT staff. This 1-hour workshop will go over how to start using HPC, basic slurm and linux commands, and national HPC and commercial cloud computing resources.
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This three-day, example-driven workshop on Nov 14-16, 2023 is 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...
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UCSB Librarians are offering a Zotero Basics workshop for graduate students. Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. While geared to graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
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After a long hiatus, EcoDataScience's workshop series is returning!
EcoDataScience is an environmental data science study group at UCSB. This volunteer-driven group provides hands-on, lunch-time workshops on various data science tools relevant to environmental science. Lessons in the past have included Spatial Analysis in R, an introduction to Python, advanced GitHub and building R Shiny...
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UCSB Library and Las Maestras Center invite you to attend a vigil for the Day of the Dead in the Library's Ethnic & Gender Studies Collection (2nd Floor, Ocean Side). The vigil will be next to an altar created by the Center's Altaristas team.
Everyone is welcome to attend and bring a picture or an ofrenda for a...
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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 provide, how to find them using open and proprietary databases, and what UCSB inventors need to know about applying for patents.
Event is co-sponsored by the Graduate Student Resource Center.
UCSB Library is grateful to The Fund for Santa Barbara for their generous contribution to this event.
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Open to all graduate students. Pizza will be provided.
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In this workshop, you will learn how to get started creating a Literature Review, including:
● What Literature Reviews are, and where to find them
● How to use concept mapping to identify which secondary sources you need
● How to find and organize your sources to facilitate your writing...
This event is a two-day, example-driven workshop on October 23 and 24, 2023 ...
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This event is a two-day, example-driven workshop on October 23 and 24, 2023 ...
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They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch. They also say that knowledge is the food of the soul. What if you could have both?
Lunch & Learn is a monthly informal seminar series that provides grad students with two important things: free lunch and a chance to socialize with and learn from their peers from across the campus.
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This is our first Fall community meeting of the academic year. We will discuss the Carpentries Program, and instructor training for the upcoming year. If you are interested in becoming a certified Carpentries Instructor, or are interested in being a helper, please join us at the DREAM Lab, Rm 2322.
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Event is free and open to the public.
UCSB Library is pleased to present Nelson Lichtenstein in the Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series for Fall 2023. Lichtenstein will talk about his new book ...
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Please RSVP for the reception here.
The Library's Annual Reception for Faculty returns this year to the Mountain Courtyard. This social event bring together new and returning faculty from across campus to kick off the 2023-2024 academic year, meet their department's...
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Welcome all students to the new academic year! Did you know you can borrow a laptop, bike lock, umbrella, board games, and more from UCSB Library?
Whether you are a new or returning student, stop by the Library's Week of Welcome (WoW) table in the Paseo where you can spin the wheel, enjoy a treat, and...
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Welcome all students to the new academic year! Did you know you can borrow a laptop, bike lock, umbrella, board games, and more from UCSB Library?
Whether you are a new or returning student, stop by the Library's Week of Welcome (WoW) table in the Paseo where you can spin the wheel, enjoy a treat, and...
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Welcome all students to the new academic year! Did you know you can borrow a laptop, bike lock, umbrella, board games, and more from UCSB Library?
Whether you are a new or returning student, stop by the Library's Week of Welcome (WoW) table in the Paseo where you can spin the wheel, enjoy a treat, and...
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Welcome all students to the new academic year! Did you know you can borrow a laptop, bike lock, umbrella, board games, and more from UCSB Library?
Whether you are a new or returning student, stop by the Library's Week of Welcome (WoW) table in the Paseo where you can spin the wheel, enjoy a treat, and...
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This is an 8-Day Carpentries workshop that aims to teach participants basic concepts, skills, and tools...
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This is an 8-Day Carpentries workshop that aims to teach participants basic concepts, skills, and tools...
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This is an 8-Day Carpentries workshop that aims to teach participants basic concepts, skills, and tools...
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This is an 8-Day Carpentries workshop that aims to teach participants basic concepts, skills, and tools...
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This is an 8-Day Carpentries workshop that aims to teach participants basic concepts, skills, and tools...
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This is an 8-Day Carpentries workshop that aims to teach participants basic concepts, skills, and tools...
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This is an 8-Day Carpentries workshop that aims to teach participants basic concepts, skills, and tools...
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This is an 8-Day Carpentries workshop that aims to teach participants basic concepts, skills, and tools...
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Event Location: Santa Barbara Public Library, Eastside Branch, 1102 East Montecito Street, Santa Barbara CA 93103
UCSB Library and Santa Barbara Public Library (SBPL) invite residents of Santa Barbara's Eastside neighborhood and surrounding communities to a local history showcase presented at the SBPL Eastside Branch. As part of the Santa Barbara...
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Learning R promises to make your scientific work more reprodicible. But how does it do that? Join us for a 2-part hands-on workshop that will introduce you to using RStudio and GitHub version control to take control of your scientific computing workflows.
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Learning R promises to make your scientific work more reprodicible. But how does it do that? Join us for a 2-part hands-on workshop that will introduce you to using RStudio and GitHub version control to take control of your scientific computing workflows.
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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 10:50 am).
In collaboration with UCSB Health & Wellness and ...
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Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in History & Physics. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the ...
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Please join us for a reception and awards ceremony honoring the recipients of the 2023 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 Social Sciences.
The 2023 Library Award for Undergraduate Research is generously supported by a gift from Dr. Jenny Cook-Gumperz, faculty...
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UCSB Campus Location: McCune Conference Room, Humanities & Social Sciences Building (6020 HSSB)
Join us for a virtual conversation between Grammy award-winning musician, composer, and tango expert Pablo Aslan and David Seubert, Curator for the Performing Arts for UC Santa Barbara Library, Special Research Collections. Moderated by...
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Event Location: UCSB Henley Hall 1010
Click here to register or access the live stream option
ChatGPT has become a central topic of interest at the UCSB campus, prompting numerous discussions on its research, educational, and societal impacts. As educators, researchers, and society members, it's crucial to delve deeper into understanding ChatGPT's functionality,...
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The UCSB 2023 Opera "Burning to Sing" is a comedic and charming production that promises to leave audiences thoroughly entertained. This ironic tale of Madame Tremolini, voice teacher extraordinaire and cast of colorful characters in a 1950's apartment building that is slowly catching fire, will have you grinning from ear to ear with delight. The witty score sets the perfect backdrop for this amusing operetta.
Whether you're an opera enthusiast or just...
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The UCSB 2023 Opera "Burning to Sing" is a comedic and charming production that promises to leave audiences thoroughly entertained. This ironic tale of Madame Tremolini, voice teacher extraordinaire and cast of colorful characters in a 1950's apartment building that is slowly catching fire, will have you grinning from ear to ear with delight. The witty score sets the perfect backdrop for this amusing operetta.
Whether you're an opera enthusiast or just...
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The UCSB 2023 Opera "Burning to Sing" is a comedic and charming production that promises to leave audiences thoroughly entertained. This ironic tale of Madame Tremolini, voice teacher extraordinaire and cast of colorful characters in a 1950's apartment building that is slowly catching fire, will have you grinning from ear to ear with delight. The witty score sets the perfect backdrop for this amusing operetta.
Whether you're an opera enthusiast or just...
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The UCSB 2023 Opera "Burning to Sing" is a comedic and charming production that promises to leave audiences thoroughly entertained. This ironic tale of Madame Tremolini, voice teacher extraordinaire and cast of colorful characters in a 1950's apartment building that is slowly catching fire, will have you grinning from ear to ear with delight. The witty score sets the perfect backdrop for this amusing operetta.
Whether you're an opera enthusiast or just...
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This is a one-day workshop to learn about UCSB's new three-year licenses for accessing Planet Labs imagery, web applications, and visualization tools. Planet provides daily satellite imagery of the Earth’s land surfaces and coastal areas. UCSB’s access includes the RapidEye Archive, SkySat Archive, and daily PlanetScope imagery. In the morning we will introduce Planet and the available products, some use...
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UCSB Library is excited to present Charles Montgomery, UCSB Reads 2023 author of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design for a free community talk at Campbell Hall.
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Event is free but registration through the Arts & Lectures portal is...
ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online are a powerful software duo that support geospatial data processing, analysis, visualization, and the cloud-based sharing of geospatial products. In this one-day, example-driven workshop, we’ll review how to most effectively use...
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Join UCSB Reads 2023 in participating in the Santa Barbara City Nature Challenge! Let's celebrate the nature in and around our urban areas by documenting all the species we can find. The City Nature Challenge is an international community science effort for people to find and document plants and wildlife in cities across the globe.
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This event is a two-day, example-driven workshop on April 25-26, 2023 for an introduction on utilizing the terminal to use version control with Git. We will get you started on how to use the command shell/bash to use git. The use of a shell allows you to perform complex and powerful tasks, often with just...
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This event is a two-day, example-driven workshop on April 25-26, 2023 for an introduction on utilizing the terminal to use version control with Git. We will get you started on how to use the command shell/bash to use git. The use of a shell allows you to perform complex and powerful tasks, often with just...
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Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Global Studies and Geography. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division,...
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Join us at UCSB Library for a free zine workshop, no experience necessary! Participants will learn how to make a zine exploring themes in the UCSB Reads 2023 book “Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design” by...
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Please join UCSB Library at a public reception to celebrate its new exhibition of student work Happy City: Isla Vista. The exhibition is drawn from the layouts of UCSB's literary magazine The "Catalyst," whose Winter 2023 issue is themed to connect to the ...
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This workshop will provide graduate students with practical tips and strategies for creating Literature Reviews in the humanities and social sciences.
You will learn the following:
Join the UCSB Library and Graduate Division for this fun social event. This event is FREE to all current graduate students. RSVP here.
**If you would like to drink wine at this event, be sure to bring either a passport or driver's license so we can verify that you are over 21.
This event will be photographed or recorded.
Join UCSB Library for a reception and conversation with Isis Aquarian about her life with the Source Family, a commune in Los Angeles in the early 1970s based on natural food, spiritual practices and psychedelic rock, and how she came to place the commune's archival materials with UCSB Library. Jodi Willie and Charlie Kitchings...
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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 ONDAS Student Center.
This event will be photographed or recorded.
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, and Economics. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the ...
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In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2023, Silvia Perea, Curator of the Architecture and Design...
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Space is limited, please RSVP here
In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2023, Silvia Perea, Curator of the Architecture and Design Collection (ADC) at UCSB’s ...
The CSC will be offering a workshop, Parallel Programming with Python on HPC on Wednesday, Mar 1 from 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, in Elings/CNSI 1605.Parallel processing is a powerful operation tool in that the task is executed simultaneously in multiple processors and can vastly accelerate various computational tasks. It is meant to reduce the overall program execution time and speed up the computational performance. In this workshop, you'll learn some knowledge to write python code...
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Students will learn and become familiar with using web-based mapping software while supporting a humanitarian effort that will ultimately impact communities...
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UCSB Buchanan Hall, Room 1930
Barajas will share findings from two projects within the Mobility Justice in Chicago research study, a multi-year collaboration between university researchers and a racial justice organization in Chicago. The work aims to advance mobility justice by understanding the relationships between everyday experiences and travel barriers faced by people of color in the urban area.
The first study explains how inequities in transportation...
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Data Carpentry: Introduction to Data...
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Data Carpentry: Introduction to Data...
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Data Carpentry: Introduction to Data...
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This workshop will cover key definitions, recommendations, and techniques to implement data de-identification/anonymization.
Attendees will be invited to follow along and complete exercises with a provided dataset using the online graphical user interface of the R sdcMicro package for disclosure control. No R programming experience is required.
This event is open to students, faculty, staff, or affiliated researchers at the University of California (UC), and we...
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Data visualizations can be powerful tools to present patterns and insights from research findings. However, the effectiveness of communicating data visually is highly dependent on...
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The CSC will be offering a workshop, Singularity Containers on HPC on Wednesday, Feb 8 from 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, in Elings/CNSI 1605. Singularity is a container platform. It allows you to create and run containers that package up software in a portable and reproducible way. You can build a container using Singularity on your laptop and then run it on the UCSB High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster or national HPC clusters, a single server, in the cloud, or a workstation....
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Data Carpentry: Introduction to R for...
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The Professional Women's Association (PWA) is a UCSB staff organization which promotes equity by providing opportunities for women to meet, connect, and learn together.
For its February meeting, the group is reading the UCSB Reads 2023 book Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery. Staff, students and faculty are all welcome to join the discussion.
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Data Carpentry: Introduction to R for...
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Data Carpentry: Introduction to R for...
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The University Librarian, Chancellor, and Executive Vice Chancellor will hand out free copies of the UCSB Reads 2023 book to UCSB students while supplies last. The 2023 selection is Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery.
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The CSC will be offering a class, Introduction to Linux and High Performance Computing on Wednesday, January 18th from 11:30am - 12:30pm in CNSI/Elings Hall 1605. We will have lunch afterwards, and you can have a chance to ask additional questions and talk to other researchers and IT staff. This 1-hour workshop will go over how to start using HPC...
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The UCSB Library will be offering three Zotero Basics workshops for graduate students during the Fall 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.
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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 ONDAS Student Center.
This event is a three-day, example-driven workshop on November 8, 9, and 10, 2022 on project organization and scientific authoring with RStudio.
Participants will build on using their R data analysis skills in RStudio by learning how to create R...
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Join the Library for a presentation on the influence of historical indigenous imagery on contemporary Chicana/o artists with Terezita Romo, recipient of the 2022 Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Research Fellowship. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A with California Ethnic & Multicultural Archives (CEMA) Curator, Angel Diaz.
Romo’s proposed project,...
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This event is a three-day, example-driven workshop on November 8, 9, and 10, 2022 on project organization and scientific authoring with RStudio.
Participants will build on using their R data analysis skills in RStudio by learning how to create R...
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This event is a three-day, example-driven workshop on November 8, 9, and 10, 2022 on project organization and scientific authoring with RStudio.
Participants will build on using their R data analysis skills in RStudio by learning how to create R...
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This event is a two-day, example-driven workshop on October 25 and 27, 2022 for an introduction to data processing and visualization with R. Learners will start with basic information about R syntax and the Rstudio interface. By the end, learners will be able to manipulate data and produce simple...
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This event is a two-day, example-driven workshop on October 25 and 27, 2022 for an introduction to data processing and visualization with R. Learners will start with basic information about R syntax and the Rstudio interface. By the end, learners will be able to manipulate data and produce simple...
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The UCSB Library will be offering three Zotero Basics workshops for graduate students during the Fall 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.
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The University of California is dedicated to making its scholarship freely available to the people of California and beyond. Click here to learn more about open access at the UC and how to participate in initiatives such as the Open Access Publishing Fund, eScholarship, the UC Publication Management System, and more.
Please email openaccess@library.ucsb.edu with...
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Join the Library for an open mic afternoon celebrating the rich poetic community of Santa Barbara. Faculty Emerita and acclaimed poet Dr. Shirley Geok-lin Lim will begin the event with a reading of her published poems, including select ones from her new book, In Praise of Limes, and will be followed by poets Stephanie Batiste and Swati Rana of the UCSB Department of English, as well as George...
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The UCSB Library will be offering three Zotero Basics workshops for graduate students during the Fall 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.
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This event is a three-day, example-driven workshop on October 18, 19, and 20, 2022 for an introduction on using the bash terminal, and utilizing the terminal to practice version control with Git. We get you started on how to use the command shell. The use of a shell allows you to perform complex and...
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This event is a three-day, example-driven workshop on October 18, 19, and 20, 2022 for an introduction on using the bash terminal, and utilizing the terminal to practice version control with Git. We get you started on how to use the command shell. The use of a shell allows you to perform complex and...
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This event is a three-day, example-driven workshop on October 18, 19, and 20, 2022 for an introduction on using the bash terminal, and utilizing the terminal to practice version control with Git. We get you started on how to use the command shell. The use of a shell allows you to perform complex and...
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UCSB Library invites you to join us for an event to celebrate the opening of our new exhibition "Lifting the Veil, or, How the Stars Aligned for Isis, Hermes, and Diana to Vanquish Satan and Usher in the Aquarian Age."
This event will include a reception and curator tours. In addition, Philip Deslippe from the Department of Religious Studies will briefly discuss his research and use of the American...
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This event is a hands-on, example-driven workshop on October 11, 2022 for an introduction to data organization in spreadsheets. We will learn how to think about data organization and some practices for more effective data wrangling. Topics this workshop will cover are good data entry practices,...
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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, and Sociology. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and ...
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Come to the Library for a virtual reality and pop-up makerspace experience!
Pop-Up Makerspace (Room 1575): Learn to sew, watch a 3D printer in action, make a zine, and give us feedback on what you want in the makerspace that will open in the Library later this year. Sponsored by the Library and...
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The Library's Annual Reception for Faculty returns this year to the Mountain Courtyard. This social event bring together new and returning faculty from across campus to kick off the 2022 academic year, meet their subject librarians, and hear about current and upcoming Library initiatives.
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Come to the Library for a virtual reality and pop-up makerspace experience!
Pop-Up Makerspace (Room 1575): Learn to sew, watch a 3D printer in action, make a zine, and give us feedback on what you want in the makerspace that will open in the Library later this year. Sponsored by the Library and...
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Come to the Library for a virtual reality and pop-up makerspace experience!
Pop-Up Makerspace (Room 1575): Learn to sew, watch a 3D printer in action, make a zine, and give us feedback on what you want in the makerspace that will open in the Library later this year. Sponsored by the Library and...
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This event is an example-driven two day workshop on August 16 and 18, 2022 for supervised learning for tabular data in R with RStudio. This workshop will require some knowledge of R/RStudio. If you have no prior experience in R/RStudio, we recommend attending the ...
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This event is an example-driven two day workshop on August 16 and 18, 2022 for supervised learning for tabular data in R with RStudio. This workshop will require some knowledge of R/RStudio. If you have no prior experience in R/RStudio, we recommend attending the ...
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This event is an example-driven two day workshop on August 9 and 11, 2022 for using geospatial raster and vector data in R. This workshop will include working with spatial metadata (extent and coordinate reference systems), reprojecting spatial data, and working with raster time series data. This workshop...
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This event is an example-driven two day workshop on August 9 and 11, 2022 for using geospatial raster and vector data in R. This workshop will include working with spatial metadata (extent and coordinate reference systems), reprojecting spatial data, and working with raster time series data. This workshop...
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This event is an example-driven two day workshop on July 26 and 28, 2022 for an introduction to working with data in R/RStudio. Both synchronous remote and in-person attendance will be supported, and there will be two types of tickets (in-person, remote) for you to choose from. Learners will start with...
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This event is an example-driven two day workshop on July 26 and 28, 2022 for an introduction to working with data in R/RStudio. Both synchronous remote and in-person attendance will be supported, and there will be two types of tickets (in-person, remote) for you to choose from. Learners will start with...
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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.
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.
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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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).
Library Carpentry: Introduction to...
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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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Library Carpentry: Introduction to...
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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.
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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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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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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
Undergraduate students are invited to join UCSB Library and UCSB Reads 2022 for a three-part Sci-Fi...
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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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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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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.
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Undergraduate students are invited to join UCSB Library and UCSB Reads 2022 for a three-part Sci-Fi...
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Join Goleta Valley Library for a virtual discussion of Ted Chiang's latest collection of short stories. Event is in conjunction with UCSB Reads 2022 and is free and open to the public.
Join the UCSB Reads student book club and connect with other students over this year’s UCSB Reads...
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This event is an online, two-day, example-driven workshop on April 7 and 8, 2022 for an introduction to using geospatial data in R. R is commonly used to perform spatial analysis and to generate map graphics in many scientific disciplines. This workshop will focus on visualizing the two basic geospatial data types using sample data from NSF NEON. This workshop will move at a quicker pace...
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Thursday, April 7, 2022
5:00 PM PT Reception
5:30 PM PT Event
UCSB Library Special Research Collections | Mountain Side, 3rd Floor
*Free campus parking will be available
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Undergraduate students are invited to join UCSB Library and UCSB Reads 2022 for a three-part Sci-Fi...
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This event is an online, two-day, example-driven workshop on April 7 and 8, 2022 for an introduction to using geospatial data in R. R is commonly used to perform spatial analysis and to generate map graphics in many scientific disciplines. This workshop will focus on visualizing the two basic geospatial data types using sample data from NSF NEON. This workshop will move at a quicker pace...
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Please join UCSB Library in celebrating its exhibition A Call to Action: Documenting Santa Barbara's Art & Activism and hear from some of the contributors featured in the exhibition. Event will include...
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UCSB Library invites you to join us for a public reception to celebrate the opening of Picture This: From Text to Image, an exhibition of paintings by student artists responding creatively to the UCSB Reads 2022 book Exhalation by Ted Chiang.
Event will include light refreshments and remarks by several students...
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Take a healthy study break before finals. Nap, meditate and grab snacks. In collaboration with UCSB Health & Wellness and UCSB ONDAS Student Center.
Santa Barbara Public Library Fiction Book Club will be reading the UCSB Reads 2022 selection Exhalation by Ted Chiang for the March 8 gathering. Open to the public. More information here.
The UCSB Library will be offering four Zotero workshops for graduate students during the Winter 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 Zotero to...
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This event is a hands-on example-driven 2-day workshop on March 3 & 4, 2022 on project organization and scientific authoring with RStudio.
Participants will build on using their R data analysis skills in RStudio by learning how to create R...
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PWA, Professional Women's Association, will be joining the 2022 UCSB Reads! UCSB Reads is a program of UCSB Library. We will be reading "Exhalation: Stories" by Ted Chiang for our upcoming Winter 2022 meetings. Read the below stories of the book by the meeting(s) date, no pressure to finish. And join us for a lively discussion.
February 3rd, 12-1pm Meeting - Story 1 -...
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This event is a hands-on example-driven 2-day workshop on March 3 & 4, 2022 on project organization and scientific authoring with RStudio.
Participants will build on using their R data analysis skills in RStudio by learning how to create R...
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The UCSB Library will be offering four Zotero workshops for graduate students during the Winter 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 Zotero to...
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The UCSB Library will be offering four Zotero workshops for graduate students during the Winter 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 Zotero to...
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Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Electrical and Computer Engineering & Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the...
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Data Carpentry: Intro to Python Programming @NCEAS
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The UCSB Library will be offering four Zotero workshops for graduate students during the Winter 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 Zotero to...
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UCSB Library and the Center for Innovative Teaching, Research, and Learning (CITRAL) invite you to a moderated discussion about incorporating the UCSB Reads book into a course. Hear from UCSB faculty across the disciplines who have done this successfully and learn how the UCSB Reads program can support your instruction.
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Love Data Week 2022: How to Not Lie with Data:...
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Please join UCSB Library for an interdisciplinary discussion of the UCSB Reads 2022 book Exhalation by Ted Chiang. Panelists include Rudy Busto (Religious Studies), Jane Callister (Art), erin Khuê Ninh (Asian American Studies), Misha Sra (Computer Science), Sharon Tettegah (Black Studies). Moderated by David Weld (Physics).
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This event is an example-driven one-day workshop on Friday, February 4th, 2022 at NCEAS Downtown Campus for introduction to relational databases and SQL. Participants will need to install sqlite3 or DB Browser onto their devices; if you have Anaconda, it comes with sqlite3. Concepts covered include data organization, querying large amounts of data, and quality...
Pour a glass of wine and join the UCSB Library for a virtual presentation on the history of winemaking on the Santa Cruz and Catalina Islands, as well as a review of the viticultural tie-in between the two islands. This lecture will be presented by Geoff Rusack, owner of RUSACK Vineyards and CEO of the Santa Catalina Island Company.
This event will be held outside, in front of the Library's West Paseo entrance.
UCSB Library will hand out free copies of the UCSB Reads 2022 book to UCSB students while supplies last. The 2022 selection is Exhalation: Stories, a...
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This event is a one day, example-driven workshop for introduction to using Git Pages for online self-publication....
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Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Environmental Studies and Religious Studies. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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UCSB Library invites the campus and community to the virtual opening event for the new exhibition Beyond The Wall: The Prison Art Resistance.
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This event is an example-driven two-day workshop on January 4 and 7th, 2022 at NCEAS Downtown Campus for introduction to data visualization and pandas libraries with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface in JupyterLabs. Participants will need to install ...
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This event is an example-driven two-day workshop on January 4 and 7th, 2022 at NCEAS Downtown Campus for introduction to data visualization and pandas libraries with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface in JupyterLabs. Participants will need to install ...
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Take a healthy study break before finals. Nap, meditate and grab snacks. In collaboration with UCSB Health & Wellness and UCSB ONDAS Student Center.
UCSB Library is please to co-sponsor this virtual conversation between William Wang, Director, Center for Responsible Machine Learning and Mellichamp Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence at UCSB and Kai-Fu Lee.
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee has spent more than three...
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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 & Music. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the ...
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Through a partnership with Esri, UCSB faculty, staff, and students have access to a wide range of software and solutions for mapping and analysis of geographic data.
Join this webinar to learn about UCSB’s software license with Esri, what tools you have access to, and how you can use those tools for your geographic work. The presentation includes demonstrations from Esri...
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This event is a two day, example-driven workshop for introduction to SQL and relational databases. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. This lesson will teach you what relational databases are, how you can load data into them and how you can query databases to...
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This event is a two day, example-driven workshop for introduction to SQL and relational databases. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. This lesson will teach you what relational databases are, how you can load data into them and how you can query databases to...
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The Library's Annual Reception for Faculty returns this year to the Mountain Courtyard. This social event bring together new and returning faculty from across campus to kick off the 2021 academic year, meet their subject librarians, and hear about current and upcoming Library initiatives.
This event was originally scheduled for October 13 but cancelled due to smoke from the Alisal Fire.
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Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.
During Open Access Week UCSB Library will host an information table in the Paseo. Stop by for information on open access...
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Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is a holiday from Mexico with origins dating back to the Aztecs. Now a global festivity, it is celebrated wherever the Mexican diaspora exists. Traditionally, people build altars in their home and decorate them with ofrendas: offering for the dead. The most common offerings are: tamales, chiles, water, tequila and pan de muerto, a specific bread for the...
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Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.
During Open Access Week UCSB Library will host an information table in the Paseo. Stop by for information on open access...
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Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.
During Open Access Week UCSB Library will host an information table in the Paseo. Stop by for information on open access...
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Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.
During Open Access Week UCSB Library will host an information table in the Paseo. Stop by for information on open access...
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Please join UCSB Library for two presentations in conjunction with Open Access Week 2021.
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Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.
During Open Access Week UCSB Library will host an information table in the Paseo. Stop by for information on open access...
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This event is an example-driven 4-day workshop on October 19 - 22, 2021 for introduction to data visualization with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface through JupyterLabs. Learners should install Anaconda on their devices prior to the workshop. ...
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This event is an example-driven 4-day workshop on October 19 - 22, 2021 for introduction to data visualization with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface through JupyterLabs. Learners should install Anaconda on their devices prior to the workshop. ...
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This event is an example-driven 4-day workshop on October 19 - 22, 2021 for introduction to data visualization with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface through JupyterLabs. Learners should install Anaconda on their devices prior to the workshop. ...
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This event is an example-driven 4-day workshop on October 19 - 22, 2021 for introduction to data visualization with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface through JupyterLabs. Learners should install Anaconda on their devices prior to the workshop. ...
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Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in History and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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This event is a two day example-driven workshop on October 14 and 15, 2021 for introduction to using version control with Git. This workshop builds on the skills presented in a Bash workshop offered on October 12 and 13, 2021. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have...
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This event is a two day example-driven workshop on October 14 and 15, 2021 for introduction to using version control with Git. This workshop builds on the skills presented in a Bash workshop offered on October 12 and 13, 2021. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have...
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This event is a two day example-driven workshop on October 12 and 13, 2021 for introduction to using the Bash/Shell.Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. You should be using a Windows, Mac, or...
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This event is a two day example-driven workshop on October 12 and 13, 2021 for introduction to using the Bash/Shell.Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. You should be using a Windows, Mac, or...
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Stop by the UCSB Library from 11am to 2pm during Week of Welcome to learn more about how the Library can get you what you need to succeed!
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Join us for an artist talk with RT Livingston as she discusses the new UCSB Library exhibit, 9/11 RENEWAL/REBIRTH, in which she documents her experience as artist and citizen during the tragic events of 9/11.
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This event is an example-driven 4-day workshop on August 23 - 26, 2021 for introduction to data visualization with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface.
Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and...
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This event is an example-driven 4-day workshop on August 23 - 26, 2021 for introduction to data visualization with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface.
Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and...
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This event is an example-driven 4-day workshop on August 23 - 26, 2021 for introduction to data visualization with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface.
Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and...
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This event is an example-driven 4-day workshop on August 23 - 26, 2021 for introduction to data visualization with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface.
Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and...
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This event is a 4-day, example-driven workshop for introduction to R programming. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. This workshop will focus on the basics...
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This event is a 4-day, example-driven workshop for introduction to R programming. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. This workshop will focus on the basics...
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This event is a 4-day, example-driven workshop for introduction to R programming. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. This workshop will focus on the basics...
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This event is a 4-day, example-driven workshop for introduction to R programming. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. This workshop will focus on the basics...
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Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in History and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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This event is a two day example-driven workshop on August 11 and 12, 2021 for introduction to using version control with Git. This workshop builds on the skills presented in a Bash workshop offered on August 9 and 10, 2021. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have...
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This event is a two day example-driven workshop on August 11 and 12, 2021 for introduction to using version control with Git. This workshop builds on the skills presented in a Bash workshop offered on August 9 and 10, 2021. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have...
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This event is a two day example-driven workshop on August 9 and 10, 2021 for introduction to using the Bash/Shell.Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring your own laptop to...
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This event is a two day example-driven workshop on August 9 and 10, 2021 for introduction to using the Bash/Shell.Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring your own laptop to...
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Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Physics and East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Counseling, Clinical, & School Psychology and Physics. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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Please join us for a virtual awards ceremony honoring the six recipients of the Library Award for Undergraduate Research...
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The UCSB Library will be offering two Zotero workshops for graduate students during the spring quarter. The workshops will be conducted over Zoom and are scheduled for:
Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies.These workshops are...
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Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Counseling, Clinical, & School Psychology and Physics. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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A.S. Black Women’s Health Collaborative, Health & Wellness, UCSB Library and UCSB MultiCultural Center presents Rest in Thought and Practice...
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This is a 3 day, example-driven workshop for introduction to using geospatial data in R. R is commonly used to perform spatial analysis and to generate map graphics in many scientific disciplines. This workshop will focus on visualizing the two basic geospatial data types using sample data from NSF NEON. This workshop will...
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This is a 3 day, example-driven workshop for introduction to using geospatial data in R. R is commonly used to perform spatial analysis and to generate map graphics in many scientific disciplines. This workshop will focus on visualizing the two basic geospatial data types using sample data from NSF NEON. This workshop will...
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Please note that Arts & Lectures is UCSB Library's partner for this event and advance registration through their website is required. You will be required to create a free UCSB Arts & Lectures account. Register Here
You will be able to replay the talk for one week following the event.
This is a 3 day, example-driven workshop for introduction to using geospatial data in R. R is commonly used to perform spatial analysis and to generate map graphics in many scientific disciplines. This workshop will focus on visualizing the two basic geospatial data types using sample data from NSF NEON. This workshop will...
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The UCSB Library will be offering two Zotero workshops for graduate students during the spring quarter. The workshops will be conducted over Zoom and are scheduled for:
Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies.These workshops are...
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This is a 2 day, example-driven workshop for introduction to R programming. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. This workshop will focus on the basics of R...
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This is a 2 day, example-driven workshop for introduction to R programming. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. This workshop will focus on the basics of R...
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40 Years A Prisoner (2020) chronicles the controversial 1978 Philadelphia police raid on the radical back-to-nature group MOVE and a son’s decades-long fight to free his parents from prison in the aftermath. Directed by Tommy Oliver (1982...
This three-week workshop series co-taught between UC Merced and UC Santa Barbara teaches the fundamentals of working with messy data. If you're in the humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences and you have messy data, this workshop will help you:
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Event is free and open to the public. A Zoom link and password will be emailed on April 26th to all registered...
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Media representations of minorities, and how they’re shared in our society in the news, media, and social media can adversely affect how minorities see themselves and how others perceive them.
Despite these challenges, continued and unjust disadvantages are known to empower collective action...
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This three-week workshop series co-taught between UC Merced and UC Santa Barbara teaches the fundamentals of working with messy data. If you're in the humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences and you have messy data, this workshop will help you:
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Pour a glass of wine and join the UCSB Library for a screening of America’s Wine: The Legacy of Prohibition, a documentary that offers an unprecedented overview of the legacy of National Prohibition and its continuing impact on the wine industry...
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There is mounting evidence that economically disadvantaged and racial minority communities bear a greater share of environmental harms. This systematic pattern can be found across the world and over time. In California, existing large disparities in pollution exposure underlie many environmental justice concerns.
At the same time, policymakers increasingly rely on market-...
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This three-week workshop series co-taught between UC Merced and UC Santa Barbara teaches the fundamentals of working with messy data. If you're in the humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences and you have messy data, this workshop will help you:
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Want to meet other Gauchos who care about racial justice?
Event slides can be viewed here.
The UCSB Library building will reopen for student study space in a limited capacity beginning Monday, March 29. We anticipate that many of our users will have questions about our reopening plans and we invite you...
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UCSB Library and the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music present a talk by Alexandra Hui, part of the annual CISM in the Archive series featuring presentations by scholars highlighting sound recording materials in the Library’s Special Research Collections.
Join the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity and the UCSB Library for a zine making club! Join us via Zoom for drop-in zine making sessions from 12:00 to 1:00PM. All contributions to the zine will be included in the 2020-21 issue!
Everyone is welcome. You can even request a zine kit to be mailed to you!...
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Want to meet other Gauchos who care about racial justice?
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Counseling, Clinical, & School Psychology and Physics. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the ...
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Study & Self-Care Week - Workshops | Community | Music
Join the UCSB Library, UCSB ONDAS Student Center, UCSB Transfer Student Center and Health & Wellness during March 8 -...
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Event is free and open to the public. A Zoom link and password will be emailed on February 22nd to all registered attendees.
Join UCSB Library for the third annual UCSB Reads Zine workshop, now...
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This event is an example-driven two day workshop on February 18 and 19, 2021 for introduction to data visualization with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface. We will work with the Pandas and Plotnine packages going over data frames and plotting.
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The UCSB Library will be offering two Zotero workshops for graduate students during the Winter quarter. The workshops will be conducted over Zoom and are scheduled for:
Tuesday, February 9: 10 am – 12 pm
Thursday, February 18: 1-3 pm
Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. These workshops are designed for beginners, but tips will be shared that...
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This event is an example-driven two day workshop on February 18 and 19, 2021 for introduction to data visualization with Python. Learners will start with basic information about Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface. We will work with the Pandas and Plotnine packages going over data frames and plotting.
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Join the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity and the UCSB Library for a zine making club! Join us via Zoom for drop-in zine making sessions from 12:00 to 1:00PM. All contributions to the zine will be included in the 2020-21 issue!
Everyone is welcome. You can even request a zine kit to be mailed to you!...
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Have you ever wanted to harvest data off a website that was not already in an analysis-friendly format? If so, this web scraping workshop is for you! Web scraping can be done entirely manually but it is usually faster, more efficient and less error-prone if automated. UCSB Research Data Services will navigate you through some basic web scraping techniques including how to use XPath and the Chrome web...
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Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Linguistics and Computer Science. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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This is a demo for using twarc. twarc is a command line tool and Python library for gathering and working with Twitter JSON data via the public Twitter API. Emerging from the Black Lives Matter and Document the Now movements, twarc comes along with a loose set of community standards that respect the autonomy of the user and aligns with the EU's GDPR and Twitter's terms of service. As part of...
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The UCSB Library will be offering two Zotero workshops for graduate students during the Winter quarter. The workshops will be conducted over Zoom and are scheduled for:
Tuesday, February 9: 10 am – 12 pm
Thursday, February 18: 1-3 pm
Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. These workshops are designed for beginners, but tips will be shared that...
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In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2021, UCSB Library, the Art Department, and the College of Creative Studies are happy to present this event with Tia Blassingame, a book artist and printmaker whose work explores the...
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Join Sameer Pandya and Terence Keel for a discussion of Pandya’s recent novel Members Only, which engages with issues of racial politics and campus culture and considers the nature of brownness.
Sameer Pandya is an Assistant Professor in UCSB’s Department of Asian American Studies and author of the story collection The Blind Writer, which was long-listed...
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This event has been canceled. We hope you will join us for the February Zine Club.
Join the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity and the UCSB Library for a zine making club! Join us via Zoom for drop-in zine making sessions from 12:00 to 1:00PM. All contributions to the zine will be included in the 2020-21 issue!
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Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in English and Psychological & Brain Sciences. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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Students living on or near campus will have the option to pick up a free copy of the UCSB Reads 2021 book from UCSB Bookstore daily January 11th - January 15th during the window walk up hours 11AM to 1pm while supplies last. The 2021 selection is When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Cullors and asha...
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Students living on or near campus will have the option to pick up a free copy of the UCSB Reads 2021 book from UCSB Bookstore daily January 11th - January 15th during the window walk up hours 11AM to 1pm while supplies last. The 2021 selection is When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Cullors and asha...
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A UCSB Reads 2021 event.
This event will be captioned.
“If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention” is a rallying cry in social justice circles. Indeed, there is plenty to...
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Students living on or near campus will have the option to pick up a free copy of the UCSB Reads 2021 book from UCSB Bookstore daily January 11th - January 15th during the window walk up hours 11AM to 1pm while supplies last. The 2021 selection is When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Cullors and asha...
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Students living on or near campus will have the option to pick up a free copy of the UCSB Reads 2021 book from UCSB Bookstore daily January 11th - January 15th during the window walk up hours 11AM to 1pm while supplies last. The 2021 selection is When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Cullors and asha...
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Students living on or near campus will have the option to pick up a free copy of the UCSB Reads 2021 book from UCSB Bookstore daily January 11th - January 15th during the window walk up hours 11AM to 1pm while supplies last. The 2021 selection is When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Cullors and asha...
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Audio cylinders contain some of the earliest recordings made and heard by the public over a century ago. The UCSB Library has long played a leadership role in preserving and making these recordings accessible. Less well known is the important role of private collectors in these preservation efforts.
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Join the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity (RCSGD) and the UCSB Library for a zine making club! Join us via Zoom for drop-in zine making sessions from 6:00 to 7:00PM. All contributions to the zine will be included in the Fall issue, dropping in December!
Everyone is welcome. You can even request a zine kit to be...
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Study & Self-Care Week - Workshops | Community | Music
Join the UCSB Library, UCSB ONDAS Student Center, and Health & Wellness during December 7-11 for Study & Self-Care Week. Featured events and resources include a meditation with Health & Wellness, Winter Warm-Up with the ONDAS Center, and Well-Being Resources Libguide...
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Come Join Us For First-Gen Zine Night
Join us for a night of community-building and artistic expression! Learn from librarians about the craft of zine-making while developing your own artwork. Students will have the option of submitting their work to UCSB Library's Covid-19 Community Archives Project.
This event is co-sponsored by Ondas Student Center, UCSB EOP, and UCSB Library.
Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/...
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Students Wanted for "Deep Dish" Focus Group
Join the University Librarian for a focus group conversation on how the Library can continue to serve and engage students during this time. Confirmed attendees will each receive a $15 Amazon gift card.
Monday, November 16, 4-5PM
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Sociology and Computer & Electrical Engineering. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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Join the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity (RCSGD) and the UCSB Library for a zine making club! Join us via Zoom for drop-in zine making sessions from 6:00 to 7:00PM. All contributions to the zine will be included in the Fall issue, dropping in December!
Everyone is welcome. You can even request a zine kit to be...
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This event is a two day, example-driven workshop introducing data scrubbing with OpenRefine. OpenRefine is a free, Open Source tool for working with messy tabular data. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged to help one another and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. The workshop runs from 9AM - 11:30AM.
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This event is a two day, example-driven workshop introducing data scrubbing with OpenRefine. OpenRefine is a free, Open Source tool for working with messy tabular data. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged to help one another and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. The workshop runs from 9AM - 11:30AM.
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UCSB Library is pleased to co-sponsor two events organized by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) as part of their Critical Mass series. The first event is a discussion on collecting and hording between William Davies King (UCSB Theater & Dance) and Rebecca Falkoff (New York University). The second is a staged reading of King's play...
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UCSB Library is pleased to co-sponsor two events organized by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) as part of their Critical Mass series. The first event is a discussion on collecting and hording between William Davies King (UCSB Theater & Dance) and Rebecca Falkoff (New York University). The second is a staged reading of King's play...
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This half-day workshop will be presented by ESRI Senior Researcher for Spatial Statistics Dr. Orhun Adyin. The workshop is intended for data scientists who want to gain understanding at the intersection of spatial analysis and machine learning. Attendees will gain understanding and working knowledge of spatial machine learning and...
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Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. These workshops are designed for beginners, but tips will be shared that will help even experienced users. While the workshops are designed for graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
Please sign up for a specific session by filling out the registration form at ...
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Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. These workshops are designed for beginners, but tips will be shared that will help even experienced users. While the workshops are designed for graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
Please sign up for a specific session...
View a recording of the event.
Like today’s Movement for Black Lives, the 1960s Black Power movement was a critical moment when radical ideas suddenly took hold and unprecedented opportunities emerged for transformational change. While today’s activists look to the Black Panther Party (BPP) for inspiration and lessons, the...
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This is a 3 day, example-driven workshop for introduction to R programming. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. This workshop will focus on data...
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Please join UCSB Library for an inspired by a class project and exhibition highlighting the history of disability culture and activism at UCSB.
Students from Jesse Miller's Winter 2020 “Disability Aesthetics" (ENGL 170DA) course will discuss their class...
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Zotero is a free bibliography management tool that helps you collect citations for your research and generate entries for notes and bibliographies. These workshops are designed for beginners, but tips will be shared that will help even experienced users. While the workshops are designed for graduate students, UCSB faculty and other affiliated researchers are welcome to attend.
Please sign up for a specific session by filling out the registration form at ...
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In honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month and the 30th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Carsey-Wolf Center and UCSB Library are delighted to host a virtual discussion with the...
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Please join us for a “behind the stacks” look into the fascinating work performed by our Library curators, librarians, and specialists. While the physical Library space may be closed, our staff is still hard at work curating collections, expanding subject libraries, and developing innovative methods of academic support.
Featured Panelists:
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Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Sociology and Computer & Electrical Engineering. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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This is a 3 day, example-driven workshop for introduction to R programming. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. This workshop will focus on data...
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Join the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity (RCSGD) and the UCSB Library for a zine making club! Join us via Zoom for drop-in zine making sessions from 6:00 to 7:00PM. All contributions to the zine will be included in the Fall issue, dropping in December!
Everyone is welcome. You can even request a zine kit to be...
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Want to meet other Gauchos who care about racial justice?
UCSB Library is organizing student-led small group reading discussions for UCSB students to dive into the titles on the UCSB Reads shortlist, which includes memoirs,...
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This is a 3 day, example-driven workshop for introduction to R programming. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. This workshop will focus on data...
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Please join us for a “behind the stacks” look into the fascinating work performed by our Library curators, librarians, and specialists. While the physical Library space may be closed, our staff is still hard at work curating collections, expanding subject libraries, and developing innovative methods of academic support.
Featured panelists:
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The Library is pleased to present its first virtual escape room “Escape the Library” created by Librarians Heather Nisen, Mary-Michelle Moore, and Staff Marcos Aguilar for this year's Fall Campus Welcome.
Join us with your friends or solo and escape the library after hours, in this 60 minute race against the clock!
Those who complete the Escape and a short survey between October 1st and October 8th will be entered into a raffle of $300 of...
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Please join us for a “behind the stacks” look into the fascinating work performed by our Library curators, librarians, and specialists. While the physical Library space may be closed, our staff is still hard at work curating collections, expanding subject libraries, and developing innovative methods of academic support.
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Psychological and Brain Sciences and English. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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In collaboration with UCSB Library, Health & Wellness is hosting its first Health & Wellness book club! Each week through September 10, UCSB Health & Wellness staff will lead a discussion of Brené Brown's book The Gifts of Imperfection. Didn't get to the reading this week? Join us anyway! Come as you are and explore what it might look like to live a "whole hearted" life.
Book: The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
Thursdays: 5:00...
This event is an example driven workshop series for basic python computing. non-programmers or novice programmers in this series will learn to write code and learn best practices for using Python for data analysis. Python is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis and computing. We will meet for 3 hours from 9AM - 12PM every Wednesday and Thursday on August 19, 20, 26, 27, and September 2. Short tutorials alternate...
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This event is an example-driven workshop series for basic computing covering the R Studio Interface and data skills and analysis for R. We will meet for 3 hours from 9AM - 12PM every Monday and Tuesday on August 17, 18, 24, 25, and September 1. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help...
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In collaboration with UCSB Library, Health & Wellness is hosting its first Health & Wellness book club! Each week through September 10, UCSB Health & Wellness staff will lead a discussion of Brené Brown's book The Gifts of Imperfection. Didn't get to the reading this week? Join us anyway! Come as you are and explore what it might look like to live a "whole hearted" life.
Book: The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
Thursdays: 5:00...
This event is an example driven workshop series for basic python computing. non-programmers or novice programmers in this series will learn to write code and learn best practices for using Python for data analysis. Python is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis and computing. We will meet for 3 hours from 9AM - 12PM every Wednesday and Thursday on August 19, 20, 26, 27, and September 2. Short tutorials alternate...
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This event is an example driven workshop series for basic python computing. non-programmers or novice programmers in this series will learn to write code and learn best practices for using Python for data analysis. Python is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis and computing. We will meet for 3 hours from 9AM - 12PM every Wednesday and Thursday on August 19, 20, 26, 27, and September 2. Short tutorials alternate...
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This event is an example-driven workshop series for basic computing covering the R Studio Interface and data skills and analysis for R. We will meet for 3 hours from 9AM - 12PM every Monday and Tuesday on August 17, 18, 24, 25, and September 1. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help...
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This event is an example-driven workshop series for basic computing covering the R Studio Interface and data skills and analysis for R. We will meet for 3 hours from 9AM - 12PM every Monday and Tuesday on August 17, 18, 24, 25, and September 1. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help...
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In collaboration with UCSB Library, Health & Wellness is hosting its first Health & Wellness book club! Each week through September 10, UCSB Health & Wellness staff will lead a discussion of Brené Brown's book The Gifts of Imperfection. Didn't get to the reading this week? Join us anyway! Come as you are and explore what it might look like to live a "whole hearted" life.
Book: The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
Thursdays: 5:00...
This event is an example driven workshop series for basic python computing. non-programmers or novice programmers in this series will learn to write code and learn best practices for using Python for data analysis. Python is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis and computing. We will meet for 3 hours from 9AM - 12PM every Wednesday and Thursday on August 19, 20, 26, 27, and September 2. Short tutorials alternate...
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This event is an example driven workshop series for basic python computing. non-programmers or novice programmers in this series will learn to write code and learn best practices for using Python for data analysis. Python is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis and computing. We will meet for 3 hours from 9AM - 12PM every Wednesday and Thursday on August 19, 20, 26, 27, and September 2. Short tutorials alternate...
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Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Chemical Engineering and Linguistics. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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This event is an example-driven workshop series for basic computing covering the R Studio Interface and data skills and analysis for R. We will meet for 3 hours from 9AM - 12PM every Monday and Tuesday on August 17, 18, 24, 25, and September 1. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help...
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This event is an example-driven workshop series for basic computing covering the R Studio Interface and data skills and analysis for R. We will meet for 3 hours from 9AM - 12PM every Monday and Tuesday on August 17, 18, 24, 25, and September 1. R is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for data analysis and creating data visualizations. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help...
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In collaboration with UCSB Library, Health & Wellness is hosting its first Health & Wellness book club! Each week through September 10, UCSB Health & Wellness staff will lead a discussion of Brené Brown's book The Gifts of Imperfection. Didn't get to the reading this week? Join us anyway! Come as you are and explore what it might look like to live a "whole hearted" life.
Book: The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
Thursdays: 5:00...
This event is an example-driven workshop for version control using Git. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. Learners should create a github account if they do not have one already.
The workshop runs from 9AM - 11:30AM.
Registration is at:...
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This event is an example-driven workshop for version control using Git. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. Learners should create a github account if they do not have one already.
The workshop runs from 9AM - 11:30AM.
Registration is at:...
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This event is an example-driven workshop for introduction to the bash-shell. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged to help one another and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. Learners should confirm if they have a terminal shell or git-bash. If not, please refer to the setup for instructions on installing git-bash. The workshop runs from 9AM - 11:30AM.
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This event is an example-driven workshop for introduction to the bash-shell. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged to help one another and to try applying what they have learned to their own work. Learners should confirm if they have a terminal shell or git-bash. If not, please refer to the setup for instructions on installing git-bash. The workshop runs from 9AM - 11:30AM.
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In collaboration with UCSB Library, Health & Wellness is hosting its first Health & Wellness book club! Each week through September 10, UCSB Health & Wellness staff will lead a discussion of Brené Brown's book The Gifts of Imperfection. Didn't get to the reading this week? Join us anyway! Come as you are and explore what it might look like to live a "whole hearted" life.
Book: The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
Thursdays: 5:00...
In collaboration with UCSB Library, Health & Wellness is hosting its first Health & Wellness book club! Each week through September 10, UCSB Health & Wellness staff will lead a discussion of Brené Brown's book The Gifts of Imperfection. Didn't get to the reading this week? Join us anyway! Come as you are and explore what it might look like to live a "whole hearted" life.
Book: The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
Thursdays: 5:00...
Lunch & Learn is back by popular demand!
Join the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity and the UCSB Library for a zine making club! This quarter the club is going remote, so join us via Zoom for drop-in zine making sessions from 6:00 to 7:00PM every other Monday. All contributions to the zine will be included in the June issue, dropping on June 16! For more info and the Zoom link, visit the Zine Club site.
Join the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity and the UCSB Library for a zine making club! This quarter the club is going remote, so join us via Zoom for drop-in zine making sessions from 6:00 to 7:00PM every other Monday. All contributions to the zine will be included in the June issue, dropping on June 16! For more info and the Zoom link, visit the Zine Club site.
This event is an example-driven two-day half-day workshop on May 22 and 29 for basic computing covering the R Studio Interface and data skills for R. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during, and between sessions. Registration is at: ...
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Please join us on Zoom for a virtual 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.
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Take a healthy study break before finals. Join the UCSB Library and Health & Wellness for a virtual trivia game followed by meditation. The trivia game (via Kahoots!) will include a variety of topics, including some questions about UCSB. All UCSB questions are from the "Campus by the Sea" Online Exhibition.
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This event is an example-driven two-day half-day workshop on May 22 and 29 for basic computing covering the R Studio Interface and data skills for R. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during, and between sessions. Registration is at: ...
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The Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory will host Stacy Penna from QSR, the makers of NVIVO. Stacy will present on the best practices for NVIVO collaboration with colleagues and research teams. With a shared goal of creating a community of practice around qualitative research, Stacy is hoping to do this community building across California.
Stacy’s presentation will be followed by a discussion lead by Jon Jablonski, Director Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory...
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Join the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity and the UCSB Library for a zine making club! This quarter the club is going remote, so join us via Zoom for drop-in zine making sessions from 6:00 to 7:00PM every other Monday. All contributions to the zine will be included in the June issue, dropping on June 16! For more info and the Zoom link, visit the Zine Club site.
Because of COVID-19, this in person talk was canceled, but Elizabeth Rush will give a community talk online.
A free lecture and book-signing by Elizabeth Rush, author of the UCSB Reads 2020 selection Rising:...
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This walking tour was cancelled due to the Covid-19 campus closure.
Join Andrew Brooks, Director of the...
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This event was cancelled due to the Covid-19 campus closure.
CISM in the Archive presents a talk by Alexandra Hui, Associate Professor in the Department of History at Mississippi State University.
Hui is an historian of science whose recent research focuses on auditory perception. Stay tuned for more details about Hui's April 29 talk.
Co-sponsored by the UCSB Library and the Center for...
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The recorded discussion is now available on the Library's Vimeo page. Watch now.
Join UCSB Reads 2020 author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore for a free online community talk on Earth Day about Rising and the impact of sea level rise on the United States. Event moderated by David...
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In response to the Chancellor’s recent email about mitigation efforts for covid-19 transmission, we will be canceling this event. Thank you for understanding.
On Wednesday, April 15th from 4:30-8 pm, UC Santa Barbara will host the 3rd Annual UCSB Arts Walk at various locations across campus. Students, faculty, staff, and community members will have the opportunity to visit galleries and studios, watch preview performances and behind the scenes...
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As part of its Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series, UCSB Library presents a talk by Ethan Chang, a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American Studies and Black Studies.
How do ordinary people learn to lead and dedicate their lives to movements for social change? This lecture examines the people, pedagogy, and practices of the...
This event was cancelled due to the Covid-19 campus closure.
Join the UCSB Library and Health & Wellness for an interactive afternoon of speed friending (like speed dating, but for...
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In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2020, the Carsey-Wolf Center presents the film screening of Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, followed by a moderated dicussion.
TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2020 / 7:30 PM to 10 PM POLLOCK THEATER
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The UCSB Library and UCSB Sustainability invites you to a Jeopardy-style discussion based on Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush. Rising is UCSB Reads...
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UCSB Library and the Carsey-Wolf Center are pleased to bring you a special screening of the Stars of Jazz series. Stars of Jazz aired weekly on KABC-TV in Los Angeles from June 25, 1956 to December 29, 1958, with additional national broadcasts on the ABC network. Hosted by musician and actor Bobby Troup, the series offered viewers the highest possible caliber of live jazz performers and performances. During the civil...
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Grad students, need help managing your research? UCSB Library is offering a workshop on Zotero, a popular open source citation manager. Learn how Zotero can help you efficiently collect and organize your research, create bibliographies, collaborate with your colleagues, streamline your research process, and more!
Space is limited. Please register by Friday, February 14th to secure your seat.
When: 10am - 12pm,...
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Dr. Ken Hiltner, a professor of environmental humanities, will facilitate a book discussion on the UCSB Reads 2020 selection Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore by Elizabeth Rush. For more information about the book selection, please...
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This year, the UCSB library acquired the complete 44-volume facsimile edition of William Faulkner’s most important manuscripts, now housed in the UCSB Library's Special Research Collections. To celebrate this, the UCSB library and the English Department invites everyone to an afternoon of lively presentations that uncover the creative process of this celebrated author.
Talks by undergraduate and graduate students who have engaged in archival research on William...
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Not all research requires lab coats! This drop-in event will introduce you to UCSB Library's archives and special collections resources, and how to use these unique materials to explore historical topics and develop research projects. Join us in exploring archival collections and research.
Join the UCSB Library for a free zine workshop, no experience necessary! Zines (pronounced “zeens”) are self-published, DIY collections of photos and text that are printed by hand or photocopied, and independently distributed by the author or ‘zinester.’ You can learn more about zines and how they are made here.
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Join UCSB CALPIRG and UCSB Library for a screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary ‘Gasland.” A panel discussion following the screening will discuss the effects of fracking as it relates to public health, the environment, and communities. The panel includes: Sharon Tettegah (Director, Center for Black Studies Research),...
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UCSB Library presents a panel discussion that will provide a national and international perspective on climate justice in conjunction with UCSB Reads 2020. Climate justice frames climate change as a civil rights issue in addition to an environmental issue. In Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, UCSB Reads 2020 author Elizabeth Rush combines rigorous reporting and lyrical storytelling to depict the impact of sea level rise in the United States and ...
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Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own...
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Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems....
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Chancellor Henry T. Yang, Executive Vice Chancellor David Marshall, University Librarian Kristin Antelman, and Alison Sir, the President of Associated Students will hand out free copies of the UCSB Reads 2020 book to UCSB students while supplies last. The 2020 selection is Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, a work of creative nonfiction by Elizabeth Rush.
Take a healthy study break before finals. Nap, meditate, grab snacks and get a free chair massage. In collaboration with UCSB Health & Wellness.
UCSB Library is excited to present this UCSB History Trivia Event in conjunction with the Associated Students Living History Project, which works with student groups to document the history of student activism at UCSB. Learn about campus activism including the New Free University, CIA Officer-in-Residence Program, and the Oil Spill. Copies of primary sources from UCSB Library's Special Research Collections documenting these...
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This workshop will be taught by An Bui, a graduate student in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology who broadly focuses on community composition and function in the context of global climate change. She will introduce the basics of community analysis in the R package vegan and work through some of the most useful functions within the package with data in a format that is typically used in community ecology. The workshop is designed for anyone who...
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This is a series of example-driven half-day workshops to provide an introduction to R for learners working with geospatial data. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring their own laptop to...
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This is a series of example-driven half-day workshops to provide an introduction to R for learners working with geospatial data. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring their own laptop to...
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Grad students, need help managing your research? UCSB Library is offering a workshop on Zotero, a popular open source citation manager. Learn how Zotero can help you efficiently collect and organize your research, create bibliographies, collaborate with your colleagues, streamline your research process, and more!
Space is limited. Please register by Friday, November 15 to secure...
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This is a series of example-driven half-day workshops to provide an introduction to R for learners working with geospatial data. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring their own laptop to...
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This is a series of example-driven half-day workshops to provide an introduction to R for learners working with geospatial data. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, not a Chromebook or tablet...
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UCSB Library invites campus and the community to the opening event for the new exhibition From Eunice Foote to UCSB: A Story of Women, Science and Climate Change.
Event will include a panel discussion with UCSB faculty...
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Join us for our November Lunch & Learn! Friday, November 8th from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Come socialize and enjoy free pizza while you hear about some of the graduate research being done on campus. Sponsored by UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and the UCSB Graduate Student Association.
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Meet in the UCSB Library, Paseo West Lobby (across from Arbor/Girvetz Hall)
The UCSB Library serves as the hub of intellectual and cultural activity on campus, providing 24-hour study space; more than 3 million books and 400 online databases; research consultations and classes; and technologies essential for student success. A cafe, art exhibitions, nap pods (ok, sometimes we sleep), and stunning views from the 8th floor also provide students a respite in their...
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Meet in the UCSB Library, Special Research Collections (3rd Floor Mountain Side)
UCSB 75th Anniversary Exhibition Open House: “Campus by the Sea” is part of Parents & Family Weekend.
Learn about UCSB’s history from its roots as a manual training school in 1891 to its years as the liberal arts Santa Barbara College and, finally, its birth in 1944 as part of the UC system. The curators will walk you through archival documents and photographs...
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This is a two day half-day workshop for non-programmers or novice programmers to provide introduction to version control with Git and Bash. Learners will learn to use the unix shell and git through short tutorials and hands-on exercises Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, not a Chromebook or tablet. You should also be sure to have admin privileges on your laptop. Learners should also create a github account in...
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This workshop will be taught by Dan Ovando, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington School of Aquatic and Fishery Science. He will give an introduction to Bayesian statistical inference using R and Stan (https://mc-stan.org/). Been interested in using...
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It's time for the Fall Quarter Deep Dish with University Librarian Kristin Antelman. Stop by on Monday, October 28th beginning at 5pm to grab some FREE pizza and share your feedback with the Library. For UCSB students.
Opening reception for UCSB Library's exhibition Campus by the Sea, which celebrates the 75th anniversary of UC Santa Barbara. Featuring items from UCSB Library's Special Research Collections, this exhibition examines how and when UCSB transformed from a sleepy liberal arts college into a world class research institution.
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This is a two day half-day workshop for non-programmers or novice programmers to provide introduction to version control with Git and Bash. Learners will learn to use the unix shell and git through short tutorials and hands-on exercises Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, not a Chromebook or tablet. You should also be sure to have admin privileges on your laptop. Learners should also create a github account in...
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The Journal Editors Wine and Cheese Social is intended to launch the new Journal Editors Initiative. As part of the Library’s suite of scholarly publishing and communication services, the Initiative is focused on understanding the unique perspectives of UCSB editors, giving editors a space to communicate and share experiences, and to generally support editors in navigating the complex and constantly changing scholarly publishing environment. Brief remarks will occur at 4:45...
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Monday, October 21, 10am-12pm
Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory,2nd Floor, Mountain Side
Presenters: Des Alaniz & Trang Le. RSVP to dalaniz@ucsb.edu
Wikidata, like its sister organization Wikipedia, is a linked data repository that’s free and open to the community at large to edit, copy, use and re-use. Unlike traditional...
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Please join the Library in recognizing International Open Access Week, a global event now entering its tenth year. Open Access Week is an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of openness, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make open access research and scholarship sustainable.
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UCSB Library is offering a series of half - day workshops for non-programmers or novice programmers in our software carpentry series to write code and learn best practices for using Python for data analysis. Python is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis and computing. Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, not a Chromebook or tablet. You should also be sure to have admin...
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UCSB Library is offering a series of half - day workshops for non-programmers or novice programmers in our software carpentry series to write code and learn best practices for using Python for data analysis. Python is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis and computing. Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, not a Chromebook or tablet. You should also be sure to have admin...
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UCSB Library is offering a series of half - day workshops for non-programmers or novice programmers in our software carpentry series to write code and learn best practices for using Python for data analysis. Python is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis and computing. Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, not a Chromebook or tablet. You should also be sure to have admin...
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Join us for our October Lunch & Learn! Friday, October 11th from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Come socialize and enjoy free pizza while you hear about some of the graduate research being done on campus. Sponsored by UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and the UCSB Graduate Student Association.
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UCSB Library is offering a series of half - day workshops for non-programmers or novice programmers in our software carpentry series to write code and learn best practices for using Python for data analysis. Python is commonly used in many scientific disciplines for statistical analysis and computing. Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, not a Chromebook or tablet. You should also be sure to have admin...
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Grad students, need help managing your research? UCSB Library is offering a workshop on Zotero, a popular open source citation manager. Learn how Zotero can help you efficiently collect and organize your research, create bibliographies, collaborate with your colleagues, streamline your research process, and more!
Space is limited. Please register by Friday, September 27 to secure your seat.
When: 10 am - 12 pm,...
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Meet the friendly Music Library staff and learn about our books, scores, recordings, listening rooms, and study spaces!
Tours will take place:
Tues., Sept. 24, 11 AM
Wed., Sept. 25, 11 AM
Thurs., Sept. 26, 1 PM
Meet at the Music Library, in the Music Building, on the second floor.
Tours are 25-30 minutes.
Visit the Library anytime this week to take a self-guided mobile tour that will help you become familiar with important resources and services available to students. Tour finishers are invited to join us for a special social event in Instruction & Training Room 1312 (located on the 1st Floor, Mountain Side). Enjoy snacks and meet fellow students as well as librarians, staff, and library student workers as you learn more...
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Meet the friendly Music Library staff and learn about our books, scores, recordings, listening rooms, and study spaces!
Tours will take place:
Tues., Sept. 24, 11 AM
Wed., Sept. 25, 11 AM
Thurs., Sept. 26, 1 PM
Meet at the Music Library, in the Music Building, on the second floor.
Tours are 25-30 minutes.
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Meet the friendly Music Library staff and learn about our books, scores, recordings, listening rooms, and study spaces!
Tours will take place:
Tues., Sept. 24, 11 AM
Wed., Sept. 25, 11 AM
Thurs., Sept. 26, 1 PM
Meet at the Music Library, in the Music Building, on the second floor.
Tours are 25-30 minutes.
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Join us for our September Lunch & Learn! Wednesday, September 4 from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Come socialize and enjoy free pizza while you hear about some of the graduate research being done on campus. Sponsored by UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and the UCSB Graduate Student Association.
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Join us for our August Lunch & Learn! Wednesday, August 7 from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Come socialize and enjoy free pizza while you hear about some of the graduate research being done on campus. Sponsored by UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and the UCSB Graduate Student Association.
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Join us for our June Lunch & Learn! Wednesday, July 10 from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Come socialize and enjoy free pizza while you hear about some of the graduate research being done on campus. Sponsored by UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and the UCSB Graduate Student Association.
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This tutorial will focus on Python packages, Xarray and Dask provides a powerful interface for working with and running computations on larger N-D datasets (multidimensional) utilizing encoded labels such as space and time information to make computation easier. In short, Xarray is very useful in keeping your...
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In the 1970s, feminist communication scholars first proposed the term “symbolic annihilation” to describe the ways in which women are absent, underrepresented, or misrepresented in mainstream media. Taking this concept as a starting point, Michelle Caswell (UCLA) will examine the ways in which mainstream archival practice has symbolically annihilated communities of color and LGBTQ communities through absence, underrepresentation, and misrepresentation. She will invite us to...
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Join us for our June Lunch & Learn! Friday, June 7 from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Come socialize and enjoy free pizza while you hear about some of the graduate research being done on campus. Sponsored by UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and the UCSB Graduate Student Association.
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Take a healthy study break before finals. Nap, meditate, grab snacks and get a free chair massage. In collaboration with UCSB Health & Wellness.
This two-day workshop taught by Dr. Ziad Matni uses the Python programming language, a versatile and very popular data analysis technology. Little or no prior experience with programming is assumed. The workshop will aim at teaching basic use of Python language features to obtain data from social media, what initial steps can be taken to curate it for analytical use, and how to analyze them in a variety of ways fo interest to the social sciences and humanities (e.g.,...
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This two-day workshop taught by Dr. Ziad Matni uses the Python programming language, a versatile and very popular data analysis technology. Little or no prior experience with programming is assumed. The workshop will aim at teaching basic use of Python language features to obtain data from social media, what initial steps can be taken to curate it for analytical use, and how to analyze them in a variety of ways fo interest to the social sciences and humanities (e.g.,...
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Please join us for a reception and awards ceremony honoring the six recipients of the first-ever 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,...
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It's time for the Spring Quarter Deep Dish with University Librarian Kristin Antelman. Stop by on Wednesday, May 29 beginning at 5pm to grab some FREE pizza and share your feedback with the Library. For UCSB students.
Join students in the upper division English 197 Spring Quarter 2019 class "Reading in Santa Barbara: Past, Present, and Future." ...
UCSB Library is excited to present this UCSB History Trivia Event in conjunction with the Associated Students Living History project, which works with student groups to document student history and life at UCSB. Learn about campus activism including the Vietnam War Protests, the Hunger Strikes, and the North Hall Takeover. Copies of primary sources documenting the protests will be available to help answer trivia questions. The...
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Join us for our first #TidyTuesday event! A raw dataset will be posted along with a chart to that dataset, and you are tasked with exploring the data. While the dataset will be "tamed", it will not always be tidy! As such, you might need to apply various R for Data Science techniques to wrangle the data into a truly tidy format. The goal of TidyTuesday is to apply your R skills, get feedback,...
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This one-day workshop taught by Devin Cornell, will cover the practical and theoretical foundations of Social Network Analysis methodologies. The workshop will begin with some fundamental concepts and a basic history of the methodology up to current active areas of research. Next, we will review both traditional network data collection through surveys and modern tools for collecting digital...
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This event is an example-driven two-day workshop on basic computing skills. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring their own laptop to work on which should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux...
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This event is an example-driven two-day workshop on basic computing skills. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring their own laptop to work on which should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux...
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Join us for our May Lunch & Learn! Friday, May 3 from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Come socialize and enjoy free pizza while you hear about some of the graduate research being done on campus. Sponsored by UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and the UCSB Graduate Student Association.
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Oil has been leaking into the ocean off California's coast for millennia, creating spectacular geologic structures and hosting unusual ecosystems thousands of feet beneath the waves. Professor Valentine will share amazing and disturbing stories of discovery of these vivid sea floor environments.
This talk is part of the Pacific Views: Library Lecture Series, and is also in conjunction with UCSB Library's exhibition...
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Location: UCSB Campbell Hall.
A free lecture and book-signing by Thi Bui, author of the UCSB Reads 2019 selection The Best We Could Do. UCSB Library is pleased to partner with UCSB Alumni to offer this author talk as the kick-off event for All Gaucho Reunion 2019.
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This is a one day (6-8 hr) workshop taught by Dr. Ziad Matni explores uses of Big Data (and more generally, Data Science) methods for use with extracting, analyzing, and visualizing social media data in the context of social science and humanities research questions. The workshop covers basic concepts of Big Data and Data Science, including hands-on exercises of data analysis and data visualization utilizing a "Big" data set extracted from one or several social media sources....
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UCSB’s Department of Music, Department of Theater and Dance, Department of Art, College of Creative Studies, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, MultiCultural Center and Library will host the 2nd Annual UCSB Arts Walk. Kicking off at 4:...
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Grad students, need help managing your research? UCSB Library is offering a workshop on Zotero, a popular open source citation manager. Learn how Zotero can help you efficiently collect and organize your research, create bibliographies, collaborate with your colleagues, streamline...
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This event is an example-driven two-day workshop fon basic computing skills. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, not a Chromebook or tablet. You should also be sure to have admin privileges...
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Presented in conjunction with UCSB Reads 2019, this program of six shorts by filmmakers from the Vietnamese diaspora includes documentary, narrative, and experimental films. Like this year’s UCSB Reads text The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui, these short films take up questions of Vietnamese heritage, family, and memory. This selection of films was curated in cooperation with...
This event is an example-driven two-day workshop fon basic computing skills. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, not a Chromebook or tablet. You should also be sure to have admin privileges...
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Location: UCSB MultiCultural Center Lounge.
As part of UCSB Reads 2019, UCSB Library is bringing chef and immigrant workers' activist Diep Tran to campus for a discussion about Vietnamese cuisine and how it fits in with a broader conversation about immigrant cuisine in America, with an emphasis on...
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This workshop will introduce users to resources available at UCSB for high performance computing.
This event is an example-driven two-day workshop for FACULTY on basic computing skills. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, not a Chromebook or tablet. You should also be sure to have admin...
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This event is an example-driven two-day workshop for FACULTY on basic computing skills. Short tutorials alternate with hands-on practical exercises, and participants are encouraged both to help one another, and to try applying what they have learned to their own research problems during and between sessions. Participants should bring their own laptop to work on. This should be a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine, not a Chromebook or tablet. You should also be sure to have admin...
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Location: Impact Hub Santa Barbara, 1117 State Street.
In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2019, UCSB Library is pleased to co-sponsor with UCSB Alumni this talk by John Park. The Profs in the Pub series features talks by UCSB faculty in Santa Barbara's favorite watering holes. In this talk, Park will address the...
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Take a healthy study break before finals. Nap, meditate, grab snacks and get a free chair massage. In collaboration with UCSB Health & Wellness.
It's time for the Winter Quarter Deep Dish with University Librarian Kristin Antelman. Stop by on Thursday, March 7 beginning at 5PM to grab some FREE pizza and share your feedback with the Library. For UCSB Students...
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In collaboration with the UCSB Library, join Health and Wellness for an interactive afternoon of Speed Friending (like speed dating, but for friendships!). Participants will be given a set of questions with topics related to the 2019 UCSB Reads illustrated memoir The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui and engage in a fun activity centered around cultivating new friendships. Join other students in a safe space to discuss common themes in the book such as identity, family,...
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Join us for our March Lunch & Learn! Friday, March 1 from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Come socialize and enjoy free pizza while you hear about some of the graduate research being done on campus. Sponsored by UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and the UCSB Graduate Student Association.
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University of California Santa Barbara Opera Theatre presents the North American premiere of Franz Lehár’s The Mock Marriage (Die Juxheirat), which was selected from the collection of the Michael and Nan Miller Operetta Archive, in celebration of the Michael and Nan Miller Operetta Archive bequest to UC Santa Barbara Library. The Mock Marriage was written one year before Franz Lehár set the operetta world on fire with The Merry Widow.
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University of California Santa Barbara Opera Theatre presents the North American premiere of Franz Lehár’s The Mock Marriage (Die Juxheirat), which was selected from the collection of the Michael and Nan Miller Operetta Archive, in celebration of the Michael and Nan Miller Operetta Archive bequest to UC Santa Barbara Library. The Mock Marriage was written one year before Franz Lehár set the operetta world on fire with The Merry Widow.
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In conjunction with its new exhibition "Viennese Operetta and the World of Franz Lehár," UCSB Library is pleased to present a talk by Viennese operetta expert Dr. Micaela K. Baranello, Assistant Professor, Musicology, University of Arkansas . There will be a reception following the program and an opportunity to...
Grad students, do you need help managing your research? UCSB Library is offering two workshops on Zotero, a popular open source citation manager. Learn how Zotero can help you efficiently collect and organize your research, create bibliographies, collaborate with your colleagues, streamline your research process, and more!
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Grad students, do you need help managing your research? UCSB Library is offering two workshops on Zotero, a popular open source citation manager. Learn how Zotero can help you efficiently collect and organize your research, create bibliographies, collaborate with your colleagues, streamline your research process, and more!
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Join us for our February Lunch & Learn! Friday, February 8 from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Come socialize and enjoy free pizza while you hear about some of the graduate research being done on campus. Sponsored by UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and the UCSB Graduate Student Association.
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Location: MCC Theater
This unscripted documentary series presents an exclusive look into an academic year at suburban Chicago's Oak Park and River Forest High Schools. Students, teachers, and administrators from one of the country's highest performing and diverse public schools are profiled in the face of decades-old racial and educational inequities. The series delves into the experiences of the racially diverse student population, sparking conversations about what has...
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In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2019 and its companion exhibition In Her Own Image, Professor Brian Donnelly is opening up his undergraduate English class to campus and the community for a discussion of comics by and about women. Chizu Morihara, Art & Architecture Librarian, will first provide a preview of the upcoming Library exhibition that explores and celebrates female comic book...
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We invite you to a public lecture and a reception to celebrate the exhibition of works of Didier Mutel, pre-eminent French engraver and book artist, on Friday, February 1. This is a unique opportunity for students, faculty, and the community to meet one of the most skilled and best known French engravers of the 21st Century.
This event is free and open to the public and wll be followed by a public reception at 11:00AM
Sponsored by UCSB Library and The College of...
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CISM in the Archive presents "Re-collecting the Global South" with sound artist Robert Millis and filmmaker Hisham Mayet of the Sublime Frequencies collective on Wednesday, January 30, 2019 at 3:30 pm at UCSB Library, Special Research Collections (3rd floor, Mountain Side). Millis and Mayet will share their work reissuing global popular and folk music recordings on Sublime...
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UCSB Library invites you to an opening talk and reception celebrating its new exhibition "Anguish, Anger, and Activism," which examines the connections between the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill and environmental activism in the local area. There will be an opportunity to view the exhibition with UCSB librarians and curators Kristen LaBonte and Annie Platoff.
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A panel discussion with erin Khue Ninh, Sameer Pandya, Eleanor Ty, and Xiaojian Zhao
Four panelists from UCSB Department of...
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UCSB Library presents a talk by Maryam Kia-Keating, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education to be followed by a public reception.
Mass migration and forced displacement of communities due to disruptions by violence, climate change, and economic and political instability, have heralded an era of global movement that has reached crisis levels. Approximately half of the world’s refugees are...
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Join us for our January Lunch & Learn! Friday, January 18 from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Enjoy free pizza while learning about some of the graduate research being done on campus. Rebecca Baker (UCSB English) and Luke Rosedahl (UCSB Dynamic Neuroscience) will be the featured speakers. Sponsored by UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and the UCSB Graduate Student Association. ...
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One of the central challenges facing democracies today is finding ways to build the power and voice of all people. With a rising number of right wing movements threatening democracy across the world, the question is more urgent than ever.
This panel will feature discussions about the role of organizing in this moment by Harvard professor Marshall Ganz, a famed organizer with the Civil Rights Movement and the California Farmworker Movement, and Elizabeth McKenna, a PhD...
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Chancellor Henry T. Yang, Executive Vice Chancellor David Marshall, and University Librarian Kristin Antelman will hand out free copies of the UCSB Reads 2019 book to UCSB students while supplies last. The 2019 selection is the graphic novel The Best We Could...
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The Library will host a free Study Break for UCSB students with chair massages, puzzles, coloring books, a stretching station, tea and healthy snacks. Co-sponsored with Health & Wellness.
Location: Center for Innovative Teaching, Research & Learning (CITRAL) - Room 1506
This two-meeting workshop will help faculty to design effective, innovative research based assignments that will engage students and showcase their learning.
Facilitators: Rebecca Greer, UCSB Library Instruction Program Coordinator; Linda Adler-Kassner, CITRAL Director and Professor of Writing Studies
2 meetings (90 minutes each)
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In conjunction with UCSB Library's exhibition Nuestras Américas: An Exploration of Expressive Cultures in Latina and Latino America on exhibit during the fall quarter, please join us for a musical performance by Santa Barbara based band Latin Fusion on Friday, November 30 at 7:30 PM in UCSB MultiCultural Center Theater.
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Location: Center for Innovative Teaching, Research & Learning (CITRAL) - Room 1506
This two-meeting workshop will help faculty to design effective, innovative research based assignments that will engage students and showcase their learning.
Facilitators: Rebecca Greer, UCSB Library Instruction Program Coordinator; Linda Adler-Kassner, CITRAL Director and Professor of Writing Studies
2 meetings (90 minutes each)
In this highly interactive workshop...
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UCSB students are invited to join University Librarian Kristin Antelman for pizza and an open student forum to chat about the UCSB Library. Space is limited.
An exhibition reception for the Anna S.C. Blake Manual Training School: The Remarkable Antecedent of UC Santa Barbara on exhibit in the Mountain Gallery.
This event is from 5:00 to 7:00 pm and is free and open to the public.
In conjunction with UCSB Library's exhibition Nuestras Américas: An Exploration of Expressive Cultures in Latina and Latino America on exhibit during the fall quarter, please join a free, public Cumbia dance workshop by the Santa Barbara Dance Institute in UCSB Library Courtyard (near Mountainside Entrance).
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The UCSB Library serves as the hub of intellectual and cultural activity, providing 24-hour study space; more than 3 million books and 400 online databases; research consultations and classes; and technologies essential for student success. A cafe, art exhibitions, egg chairs, and stunning views from the 8th floor also provide students a respite in their otherwise hectic schedules. Come join the University Librarian and staff for a tour of UCSB’s favorite place to study. (...
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The UCSB Library serves as the hub of intellectual and cultural activity, providing 24-hour study space; more than 3 million books and 400 online databases; research consultations and classes; and technologies essential for student success. A cafe, art exhibitions, egg chairs, and stunning views from the 8th floor also provide students a respite in their otherwise hectic schedules. Come join the University Librarian and staff for a tour of UCSB’s favorite place to study. (...
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Grad Lunch & Learn! Friday, November 2 from noon-1pm in #UCSBLibrary Training & Instruction Room 1312. Graduate students are invited to stop by, grab a free lunch, and hear from your peers. Jacob Kirksey (Gevirtz School, UC Santa Barbara) and Veronica Laos (UCSB Chemistry) will be discussing Immigration & Ions. Sponsored by the UCSB Library...
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UCSB Library presents a talk by James Salzman (Bren School) to be followed by a public reception.
Conflicts over drinking water highlight the most pressing issues of our time -- from social justice and globalization to climate change and emerging contaminants. Ensuring provision of safe drinking water has always been one of society's most important challenges and remains highly controversial around the globe. The United Nations has declared a Human Right to Water but...
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University Librarian, Kristin Antelman, will discuss strategies for the large scale transition to Open Access (OA) in University of California and at UCSB. Antelman's talk will include an update on negotiations with a major publisher and the potential impact on publishing and access, an update on UCSB's signing the OA2020 Expression of...
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Eileen Joy and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, co-directors of punctum books, will discuss their training and careers as scholars in the humanities and social sciences, working both within and outside of traditional university spaces. Joy and van Gerven Oei -- who jointly hold multiple graduate degrees in English, Creative Writing, Medieval Literature, Music Composition, Linguistics, Media & Communication Studies, and Philosophy -- will share their reasons for choosing to run...
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GIS use on a university campus is multi-faceted. Faculty, staff, and students use GIS for research, administrative, and instructional purposes. This roundtable discussion, convened by the Center for Spatial Studies and Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory, will discuss barriers to spatial data discovery and sharing encountered by campus stakeholders. The roundtable will also explore opportunities for broadening access to spatial research data. The roundtable will discuss...
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A Performance Piece and Lecture in UCSB MultiCultural Theatre.
Co-sponsored by Sponsored by the Transformative Arts Network, the Chicano Studies Institute, and the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music, and UCSB Library.
5:30 - 8PM: Opening event for UCSB Library's exhibition Nuestras Américas: An Exploration of Expressive Cultures in Latina and Latino America*
Event is free and open to the public.
The Library's Annual Reception for Faculty brings together new and returning faculty from across campus to kick off another productive year and hear about Library initiatives for 2018-2019.
RSVP to outreach@library.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-3605.
The final event of Santa Barbara Public Library's National Hispanic Heritage Month will feature UCSB Library's Ryan Lynch, Latin American/Iberian Studies Librarian speaking on the art and music flows and conversations in the Americas, focusing on how they have influenced California culture.
The talk will be in the Central Library’s Faulkner Gallery at 40 E Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara.
Drawing from the UCSB Library’s fall exhibition...
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Welcome, Gauchos! Six UCSB Gnomes are studying in different locations in the Library. Take a self-guided tour to find all six, and enter a raffle to win one to take home!
Welcome, Gauchos! Six UCSB Gnomes are studying in different locations in the Library. Take a self-guided tour to find all six, and enter a raffle to win one to take home!
Welcome, Gauchos! Six UCSB Gnomes are studying in different locations in the Library. Take a self-guided tour to find all six, and enter a raffle to win one to take home!
(2 offerings) Thursday, September 20, 1:00-2:00 PM, and Friday, September 21, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Whether it's writing a course paper or conducting your own original research, UCSB Library offers an abundance of comprehensive and invaluable resources for supporting your work. Join us for an informational session to learn about our grad student services – including research methods and advanced search strategies, InterLibrary Loan (ILL), scholarly communication, subject...
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(2 offerings) Thursday, September 20, 1:00-2:00 PM, and Friday, September 21, 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Whether it's writing a course paper or conducting your own original research, UCSB Library offers an abundance of comprehensive and invaluable resources for supporting your work. Join us for an informational session to learn about our grad student services – including research methods and advanced search strategies, InterLibrary Loan (ILL), scholarly communication, subject...
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The UCSB Library presents a public talk by scholar and artist Johanna Drucker. Drucker's talk is co-sponsored by Transcriptions (UCSB English).
What are the specific ways in which visualizations could be modified to engage interpretative methods for digital humanities? Drucker's talk assesses the challenges of appropriating visualization methods from...
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The UCSB Library is pleased to co-sponsor this event with UCSB's MultiCultural Center. This film is part of the MCC's "Cup of Culture Series" and will be shown in the MCC Theater.
This film tells the story of the early Chinese immigrants to the Mississippi Delta during the 19th century, exploring how the community steadily grew in the early part of the 20th century as Chinese families across the Delta opened grocery stores...
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Dan Ovando will lead a session on the purrr package for R, another member of the tidyverse.
Please RSVP here.
As always, arrive anytime between 11 and 11:30 to grab lunch!
eco.data.science, an environmental data science study group at UCSB, hosts...
The Undergraduate Research Slam offers students the chance to give dynamic, 3-minute oral presentations of their research or creative work to a panel of judges. The top 3 students will earn research awards ranging from $1500-$2500.
UCSB Library is pleased to present Nubian studies scholar, punctum books co-director, and philologist Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei.
Vincent will discuss how community-focused, scholar-led open access publishing can help launch fields of inquiry and study that otherwise would not have adequate resources to establish themselves, because most publishers would consider the discipline too "small" and thus too risky to commit...
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Software Carpentry's mission is to help scientists and engineers get more research done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic lab skills for scientific computing. This two-day, hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
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UCSB Library is happy to host the May Lunch & Learn, featuring talks by graduate students in Art History and Technology Management! Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the UCSB Library...
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Software Carpentry's mission is to help scientists and engineers get more research done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic lab skills for scientific computing. This two-day, hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
The course is aimed at...
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Instructor: Casey O'Hara
These monthly gatherings for environmental data science skill sharing, co-working, and community building are co-sponsored by eco.data.science, an environmental data science study group at UCSB, and UCSB Library. Learn more about eco.data.science...
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The UCSB Library presents a talk by Kelsey Bisson (Geography) and Eleanor Arrington (Earth Science), PhD candidates in the UCSB Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science, to be followed by a public reception.
This talk will describe the planning and preliminary results from a student research expedition that took place in the Santa Barbara Channel in December 2017 during the Thomas Fire. This trip was funded from the UC Ships Funds program and is the first...
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Tour of the Library exhibition Botanical Illustrations & Scientific Discovery; Joseph Banks & the Exploration of the South Pacific, 1768–1771.
For more information or to sign up for the tour, please contact Alex Regan at...
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The UCSB Library will host an Art+Feminism’s Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Friday, April 13, from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. This event is part of a global campaign held during March and April in order to improve the coverage of cis and trans women artists on Wikipedia. 2018 is the fifth anniversary of the campaign. The edit-a-thon will include tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, reference materials, and refreshments.
Founded by Siân Evans, Jacqueline Mabey, Michael...
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The Undergraduate Research Slam offers students the chance to give dynamic, 3-minute oral presentations of their research or creative work to a panel of judges. The top 3 students will earn research awards ranging from $1500-$2500.
Carla D'Antonio (Environmental Science), Jennifer King (Geography), and Michelle O'Malley (Chemical Engineering). Moderated by Nancy Vivrette.
Through the lens of the UCSB Reads 2018 book, Lab Girl by Hope Jahren,...
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Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, Professor of Race Relations, Sociology, and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and host of The History Detectives on PBS will give the 2018 Shirley Kennedy Memorial Lecture in the MultiCultural Center Theater on Tuesday, April 10.
A reception will follow the talk.
The first demographic racial transition occurred toward the end of the fifteenth century, and such transitions continue to be a major driver of social...
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The Library is happy to again host the annual wine and cheese party for graduate students. This event is part of the 2018 Graduate Student Showcase, a two-week series that recognizes and honors the essential contributions of graduate students to UC Santa Barbara.
Bring your photo ID (or proof of age) and join your fellow grad students while enjoying wine, cheese, and the best views on campus!
Please join the final meeting of the Women-In-STEM Lab Girl book club in the SRB Multipurpose Room. All graduate and undergraduate women in stem are welcome.
Participants will discuss the book as a whole and reflect on author Hope Jahren's April 3 talk.
Refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP at: https://goo.gl/forms/sprjItOVfKngWA4G3
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Bruce Tiffney (Earth Science) will lead a 90 minute tour of campus plants and trees. Space is limited. Please contact aregan@ucsb.edu for more information and to reserve a spot (Meet at west Paseo entrance to Library).
A UCSB Reads 2018 event.
Instructor: Ben Best
Monthly gatherings for environmental data science skill sharing, co-working, and community building. Learn more about eco.data.science!
The UCSB Library is excited to offer this free lecture and book-signing by Hope Jahren, author of Lab Girl. Lab Girl is the selection for UCSB Reads 2018. No tickets needed; seats are on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors open at 7:20pm. Location: UCSB Campbell Hall.
A UCSB Reads 2018 event.
Join the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships in discussing the UCSB Reads 2018 book Lab Girl. Open to any graduate or undergraduate student in STEM who identifies as female. Light refreshments will be provided.
Please contact Rachel Alvelais at cnsi-sims@ucsb.edu for more information.
The Library will host a free Study Break for UCSB students with chair massages, puzzles, coloring books, a stretching station, tea and healthy snacks. Co-sponsored with Health & Wellness.
Instructor: Jamie Afflerbach
Monthly gatherings for environmental data science skill sharing, co-working, and community building. Learn more about eco.data.science!...
Join the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships in discussing the UCSB Reads 2018 book Lab Girl. Open to any graduate or undergraduate student in STEM who identifies as female. Light refreshments will be provided.
Please contact Rachel Alvelais at cnsi-sims@ucsb.edu for more information.
Grad Lunch & Learn! Friday, February 9 from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Graduate students are invited to stop by, grab a free lunch, and hear from your peers. Sponsored by the UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and UCSB Graduate Student Association.
Free copies of the UCSB Reads 2018 book Lab Girl by Hope Jahren will be available for students only in the Library Paseo between 11:00AM and 3:00PM while supplies last. If you don't already have the book, come get your copy to read over spring break. The author will be giving a free talk and book-signing in Campbell Hall right at the start of spring quarter -- Tuesday, April 3 at 8PM.
A UCSB Reads 2018 event.
Open to all UCSB students, staff and faculty.
Location: Student Affairs & Administrative Services Building, 2nd Floor SIS&T Conference Room). Book group meets on three Thursdays during the winter quarter. Feel free to come to any and all of the three dates: February 1, February 15, & March 1.
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Free lunch and discussion of Lab Girl. Discussion will be led by Kathy Foltz (Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology) and Meredith Murr (Assistant Vice Chancellor, Research Development and Strategic Planning). For more information, contact Kelly Pillsbury in Ellison 2709 or at pillsbury@research.ucsb.edu....
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Monthly gatherings for environmental data science skill sharing, co-working, and community building. Learn more about eco.data.science!
UCSB Library is participating in Fair Use Week, a national event coordinated annually by the Association of Research Libraries that celebrates and explores fair use rights under the copyright statute. We invite you to learn more about fair use in academia by visiting our information table in the Library Paseo during Fair Use Week, February 26 – March 2, 2018.
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Location: HSSB, McCune Conference Room, 6th floor
RSVP: http://apps.id.ucsb.edu/
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Join the Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships in discussing the UCSB Reads 2018 book Lab Girl. Open to any graduate or undergraduate student in STEM who identifies as female. Light refreshments will be provided.
Please contact Rachel Alvelais at cnsi-sims@ucsb.edu for more information.
Molly Morin, Assistant Professor of Art, Weber State University, is an artist and educator working at the intersection of digital and analog practices. She makes material representations of information through generative drawing, soft sculpture, and digital fabrication. Through her creative practice, she develops critical and poetic approaches to making art with digital tools. Her projects set out to challenge assumed hierarchies, question our faith in...
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Aaron Fox will present a broad view of “repatriation” and “recovery” projects that have been undertaken in recent years by activists and ethnomusicologists who work with archives of recorded sound. Professor Fox connects the history of recording and collecting Native American music in the early 20th century to the later Cold War context, in which contemporary ethnographic ethnomusicology emerged in its current institutionalized form. He interrogates the view of sound “...
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UCSB librarians will help you tackle the research process in a series of three Tuesday workshops for transfer students. This workshop is the last in the series.
Please join us at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER) for an open house and tours of their Natural History Collection, which includes the UCSB herbarium of over 125,000 plant specimens. In collaboration with UCSB Reads, a program of the UCSB Library, and its 2018 book selection Lab Girl, Dr. Jennifer Thorsch will say a...
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Panelists include David Marshall (Professor of English and Comparative Literature) Heather Steffen (Postdoctoral Scholar in English and the Chicano Studies Institute) and Shirley Lim (Professor Emerita, English).
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Organized by the Women in Technology Group, this book club is open to all UCSB staff, students, and faculty.
Location: Student Affairs & Administrative Services Building, 2nd Floor SIS&T Conference Room). Book group meets on three Thursdays during the winter quarter. Feel free to come to one or all of the dates: February 1, February 15, & March 1.
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UCSB Library presents a talk by Jeffrey Hoelle (UCSB Anthropology) to be followed by a public reception.
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The Amazon rainforest is a land of incredible biological and cultural diversity that plays a crucial role in global environment health. Yet the rainforest continues to be cut down to produce commodities, particularly cattle, soy, and gold. While we know that a combination of economic factors and governmental...
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Montecito Library - Community Hall - 1469 East Valley Road, Montecito, CA 93108
Conservator Christina Romanowski Bean will offer free assessments of personal papers and photographs damaged during the Montecito mud and debris flow incident, and connect attendees with conservation resources and professional services.
Email 805conservation@gmail.com to...
Grad Lunch & Learn! Friday, February 9 from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Graduate students are invited to stop by, grab a free lunch, and hear from your peers. Clint Bocksteigel (UCSB Physics) and Joyhanna Yoo Garza (UCSB Linguistic) will be discussing Imaging and Informed Consent. Sponsored by the UCSB Library, ...
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Sharing a meal can nourish our appreciation for another’s culture, lived experience, or point of view. The Food for Thought Lunch series is an invitation to all members of our community - students, staff, and faculty- to share a meal and conversation about a wellness topic. Join us for a lively discussion and catered lunch to discuss “Lab Girl,” the UCSB Reads selection for 2018. RSVP is required. Sign up and find more information at...
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The Library's Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory is hosting a book launch party! Come help us to celebrate the release of the first three titles in the UCSB English Department's Literature and the Mind imprint Brainstorm Books, published by punctum books. The books were produced by a team of undergraduate interns led by UCSB...
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Tour of the Library exhibition Botanical Illustrations & Scientific Discovery; Joseph Banks & the Exploration of the South Pacific, 1768–1771.
A UCSB Reads 2018 event.
UCSB librarians will help you tackle the research process in a series of three Tuesday workshops for transfer students.
Organized by the Women in Technology Group. Open to all UCSB staff, students, and faculty.
Location: Student Affairs & Administrative Services Building, 2nd floor SIS&T Conference Room). 3 Thurs. dates: Feb. 1, Feb. 15 & Mar. 1. Feel free to come to one or all of the dates.
For more information, contact Sharon Solis at sharon.solis@sa.ucsb.edu or x4958.
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The Library's Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory is happy to announce that DiscoverText is now available to UCSB Library users. Join us for an orientation to this new resource by Stu Shulman, owner and creator of DiscoverText software and former professor of Political Science at UMass Amherst. Designed specifically for collecting and cleaning up messy Twitter and other text data streams, Discovertext allows users to capture large...
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UCSB librarians will help you tackle the research process in a series of three Tuesday workshops.
Co-sponsored by the UCSB Library and the UCSB Transfer Center.
In conjunction with the commemorative walk through the UCSB campus in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, UCSB Library invites all walkers to visit the pop-up display "Against the Wall: Social Justice and Civil Unrest in California 1960s - 1980s" featuring photographs from the Library's California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives. Walkers will meet at the campus Eternal Flame at noon and visit the Library as one of the designated stops before arriving at the...
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Elings Hall Rm. 1601
Light refreshments provided.
Space is limited. RSVP required:https://forms-csep.cnsi.ucsb.edu/forms/PDS/Registration.php
Kimberly Tanner is a faculty member in the Department of Biology, San Francisco State University and has published extensively on effective undergraduate science instruction. Her research group, SEPAL: The Science Education Partnership and...
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A panel discussion in conjunction with The James Bay Cree in 1973, a Library exhibition of photographs by George Legrady. Panelists include George Legrady (Media Arts & Technology [MAT]), Andres Burbano (Former UCSB student in MAT and now Professor at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogota,...
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Elings Hall Room 1601.
Pizza provided.
Space is limited. RSVP required: https://forms-csep.cnsi.ucsb.edu/forms/PDS/Registration.php
Are you thinking about submitting to the 2018 Art of Science competition, or just curious about other modalities for communicating science? Join us for an opportunity to hear from one scientist-artist, Rita...
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Chancellor Henry T. Yang, Executive Vice Chancellor David Marshall, Acting University Librarian Alan Grosenheider, and Associated Students reps will hand out free copies of the UCSB Reads 2018 book to UCSB students.
The Library will host a free Study Break for UCSB students with chair massages, puzzles, coloring books, a stretching station, tea and healthy snacks. Co-sponsored with Health & Wellness.
9:00AM to noon
Looking for a hands-on start to collecting, exploring, and understanding Twitter data? The Collaboratory is here to help!
Shari Laster, Data Services Librarian, will lead a three-hour, hands-on workshop introducing attendees to twarc, an open source Python tool for collecting Twitter data in JSON format, and...
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11:00AM-Noon
Whether it's writing a course paper or conducting your own original research, the UCSB Library offers an abundance of comprehensive and invaluable resources for supporting your work. Join the Library for an informational session to learn about their grad student services – including research methods and advanced search strategies, Interlibrary Loan (ILL...
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A public lecture by James Delbourgo (Rutgers University).
In 1759 London’s British Museum opened its doors for the first time – the first free national public museum in the world. But how did it come into being? This talk recounts the overlooked yet colorful life of the museum’s founder: Sir Hans Sloane. Born in 1660, Sloane amassed a fortune as a London society physician, became president of the Royal Society and Royal College of Physicians, and assembled an...
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The 2017-2018 Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series kicks off with a talk by Professor Yasamin Mostofi (UCSB Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering) to be followed by a public reception.
Mostofi, whose research has appeared in the Huffington Post, the BBC, Daily Mail, Engadget, TechCrunch, and NSFScience360, will discuss the...
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Many GIS data management processes are built into ArcGIS Desktop and spatial researchers’ brains. We will present the basics of keeping track of your data in ArcGIS Pro, and highlight differences between Desktop and Pro.
The UCSB Library serves as the hub of intellectual and cultural activity, providing 24-hour study space; more than 3 million books and 400 online databases; research consultations and classes; and technologies essential for student success. A cafe, art exhibitions, egg chairs, and stunning views from the 8th floor also provide students a respite in their otherwise hectic schedules. Come join the University Librarian and staff for a tour of UCSB’s favorite place to study. (...
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The UCSB Library serves as the hub of intellectual and cultural activity, providing 24-hour study space; more than 3 million books and 400 online databases; research consultations and classes; and technologies essential for student success. A cafe, art exhibitions, egg chairs, and stunning views from the 8th floor also provide students a respite in their otherwise hectic schedules. Come join the University Librarian and staff for a tour of UCSB’s favorite place to study. (...
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Grad Lunch & Learn! Friday, November 3 from noon-1pm in #UCSBLibrary Room 1312. Graduate students are invited to stop by, grab a free lunch, and hear from your peers. Rachel Rys (UCSB Feminist Studies Department) and Bharat Monga (UCSB College of Engineering) will be discussing Comics and Control Algorithms. Sponsored by the UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and UCSB Graduate Student Association.
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To commemorate International Open Access Week, the Library is delighted to host a “This is What Open Access Looks Like” wine and cheese reception to honor UCSB’s open access book authors, journal editors and publishers. Their contributions to making scholarly writings free to read for students, scholars and lifelong learners will be showcased in a looping slideshow; a roll call and booklet of all honorees and their publications;...
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Join fellow qualitative data researchers for a live NVivo webinar. NVivo streamlines video, audio, and text analysis. Bring your questions, and your ideas for a series of cross-disciplinary qualitative methods events.
Daily, 11:30-1pm
Open access (OA) is a new normal in scholarly publishing, where scholarly writings are available free online, with limited or no copyright restrictions, allowing authors to retain the rights to their work, including the right to circulate their scholarship widely through their own networks, without permission from the publisher. International Open Access Week is an annual event that takes place the last week...
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10:45am - Faculty Workshop
1:00pm - Faculty Workshop
2:15pm - Grad Student Workshop
3:30pm - Grad Student Workshop
SAGE Senior Library Relations Manager Heather Dray, MLIS, will demonstrate how SAGE Research Methods supports students and faculty in the application of research methods in the social and behavioral sciences.
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This orientation to Twitter data will provide background for social media research, and include an overview of Collaboratory resources for exploring Twitter.
Reception with brief remarks by UCSB Professors Bruce Tiffney (Earth Science) & Paul Spickard (History) to celebrate the opening of the UCSB Library's new exhibition Botanical Illustrations and Scientific Discovery-- Joseph Banks and the Exploration of the South Pacific, 1768-1771.
Event is free and open to the public.
The Library's Annual Reception for Faculty brings together new, returning, and retired faculty from across campus to kick off another productive year and hear about Library initiatives for 2017-2018.
RSVP to outreach@library.ucsb.edu or (805) 893-2674.
Grad Lunch & Learn! Friday, October 6 from noon-1pm in UCSB Library Room 1312. Graduate students are invited to stop by, grab a free lunch, and hear from your peers. Carl Gabrielson (UCSB East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies) and David Cao (UCSB Department of Chemistry) will be discussing Military and Microbes. Sponsored by the UCSB Library, UCSB Graduate Division and UCSB Graduate Student Association. RSVP at https...
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Come meet immersive Virtual Reality. Bring your lunch and join us at the UCSB Library Collaboratory (2nd Floor, Mountain Side). We now have a pair Oculus Rift headsets, Blender, and the Unity Engine for 3D development work. Then take a spin...
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New students: Wondering how to find your way around the Library? Curious about how to tackle that first research assignment? Take our Week of Welcome Passport Tour for an introduction to the Library and all that we have to offer.
Explore the Library building, learn some of the many ways that we can help you succeed at UCSB, and enter into a drawing to win one of three $25 gift cards to the UCSB Bookstore.
Tours leave from the Paseo promptly on the hour.
New students: Wondering how to find your way around the Library? Curious about how to tackle that first research assignment? Take our Week of Welcome Passport Tour for an introduction to the Library and all that we have to offer.
Explore the Library building, learn some of the many ways that we can help you succeed at UCSB, and enter into a drawing to win one of three $25 gift cards to the UCSB Bookstore.
Tours leave from the Paseo promptly on the hour.
New students: Wondering how to find your way around the Library? Curious about how to tackle that first research assignment? Take our Week of Welcome Passport Tour for an introduction to the Library and all that we have to offer.
Explore the Library building, learn some of the many ways that we can help you succeed at UCSB, and enter into a drawing to win one of three $25 gift cards to the UCSB Bookstore.
Tours leave from the Paseo promptly on the hour.
New students: Wondering how to find your way around the Library? Curious about how to tackle that first research assignment? Take our Week of Welcome Passport Tour for an introduction to the Library and all that we have to offer.
Explore the Library building, learn some of the many ways that we can help you succeed at UCSB, and enter into a drawing to win one of three $25 gift cards to the UCSB Bookstore.
Tours leave from the Paseo promptly on the hour.
New students: Wondering how to find your way around the Library? Curious about how to tackle that first research assignment? Take our Week of Welcome Passport Tour for an introduction to the Library and all that we have to offer.
Explore the Library building, learn some of the many ways that we can help you succeed at UCSB, and enter into a drawing to win one of three $25 gift cards to the UCSB Bookstore.
Tours leave from the Paseo promptly on the hour.
New students: Wondering how to find your way around the Library? Curious about how to tackle that first research assignment? Take our Week of Welcome Passport Tour for an introduction to the Library and all that we have to offer.
Explore the Library building, learn some of the many ways that we can help you succeed at UCSB, and enter into a drawing to win one of three $25 gift cards to the UCSB Bookstore.
Tours leave from the Paseo promptly on the hour.
Lunch & Learn is a monthly informal seminar series that provides grad students with two important things: free lunch and a chance to socialize with and learn from their peers from across the campus.
The series is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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Lunch & Learn is a monthly informal seminar series that provides grad students with two important things: free lunch and a chance to socialize with and learn from their peers from across the campus.
The series is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the ...
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The Library will host a free Study Break for UCSB students with chair massages, puzzles, coloring books, a stretching station, tea and healthy snacks. Co-sponsored with Health & Wellness.
15-minute talks by graduate students—one from a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and one from a SHEF (Social Science, Humanities, Education, and Fine Arts) discipline. For graduate students only -- enjoy free lunch and a chance to socialize with and learn from graduate students across the campus. Co-sponsored with the Graduate Division and Graduate Student Association.
In honor of the Music Academy of the West’s 70th Anniversary, the UC Santa Barbara Library has digitized 400 early and fragile concert recordings from the famous conservatory, including special performances by Marilyn Horne, Jerome Lowenthal, and Lotte Lehmann. UCSB Professor of Musicology Derek Katz will speak about the partnership between the Music Academy and the...
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Data Science at UCSB, FACTOR (Female Actuarial Organization), and inertia7.com will present a SQL...
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15-minute talks by graduate students—one from a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and one from a SHEF (Social Science, Humanities, Education, and Fine Arts) discipline. For graduate students only -- enjoy free lunch and a chance to socialize with and learn from graduate students across the campus. Co-sponsored with the Graduate Division and Graduate Student Association.
Assembled over a lifetime of passionate collecting, the Allen G. Debus Collection in UCSB Library’s Special Research Collections is one of the most comprehensive collections of sound recordings devoted to the early American recording industry and popular entertainment in a public institution. Through words and sound, our assembled panel will explore the Debus collection, and...
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Hahrie Han (UCSB Political Science) specializes in the study of collective action, social change, and democratic revitalization, particularly as it pertains to social justice and environmental issues. Her talk will examine the recent outpouring of protest activity since the election of Donald Trump. What does social science research tell us about the conditions under which...
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PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS RESCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY, MAY 2, AT 9:30AM. SAME LOCATION.The growing membership of for-profit academic networks such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate has gone hand-in-hand with an increasing use of metrics in scholarly communication and the development of audit cultures in academia. As scholars we are increasingly required to use these websites to...
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UCSB, Campbell Hall
Free reading, lecture, and book-signing by Luis Urrea, author of Into the Beautiful North, the UCSB Reads 2017 book selection. No tickets needed; seats are on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors open at 7:00pm. Line may form earlier.
Software Carpentry's mission is to help scientists and engineers get more research done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic lab skills for scientific computing. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they...
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Software Carpentry's mission is to help scientists and engineers get more research done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic lab skills for scientific computing. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they...
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John W.I. Lee is Associate Professor of History at UCSB. This talk is part of the ‘Black Classicism’ lecture series presented in conjunction with the “14 Black Classicists” exhibition hosted by the AD&A Museum and the UCSB Library. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Argyropoulos Endowment in Hellenic Studies, and the departments of Classics and Black Studies.
Please join us in recognizing the life-long activism of Alicia Escalante, the founder of the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization (ELAWRO), who recently donated her papers to the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives at the UCSB Library. Escalante organized the ELAWRO in 1967 after tiring of the indignities poor, single mothers of color like her suered at the...
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Relying on dozens of personal letters exchanged among Mexican male migrants across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands in the 1960s, this talk by Miroslava Chávez-García (UCSB Department of History) probes migrants’ longing for economic opportunity, masculine affirmation, and emotional fulfillment. As the migrants' correspondence illustrates, they relied on each other and the broader social networks to achieve lawful migration, employment, housing and transportation, and familiar...
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Graduate Students are invited to this annual reception in the Library as part of Graduate Student Appreciation Week.
Behind every great university is a great library. Prospective students are invited to stop by the UCSB Library to learn about some of our students' favorite spaces and services. Explore our Student Learning Commons, roam through the stacks and study spaces, visit the Summit Cafe, then take in the stunning ocean and mountain views from the the 8th floor. You can even print your S.I.R. (Statement of Intent to Register) free of charge from one of the Library's public computers....
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Opening reception for the new exhibition "A Powerful Voice: Nurturing Creativity--Female Book Artists at the College of Creative Studies." This event is free and open to the public.
The Library will host a free Study Break for UCSB students with chair massages, puzzles, coloring books, a stretching station, tea and healthy snacks. Co-sponsored with Health & Wellness.
You are warmly invited to a reception on Wednesday, March 15th from 4-5PM in Elings Hall Lobby where the winners of the 2017 Art of Science competition will be announced. The Art of Science initiative recognizes the creative and experimental nature of science and challenges UCSB researchers to visually communicate the beauty...
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California data librarians, data curators, and others interested in exploring and discussing data-related services for academic libraries are invited to a two-day unconference-style meeting hosted by UC Santa Barbara Library.
This event will be held in UCSB Library’s Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory, which houses a newly-launched program to support campus data discovery, research, analysis, and...
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15-minute talks by graduate students—one from a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and one from a SHEF (Social Science, Humanities, Education, and Fine Arts) discipline. For graduate students only -- enjoy free lunch and a chance to socialize with and learn from graduate students across the campus. Co-sponsored with the Graduate Division and Graduate Student Association.
Local attorneys Marysol Bretado, specializing in criminal law, and Olivia Rodriguez, specializing in immigration law, and members of the Latinx community will discuss themes in this year's UCSB Reads 2017 book selection, Into the Beautiful North, which explores issues of immigration, return migration, and border crossings, both physical and psychological.
Moderated by Miroslava Chávez-García (UCSB History).
Refreshments will be served.
Ethnomusicologist, sound curator and artist Noel Lobley presents some creative, interactive and performative sound curation, blending examples from his own practice with rare sounds selected from the Special Research Collections at UCSB.
The second in the series CISM in the Archives, this event is co-sponsored by the UCSB Library and the Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM).
Fátima Suárez, a graduate student in the Department of Sociology, will examine the way the UCSB Reads 2017 book, Into the Beautiful North, plays with notions of agency within the fictional Mexican community of Tres Camarones. Taking a sociological perspective, she will compare the women who come into power after the town's men migrate north to find work, to real world examples. Suárez will also explore gendered...
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UCSB Pollock Theater
This screening of the classic film "Seven Samurai" (1954), directed by Akira Kurosawa, is offered as part of UCSB Reads 2017.
In the UCSB Reads 2017 book, Into the Beautiful North, 19-year old Nayeli is inspired after watching "The Magnificent Seven" (1960) to head north to recruit seven men to protect her Mexican village from bandidos. "The...
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15-minute talks by graduate students—one from a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and one from a SHEF (Social Science, Humanities, Education, and Fine Arts) discipline. For graduate students only -- enjoy free lunch and a chance to socialize with and learn from graduate students across the campus. Co-sponsored with the Graduate Division and Graduate Student Association.
Today kicks off KCSB 91.9FM's live on-air readings of the UCSB Reads 2017 book, Into the Beautiful North. Tune in weekdays at noon to hear excerpts of the book read aloud.
For ten years, UCSB Reads---a program of the UCSB Library--has been bringing the UCSB and Santa Barbara communities together to discuss important issues of our time while reading a common book. For the first time ths year, the selection committee, comprised of UCSB students, faculty, staff, and community partners, has chosen a work of fiction. The UCSB Reads 2017 book is Into the Beautiful North by Luis...
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MultiCultural Center Lounge
Stephanie Camba is a writer, poet, singer, MC, visual art-maker, fighter, healer, and eternal learner. With transnational origins, they were born in the Philippines and raised in the Marshall Islands. Camba has struggled with finding a sense of belonging in spaces or with people because of the complexity of experiences and traumas of being an immigrant wom@n from a lower income family prone to various forms of abuse, violence...
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Join us on January 25th at 4pm in the Collaboratory for a presentation by two of UCSB's data scholars, Ben Best and Laila Sakr, for a lively discussion about the complications of conducting research in today's environment. Using and re-using data created by others has become an essential part of contemporary scholarly work. From climate data published by government agencies, to Tweets collected using Open Source software, scholars from a wide variety of disciplines base...
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15-minute talks by graduate students—one from a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and one from a SHEF (Social Science, Humanities, Education, and Fine Arts) discipline. For graduate students only -- enjoy free lunch and a chance to socialize with and learn from graduate students across the campus. Co-sponsored with the Graduate Division and Graduate Student Association....
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Chancellor Henry Yang and wife Dilling, Executive Vice Chancellor David Marshall, University Librarian Denise Stephens, and AS President Austin Hechler will distribute free copies of the UCSB Reads 2017 book to UCSB students in the Library Paseo. The UCSB Reads 2017 book is "Into the Beautiful North" by Luis Urrea.
Video of George Lipsitz' talk.
Photos of event.
Professor George Lipsitz (UCSB Black Studies & Sociology) will give a talk titled: “’A Collective Intelligence Gathered from Struggle’: Cedric Robinson and the Black Radical Tradition” as part of the Pacific Views: Library Speaker Series. How have Black people in the U.S....
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In conjunction with a campus celebration of the writing and work of UCSB professor emeritus Pai Hsien-Yung, East Asian Studies Librarian Cathy Chiu will lead visitors through highlights from the Pai Hsien-Yung (Kenneth Pai) manuscript collection held at the UCSB Library. The collection includes: drafts of Pai’s novels and short stories in Chinese and English; videos, photographs, and posters from the film and theater adaptations of his work; correspondence; and academic...
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In conjunction with a campus celebration of the writing and work of UCSB professor emeritus Pai Hsien-Yung, East Asian Studies Librarian Cathy Chiu will lead visitors through highlights from the Pai Hsien-Yung (Kenneth Pai) manuscript collection held at the UCSB Library. The collection includes: drafts of Pai’s novels and short stories in Chinese and English; videos, photographs, and posters from the film and theater adaptations of his work; correspondence; and academic...
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How did humanities and arts computing start at UCSB in the era of the beginning of the Web? How did our campus become one of the early leaders in scholarly use and study of the Internet by humanists? In this talk, Alan Liu provides a glimpse of the origin of his Voice of the Shuttle Web site for humanities research, the UCSB Many Wolves Authoring Collective, the Ultrabasic Guide to the Internet for Humanities Users at UCSB, the original Humanitas.ucsb.edu server, the first...
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In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2017, UCSB Library is co-sponsoring this talk by Doug Massey (Princeton University, Sociology), hosted by UCSB Professor of Sociology Edward Telles. The UCSB Reads 2017 book, Into the Beautiful North, delves into issues of immigration, return migration, and border crossings.
Massey has served on the faculties of the University of Chicago and the University of...
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Instructor: Thomas Padilla
So you’ve engaged in a bit of social media study. How can you share that data and data you might generate in the course of studying it? In this workshop you will learn about approaches to sharing data and places where you can provide persistent access to it.
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Instructors: Jon Jablonski and Tom Brittnacher
Want to learn the basics of GIS? Need to make a map of your research results, but don't know where to start? This hands-on workshop will give you experience working with common mapping and spatial analysis techniques.
This is a 3-hour introduction to digital...
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Instructors: Tom Brittnacher and Jon Jablonski
A great deal of social media data is richer than it appears. For example, photos on Instagram and tweets on Twitter often include geospatial information. In this workshop you will learn how to create interactive web maps of social media data using CartoDB and ArcGIS Online.
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Gretchen Hofmann, UCSB Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology
Hofmann will discuss her research showing that rising levels of carbon in Antarctic waters threaten the Antarctic food chain.
Reception and exhibition of paintings by artist Lily Simonson to follow. Simonson collaborated with Hofmann in the Antarctic to explore and sketch the obscure organisms and otherworldly scenes that are the subjects of her...
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Instructors: Jon Jablonski and Tom Brittnacher
Want to learn the basics of GIS? Need to make a map of your research results, but don't know where to start? This hands-on workshop will give you experience working with common mapping and spatial analysis techniques.
This is a 3-hour introduction to digital...
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Instructor: Thomas Padilla
Increasingly both cultural heritage organizations and corporations like Twitter provide access to data in the JSON (javascript object notation) format. Many popular tools for analyzing this data ask for data in the CSV (comma separated values) format. In this workshop you will learn how to use a simple command line tool called jq to create subsets of Twitter data...
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Instructor: Shari Laster
Are you interested in using social media data in your research? Often the first step entails figuring out how to collect social media data. In this workshop you will learn how to use a simple command line tool called twarc to collect Twitter data.
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Instructor: Jon Jablonski
Want to learn the basics of GIS? Need to make a map of your research results, but don't know where to start?
MIL and the Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory (IRC) will be hosting a...
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Software Carpentry's mission is to help scientists and engineers get more research done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic lab skills for scientific computing. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they...
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Software Carpentry's mission is to help scientists and engineers get more research done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic lab skills for scientific computing. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they...
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Come to the Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory to find out about the new resources offered by the UCSB Library to facilitate data driven research- including new data sources, software, tools, and other support. Graduate student projects and data visualizations will be displayed, with select researchers available to discuss their projects....
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Learn to navigate the Stata/SE interface, load and clean up data, and do basic regressions in Stata using sample ACS data. This class is capped at 10 users to ensure hands-on support.
Carl Gutiérrez-Jones, Professor of English and Comparative...
Hillary Young, UCSB Department of Ecology,...
Giovanni Vigna, UCSB Department of Computer Science
April 28, 2015, 4pm
Malware is in continuous evolution. As new countermeasures are deployed, cybercriminals adapt and create malware samples that can evade these defenses, like invisible ninjas attacking at night.
This talk describes the evolution of malware, and describes research in fighting this ever-changing threat, focusing in particular on the detection of evasive...
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Professor David Cleveland (Environmental Studies) explains why diet change for food and climate justice needs to be an explicit goal of localization.
One of the biggest challenges we face is fixing our global food system—although it feeds us, in the process it contributes much to sickness, hunger and climate change. The cause of this is a...
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