Past Events

Love Data Week: Gale Digital Scholar Demonstration

Feb 10, 2021 (12:00 PM–12:30 PM)
Love Data Week: Gale Digital Scholar Demonstration
Join us for a Gale Digital Scholar demonstration! This session will provide an overview of the main text mining features of the Gale Digital Scholar Lab, and provide examples of …

Love Data Week: ProQuest TDM Studio Demonstration

Feb 9, 2021 (12:00 PM–12:30 PM)
Love Data Week: ProQuest TDM Studio Demonstration
Join us for a ProQuest TDM Studio demonstration! ProQuest’s TDM Studio is a text and data mining solution which opens up millions of newspaper articles, dissertations, and primary sources to …

Love Data Week: SQL in 60 Minutes

Feb 8, 2021 (1:00 PM–2:00 PM)
Love Data Week: SQL in 60 Minutes
Join us for an interactive session to learn basic analysis using SQL in just one hour! SQL is the most common way to select data or answer questions with databases. …

Love Data Week: HathiTrust Research Center Demonstration

Feb 8, 2021 (12:00 PM–12:30 PM)
Love Data Week: HathiTrust Research Center Demonstration
Join us for our Hathi Trust Research Center demonstration! This session will introduce the HathiTrust Research Center and its tools and services for text and data mining the HathiTrust Digital …

"Create Your Own Geisel" 50th Anniversary Contest

Dec 18, 2020–Jan 22, 2021 (12:01 AM–11:59 PM)
“Create Your Own Geisel” 50th Anniversary Contest
Show us your creative interpretations of Geisel Library and enter to win a UC San Diego Bookstore e-gift card! This contest is open to UC San Diego students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members.

Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II with Anna Shternshis and Psoy Korolenko

Jan 21, 2021 (5:00 PM–6:00 PM)
Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II with Anna Shternshis and Psoy Korolenko
At the height of World War II, a team of Soviet scholars embarked on an ambitious goal to collect recently written songs dealing with the Holocaust. Lost until the early …

Geisel After Dark Virtual Event 2020

Nov 4, 2020–Nov 30, 2020 (All Day)
Geisel After Dark Virtual Event 2020
Join the Library for our 7th annual Geisel After Dark event for chances to win weekly raffles for $20 Amazon e-gift cards and a final raffle for a $50 Amazon e-gift …

Turkey Calling Show 2020

Nov 25, 2020 (12:00 PM)
Turkey Calling Show 2020
The UC San Diego Library's annual Turkey Calling Show is going virtual this year! Join us for a live Facebook Premiere of a short and sweet version of this beloved …

UC GIS Week

Nov 17, 2020–Nov 19, 2020 (All Day)
UC GIS Week
The UC GIS Week committee is proud to announce the first UC-wide GIS Week. Join us for a 3-day virtual conference which celebrates the GIS work of the University of …

Architectural Masterpiece: Paving the Way for the Future

Nov 18, 2020 (5:30 PM–6:30 PM)
Architectural Masterpiece: Paving the Way for the Future
A Geisel Library 50th Anniversary Signature Event It has been called many things—a spaceship, a large mushroom, an enormous concrete and glass jewel held aloft by concrete fingers... the list …

Kristallnacht on Film: From Reportage to Reenactments, 1938-1988 with Lawrence Baron

Nov 5, 2020 (5:00 PM–6:00 PM)
Kristallnacht on Film: From Reportage to Reenactments, 1938-1988 with Lawrence Baron
What is the visual evidence of the brutal pogrom that shattered Germany’s remaining Jewish community in November 1938 and that was euphemistically labeled “Crystal Night”? Contemporary newsreel reports featured condemnations …

50th Anniversary Student E-Scavenger Hunt Contest

Oct 12, 2020–Oct 23, 2020 (12:01 PM–11:59 PM)
50th Anniversary Student E-Scavenger Hunt Contest
Participate in our 50th Anniversary Student E-Scavenger Hunt Contest for a chance to win one of three pairs of Beats by Dre™ headphones!

Integrating Open and Affordable Materials into Your Online Course

Oct 22, 2020 (12:00 PM–1:30 PM)
Integrating Open and Affordable Materials into Your Online Course
While many of the benefits of using openly licensed materials remain constant, their importance is amplified as students are facing decreased bandwidth and access, and increased financial obstacles due to …

“Predatory” Publishing: Addressing Bias and Avoiding Pitfalls

Oct 20, 2020 (12:00 PM–1:00 PM)
“Predatory” Publishing: Addressing Bias and Avoiding Pitfalls
“Predatory” publishing, especially in the health sciences, is a growing concern and avoiding it is crucial to a researcher’s career. It is important, though, not to oversimplify what constitutes predatory …

All in the Family: Jonas Noreika and the Quest for Truth about the Holocaust in Lithuania with Silvia Foti and Grant Gochin

Oct 14, 2020 (5:00 PM–6:00 PM)
All in the Family: Jonas Noreika and the Quest for Truth about the Holocaust in Lithuania with Silvia Foti and Grant Gochin
What do you do when you discover that your grandfather, whom you viewed as a national hero, was a Nazi collaborator and mass murderer? This was the question confronting Silvia Foti, …

Book Talk with Prof. Paul Pickowicz: "A Sensational Encounter with High Socialist China"

Oct 6, 2020 (4:00 PM–5:00 PM)
Book Talk with Prof. Paul Pickowicz: “A Sensational Encounter with High Socialist China”
Join us for a conversation with Paul G. Pickowicz, distinguished professor emeritus of History and Chinese Studies and author of “A Sensational Encounter with High Socialist China.” This book is …

20th Annual Toy Piano Festival: 20 Measures or 50 Seconds

Sep 30, 2020 (12:00 PM–1:00 PM)
20th Annual Toy Piano Festival: 20 Measures or 50 Seconds
A Geisel Library 50th Anniversary Signature Event Registration is now open for the Library's 20th Annual Toy Piano Festival, a virtual event for listeners of all ages. Playing new works …

A Conversation with Tara Westover

Sep 16, 2020 (5:30 PM–7:00 PM)
A Conversation with Tara Westover
A Geisel Library 50th Anniversary Signature Event Tara Westover, The New York Times best-selling author of “Educated,” will discuss her quest for knowledge that began at age 17 when she …

19th Annual Paper Theatre Festival

Aug 18, 2020 (12:00 PM–1:00 PM)
19th Annual Paper Theatre Festival
The smallest show on earth is returning this summer via Facebook Premiere! The Library’s 19th Annual Paper Theatre Festival will feature replicas of Victorian Era paper theatres as well as …

Virtual Event: Trauma, Memory, and the Art of Survival with Gabriella Karin

Jun 9, 2020 (5:00 PM–7:00 PM)
Virtual Event: Trauma, Memory, and the Art of Survival with Gabriella Karin
This virtual event will be held via Zoom. Registration is now open, see link below.  As a child, Gabriella Karin was separated from her parents and placed in a Slovakian convent for …

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