Exhibits

2024 National Poetry Month at WongAvery Library | Exhibit


Apr 1, 2024–Jun 30, 2024 (All Day)

2024 National Poetry Month at WongAvery Library | Exhibit
April is National Poetry Month, and we are celebrating all quarter long! In the breezeway at Sally T. WongAvery Library, we feature poems themed on science and medicine, highlighting both …

Celebrating Juneteenth | Display


Jun 1, 2024–Jun 30, 2024 (All Day)

Celebrating Juneteenth | Display
In 2021, Juneteenth became the first new Federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was adopted in 1983. The celebration dates back to a Texas order on June 19, …

Ebb and Flow: Giant Kelp Forests through Art, Science and the Archives | Exhibition


Jan 12, 2024–Jul 7, 2024 (All Day)

Ebb and Flow: Giant Kelp Forests through Art, Science and the Archives | Exhibition
San Diego’s coast is home to iconic underwater forests of giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera). Towering 100 feet tall from the ocean’s rocky floor to the surface, they create homes for …

Use This, Not That | Display


Jul 1, 2024–Jul 31, 2024 (All Day)

Use This, Not That | Display
This thought-provoking display was created by the Library Sustainability Committee in celebration of Plastic Free July, a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to …

Dr. Seuss’s Boids & Beasties | Exhibition


Jul 12, 2024–Aug 23, 2024 (All Day)

Dr. Seuss’s Boids & Beasties | Exhibition
This exhibition features select items from the Library's Dr. Seuss Collection, Theodor Seuss Geisel's personal collection of drawings, scrapbooks, sketches and other works donated to UC San Diego after his …

Welcome to the Mothership, Clarion Sci-Fi Writers' Workshop | Exhibit


Jun 25, 2024–Aug 25, 2024 (All Day)

Welcome to the Mothership, Clarion Sci-Fi Writers’ Workshop | Exhibit
They’re back! The Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop returns to UC San Diego for a summer of sci-fi and speculative fiction, with intensive work spinning yarns that could …

Setting Sail: Recording Life in the Wooden World | Exhibit


Sep 23, 2024–Dec 15, 2024 (All Day)

Setting Sail: Recording Life in the Wooden World | Exhibit
UC San Diego Library will host the exhibit Setting Sail: Recording Life in the Wooden World this September in Geisel Library. Visitors can view logbooks and diaries created by sailors …

Adhesive Propaganda | Digital Exhibit


Adhesive Propaganda | Digital Exhibit
The materials featured in this digital exhibit were taken from the holdings of the Southworth Spanish Civil War Collection of the Mandeville Special Collections Library at the University of California, San Diego.

Art of Science 2021 | Digital Exhibit


Art of Science 2021 | Digital Exhibit
Data curators work with researchers from a wide range of scientific disciplines as they prepare data for the Library’s Research Data Collections repository. The visually stunning nature of the research data sets they curate inspired the Library’s inaugural Art of Science contest.

Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars | Digital Exhibit


Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars | Digital Exhibit
This digital exhibit presents a selection of photos contributed by members of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars (CCAS) Friendship Delegations that traveled to China in 1971 and 1972.

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