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November 2024

UCSB Reads 2025 Book Selection The Book of Delights Essays by Ross Gay

UCSB Reads 2025 Book Selection Announced

UCSB Library and the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor are pleased to announce the selection of the 2025 UCSB Reads book, The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay.

A New York Times bestseller, The Book of Delights is a genre-defying collection of short lyrical essays that celebrate the small, ordinary wonders in the world around us. Written daily over one tumultuous year, the humorous, poetic, and philosophical essays cover a wide range of topics that will feel familiar to readers. The book serves as a powerful reminder that staking out a space in our lives for joy brings us closer together.

UCSB Reads is an award-winning program that brings the campus and Santa Barbara communities together to read a common book that explores compelling issues of our time.

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Community History Day in Carpinteria

The 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 films will be digitized for free and preserved for future generations in our local history collections.

10:00 AM–1:00 PM Sat., Nov. 16

Carpinteria Valley Museum of History (956 Maple Ave., Carpinteria)

Learn More About the Event

Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Research Fellow Lina-Maria Murillo

Karmiole Endowed Research Fellowship Lecture

Lina-Maria Murillo (University of Iowa), the 2023 recipient of the Library's Kenneth Karmiole Endowed Research Fellowship, will give a virtual lecture on "Garrett Hardin and the Untold History of Abortion and Population Control."

Hardin was a UCSB ecologist whose papers Murillo accessed in the Library's Special Research Collections.

4:00 PM–6:00 PM Tuesday, Nov. 12

Online

Learn More and Register

Students entering Library Instruction and Training 1312

Upcoming Workshops

The Library is offering a wide range of research skills workshops for faculty, graduate students and other researchers in November.

Topics include:

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Open Access Publisher Agreements Manager at California Digital Library Mark Clemente

Open Access Week 2024

In conjunction with Open Access Week 2024, Angela Chikowero, the Library's Open Access Collection Strategist, interviewed Mark Clemente.

In his role as Open Access Publisher Agreements Manager at California Digital Library, Clemente manages the University of California's transformative agreements with scholarly journal publishers.

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Detail of Data Literacy Series Infographic on GitHub repositories

New Data Literacy Series Infographic

Our Research Data Services (RDS) team has created a new infographic about using GitHub repositories for open research.

Visit the UCSB Research Computing and Data website, managed by RDS, to discover more Data Literacy Series infographics and other resources.

View the New Infographic

In the Media: Rare Chinese Audio Recordings

The Current featured the Paul Georg von Möllendorff Chinese Cylinders. This recently acquired collection of wax cylinders is widely considered to be the first audio recordings from China.

The recordings provide a rare glimpse into the history of Chinese language and include dialects that are considered critically endangered or extinct.

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Upcoming Holiday Closures

The Library will be closed November 28–29 for the Thanksgiving holiday and December 21–January 1 for Winter Break.

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