Tag: Events
Guerra Civil @ 80
September 1, 2016 – July 1, 2017
2nd floor corridor between The Bancroft Library and Doe Library
![Image citation: Josep Renau. Hoy más que nunca / Victoria, 1938. [Victory: Now more than ever.] Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Bay Area Post Records. The Bancroft Library, BANC MSS 71/105z, folder 40](https://update.lib.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/spanish-civil-war-poster.jpg)
INCITE THE SPIRIT: POSTER ART OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR will be on exhibit from September 6 – December 16, 2016 at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, 220 Stephens Hall
Please visit http://spanishcivilwar80.berkeley.edu to learn more about the UC Berkeley events commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Spanish Civil War.
Post submitted by Theresa Salazar, Curator for Western Americana, The Bancroft Library and Claude Potts, Librarian for Romance Languages, The University Library
Lunch Poems Series Kick-Off 2016
Poet Robert Hass hosts a mid-day event featuring distinguished faculty and staff from a wide range of disciplines introducing and reading a favorite poem.
This year’s participants:
- Stephanie Cannizzo (BAM/PFA)
- David Duer (Retired Library Director of Development & External Relations )
- Penelope Edwards (South & Southeast Asian Studies)
- Jianye He (C. V. Starr East Asian Library)
- Paul Howl (Financial Services)
- Melani King (Public Affairs)
- Chana Kronfeld (Near Eastern Studies)
- Gregory P. Levine (History of Art)
- Jeff MacKie-Mason (University Librarian and Chief Digital Scholarship Officer)
- Tim Pine (Environment, Health, & Safety)
- Dora Zhang (English)
When: 12:10 pm – 12:50 pm, September 1, 2016
Where: Morrison Library
Cost: Free and open to the public
See the 2016-2017 series schedule.
Graphic Arts Loan Collection: It’s the good stuff!
Are you ready to upgrade the art in your apartment from rock and roll posters to prints by artists such as Marc Chagall, Reiner Schwarz, and Alberto Giacometti without spending a dime? The Graphic Arts Loan Collection (GALC) at the Morrison Library is a collection of framed, original lithographs, etchings, and woodblock prints that you can bring home and hang on your wall! It’s been a service for UCB students, faculty and staff since 1958.
Learn more about the GALC and browse selections from the collection at 5 pm on August 31 in the Morrison.
What: Art for Your Apartment
Day: Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Time: 5 – 6 pm
Where: Morrison Library
Book Talk with Dacher Keltner
Thursday, September 1, 2016, 5-6pm
The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence
Education Psychology Library, Seminar Room
Professor Dacher Keltner will be speaking about his new book, The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence (http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/power_paradox), which synthesizes his twenty years of scientific research on power. How we handle power impacts our happiness, our stress, and our physical health — as well as that of people around us.
Dacher Keltner is famous for his ability to make complex psychological research interesting and actionable (he and Paul Ekland were responsible for the science behind Pixar’s Inside Out, for just one example!) Join us for a fascinating discussion with Professor Keltner on the timely and important topics explored in his new book.
Hands-On 5: Recent Artists’ Book Acquisitions
Date: Friday, August 26
Time: 4-6pm
Place: Environmental Design Library Atrium, 210 Wurster Hall
Hands On: An Evening with Artists’ Books
Artists’ books defy conventional “reading” and involve the viewer through sight, touch, and physical manipulation. These books are too often locked behind exhibit cases, but the Environmental Design Library will have 20 recently-purchased books on hand for you to touch, turn pages, and experience.
Hosted by David Eifler, Jennifer Osgood, Molly Rose and Lauri Twitchell
Wine and light refreshments will be served
This event is free and open to the public
Fall Workshops
The science and engineering libraries are holding a series of workshops during Fall Semester that can help you get the most out of freely available as well as Berkeley subscribed resources. Workshops include:
- Intro to citation management: EndNote, RefWorks, Mendeley, and more
- Intro to LaTeX: introduction to learning how to write documents in LaTeX
- Productivity tools: Berkeley online tools for reading, writing, and collaborating more effectively
- Intro to GIS tools and resources: an introduction to Geographic Information Systems and mapping tools
- Efficient Data Management Practices: Tools and services at UC Berkeley: learn about data management best practices, funder requirements, and how to best achieve transparency and reproducibility for the long-term.
Check out the full schedule with locations and times on our Events Calendar. All workshops are drop-in – no registration required.
A Night With Voice of Witness: August 16 @ 6pm in the MLK Student Union at UC Berkeley
This Tuesday—August 16, 2016—please join us along with Voice of Witness for an evening of oral history and human rights. OHC interviewer, Shanna Farrell, will moderate a lively discussion between Voice of Witness editors, Peter Orner (Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives) and Robin Levi (Inside this Place, Not of it: Narratives from Women’s Prisons) on the intersections of oral history methods, access, and social justice.
The event will begin at 6pm in the MLK Student Union’s Tilden Room (5th Floor). Light refreshments will be served and Voice of Witness books will be available for purchase.
This event is sponsored by OHC’s Advanced Oral History Summer Institute, which brings together students, faculty and scholars from across the United States for an intensive week of study and discussion. For more details, see the Oral History Center website.
Fall workshops to kickstart your research
The Library is pleased to present a series of Fall workshops to help you kickstart a productive year of research. We’ll be offering general orientations to the libraries, deeper dives into managing your data and citations, introductions to scientific publishing tools such as LaTeX, and much more.
- Zotero Workshop: Citation Management Made Easy
August 16, 9-10 a.m. (305 Wurster Hall) - Data Visualization Introduction
August 23, 11-11:30 a.m. (Bechtel, Engineering Library Training Room) - Introduction to GIS
August 23, 11:30-noon (Bechtel, Engineering Library Training Room) - Efficient Data Management Practices
August 23, 4-5 p.m. (Bechtel, Engineering Library Training Room) - Productivity Tools
August 24, 2-2:30 p.m. (Bechtel, Engineering Library Training Room) - Citation Management
August 24, 2:30-3 p.m. (Bechtel, Engineering Library Training Room) - Introduction to LaTeX
August 25, 4-5 p.m.(Bechtel, Engineering Library Training Room) - Meet the Digital Globe
August 26, 11-noon (McCone, Earth Sciences & Map Library Seminar Room) - Productivity Tools
August 30, 11-11:30 a.m. (VLSB, Bioscience Library Training Room) - Citation Management
August 30, 11:30 a.m.-12 p.m. (VLSB, Bioscience Library Training Room) - Data Visualization Introduction
August 30, 4-4:30 p.m. (VLSB, Bioscience Library Training Room) - Introduction to GIS
August 30, 4:30-5:00 p.m. (VLSB, Bioscience Library Training Room) - NCBI Bioinformatics Resources Introduction
September 7, 12:00-1:00 p.m. (VLSB, Bioscience Library Training Room) - Citation Management Tools: Best Practice
September 8, 11:45 a.m-1p.m. (VLSB, Bioscience Library Training Room) - EndNote Introduction
September 14, 11:45 a.m-1 p.m. (VLSB, Bioscience Library Training Room)
Check our full event listing for even more!
Library + bCourses workshops for instructors
Faculty and instructors hoping to learn how to find and add course readings or library guides to bCourses, schedule in-person instruction with a librarian in your field, or learn more about fair use and copyright for bCourses, are invited to attend any of the upcoming workshops offered jointly with ETS.
Course Readings, Library Skills and Resources
Academic Innovation Studio, Dwinelle 117 (Level D)
- Thu, Aug 18, 11:45-12:15 (sign-up)
- Mon, Aug 22, 11:45-12:15 (sign-up)
- Fri, Aug 26, 11:45-12:15 (sign-up)
Each workshop immediately follows Getting Started with bCourses.
Help is also available online:
Instructor support in the Academic Innovation Studio
The new Academic Innovation Studio will host an open house for faculty, graduate student instructors, graduate student researchers and academic support staff to learn about the resources available to instructors, have questions answered, and receive on-site support consultations.
- Instructor and Researcher Support Open House
- August 9 from 11-12:30
- AIS, Dwinelle 117
The Library is also excited to offer instructor drop-in support hours in the AIS throughout August.
- Library office hours for instructors
- 10-noon, Mon-Fri during August
- AIS, Dwinelle 117
Please stop in for help arranging library instruction; adding course readings, media and library guides to your bCourses sites; navigating scholarly publishing and open access issues; and much more!
Gisele Tanasse from the Media Resources Center will also be available in the AIS to help instructors with film and media support for the classroom and bCourses, from 10-1, August 8-12.
Hope to see you there!