UVic Libraries events calendar
Welcome to the UVic Libraries events calendar!
- This page shows the next 25 events in the order they are happening. To see more, use the search box.
- This page displays public events only. If you have registered for a private event (thesis writer's intensive, for example), consult your email for more information.
- Curious about all the workshops we offer? Our workshops menu lets you browse workshops by topic and access self-paced workshop materials. Instructors can request workshop sessions for their classes.
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Events and Workshops at UVic Libraries
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Movie Saturday In-Person
Come hang out in the student lounge and enjoy a free classic movie! Movies play every Saturday at 3pm in the foyer of the main floor of the library. Pull up a seat, or enjoy the ambiance of a classic...
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- Date:
- Saturday, October 18, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location:
- Mearns – McPherson Library, Main Foyer, New Student Lounge - Main Floor
- Audience:
- Open to everyone
- Categories:
- Social Event
Intro to the Internet of Things with Adafruit Feather Huzzah In-Person
Note: This workshop is in person only.
The AdaFruit Feather Huzzah board allows you to quickly make a variety of Internet of Things (IoT) projects with little to no programming or electronics...
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- Date:
- Monday, October 20, 2025
- Time:
- 12:30pm - 2:00pm
- Location:
- Digital Scholarship Commons A308, Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library (LIB)
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Faculty and instructors Graduate students UVic staff
- Categories:
- DSC
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 4 seats left
Citations made easy: Intro to Zotero In-Person
Are citations giving you a headache? Do you find the intricacies of citation styles like APA or MLA confusing? Tired of the last-minute rush to create a correctly formatted bibliography? If so - you...
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- Date:
- Monday, October 20, 2025
- Time:
- 2:30pm - 3:30pm
- Location:
- Digital Scholarship Commons A308, Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library (LIB)
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Faculty and instructors Graduate students UVic staff
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 4 seats left
Your AI research questions answered In-Person
Come talk to a librarian about using generative AI tools like ChatGPT for your research. We're on hand to answer questions like:
• How reliable is AI-generated information for academic research?
•...
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- Date:
- Monday, October 20, 2025
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- Time:
- 4:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location:
- 135M Digital Literacy, Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library (LIB)
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Graduate students
- Categories:
- Artificial intelligence Research and digital literacy skills
Systematic Reviews Workshop 2: Developing Your Data Collection Strategy (Online) Online
This virtual workshop will cover the key concepts/skills needed to create a data collection strategy for your review project. Creating a comprehensive search strategy that is designed to capture as...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, October 21, 2025
- Time:
- 10:00am - 12:30pm
- Audience:
- Faculty and instructors Graduate students UVic staff
- Categories:
- DSC
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register!
Reducing Digital Distraction (ReDD) Workshop
Are your digital devices distracting you from your academic research?
The Reducing Digital Distraction (ReDD) workshop can help! Our 2-hour workshop empowers you to explore and implement digital...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, October 21, 2025
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 4:00pm
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students
Data Analysis with Excel Online
Note: This workshop is online only.
Are you a UVic student, staff, or faculty member and are interested in using Excel for data analysis? If so this workshop is for you. In this self-paced, hands-on...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, October 21, 2025
- Time:
- 3:00pm - 4:30pm
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Faculty and instructors Graduate students UVic staff
- Categories:
- DSC
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 18 seats left
Offline Club
Join the Department of Writing and the Libraries in a space where you can turn off your devices to read, write, sketch and talk. Each Tuesday from 4-6 pm, all students are welcome to join a tech-free...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, October 21, 2025
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- Time:
- 4:00pm - 6:00pm
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Graduate students
Intermediate Research Statistics with RStudio Online
Note: This workshop will be online only.
After the Introduction to Data Analysis with RStudio workshop, the Intermediate RStudio workshop is the perfect next step! Previous experience with RStudio...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, October 22, 2025
- Time:
- 10:30am - 12:00pm
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Faculty and instructors Graduate students UVic staff
- Categories:
- DSC
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 26 seats left
Practical Data Skills: Open Science Online
What You’ll Learn:
Open Science & Scholarship - Discover practical skills that empower you to contribute meaningfully to open science —making your work more accessible, equitable, and impactful. -...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, October 22, 2025
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 12:30pm
- Audience:
- Open to everyone
- Categories:
- DSC
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 7 seats left
Your AI research questions answered In-Person
Come talk to a librarian about using generative AI tools like ChatGPT for your research. We're on hand to answer questions like:
• How reliable is AI-generated information for academic research?
•...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, October 22, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 4:00pm
- Location:
- 135M Digital Literacy, Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library (LIB)
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Graduate students
Reducing Digital Distraction (ReDD) Workshop
Are your digital devices distracting you from your academic research?
The Reducing Digital Distraction (ReDD) workshop can help! Our 2-hour workshop empowers you to explore and implement digital...
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- Date:
- Thursday, October 23, 2025
- Time:
- 10:00am - 12:00pm
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students
Digital mindfulness: managing your digital devices In-Person
Being intentional about your use of digital devices is an important aspect of your digital wellbeing, including your ability to focus. Distraction from devices, apps, and notifications is a major...
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- Date:
- Thursday, October 23, 2025
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- Time:
- 10:30am - 12:00pm
- Location:
- 135M Digital Literacy, Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library (LIB)
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Graduate students
Publishing Open at UVic: A 30-Minute Quick Start Session Online
Celebrate Open Access Week 2025 with this short 30-minute online session.
Publishing open access (OA) doesn’t have to be expensive or confusing. In this condensed session, we’ll explore why...
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- Date:
- Thursday, October 23, 2025
- Time:
- 12:30pm - 1:00pm
- Audience:
- Faculty and instructors Graduate students UVic staff Open to everyone
- Categories:
- Research and digital literacy skills
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 21 seats left
Unlock your geospatial and numeric data In-Person
Do you need help finding or using geospatial data--data about almost anywhere on Earth? Or numeric data, like statistics?
Come talk with a librarian who can help to find and use these specialized...
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- Date:
- Thursday, October 23, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:30pm - 4:30pm
- Location:
- 135M Digital Literacy, Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library (LIB)
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Graduate students
Open Science Community of Victoria Launch Event In-Person
Let’s build a more transparent, inclusive, and collaborative research culture!
Join us for the launch of the Open Science Community of Victoria (OSCV) on Thursday, October 23 at 4:00 PM at the...
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- Date:
- Thursday, October 23, 2025
- Time:
- 4:00pm - 6:00pm
- Location:
- University Club of Victoria
- Audience:
- Open to everyone
- Categories:
- DSC
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register!
Movie Saturday In-Person
Come hang out in the student lounge and enjoy a free classic movie! Movies play every Saturday at 3pm in the foyer of the main floor of the library. Pull up a seat, or enjoy the ambiance of a classic...
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- Date:
- Saturday, October 25, 2025
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- Time:
- 3:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location:
- Mearns – McPherson Library, Main Foyer, New Student Lounge - Main Floor
- Audience:
- Open to everyone
- Categories:
- Social Event
Citation justice: Amplifying voices in our scholarship Online
This workshop is an introduction to the politics of citation. While you should always cite good science, art, literature, this workshop asks you to consider the need to dig a bit deeper to diversify...
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- Date:
- Monday, October 27, 2025
- Time:
- 1:30pm - 2:30pm
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Faculty and instructors Graduate students UVic staff
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 23 seats left
Introduction to Covidence Online
Covidence is a web-based platform that streamlines the process of conducting comprehensive literature reviews, including systematic reviews, scoping reviews, meta-syntheses, and meta-narratives.
In...
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- Date:
- Monday, October 27, 2025
- Time:
- 3:00pm - 4:00pm
- Location:
- Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library (LIB)
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Faculty and instructors Graduate students UVic staff General public
- Categories:
- DSC
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 18 seats left
Your AI research questions answered In-Person
Come talk to a librarian about using generative AI tools like ChatGPT for your research. We're on hand to answer questions like:
• How reliable is AI-generated information for academic research?
•...
More
- Date:
- Monday, October 27, 2025
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- Time:
- 4:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location:
- 135M Digital Literacy, Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library (LIB)
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Graduate students
Systematic Reviews Workshop 3: The Next Steps: translating searches, tracking, reporting and study selection (Online) Online
This virtual workshop will cover the remaining steps of the data collection phase of your systematic review/knowledge synthesis review project and introduce you to the study selection process. This is...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, October 28, 2025
- Time:
- 10:00am - 12:00pm
- Audience:
- Faculty and instructors Graduate students UVic staff
- Categories:
- DSC
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 1 seat left
Intro to Design for Laser Cutting Online
Note: This workshop will be held online via Zoom.
Laser cutting is a process for cutting materials to create 2D and 3D designs. From a digital file, laser cutters use computer controlled high powered...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, October 28, 2025
- Time:
- 10:30am - 12:00pm
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Faculty and instructors Graduate students UVic staff
- Categories:
- DSC
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 26 seats left
Lexis+ training Online
With AI legal research tools now at our disposal it's more important than ever that we know how they work and how they can help us.
To continue fostering your legal research competency in these...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, October 28, 2025
- Time:
- 12:30pm - 1:20pm
- Location:
- Diana M. Priestly Library
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Faculty and instructors Graduate students
- Categories:
- Research and digital literacy skills
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 197 seats left
Offline Club
Join the Department of Writing and the Libraries in a space where you can turn off your devices to read, write, sketch and talk. Each Tuesday from 4-6 pm, all students are welcome to join a tech-free...
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- Date:
- Tuesday, October 28, 2025
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- Time:
- 4:00pm - 6:00pm
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Graduate students
Data Management Plans (DMPs) Online
This workshop offers a foundational understanding of research data management and Data Management Plans (DMPs). Geared towards graduate students and faculty researchers, this lecture-style session...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, October 29, 2025
- Time:
- 10:00am - 11:00am
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Faculty and instructors Graduate students UVic staff
- Categories:
- DSC
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 21 seats left