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...  More
Date:
Saturday, October 18, 2025 Show more dates
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...  More
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
Intro to the Internet of Things with Adafruit Feather Huzzah

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...  More
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
Citations made easy: Intro to Zotero

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 20, 2025 Show more dates
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  
Your AI research questions answered

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...  More
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!
Systematic Reviews Workshop 2: Developing Your Data Collection Strategy (Online)

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...  More
Date:
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Time:
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Audience:
  Undergraduate students  
Reducing Digital Distraction (ReDD) Workshop

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...  More
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
Data Analysis with Excel

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...  More
Date:
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 Show more dates
Time:
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Audience:
  Undergraduate students     Graduate students  
Offline Club

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...  More
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
Intermediate Research Statistics with RStudio

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. -...  More
Date:
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Time:
12:00pm - 12:30pm
Audience:
  Open to everyone  
Categories:
  DSC  
Registration Type:
Online Registration
Register! - 7 seats left
Practical Data Skills: Open Science

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:
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 Show more dates
Time:
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Location:
135M Digital Literacy, Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library (LIB)
Audience:
  Undergraduate students     Graduate students  
Your AI research questions answered

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...  More
Date:
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Time:
10:00am - 12:00pm
Audience:
  Undergraduate students  
Reducing Digital Distraction (ReDD) Workshop

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...  More
Date:
Thursday, October 23, 2025 Show more dates
Time:
10:30am - 12:00pm
Location:
135M Digital Literacy, Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library (LIB)
Audience:
  Undergraduate students     Graduate students  
Digital mindfulness: managing your digital devices

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...  More
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
Publishing Open at UVic: A 30-Minute Quick Start Session

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...  More
Date:
Thursday, October 23, 2025 Show more dates
Time:
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Location:
135M Digital Literacy, Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library (LIB)
Audience:
  Undergraduate students     Graduate students  
Unlock your geospatial and numeric data

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...  More
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!
Open Science Community of Victoria Launch Event

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...  More
Date:
Saturday, October 25, 2025 Show more dates
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...  More
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
Citation justice: Amplifying voices in our scholarship

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...  More
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
Introduction to Covidence

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 Show more dates
Time:
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Location:
135M Digital Literacy, Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library (LIB)
Audience:
  Undergraduate students     Graduate students  
Your AI research questions answered

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...  More
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
Systematic Reviews Workshop 3: The Next Steps: translating searches, tracking, reporting and study selection (Online)

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...  More
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
Intro to Design for Laser Cutting

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...  More
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
Lexis+ training

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...  More
Date:
Tuesday, October 28, 2025 Show more dates
Time:
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Audience:
  Undergraduate students     Graduate students  
Offline Club

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...  More
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
Data Management Plans (DMPs)