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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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! - 20 seats left
Practical Data Skills: Citizen 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...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, October 29, 2025
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 12:30pm
- Audience:
- Open to everyone
- Categories:
- DSC
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 14 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 29, 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
Halloween Open House Workshop in the Farallon BOOook Arts Lab In-Person
Halloween Open House in the Farallon BOOook Arts Lab
We are hosting an open house print workshop, where everyone is welcome to come print a spooky, scary, fun little print, and explore our historic...
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- Date:
- Thursday, October 30, 2025
- Time:
- 10:00am - 2:00pm
- Location:
- Book Arts Lab (Room 086) , Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library (LIB)
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Faculty and instructors Graduate students UVic staff General public Library staff Open to everyone
- Categories:
- Farallon Book Arts Lab
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 30, 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
Advanced Zotero: Beyond the basics Online
Are you ready to take your Zotero skills to the next level? In this advanced workshop, we’ll delve deeper into the powerful features of Zotero, a free software that streamlines the process of...
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- Date:
- Thursday, October 30, 2025
- Time:
- 2:30pm - 3:30pm
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Faculty and instructors Graduate students UVic staff
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 11 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 30, 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
Unlock your government data In-Person
Do you need government data for your research? Statistics, demographics, elections and voting data, statutes and regulations, or financial data?
Come talk with a librarian who can help make it...
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- Date:
- Friday, October 31, 2025
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- Time:
- 10:00am - 11:00am
- Location:
- 135M Digital Literacy, Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library (LIB)
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Graduate students
Academic Integrity Support In-Person
Do you have questions about academic integrity in your research assignments? Are you feeling uncertain about:
citing sources, including images and indigenous knowledge?
choosing research...
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- Date:
- Friday, October 31, 2025
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- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location:
- 135M Digital Literacy, Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library (LIB)
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Graduate students
Halloween Creepy Craft In-Person
Join us for a seasonal craft! We will be painting rocks with any Hallowe'en themes you desire!
All supplies included.
Free event!
Registration encouraged. We anticipate this event being popular...
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- Date:
- Friday, October 31, 2025
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 5:00pm
- Location:
- Digital Scholarship Commons A308, Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library (LIB)
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Graduate students UVic staff
- Categories:
- Arts and Crafts
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 14 seats left
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, November 1, 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
Gathering Colour: Making Pigments with Artist Caitlin ffrench In-Person
Pigments surround us in many forms. Gathering colour to work with in your art practice is a way of collaborating with the natural world. In this workshop you will learn the health, safety, ethics, and...
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- Date:
- Monday, November 3, 2025
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 4:00pm
- Location:
- Book Arts Lab (Room 086)
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Faculty and instructors Graduate students UVic staff General public
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register!
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, November 4, 2025
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- Time:
- 4:00pm - 6:00pm
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Graduate students
Bring Your Own Book Bookclub In-Person
Join us a Mearns-McPherson Library with your latest read for BYOB Bookclub! We will gather in the student lounge to read quietly for 15 minutes before a lightly guided discussion of what everyone is...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, November 5, 2025
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- Time:
- 11:00am - 12:00pm
- Location:
- Mearns – McPherson Library, Main Foyer, New Student Lounge - Main Floor , Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library (LIB)
- Audience:
- Open to everyone
- Categories:
- Social Event
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 50 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:
- Wednesday, November 5, 2025
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- Time:
- 11:00am - 12:00pm
- Location:
- 135M Digital Literacy, Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library (LIB)
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Graduate students
Research Data Drop-In In-Person
The Research Data Drop-Ins are open to anybody at UVic, and will showcase services and supports for all things about your research and research data, featuring representatives from:
UVic...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, November 5, 2025
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- Time:
- 1:00pm - 3:00pm
- Location:
- Digital Scholarship Commons A308
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Faculty and instructors Graduate students UVic staff Library staff
- Categories:
- DSC
Information Session: Peter and Ana Lowens Student Fellowship Program Online
This information session will provide an overview of the Peter and Ana Lowens Student Fellowship Program available through UVic Libraries' Special Collections and University Archives. Open to all UVic...
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- Date:
- Wednesday, November 5, 2025
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 2:30pm
- Location:
- Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library (LIB)
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Faculty and instructors Graduate students
- Categories:
- Orientation
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 25 seats left
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, November 6, 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
Shades of grey: Introduction to grey literature Online
Is the prospect of finding grey literature giving you grey hairs? This introductory workshop is designed to be practical and informative, providing immediate skills you can apply to your...
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- Date:
- Thursday, November 6, 2025
- Time:
- 11:00am - 12:00pm
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Faculty and instructors Graduate students
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 24 seats left
Literature Searching with Artificial Intelligence In-Person
About this workshop:
Workshop participants will explore the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to assist with literature searching as part of literature reviews for their assignments and consider...
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- Date:
- Thursday, November 6, 2025
- Time:
- 1:00pm - 2:30pm
- Location:
- Digital Scholarship Commons A308
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Faculty and instructors Graduate students UVic staff
- Registration Type:
- In-Person Registration
- Register! - 34 seats left
Information Session: Peter and Ana Lowens Student Fellowship Program Online
This information session will provide an overview of the Peter and Ana Lowens Student Fellowship Program available through UVic Libraries' Special Collections and University Archives. Open to all UVic...
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- Date:
- Thursday, November 6, 2025
- Time:
- 4:00pm - 4:30pm
- Location:
- Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library (LIB)
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Faculty and instructors Graduate students
- Categories:
- Orientation
- Registration Type:
- Online Registration
- Register! - 27 seats left
Unlock your government data In-Person
Do you need government data for your research? Statistics, demographics, elections and voting data, statutes and regulations, or financial data?
Come talk with a librarian who can help make it...
More
- Date:
- Friday, November 7, 2025
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- Time:
- 10:00am - 11:00am
- Location:
- 135M Digital Literacy, Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library (LIB)
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Graduate students
Academic Integrity Support In-Person
Do you have questions about academic integrity in your research assignments? Are you feeling uncertain about:
citing sources, including images and indigenous knowledge?
choosing research...
More
- Date:
- Friday, November 7, 2025
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- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Location:
- 135M Digital Literacy, Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library (LIB)
- Audience:
- Undergraduate students Graduate students
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, November 8, 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