Join KPBS & partners for an in-person event feat. Chanel Miller, author of the 2024 One Book, One San Diego adult selection, "Know My Name: A Memoir." 📅 Date: Wednesday, September 18 🕖 7-8:30 p.m. 📍 University of San Diego 🎟️ Register: bit.ly/4cLyazN

5 incredible selections from Scripps Oceanography scientists won awards in the 2024 UC San Diego Library Art of Science contest! The Open Voting Winner (pictured here) was a photo of a 12-day-old fluorescent sea urchin larva captured by members of the Amro Hamdoun. bit.ly/3yYMIhK

📢 Join the Library Student Advisory Council (LSAC), a group of undergraduate and graduate students who play an important role in shaping the Library’s policies, services & more. 🔗 Apply at lib.ucsd.edu/lsac2024 by 10/6! Contact [email protected] with questions.

📢 Now open at The Nest: an exhibition feat. works about the Zooglider, an autonomous vehicle for optical and acoustic sensing of zooplankton! 👤 By Claudine Arendt in collaboration w/Mark Ohman & Sven Gastauer. Curated by Clarissa Chevalier. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3BaDaRn

#TodayILearned in Sept. 1964, the FIRST 181 undergraduates enrolled in First College, later renamed Revelle College after oceanographer Dr. Roger Revelle, and kicked off their celebration w/ a BBQ. #tilucsd 📷 Special Collections & Archives ➡️ Details: bit.ly/3Z25j7e

🎉 UC San Diego invites the campus community to celebrate the 4th Annual Latinx Heritage Month w/ a variety of exciting activities, including a film club, guided painting session & panel discussions spotlighting Latinx industry leaders. 🔗 Full schedule: latinxheritagemonth.ucsd.edu

#TodayILearned UC San Diego campus began in the late 19th century when Berkeley zoologists chose La Jolla for a marine station. This project, now the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, joined University of California in 1912. 📷 Special Collections & Archives ➡️ Details: bit.ly/3yObwsX

📖 UC San Diego welcomes advocate & national bestselling author Alejandra Campoverdi for book talk, “First Gen: A Memoir.” 👥 This event will feature a Q&A with Alejandra moderated by Lisa Ordóñez, & a fellow first-generation student. 🔗 bit.ly/4d7BGVy

📢 Join us next month, October 9, for a #HLHW bilingual poetry reading of Marianna Kiyanovska's book of poems, “The Voices of Babyn Yar,” which engages with the 1941 tragedy as a Ukrainian. 🔗 Registration required & now open: bit.ly/4g7chOg.

#TodayILearned Central University Library FIRST opened its doors to students in 1970. It was renamed Geisel Library in 1995 after local author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. #tilucsd 📷 Special Collections & Archives. ➡️ View details: bit.ly/3yZ1ntg.

📢 On October 7, hear from author Jay Hakes on his book “The Presidents and the Planet: Climate Change Science and Politics from Eisenhower to Bush.” 📚 Highlights: the pioneering role of UCSD scientists, impacts on public policy, & more. 🔗 Register: bit.ly/3XGULtk

📚 Exciting news! UC San Diego Library’s Dani Brecher Cook has contributed to the new book "Person-Centered Management in Academic Libraries!" 🎉 We're proud to celebrate Dani's work and this milestone for the library community! More: bit.ly/3N1c6XC. American Library Association ALA News

📢 NOW OPEN: Embodied Pacific: Three Lives, a new exhibition presented at both the Exhibition Gallery at Geisel Library and the Gallery QI. This exhibition is part of the Getty Foundation’s region-wide PST ART: Art and Science Collide initiative. #pstART bit.ly/3XmAmYT

📢 The new exhibit, Setting Sail: Recording Life in the Wooden World, located on Geisel Library's 2nd (main) Floor, West, is now open for viewing! ⛵ Stop by through 12/15 to view logbooks and diaries created by sailors and officers on board wooden ships.

🚧 Important Update 🚧 Starting Sept. 2024, Geisel Library begins a multi-year HVAC upgrade. Floors 4-8 will close one at a time, for about 10 weeks per floor. Check lib.ucsd.edu/hvac-renewal and follow us on social for real-time updates on floor closures & noise disturbances.

#TodayILearned the Sun God statue was the FIRST campus art piece in the Stuart Collection. This large winged sculpture by Niki de Saint Phalle, near the Faculty Club, was dedicated in February 1983. #tilucsd 📷 Special Collections & Archives. ➡️ Details: bit.ly/3TaqErv

🚧 Geisel Library will be closed on Monday, Oct. 14 for HVAC-related maintenance. WongAvery Library will be open from 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. 📚 Online resources are unaffected at library.ucsd.edu. For more info, visit lib.ucsd.edu/hvac-renewal. #UCSDLibrary #GeiselLibrary

Tritons, our first newsletter of Academic Year 2024-25 has officially hit inboxes! Dive in to read up on all the latest news, events and exhibits from the Library: conta.cc/4doe8fa. Want to subscribe? Visit bit.ly/3ZGQZS1. #ucsdlibrary #ucsandiego #tritonpride