Help Jumbo Find His Trunk!

Posted: Wed, Aug 27th 2025

Join us tomorrow, Aug. 28th, for an open house from 1:30-4:00pm, which will include the unveiling of Jumbo's Missing Trunk: A Mystery along with snacks, swag, and other mysterious goings on.

But don't worry! If you can't be here tomorrow, you can still solve the mystery. Each month, two tasks will be revealed on the mystery web page. Complete each task to receive a clue. Correct responses will be entered in a special prize drawing when we uncover the culprit on Thursday, Dec. 4th!

Digital Scholarship Conversations: Building a Longitudinal, Physician-Level Dataset from the American Medical Directories (1906-1938)

Digital Scholarship Conversations series is a monthly brown bag hosted by Tisch Library. Each conversation will focus on a different topic, helping us share ideas and build community around the intersection of digital technology and our research and teaching.

Media, compression and algorithms: Understanding file formats by breaking them

Confused about the differences between various export options? Through low-stakes creative activities, we’ll learn about how algorithms in media formats like jpeg, mp3 and gif work by stretching their properties to their limits, revealing artifacts that showcase underlying processes. We'll then talk through selecting the right export options for your creative media projects and answer any questions you might have for your own personal projects.

Fall Panel with Tisch Library Graduate Fellows in Arts & Humanities

Join the 2025 Tisch Library Graduate Fellows in Arts & Humanities for presentations and discussion about their thesis and dissertation research projects conducted over the summer. Panel presentations will take place on September 17, 2025 from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM in the Austin Room (226) in Tisch Library on the main level (2nd floor) and online (Zoom link will be provided prior to the event date in a separate email).

Numbers That Matter: Finding Government Data for Graduate Research

This workshop will introduce you to major sources of government data and provide strategies for finding and evaluating discipline-specific government data and statistics. Please note that data visualization and data analysis will not be covered in this session.

This workshop is part of the Graduate Workshop Series for an AS&E graduate student audience, but we invite all members of the Tufts community to join us at this workshop if you're interested!

Designing Your Online Scholarly Presence

Your online presence tells a story about you to peers, collaborators, institutions and employers. In this workshop, we'll discuss how you can curate that online identity to tell the story that you want. We'll consider your goals for your online scholarly presence; look at what types of things your presence could include, such as shared publications & data, a website, social media, and researcher identifiers like ORCID; and steps to build the presence that you want.