Instructor: Peter Nadel, Natural Language Processing Specialist

Have you ever wanted to build a search engine for your own data? Whether it be archival material, personal notes or anything other kind of text, a search engine can give you the tools to do your work more efficiently. Join us in this workshop as we study the inner-workings of search engines and how we can use them for our own research.

No programming experience required. To follow along, you will need a laptop.

Instructors: Anna Kijas, Assistant Director, Digital Scholarship & Lilly Music Library; Kaylen Dwyer, Digital Humanities Librarian

Instructor: Kaylen Dwyer, Digital Humanities Librarian

If you need to transcribe handwritten documents such as letters or manuscripts so you can search, analyze, or publish them, we can help get you started. This workshop will provide a gentle introduction for automating the transcription process with Transkribus, a multilingual, customizable AI-powered text-recognition tool.

You will need a laptop. No programming experience required.

Douglass Day is an annual program that marks the birth of Frederick Douglass a leader in the American 19th century abolitonist movement. Join us in person on Friday, February 14, 2025 for a transcribe-a-thon to help create new & freely available resources for learning about Black history.

Do you need research help? Stop by to meet with a librarian who can help with things such as:

• developing keywords and search strategies
• identifying and searching for sources
• evaluating information types
• planning and organizing your research

A writing consultant from the StAAR Center will also be present for writing support.

There is no appointment needed! Drop in at any time.

Snacks and beverages provided!

Can’t make it to this drop-in date? More dates for the semester include:

In this workshop you will learn the formatting fundamentals for submitting your thesis or dissertation to ProQuest. Additionally, you will learn about embargoes, open access options, and other relevant copyright considerations as they relate to theses/dissertations.

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!

Do you need research help? Stop by to meet with a librarian who can help with things such as:

• developing keywords and search strategies
• identifying and searching for sources
• evaluating information types
• planning and organizing your research

There is no appointment needed! Drop in at any time.

Can’t make it to this drop-in date? More dates for the semester include:

• Tuesday, February 11th 11am-1pm *

• Thursday, February 20th 2-4pm

An interactive session on elements and principles of poster design. Additionally, we'll be looking at different formats and the reasons you might chose one or the other, from the standard paper-on-a-page to emerging formats including visual abstracts that focus on networking or quickly spreading ideas. This session will focus on design strategies for scientific conference posters, but these strategies are applicable for other disciplines as well.

You have a presentation coming up. You’ve dusted up your talking points and rehearsed what you’re going to say. But you’re concerned about the visual aid for your presentation—does it look good? Will it convey your message? Maybe it’s a slide deck. Maybe it’s a poster. Maybe it’s a physical object, or writing on a whiteboard. Maybe you haven’t even decided if you’re going to have a visual aid at all.