Events Listing
Discover Informationland: The Past and Future of Libraries, now on view in Linderman Library. Inspired by this fall’s collaborative event Alice in Informationland with Touchstone Theatre, our new Special Collections exhibit traces libraries’ role from clay tablets to AI, showcasing how librarians have preserved knowledge, guided discovery, and built community across centuries. Explore rare government records, Lehigh archives, and media formats old and new. Visit through December, or continue your journey online with storymaps and timelines celebrating the ingenuity of libraries and the people behind them.
This seminar reviews the minimum essential ingredients required to build research computing projects on high-performance computing (HPC) platforms. This introductory session requires no experience. This session will provide an overview of the basic terminology and design of our on-premises HPC cluster and highlight the many ways that you can use simple HPC tools to answer research questions of all sizes. All students, faculty, and staff with an interest in learning more about HPC and Linux are welcome to attend.
Lehigh tree experts and enthusiasts lead a tour and discussion of Lehigh trees, including notable species, history, and significance of our green spaces. The tour begins at the corner of Brodhead and Packer Avenue in the Sacred Grove. This event is a 5x10 first year student tour but others are welcome. No signup needed if this is not for a 5x10 requirement.
Lehigh University provides faculty and staff with access to a suite of powerful Atlassian tools:
Confluence: Create, share, and collaborate on documents and knowledge bases.Jira: Plan, track, and manage projects with ease.Jira Service Management: Simplify submission and routing of customer requests through consolidated portals.Trello: Organize tasks and visually with boards.Join us for Atlassian Office Hours on Fridays from 12–1 p.m. via Zoom (no registration required), except November 28 and December 26.
Drop in to:
Get help with Confluence, Jira, Jira Service Management, and Trello.Share tips and best practices with colleagues.Learn new ways to use Atlassian tools to enhance your work.Build community with fellow Atlassian users at Lehigh.Learn more about how these tools can help you transform project management in your organization on LTS News or visit the Atlassian Tool Suite knowledge base.
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Curious about how generative AI tools like Google Gemini, NotebookLM, or DataCamp’s DataLab can enhance your work? Attend LTS GenAI office hours to explore new capabilities, see how LTS staff use these tools to support teaching and learning, or get your AI questions answered.
Join via Zoom on the last Friday of each month from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. (no registration needed): https://lehigh.zoom.us/my/ltsofficehours
Fall office hours will be held on September 26, October 3, and November 21.
Additional resources:
Join us for a series of engaging Artificial Intelligence seminars, where you'll explore how Generative AI can enhance workflows, streamline communication, organize and synthesize content, analyze data, and assist with research. All sessions via Zoom.
Visit ai.lehigh.edu for guidance and support on Artificial Intelligence at Lehigh. The site features recommended AI tools, responsible use policies, best practices, and resources for teaching, research, and learning with generative AI.
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This session offers introductory training for using Git and Github for version control for source code, data, and other use cases.
Geared toward intermediate or occasional spreadsheet users, in this seminar we will demonstrate AI tools within Excel and Google Sheets and show how to use free versions of AI tools like ChatGPT and CoPilot to design and document formulas and spreadsheets. Safe use of AI tools (protecting Lehigh data) will be emphasized and explained.
Encourage excitement. Practice theory. Imagine education otherwise.
Dive into bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom in a three-part book club hosted by the Humanities Center, the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL), and the Pride Center. Open to faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdocs, the club will meet three times during the fall semester—Tuesdays, September 30, October 28, and December 2, from 12–1 p.m. at the Humanities Center. Free lunch and book copies provided!
If you cannot attend all three meetings (though that’s preferred), you are still encouraged to sign up. The interest form will close at the end of the day on Friday, September 19. Details on how to pick up a free copy of the book will be shared with book club members in early September.
Register now.
If you have any questions, please contact Justin Greenlee (jgg223@lehigh.edu), Jasmine Woodson (jaw515@lehigh.edu), or Scottie Burden (swb216@lehigh.edu).
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Lehigh Libraries Special Collections holds a wealth of primary source research materials. Come learn how to find useful and interesting materials using our suite of digital discovery tools. You will learn how to navigate The Preserve, Lehigh's institutional repository, ArchiveSpace, our home for archival collections, the digitized Brown & White archive, the Special Collections exhibit website, which documents a rich 20-year history of fascinating Library exhibitions.
Many exploratory research computing projects will eventually grow to require larger amounts of computational resources to answer larger, more complicated research questions. This seminar will teach you to use the Lehigh high-performance computing (HPC) cluster to build parallel scientific software for answering larger questions using simple Linux tools along with the HPC scheduler (named SLURM).
Curious about how generative AI tools like Google Gemini, NotebookLM, or DataCamp’s DataLab can enhance your work? Attend LTS GenAI office hours to explore new capabilities, see how LTS staff use these tools to support teaching and learning, or get your AI questions answered.
Join via Zoom on the last Friday of each month from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. (no registration needed): https://lehigh.zoom.us/my/ltsofficehours
Fall office hours will be held on September 26, October 3, and November 21.
Additional resources:
Join us for a series of engaging Artificial Intelligence seminars, where you'll explore how Generative AI can enhance workflows, streamline communication, organize and synthesize content, analyze data, and assist with research. All sessions via Zoom.
Visit ai.lehigh.edu for guidance and support on Artificial Intelligence at Lehigh. The site features recommended AI tools, responsible use policies, best practices, and resources for teaching, research, and learning with generative AI.
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This seminar will demonstrate fun and interesting use cases that highlight some of AI's strengths. First, we will use the technology to automatically read and extract text from both typed and handwritten materials drawn from Lehigh Libraries Special Collections. Then, we will use AI to better understand these sample documents. Finally, we will demonstrate how this text can be exported to editable documents and spreadsheets that can be used for future analysis.
Learn about lehigh's foremost cloud storage option -- its setup, advantages, and features!
This seminar will introduce you to Zotero, a tool to help you organize, track, manage, share, and cite references. The session will cover creating an account, importing references, structuring your reference libraries, and creating a bibliography.
Learn how to leverage the embedded AI features in the Atlassian project management tools: Jira, Trello, Jira Service Management
Step into the digital rabbit hole with Alice in Informationland! Join Touchstone Theatre and the Lehigh Libraries on Wednesday, October 8, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Linderman Library for an imaginative performance exploring AI, ethics, and human-machine interaction through the lens of Alice in Wonderland.
The event, supported by the Friends of the Lehigh University Libraries, coincides with a new Special Collections exhibit, Informationland: The Past and Future of Libraries, on view in Linderman Library through December.
About the event
Take on the role of Alice and make your way through the looking glass and into the world of (mis)information. Exploring the intersectionality of artificial intelligence and performance, this project reimagines the whimsical Alice in Wonderland as a deep dive into a digital rabbit hole.
As you journey throughout Linderman Library you will encounter familiar and new characters facing AI-inspired challenges that evoke contemporary issues around data ethics, algorithmic bias, and human-machine interaction.
This highly interactive performance seeks to provoke dialogue about technology’s evolving role in society while celebrating the power of imagination, critical thinking, and collaboration in navigating this new digital landscape.
Capacity is limited to 200 attendees. View full event details at Touchstone Theatre.
Directions and parking
Directions to Linderman Library
Visitors may park at nearby metered spots or pay-by-plate zones. Additional parking information can be found on the Parking Services website.
Sponsored by The Friends of the Lehigh University Libraries.
This session is an overview of Web Accessibility guidelines for anyone who maintains website content at Lehigh.
Research computing projects can have a large impact if they are portable and easy to share with new collaborators. In this seminar, you will learn how to package your scientific computations in a Linux-based container system (Docker and Apptainer). Containers can make it easy to take your work to larger public supercomputing centers, and improve the reproducibility and openness of your scientific software.
Whether you're sending announcements to large or small audiences, you'll learn easy steps you can take to ensure messages can be read easily by everyone, including folks who use assistive technologies. This short session gives easy hints that everyone can use today, without special tools or tech skills.
We'll cover some Zoom Phone features you may not have explored, such as delegation, shared lines, call forwarding and ring tones. Bring your questions!
Research computing projects can have a large impact if they are portable and easy to share with new collaborators. In this seminar, you will learn how to package your scientific computations in a Linux-based container system (Docker and Apptainer). Containers can make it easy to take your work to larger public supercomputing centers, and improve the reproducibility and openness of your scientific software.
This session is intended as a basic introduction to accessibility for content creators who are unfamiliar with the topic and are looking for a quick start. We use MS Word to illustrate concepts of accessibility and give easy-to-implement, practical tips for creating documents that are accessible to broad audiences.
This session is formerly called Data Backup and Management, and has been updated to include changes to university storage quotas. This seminar offers best practices for caring for your files -- wherever they are -- and making sure you always have your data.
When a research computing project evolves to answer more nuanced questions, it inevitably requires more computational power and generates more data. This seminar will teach you the best practices for storing large, complex datasets so they can easily be analyzed and mined for new insights. These methods will apply to any research questions that depend on big data.
Encourage excitement. Practice theory. Imagine education otherwise.
Dive into bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom in a three-part book club hosted by the Humanities Center, the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL), and the Pride Center. Open to faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdocs, the club will meet three times during the fall semester—Tuesdays, September 30, October 28, and December 2, from 12–1 p.m. at the Humanities Center. Free lunch and book copies provided!
If you cannot attend all three meetings (though that’s preferred), you are still encouraged to sign up. The interest form will close at the end of the day on Friday, September 19. Details on how to pick up a free copy of the book will be shared with book club members in early September.
Register now.
If you have any questions, please contact Justin Greenlee (jgg223@lehigh.edu), Jasmine Woodson (jaw515@lehigh.edu), or Scottie Burden (swb216@lehigh.edu).
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Learn how JSTOR's AI Research Tool can assist with your research and what guardrails are in place to promote learning and protect privacy. Time will be provided for participants to explore this tool on their own.
Learn how to find and analyze research with scite.ai, an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled tool that will be available as a pilot for the Spring 2026 semester. This session will review the basics about scite.ai, including the scite Assistant tool. Time will be provided for questions and feedback.
Learn how to save time and boost productivity; automate tasks like scheduling meetings and creating to-do lists; enhance creativity and collaboration; unlock the power of AI in your daily work; and learn practical tips and tricks for using Gemini in Google Workspace.
Curious about how generative AI tools like Google Gemini, NotebookLM, or DataCamp’s DataLab can enhance your work? Attend LTS GenAI office hours to explore new capabilities, see how LTS staff use these tools to support teaching and learning, or get your AI questions answered.
Join via Zoom on the last Friday of each month from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. (no registration needed): https://lehigh.zoom.us/my/ltsofficehours
Fall office hours will be held on September 26, October 3, and November 21.
Additional resources:
Join us for a series of engaging Artificial Intelligence seminars, where you'll explore how Generative AI can enhance workflows, streamline communication, organize and synthesize content, analyze data, and assist with research. All sessions via Zoom.
Visit ai.lehigh.edu for guidance and support on Artificial Intelligence at Lehigh. The site features recommended AI tools, responsible use policies, best practices, and resources for teaching, research, and learning with generative AI.
Library and Technology Services
Encourage excitement. Practice theory. Imagine education otherwise.
Dive into bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom in a three-part book club hosted by the Humanities Center, the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL), and the Pride Center. Open to faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdocs, the club will meet three times during the fall semester—Tuesdays, September 30, October 28, and December 2, from 12–1 p.m. at the Humanities Center. Free lunch and book copies provided!
If you cannot attend all three meetings (though that’s preferred), you are still encouraged to sign up. The interest form will close at the end of the day on Friday, September 19. Details on how to pick up a free copy of the book will be shared with book club members in early September.
Register now.
If you have any questions, please contact Justin Greenlee (jgg223@lehigh.edu), Jasmine Woodson (jaw515@lehigh.edu), or Scottie Burden (swb216@lehigh.edu).
Library and Technology Services