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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, troubleshoot, and document formulas and spreadsheets. Safe use of AI tools (protecting Lehigh data) will be emphasized and explained.

Are you interested in learning more about Generative AI (GenAI) tools available to the Lehigh community, such as Google Gemini, NotebookLM, or DataCamp’s DataLab? Would you like to hear how LTS staff have supported teaching and learning using OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Dall-e, Microsoft’s Copilot, and GitHub’s Copilot? Or, do you just have a general question about GenAI?

If so, we invite you to attend LTS GenAI Office Hours! During these sessions, LTS staff will be available to answer your questions, demonstrate specific tools, or discuss this new and rapidly evolving technology.

Please join us for one or more sessions throughout the semester on the last Friday of every month through April. All sessions will be held from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. via Zoom (no registration necessary). (https://lehigh.zoom.us/my/ltsofficehours):

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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.

For guidance, policies, and support for the use of AI at Lehigh, visit ai.lehigh.edu.

Library and Technology Services

The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) invites faculty and instructional staff to a workshop, Custom generative AI platforms for teaching and learning on Monday, March 3rd from 1:30pm–2:30pm

This session will introduce attendees to platforms connected to Large Language Models (LLMs) and created by Rob Weidman, Senior Digital Scholarship Specialist. With these platforms, faculty and students will:

Gain access to various OpenAI tools including ChatGPT and DALL-E3.Experiment with these tools at cost-effective rates through an Application Programming Interface (API).Get local storage of conversations and generated images.Previous uses by Lehigh faculty include:

Developing a Chinese language learning platform with scaffolded, AI-supported exercises, such as roleplays, debates, and essay writing assistance.Helping students navigate a design process by iterating through the creation of AI-generated images and AI-generated textual descriptions of existing images.Tracking student progress with AI-supported exercises, writing, and outlining.This session will be held over Zoom. Register now.

NotebookLM is a new AI tool that helps with organizing, summarizing, and synthesizing content you upload. Your notes, text/pdfs, slides, web links, and other information are analyzed and synthesized into a personal knowledge base.

“Prior planning promotes peak performance.” Using technology when traveling can be challenging. We will help you think about and prepare for successful and stress-free use of technology available from Lehigh while traveling within the U.S. or abroad, with a focus on security and connectivity.

We'll go over new (in the last year) features in Google Docs that extend your capabilities and help you work more efficiently. Best for someone with experience in Google Docs, but all may attend.

This seminar will provide an overview of editing your Drupal 10 website. This is recommended for anyone who has a Drupal 10 website and would like training, those who have had a one-on-one training and would like a refresher, or those who do not yet have a Drupal 10 website but would like a preview of what to expect.

The 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, and the Special Collections exhibit website, which documents a rich 20-year history of fascinating Library exhibitions.

Get a DocuSign overview and introductory training from one of Lehigh's DocuSign specialists. We will cover some basic tips and tricks and well as discuss the different roles available for faculty and staff. Sign up now!

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.

Learn about lehigh's newest cloud storage option -- its setup, advantages, and features!

Go beyond the basics and learn advanced PowerPoint skills to create stunning, impactful presentations that impress every audience.

Enhance your cybersecurity with practical tips on multi-factor authentication, phishing prevention, and password management using tools like Duo and Keeper Security Password Manager.

The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) invites faculty and instructional staff to a workshop, Creating AI-resilient assignments, on Monday, March 17th from 1:30pm–2:30pm, via Zoom.

The session will summarize effective strategies for course and assignment design given the prevalence of generative AI. Amid critical explorations of AI, we ask: What aspects of learning and assessment remain resilient to or cannot be completed by AI? The session will be led by Dr. Justin Greenlee, Director of Writing Across the Curriculum, and Holly Zakos, Manager of the Instructional Technology Team, alongside faculty who will share the positive and negative implications of their students’ uses of AI.

Facilitators will:

Offer suggestions for how to revise and redesign assignments with AI in mind.Highlight aspects of teaching and learning that are not easily outsourced to AI. Advice and recommendations will support faculty who:

Permit limited uses of generative AI in their courses.Prohibit the use of AI in their courses.This session will be held via Zoom. Register now.

Get tips and tricks for managing files and folders in Google Drive -- how to move, delete, upload, share, locate, and general manage your files and folders.

This seminar reviews the minimum essential ingredients required to build research computing projects on Linux platforms. Students will learn the basics of Linux, use shell scripts, Python, and the scheduler on our high-performance computing (HPC) cluster to perform simple calculations. This course will outline the best practices for scaling and repeating many kinds of calculations. All students, faculty, and staff with an interest in learning more about HPC and Linux are welcome to attend.

This in-person 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 search, view, and download library digital collections, including historical material digitized by Special Collections and open access Lehigh Scholarship. The Library Digital Collections contains hundreds of thousands of photographs, books, postcards, university publications, and other historical documents that can all be used for free. Find out how new items are made available and learn what you can do to preserve important Lehigh material.

In this seminar, we will explore advanced DocuSign capabilities beyond basic electronic signatures, including the use of templates and PowerForms.

Many exploratory research computing projects will eventually grow to require larger amounts of computational resources, either because they need to demonstrate that they are correct and reproducible, or 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).

Whether you're on the front-lines of customer service or want to learn general strategies for de-escalating tense situations, this session can help! Learn practical, easy-to-remember phrases and techniques that defuse and de-escalate when things heat up. Presenters are members of LTS Client Services with years of experience providing services to varied populations.

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.

This seminar will walk newcomers through a fun and interesting use case that highlights some of AI's strengths. First we will use the technology to automatically transcribe samples of handwritten letters drawn from Libraries Special Collections. Then we will use AI to better understand our sample letters. Finally, we will summarize and export the text to editable documents and spreadsheets that can be used for future analysis.

Find the "Just Right" solution for data! We will delve into the world of databases, data warehouses, and data lakes, exploring the distinct characteristics and optimal use cases. Through real-life examples and practical insights, we will navigate the nuances of each data storage option, highlighting their strengths, limitations, and ideal applications.

Lehigh has recently added to its mail merge capabilities. Come learn about effective use of this new mailing toolset.

Research computing projects of all sizes can benefit from interactive tools which make it easy to develop, debug, and visualize code and data on our local high-performance computing (HPC) systems. This seminar will demonstrate the use of a web portal to interact with your data and code, with a particular emphasis on connecting Jupyter notebooks to very large datasets and parallel computations.

Learn how to find and analyze research with artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled tools in this exploratory session. This session will review the basics about different tools and provide some insights for comparing them. Time will be provided for questions, feedback, and experimentation.

This seminar will cover using the Lehigh ETD -- creating an account, setting up your profile with ProQuest, converting your manuscript to PDF, determining your author rights, embargo & delay options, ordering extra copies, Lehigh Preserve, and more. This session is intended primarily for graduate students and department graduate coordinators.

This seminar will cover using the Honors Thesis & Capstone Projects LibGuide to upload undergraduate thesis to Lehigh Preserve as Open Access. It is intended primarily for undergraduate students and department coordinators.

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.

Learn about the capabilities and possibilities of managing work in Lehigh's project management solution Jira. Led by a member of the project management and operational excellence team in LTS.

Immigration and naturalization records--regardless of when they were created--tell the story of your ancestor making that momentous decision to immigrate, travel, or become a citizen of a different country. Find out what can be learned in these records!

This seminar will cover using the Honors Thesis & Capstone Projects LibGuide to upload undergraduate thesis to Lehigh Preserve as Open Access. It is intended primarily for undergraduate students and department coordinators.

This seminar will cover using the Lehigh ETD -- creating an account, setting up your profile with ProQuest, converting your manuscript to PDF, determining your author rights, embargo & delay options, ordering extra copies, Lehigh Preserve, and more. This session is intended primarily for graduate students and department graduate coordinators.

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.