For more information on best practices for making your poster, please visit our guide on Creating a Poster.
Questions about CAFE Symposium? Contact the organizers at CAFE@cnav.gettysburg.edu.
TBD | Deadline to complete CAFE registration form |
Thursday, January 23, 11:30-1 |
Interactive Informational Session for CAFE Participants. Representatives from Musselman Library and the Garthwait Leadership Center (GLC) will share tips and tricks to help you prepare for your best CAFE poster presentation. Lunch will be provided. |
Tuesday, Feb. 4th at noon |
Deadline to fill out this form to submit your poster for printing and provide details for The Cupola, Gettysburg College’s institutional repository. Please be sure to review your poster with your nominating professor before submitting. |
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 3:45-4:00pm (CUB Ballroom) |
Check in for CAFE Symposium. Arrive in the College Union Ballroom in business casual attire to check in, get swag bag, and set up your poster. |
You might want to spruce up your poster by adding images or content by someone else. This is fine as long as you have permission to use the content.
Reusing another person's work without permission isn't recommended and may even be a copyright violation.
One easy way to do this is to keep any eye out for indicators that something has a Creative Commons license assigned to it. A Creative Commons license might still place some limitations on where and how you can reuse something, but it gives you a lot more flexibility.
Here are three places to start your search for images you should be free to reuse in your poster:
This content was adapted from Musselman Library's Digital Humanities Toolkit, licensed under CC-BY-NC 4.0
Whenever you include an image you didn't make, you need to add a caption that provides credit and attribution.
Creative Commons recommends including the following information in attributions:
For example, it might look like this: “Furggelen afterglow” by Lukas Schlagenhauf is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0.