Description: Cook Library’s Second Annual Research Launch Party Fuel up for a successful semester with research tips and cereal in the Library! Feel like your assignments are weighing you down? Stuck in a procrastination time warp? Overcome by a black hole that has absorbed your creativity? Come to the Research Launch Party, where research guardians will help you blast through to success. Travel the resources galaxy, where a delicious assortment of breakfast cereal and fruit await you upon re-entry to Earth. Collect stickers from eight stations then take your passport to the Cereal Deck!

Description: THE COLD WAR AND A "NEW HUMANISM": THE HISTORY OF THE FIRST HUMANITIES COMPUTING CENTER Roberto Busa was an Italian Jesuit scholar who collaborated with IBM to produce a massive concordance to the works of St. Thomas Aquinas. In this talk, Dr. Steve Jones illuminates this digital humanities origin story. He examines relationships between the layers of hardware, software, human agents, culture, and history, and answers the question of how specific technologies afford and even constrain cultural practices, including in this case the academic research agendas of humanities computing and, later, digital humanities.

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Description: Come get spooky with your favorite librarians and library staff! If you're on campus with a costume and nowhere to go, stop by Cook Library to experience The Library After Dark. Let's have a Franken-good time!