Update on Ada Lovelace

This week for my cultural assignment I met with Jane Nichols in the library and she was extremely helpful. I contacted Jane via email and from there we met at the library circulation desk. Being that I am a history major I am really comfortable with the research process, therefore Jane sat with me and she let me start the research process and she would add in helpful hints as we went along. For instance I started with America History and Life, and when nothing came up she suggested that I try Historical Abstracts. She also pointed out how I could expand a titile so see what the contents of the article or book were. Together we were able to come up with two books that I ordered off of Summit and two articles that I was able to have emailed to me on Ada Lovelace. These resources contain background info on Ada, as well as how she came to invent Computer Science. Meeting with Jane was a really good experience, in fact I plan to use her as a resource in another class. Together both Jane and the resources I found have been a great help to my success with my cultural assignment.