Tutt Library News

Tutt Library Celebrates Halloween

 
Come in and check out our new Halloween display and while you’re at it, check out a scary book or video.  We have an array of spine chilling works like Poe’s “The Raven” and Clive Barker’s Books of Blood.    If you’re looking for books by the prolific American horror writers Stephen King or Anne Rice, we have some on display and many more in Tutt North Basement (King’s books start at the call number range PS 3561.I483, Rice is at call number PS 3568.I265).  We also have both classic and more modern movies on video tape, from Frankenstein to Nightmare on Elm Street parts 1 and 2.   

 And don’t forget, we have DVDs too.   Click on “Find Videos” from our home page, and use DVD as a search along with words like horror or terror.  Bring the DVD call number to the Circulation Desk and staff will retrieve the DVD for you.  Examples of scary films we have on DVD are Psycho (PN 1997.P79 1998), Alien (PN 1997.A3 1999), and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (PN 1997.T398 2006).

Tutt Library Welcomes 2009-2010 Visiting Writers!

Every year, we Tuttians get very excited about the wonderful group of authors brought to the college as part of the Visiting Writers Series, and we make sure to stock up on their books.  This year, we are doing a special feature on these writers with a lobby display, so that it will be easy to find a book by that amazing novelist you just heard last night, or scope out which writers' events you really won't want to miss throughout the year.  Come on over and browse!

Welcome Oberlin Group Library Directors!

Tutt Library is hosting a meeting of over 60 liberal arts college library directors October 1-3.  Among the topics on the agenda: strategies for managing our libraries in the new economy; next generation library catalogs; the open access movement; book arts and the liberal arts.  Why is it called the Oberlin Group? Oberlin College hosted the first meeting of 60 liberal arts college library directors in 1986, and it has been called the Oberlin Group ever since.  See the Oberlin Group website for a list of members.

http://www.oberlingroup.org/

Press at Colorado College Open House and Lecture

Thursday, October 1, please join us for two press-related events.

The Press at Colorado College will host an open house from 6-7PM, showing off its wonderful new home in Taylor Hall (just East of Bemis Hall).

Then at 7:00 in the Screening Room of the Cornerstone Arts Center, curator and book arts scholar Betty Bright will review the brilliant history of the Press at Colorado College and its impact on the worlds of fine letterpress printing and book arts. The former curator and program director for the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Dr. Bright curated the traveling exhibition The Press at Colorado College: The Pressroom as Classroom. The 2004 exhibition and illustrated catalogue explored and celebrated collaborative and interdisciplinary teaching methods at The Press at Colorado College over a twenty-year period.

Tutt Library Celebrates Banned Books Week

Tutt Library is celebrating Banned Books Week and intellectual freedom during Block 2.  Come check out a banned book from our display in the lobby of Tutt!  Libraries across the country help safeguard the free and open exchange of information and ideas.

“If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”  -Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.

For more information on challenged and banned books, visit the American Library Association’s web page: http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/index.cfm

"Find Journals," "Tutt Link" maintenance Sat afternoon (Sept 12) - canceled

Tutt Library's Find Journals list will be unavailable on Saturday September 12 between 3pm to 5pm due to network maintenance.  The "Tutt Link" pawprint button seen in various library databases will not function while this maintenance is being done.

As a reminder, you can still find journals in full-text by searching the journal title in the TIGER catalog.

If you have any questions, please contact the Reference Desk at x6662 or Carol Ou (Systems Librarian) at x6895.

Update (Fri - 2pm)-- This maintenance has been canceled and will be rescheduled for another date.

Blow bubbles at Tutt, noon on Friday

Starting at noon on Friday, September 4, we will be blowing bubbles on the front porch at Tutt Library and serving milk and cookies to mark the end of the first week of classes. Please join us.

We were inspired by Cecily's Bubble Day at the Vancouver Public Library, and she was inspired by Burbuliatorius, a monthly bubble celebration in Lithuania.

The bubble image above comes from Flickr user jurvetson, http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/ with a Creative Commons CC BY 2.0 license.

"Find Journals," "Tutt Link" maintenance late Fri/early Sat (Aug 28-29)

Tutt Library's Find Journals list will be down for a brief maintenance period sometime between 9:00 pm Friday August 28 and 5:00 am Saturday August 29.  The "Tutt Link" pawprint button seen in various library databases will also not function while this maintenance is being done.

As a reminder, you will still be able to find journals in full-text by searching the journal title in the TIGER catalog.

If you have any questions, please contact the Reference Desk at x6662 or Carol Ou (Systems Librarian) at x6895.

The Press at Colorado College finds a new home

How many people does it take to move 3500 pounds of metal out of a basement?  A lot, plus a large flatbed with a power winch.

The Press at Colorado College is moving out of the basement of Jackson House to space next to Taylor Theater.  The new space provides improved access for students and community users as well as better facilities for this unique resource.  The move began this week, led by Will Wise and Rick Greene from Facilities and a crew from Bailey‘s Moving.  After taking part of a wall down in Jackson House and installing a ramp, the crew moved a flatbed truck in with a heavy duty winch to pull the presses out of the basement.  This includes the Vandercook Universal IV pictured here, which weighs in at 3500 lbs. It was a delicate operation. The five presses could not be disassembled as there are factory-set tolerances to the .001" that are important to preserve. Type is cast to be .918" high and any variance to press tolerances will negatively affect the quality of a print.  After moving the presses, the movers started the process of packing up and moving 500 cases of lead type.  It will take some time for CC’s Printer, Colin Frazer, to get everything organized, but he hopes to be working with classes again by Block 2.  Stay tuned for a grand opening celebration.

What is happening on the first floor and what did you do with all the videos?

The videos have all been relocated to the second floor next to the current periodicals. This is a part of a phased refurbishing of the lobby and reference areas.  The video shelves were removed to open up the view to the east and create more space for student seating.  With some new tables and seating, this will become a laptop friendly study space.  New carpet will be installed over the winter break.  We hope you like the changes!