At Tutt Library, we have been taking an average of a photo a day for the last year (actually a little longer--we gave ourselves an extension) and posting them to our Flickr account. There are photos of staff, students, faculty, books, Chas in funny outfits, etc.
Now we're done! Please take a look at our set of 365 Tutt Library Days.
As the year draws to a close, we would ask all students to please remember to check your library account and return all material before you leave for the summer. If you will be staying in the Springs over the summer, let us know at the circulation desk after 5/16/08 and we will adjust your account.
Graduates: If you are graduating and live in Colorado Springs, you can apply for an alumni card. If you have been using a carrel, please clear it ASAP or talk to circulation staff about extending your carrel privileges over the summer. Congratulations and we will miss you! Good luck in all your future endeavors.
Tutt Library will have irregular hours following the end of the 2007-08 academic year. Full hours are on our website, but here are some of the important changes and closures.
Many thanks to everyone who entered the Tutt Library First Annual Haiku Contest. Our panel of 22 judges made multi-tiered blind votes for their favorite haikus, and three prizes have now been awarded. The winning haikus are:
Third place goes to the Thesis-Writing Senior Collective, for:
Where should I go now?
Your books make me feel at home
2 am, homeless
Second place belongs to Lynne Stahl, for:
more home than my house
forward all mail to carrel
seventy-three, please
And the first place winner of this year's Haiku Contest is David Cummings, whose winning haiku is:
Suddenly, darkness.
No escape. You are crushed by
Moveable shelving.
Once again, our thanks to all poets and judges for making this contest a rousing success! We're already looking forward to next year's entries. And check out the next issue of the Chronicle to see even more of our favorite haiku submissions.
Come by the library to get your printed copy, or download a PDF now.
National Library Week begins Sunday, April 13th, and we encourage everyone on campus to stop by Tutt Library and revel in the information-rich library air. (Or if you're already going to be camping out here until the end of block studying for a killer final or fixing those #$*@# page numbers on your thesis again, come down to the lobby and visit with us for a de-stressing break - starting Sunday, we'll have games, puzzles, and coloring stuff on hand.)
Can't get to an actual library for National Library Week? Check out these entertaining NLW videos (who doesn't love dancing library monsters?), or visit Jessy's library shenanigans page to see wacky and beautiful stunts that have been pulled at libraries across the globe. (Official disclaimer: Don't try to pull anything too wacky around here - Chas Will Not Approve.)
Happy National Library Week!
library poems
your serendipitous art
in five-seven-five
To celebrate National Poetry Month and National Library Week and our wonderful Colorado snow spring, Tutt Library is holding a haiku contest! Please submit your library-themed entries to the reference desk (or email them to tuttref@coloradocollege.edu) by April 30th. Winners will receive faaaaaaaaabulous prizes, and selected entries will be posted around the library.
Some people will tell you that you should stick to seventeen syllables per haiku, and no more than thirty entries per contestant, and we tend to agree with those people. More importantly, use your imagination! Embrace your poetic nature! And incite your friends to enter too!
procrastinating?
put your daydreams to good use
send us a haiku
Don't know the difference between haiku and senryu? Want to know more about these ancient poetic forms? Well, this is a library -- we can help!
The online Oxford English Dictionary defines haiku here and senryu here.
Tutt Library has books of haiku by Basho, Shiki, Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser, and Jack Kerouac - and you can find thousands of examples of and scholarly articles on haiku in Granger's, JSTOR, MLA Bibliography, Humanities International Complete, and more, via our English Subject Guide.
Our own Curator of Special Collections, Jessy Randall, has published several haiku, including these.
We hope all this haikuphilic information serves as an inspiration for you to get started writing your own.
Seniors write theses,
staring out slit-like windows.
Spring blooms on the quad.
The library is taking Spring Break to launch a new link resolver and Find Journals list. The new Find Journals list, now linked from our home page, offers additional search functions that we expect will make it easier to find specific journals. The new link resolver should do a better job of interpreting the pawprint links that come out of our databases, and be more efficient at connecting you to full text and other library services.
We are also taking this opportunity to introduce a new pawprint button, and return to an old name for the service, "Tutt Link." As we roll this new system out, you will begin to see this new button across our databases and be able to click on this button to check for full text, look the item up in TIGER or submit an Interlibrary Loan request.
Find Journals
Example Tutt Link menu
If you have any questions, please contact the Reference Desk at x6662 or Carol Ou (Systems Librarian) at x6895.
Tutt Library will be open limited hours during the Colorado College Spring Break:
Wed., Mar. 12 (last day of block 6): 7:45 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Thu., Mar. 13 & Fri., Mar. 14: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sat., Mar. 15 & Sun., Mar. 16: CLOSED
Mon., Mar. 17 thru Fri., Mar. 21: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sat., Mar. 22: CLOSED
Sun., Mar. 23: NOON - 5:00 p.m.
Mon., Mar. 24 (1st day of Block 7): 7:45 a.m. - 2:00 a.m.
Have a great break!
The library is currently experiencing some problems with the Prospector catalog. Prospector is the union catalog of regional libraries that allows you to request items from other libraries and have them delivered for you to the Circulation Desk at Tutt Library.
Currently when you try to place a request through Prospector, the system allows you to enter your name and TIGER number but then gives you an error message stating "Request cannot be processed. Data in your record at your institution incomplete." This message is being presented to all of our patrons and seems to be in error.
We're currently working with our vendor to try and solve this problem. If you have any questions, please contact one of the below:
Carol Ou, Systems Librarian (x6895)
Tutt Library Reference Desk (x6662)
Tutt Library Circulation Desk (x6184)
*Update - 12pm Monday, Feb 18* -- Prospector requesting should now be functioning normally. Thanks for your patience.
