Tutt Library News

Native Americans of the Southwest: Lunch & Learn, Thurs. 11/3

The southwestern U.S. has been home to Native Americans for thousands of years. Would you like to find out more about their culture and history? Maybe you want to find materials to incorporate into classes, papers, or presentations. We will explore information resources on the web and in paper as well as historic sites for you to visit. Come and learn more about this rich heritage with us.

RSVP to Glenna Harrison (x6670) to reserve a space and lunch.

All about the Learning Commons: Lunch & Learn, Thurs. 10/20

Thursday, October 19th at noon in the Tutt Library TLC2 classroom, Hilary Hoekenga, Paraprofessional for the Crown Faculty Center, will describe the resources available to students, staff and faculty in the Learning Commons.

This renovated space in Tutt Library houses the Writing Center, Quantitative Reasoning tutoring, Disability Services, First Year & Sophomore Advising, the Computing and Advanced Technology (CAT) Lab and the Crown Faculty Center.

RSVP to Glenna Harrison (x6670) to reserve a space and lunch.

New mini-exhibition: The Arabian Nights

To mark All Pikes Peak Reads 2005 - The Arabian Nights, Tutt Library Special Collections is exhibiting 19th and 20th century editions of Arabian Nights books. The exhibition includes this frontispiece illustration of a very scary roc about to attack Sinbad the Sailor ("Sindbad" in these early editions).

The exhibition is located near the stairs on the second floor of Tutt Library, near the current periodicals.

Prospector service returning to normal

Tutt Library has begun receiving shipments of books from other libraries using the new courier for Prospector. While there may still be a delay for those books and other materials ordered last week that had to be sent via US Mail, all new Prospector requests should be delivered to the library by courier, and we should see the same (fast) delivery times that we had come to expect from Prospector.

Let's hope that is the end of this saga! As always, feel free to direct questions to the library reference desk, x6662.

Getting Things Done: Lunch & Learn Th. 10/13

Do you feel like your "to do list" just gets longer and longer, and your responsibilities are getting out of control? In this reprise of last year's popular Lunch & Learn, Humanities Librarian Steve Lawson will share tools and techniques and web sites to help you clear your mental clutter, and start getting things done. Join us this Thursday, 10/13 at noon in Tutt Library TLC2 classroom. RSVP to Glenna Harrison (gharrison@coloradocollege.edu or x6670) to reserve a seat and a lunch.

New courier found for Prospector

According to the Colorado Library Consortium website, a new courier has been hired to transport Prospector materials.

Service is scheduled to begin next Monday, October 10. It seems logical to assume that it will take some time after that before service returns to the level to which we are accustomed, but, at the moment, there appears to be light at the end of the tunnel.

As always, feel free to contact the reference desk at x6662 with questions.

Prospector service drastically cut

The courier that transported Prospector book loans around Colorado has gone out of business. Delivery service ceased today. See the notice from the Colorado Library Consortium.

Prospector loans will travel by mail for the foreseeable future.

When ordering books on Prospector, ALLOW AT LEAST TEN DAYS for delivery.

Please use Prospector and Interlibrary Loan for academic purposes only (class assignments and research). Students should not order assigned texts via Prospector or ILL, as they will not arrive in time.

Other local options (for those with appropriate transportation) include:

• University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
• Pikes Peak Library District (public library)

We realize that this is likely to have serious repercussions for research on the block plan, and we share in your sense of frustration. For more information and help, call the reference desk at x6662.

Introducing Special Collections: Lunch & Learn Thu. 10/6

Please join Special Collections Librarian and College Archivist, Jessy Randall, at noon, on Thursday, October 6 in Tutt Library's TLC2 classroom for our Lunch & Learn session, Special Collections at Tutt Library. Find out what's at Tutt Library and nowhere, or almost nowhere, else: manuscript materials, rare and valuable books, clay tablets from 2000 B.C,. and more.

RSVP to Glenna Harrison to reserve a space and lunch (gharrison@coloradocollege.edu or X6670).