Tutt Library News

Thanksgiving hours

Our hours for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, 2008, are as follows:

Wed., Nov. 26 7:45 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Thu., Nov. 27 CLOSED
Fri., Nov. 28 CLOSED
Sat., Nov. 29 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Sun., Nov. 30 10 a.m. - 2 a.m. (return to normal hours)

(You can always find information on library hours and closings on our hours page.)

We hope everyone has a relaxing and refreshing holiday.

TIGER down on Friday, Nov. 28

TIGER will be down on Friday, November 28 while facilities does some work on the library's power supply.  TIGER will likely be unavailable between 7am and 4pm.  While TIGER is down, you can still look up our library's holdings using Prospector, though you will be temporarily unable to request any items.

TIGER also functions as our "proxy server," so the usual off-campus access to our licensed databases (i.e. Academic Search Premier, JSTOR) will be unavailable. If you are on-campus, you will still be able to access those databases using these direct database links.

If you have any questions about the upgrade, please contact Carol Ou, Systems Librarian at 389-6895. For help, you can also reach Circulation at 389-6184 or Reference at 389-6662.

Please note that the library will also be physically closed on Friday, November 28.

A visit from the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind

On November 12, eight students and two teachers from the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind visited Colorado College Special Collections. They worked with 4,000-year-old Sumerian clay tablets and with a Hebrew text on vellum (animal skin). Some of the students used magnifiers; others used just their sense of touch. The students, who were in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade, had recently made their own clay tablets; they were surprised at the small size of the ones at CC.

See more photos of this visit.

So we have a Presidential Elect, now what?

There's lots of change going on with the transition from President Bush to President-Elect Obama.
If you want to keep up with what's going on see Presidential Transition guide we've got going.

"Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today" says President-elect.

Find out more about what he has planned.

Office of the President Elect - daily news on the Presidential transition; agendas; biographies; or  apply for a job or "share your story"

You can get updates too

• Obama weekly radio address - the weekly Democratic address has been released as a web video. It will also continue to air on the radio.

Background information

The Presidential Transition Resources link provides background information on records and ethics for nominees and appointees, transition laws and inaugural information, etc.

Also included is a non-governmental resource:

Brookings: The Presidential Transition - 2008-2009 presidential transition will examine "policy challenges, with public discussions, memos to the president-elect, and a weekly podcast." Browse sections for the memos, podcasts, briefing room, online chats, events, and historical political advice and policy on the presidency. From the Brookings Institution.

Do you have a good link to check up on what's going on? If so, send a comment.