Tutt Library News

Tutt Library Third Annual Haiku Contest

procrastinating?
put your daydreams to good use
send us a haiku

In celebration of National Poetry Month and National Library Week and our wonderful Colorado snow spring, Tutt Library is once again seeking your original, library-themed haiku! Please submit no more than 15 entries to the reference desk (or email them to tuttref@coloradocollege.edu) by April 30^th.  Winners will receive fabulous prizes and their haiku will be creatively immortalized.

 Some people will tell you that you should stick to seventeen syllables per haiku, and we tend to agree with those people.  More importantly, use your imagination!  Embrace your poetic nature!  And incite your friends to enter too!

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.

Library Journal enthuses about a "Mover and Shaker" at Tutt Library

Congratulations to Tutt's Humanities Liaison Librarian, Steve Lawson, who was just named one of Library Journal's 2010 Movers & Shakers!  Steve, along with his partner-in-constructive-mischief, Kansas librarian Josh Neff, was honored for his role in catalyzing the Library Society of the World.  What's the LSW all about?  Our favorite description (at least today) comes from Kathryn Greenhill: "The best bits of the League of Justice, a library association, an unconference, goofing off at the back of the bus, barn raising, a learning community, new web tool lab with real subjects and just hanging out – all rolled into one."

Find Journals / SFX outage Saturday night, 03/06/10

Our SFX server  is scheduled for maintenance overnight on March 6-7 (Saturday-Sunday), 9PM-1AM.   Find Journals and other SFX-related linking (such as the Tutt Link find full text button) will probably not work during this time.  Electronic journals will still be available through Tiger and those URLs should work.