Tutt Library News

First Mondays Lecture by Ralph Nader: Books for Your Perusal at the Circulation Desk

Colorado College welcomed Ralph Nader on Monday, as he gave the inaugural talk in the college's new First Mondays lecture series.  Mr. Nader generously donated some of the books he'd discussed to Tutt Library, and took the time to inscribe them as well. These books are currently available at the circulation desk, and you can also view a few of his thoughtful inscriptions (PDF) .  For the next short while, the books will be restricted to in-library use, a few hours at a time, to make sure everyone who is interested can see them. 

Another short Prospector outage on January 25th

Prospector will be unavailable and/or dubiously functional for a few hours on the morning of January 25th.  The people working on the newest batch of upgrades expect that the system will be working smoothly again by 9 am, but longer outages are a possibility. 

New e-resources on EBSCO

We've added two new electronic resources from EBSCO.

Jewish Studies Source

Coverage: 1922-current. Periodicals, monographs and biographies contributing to the multidisciplinary view of Jewish civilization, covering all facets of Judaism.  Also contains the complete full text of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

Coverage: 1967-current. This database abstracts and indexes publications on music, in all media: books, journals, online resources, research-based sound recordings and films, dissertations, and more. Publications range from 150+ countries and many languages; title translations into English and abstracts in English are included.

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Don't forget you can cross-search EBSCO databases. So for example you could search Jewish Studies Source and ATLA Religion together, or RILM Abstracts of Music Literature along with Music Index. In any EBSCO database, click on the Choose Databases link near the top of the screen. Simply check the boxes of all the databases you'd like to search simultaneously, and click OK. Voila, you're cross-searching instead of having to search databases separately.

CC Launches Search for New Library Director

Carol Dickerson, Tutt Library Director since 1999, is retiring at the end of this academic year.  Colorado College has begun the process of finding her successor, with Mike Siddoway, Professor of Mathematics, as chair of the search committee.  Isaacson, Miller, an executive search firm specializing in recruitment for higher education, is assisting with the search.

A full position description may be found here.

Prospector unavailable on January 12th, and possibly January 13th

The Prospector servers are being upgraded this week!  This is good news in the long term, but bad news for the next couple of days.  Prospector will definitely be unavailable tomorrow morning, Thursday the 12th, and may be out for the rest of the day, and even on Friday, as well.  Sorry for the inconvenience!