Come in and check out our new Halloween display and while you’re at it, check out a scary book or video. We have an array of spine chilling works like Poe’s “The Raven” and Clive Barker’s Books of Blood. If you’re looking for books by the prolific American horror writers Stephen King or Anne Rice, we have some on display and many more in Tutt North Basement (King’s books start at the call number range PS 3561.I483, Rice is at call number PS 3568.I265). We also have both classic and more modern movies on video tape, from Frankenstein to Nightmare on Elm Street parts 1 and 2.
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Tutt Library Welcomes 2009-2010 Visiting Writers!
Every year, we Tuttians get very excited about the wonderful group of authors brought to the college as part of the Visiting Writers Series, and we make sure to stock up on their books. This year, we are doing a special feature on these writers with a lobby display, so that it will be easy to find a book by that amazing novelist you just heard last night, or scope out which writers' events you really won't want to miss throughout the year. Come on over and browse!
Tutt Library Celebrates Banned Books Week
Tutt Library is celebrating Banned Books Week and intellectual
freedom during Block 2. Come check out a
banned book from our display in the lobby of Tutt! Libraries across the country help safeguard the free and open exchange of information and ideas.
“If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.” -Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.
For more information on challenged and banned books, visit the American Library Association’s web page: http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/index.cfm
The Press at Colorado College finds a new home
How many people does it take to move 3500 pounds of metal out of a basement? A lot, plus a large flatbed with a power winch.
The Press at Colorado College is moving out of the basement of Jackson House to space next to Taylor Theater. The new space provides improved access for students and community users as well as better facilities for this unique resource. The move began this week, led by Will Wise and Rick Greene from Facilities and a crew from Bailey‘s Moving. After taking part of a wall down in Jackson House and installing a ramp, the crew moved a flatbed truck in with a heavy duty winch to pull the presses out of the basement. This includes the Vandercook Universal IV pictured here, which weighs in at 3500 lbs. It was a delicate operation. The five presses could not be disassembled as there are factory-set tolerances to the .001" that are important to preserve. Type is cast to be .918" high and any variance to press tolerances will negatively affect the quality of a print. After moving the presses, the movers started the process of packing up and moving 500 cases of lead type. It will take some time for CC’s Printer, Colin Frazer, to get everything organized, but he hopes to be working with classes again by Block 2. Stay tuned for a grand opening celebration.
What is happening on the first floor and what did you do with all the videos?
The videos have all been relocated to the second floor next
to the current periodicals. This is a part of a phased refurbishing of the
lobby and reference areas. The video
shelves were removed to open up the view to the east and create more space for
student seating. With some new tables
and seating, this will become a laptop friendly study space. New carpet will be installed over the winter
break. We hope you like the changes!
Exhibition of WWI letters and photos in Tutt Library
World War I-era letters, photographs, documents and dog tags from the Estival Collection are on display on the second floor of Tutt Library. The collection, from Tutt Library's Special Collections, spans the years 1882 to 1943, and contains principally the correspondence of Georges Emile Estival (1895-1918), a French soldier during WWI.
The letters are to Georges’ parents and sisters, and recount his time as a mechanic and ambulance/tank driver during WWI, 1914-1918. The collection includes photographs taken by Georges Estival and others during the war, and documents, such as the official death-notice for Georges Estival (a detail of which is seen here) who was killed in action. Also on display are materials from the Estival family from the period after Georges' death, through World War II.
The collection was donated in 2006 to Colorado College by Djamila-Stéphanie Robinet, resident of Paris, and delivered to Special Collections by CC History Professor Bryant Ragan.
To view the full Estival Collection, and originals of the materials selected and copied for the exhibition, please visit Special Collections and ask for Manuscript collection 0373.
New mini-exhibition of hand-illustrated postcards
Tutt Library has a new mini-exhibition in the second floor atrium: Postcards from the summer of 1996.
During that summer, the artist Rosemary Bothwell (CC class of 1953) sent daily hand-illustrated postcards to her friend Richard Rutledge (CC class of 1951), who did not have long to live.
About ten years later, Bruce Kellner (CC class of 1955, a mutual friend of Bothwell and Rutledge), published several of these postcard illustrations in a limited edition chapbook, “The Writer in the Garden” (All Kinds Blintzes Press, 2006).
Now, for the first time, some of these exquisite postcards are on display. They show flowers, plants, birds, eggs (such as the one pictured here), and other things.
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