Hours for the library along with departments and services housed in the building will be shorter during spring break.
Spring Break Hours: March 14 - 25, 2018
Wed 3/14: 8am - 8pm
Thurs/Fri, 3/15 &16: 8am - 5pm
Sat/Sun, 3/17 & 18: Closed
Mon - Fri, 3/19 thru 23: 8am - 5pm
Sat, 3/24: Closed
Sun, 3/25: 12:00pm - 8pm
Also, Susie B’s will close at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, March 14, and will reopen at 5 p.m. on Sunday, March 25.
Colin McAllister premiered The Library at Night at the San Diego Public Library in March 2016. Drawing inspiration from Alberto Manguel’s book of the same name (a series of essays on the idea of the library), this captivating new recital takes the listener on a literary, musical and historical journey through time and place.
For several of Manguel’s essays (e.g. The Library as Imagination, The Library as Space, The Library as Oblivion) Colin interweaves music alongside poetry, historical vignettes and visual imagery in an engaging concert-length presentation. The compelling selection of music includes masters of medieval, Renaissance and Baroque polyphony, the first “Golden Age” of the guitar, sensual rhythms from Latin America and a newly commissioned work, Spines, by award-winning composer Christopher Adler.
Join us for an unforgettable evening in The Library at Night and experience a feast for the ears, eyes and mind.
This event is open to the general public.
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On Wednesday, February 28th, Ana Castillo will speak at 7 p.m., Gaylord Hall in Worner Campus Center. She is sponsored by the Andrew Norman Guest Lecturer Series.
Ana Castillo is a poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator and independent scholar. Hers work includes the novels “So Far From God,” “The Guardians,” and most recently, the LAMBDA Award-winning “Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me.”
In 2015, she was given the Lifetime Achievement Award in literature for her “literary contributions to the Latino/a community, and commitment to the betterment of our younger generations” by Latina 50 Plus, a motivational organization based in the Bronx, NY. She is also the recipient of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, the Carl Sandburg Award, and the Sor Juana Achievement Award.
“Ana Castillo is an American treasure. Fearless, compassionate, and flat-out brilliant—she is the writer we need as we navigate the challenges of our ever-changing world.” —Tayari Jones
Tutt Library has many of Ana Castillo's publications, check the TIGER catalog for availability.
Read an interview with her in NuCity.
Matt Kirkpatrick is this week's visiting writer. He will speak this Thursday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. in Gaylord Hall (Worner Campus Center).
Matthew Kirkpatrick is the author of “Diary of a Pennsylvania Farmer,” “The Exiles,” and “Light Without Heat.” His work has appeared in The Rumpus, The Common, Denver Quarterly, and other journals. His audio collage and hypertext “The Silent Numbers” was featured in the “Shapeshifting Texts” exhibit at the University of Bremen.
"Kirkpatrick puts pressure on the stories we think we know, troubling them, leaving behind only the uncanny sense that no one is who they say they are." — Lauren Perez
Matthew Kirkpatrick earned his Ph.D. at the University of Utah, and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Eastern Michigan University where he teaches classes on writing fiction and new media, hybrid, and innovative writing.
Tutt Library has some of his work on order, check the TIGER catalog for availability.
Professor Ruth Kolarik, faculty in the Art Department and in the Russian and Eurasian Studies Program, is teaching AH111, History of Architecture this block. It is a course that combines historical perspectives with discussions of crucial issues in contemporary architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism.
It’s that time of year again, when Ruth Kolarik asks her students to do visual analysis of buildings on campus. Some students undertake research on the history of campus buildings. A good place for students to find out basic facts (when a building was built, who the architects were) is the fact sheets on buildings: Buildings of Colorado College, past and present.
Additionally, there are some copies of “Colorado College Historic Building Walking Tour” at the Research Desk, 2nd floor, and a couple at the Welcome Desk, main lobby on the 1st floor. There is a copy in Special Collections along with in the stacks which can be checked out. The online version has been updated, A Walking Tour of the College's Historic Buildings. It includes a History of CC's Buildings. And there is a link to The Specialty Gardens of CC.
Students are welcome to visit Special Collections to do research on their buildings, too. They can look at information files, photo files, and more. Special Collections in located in the Garden Lever of the Library and is open 9-12 and 1-5 weekdays.
Facilities (the Van Briggle building on Uintah) has the oversize blueprints students can look at. They are open weekdays until 5:00.
Join Lori Driscoll, CC professor of psychology, for an in-depth exploration of how prescription stimulant and opioid medications interact with our brains Tuesday, February 20, 12:10 p.m. in Gaylord Hall.
Here are some recommendations from Lori Driscoll:
TextBook: Psychopharmacology : drugs, the brain, and behavior by Jerrold S. Meyer, Linda F. Quenzer. A good pharmacology textbook that covers fundamental pharmacology, but also drugs of abuse, therapeutic drugs, and pharmacology of psychiatric disorders. {Tutt Library does not have this textbook but it can be borrowed via Prospector.}
News Video: Just say yes? The rise of 'study drugs' in college.
NY Times News article: Opioids on the Quad
Find out more about these drugs at "Opioids and Related Disorders" in The Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Health, 2012.
Image from https://www.yahoo.com/news/this-is-your-brain-on-opioids-194212388.html
Samantha Blackmon, Associate Professor of English at Purdue and Co-Founder of Not Your Mamma's Gamer is today's Block 6 First Mondays speaker.
Gaming for more than 30 years, (she lists Grim Fandango as the greatest game of all time), she explores issues related to rhetoric and game studies. Her research and teaching interests focuses on identity and identity formation in game studies. She is the co-founder of the blog and podcast "Not Your Mama's Gamer," where issues of gaming are viewed through a women-centric lens. Not Your Mama’s Gamer was started in 2011. Listen to podcasts.
Look for her publications in our subscription databases like this one you can access via Project Muse:
BLACKMON, S. (2017). Be Real Black For Me: Lincoln Clay and Luke Cage as the Heroes We Need. CEA Critic, 79(1), 97-109.
