Tutt Library News

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.

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.

Gazette article on Tutt Special Collections

The Colorado Springs Gazette has published a nice article about Tutt Library Special Collections. Entitled 'Fluffy surprise' joins CC special collections, the article takes a look at some of the odd, unusual or otherwise interesting new additions to the library's collections. It also mentions some of the new materials at the Pikes Peak Library District Special Collections.

"Fluffy surprise," it turns out, is a dessert served at CC in the nineteen-teens or -twenties. Don't let Sodexho get their hands on the recipe.

New exhibition of student-printed books

Visit the second floor of Tutt Library to see books from Cover to Cover, a class taught by Eric Saline and Colin Frazer at the Press at Colorado College, Block 1, 2007.

Each student in the class designed and hand-set type for a book in a limited edition (usually about fifteen copies). The student exchanged books with each other and donated a complete set to Special Collections. They're really amazing—they used handmade paper, and really thought "outside the book," you might say.

Librarian/Poet Jessy Randall reads Thursday night

Tutt Library's own Jessy Randall will be reading from her book of poems A Day in Boyland this Thursday night, November 8.

The reading starts at 7:00 in McHugh Commons (above Herb 'n' Farm on the west side of the CC campus).

You can read the book's title poem online, as it appeared in the Blue Moon Review.

Artists' books at Colorado College

Artists' books at Colorado College

In association with the the current Book as Object show at Coburn Gallery, Special Collections has a few examples of artists' books on display in the second floor atrium of Tutt Library. Artists represented include Mary Chenoweth, Jill Timm, Laura Russell, Natalie d'Arbeloff, and the Cuban press Ediciones Vigia. The mini-exhibition will be up from November to December 2006.

Zines Mini-Exhibition on Tutt 2nd Floor South

Zines at Tutt Library

Take a look at the display case at the top of the stairs in Tutt Second Floor South (up the stairs from the Learning Commons, near the old periodicals room) and see a selection from the Colorado College Zine Collection. Zines are small-circulation magazines, usually the product of one person's labor of love. Zines are often quite personal, with music, work, pop culture, and sexuality as common themes. Some zines are available to read in the magazine lounge section of Tutt Second Floor North, while the rest of the collection can be read in Special Collections, Tutt Second Floor South.

Lunch & Learn Thu. 2/23: Special Collections

Join us Tuesday, February 23 at noon in the Tutt Library TLC2 classroom for an introduction to Special Collections.

Find out what's at Tutt Library and nowhere, or almost nowhere, else: manuscript materials, rare and valuable books, clay tablets from 2000 B.C,. and more. Join Special Collections Curator and College Archivist Jessy Randall for lunch and an exploration of the fascinating and surprising resources of these collections. RSVP to Glenna Harrison (gharrison@coloradocollege.edu or X6670) to reserve a space and lunch.

Mini-exhibition: Food and Drink at CC

"Food and Drink at Colorado College" is our new mini-exhibition on the second floor of Tutt Library, courtesy of Special Collections.

Includes dishes from a Bemis Hall demitasse set (cups, saucers, toast covers, and engraved spoons, ca. 1924), menus, photographs, and more.

Watch for a complementary exhibition of books on food and cooking coming soon to the first floor of Tutt, near the circulation and reference desks.

New mini-exhibition: The Arabian Nights

To mark All Pikes Peak Reads 2005 - The Arabian Nights, Tutt Library Special Collections is exhibiting 19th and 20th century editions of Arabian Nights books. The exhibition includes this frontispiece illustration of a very scary roc about to attack Sinbad the Sailor ("Sindbad" in these early editions).

The exhibition is located near the stairs on the second floor of Tutt Library, near the current periodicals.