Tutt Library News

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.

Introducing Special Collections: Lunch & Learn Thu. 10/6

Please join Special Collections Librarian and College Archivist, Jessy Randall, at noon, on Thursday, October 6 in Tutt Library's TLC2 classroom for our Lunch & Learn session, Special Collections at Tutt Library. 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.

RSVP to Glenna Harrison to reserve a space and lunch (gharrison@coloradocollege.edu or X6670).

Gutenberg Bible Leaf a Gift to Tutt Special Collections

In the spring of 2005, Carky Rubens (CC class of 1952) and his family donated a single leaf from the Gutenberg Bible to Colorado College.

The Gutenberg Bible is the first book printed with movable type in the western world. In the mid-15th century, Johann Gutenberg printed about 180 copies in Mainz, Germany. 48 copies have survived and are preserved in libraries.

In the early 20th century, a bookdealer bought
a damaged copy of the Gutenberg Bible, dismantled it, and sold the leaves individually as "noble fragments."

CC's leaf contains chapters VIII-X of Kings I.

The Doors at CC Homecoming, 1967

On October 21, 1967, the Doors played at Colorado College's homecoming dance at the Broadmoor Hotel. CC alumnus Tom Reynolds donated his tape of the concert to Tutt Library in 2005. It contains four Doors songs: "Break on Through (to the Other Side)," "Strange Days,""People Are Strange" "Back Door Man," and "Light My Fire." For more information on the concert, visit Special Collections.