Can't get to an actual library for National Library Week? Check out these entertaining NLW videos (who doesn't love dancing library monsters?), or visit Jessy's library shenanigans page to see wacky and beautiful stunts that have been pulled at libraries across the globe. (Official disclaimer: Don't try to pull anything too wacky around here - Chas Will Not Approve.)

Happy National Library Week!]]> http://library.coloradocollege.edu/news/archives/2008/04/national_librar_1.html http://library.coloradocollege.edu/news/archives/2008/04/national_librar_1.html Events and Occasions Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:00:58 -0700 library poems
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To celebrate National Poetry Month and National Library Week and our wonderful Colorado snow spring, Tutt Library is holding a haiku contest! Please submit your library-themed entries to the reference desk (or email them to tuttref@coloradocollege.edu) by April 30th. Winners will receive faaaaaaaaabulous prizes, and selected entries will be posted around the library.

Some people will tell you that you should stick to seventeen syllables per haiku, and no more than thirty entries per contestant, and we tend to agree with those people. More importantly, use your imagination! Embrace your poetic nature! And incite your friends to enter too!

procrastinating?
put your daydreams to good use
send us a haiku

Don't know the difference between haiku and senryu? Want to know more about these ancient poetic forms? Well, this is a library -- we can help!

The online Oxford English Dictionary defines haiku here and senryu here.

Tutt Library has books of haiku by Basho, Shiki, Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser, and Jack Kerouac - and you can find thousands of examples of and scholarly articles on haiku in Granger's, JSTOR, MLA Bibliography, Humanities International Complete, and more, via our English Subject Guide.

Our own Curator of Special Collections, Jessy Randall, has published several haiku, including these.

We hope all this haikuphilic information serves as an inspiration for you to get started writing your own.

Seniors write theses,
staring out slit-like windows.
Spring blooms on the quad.

We are also taking this opportunity to introduce a new pawprint button, and return to an old name for the service, "Tutt Link." As we roll this new system out, you will begin to see this new button across our databases and be able to click on this button to check for full text, look the item up in TIGER or submit an Interlibrary Loan request.

Find Journals
Example Tutt Link menu

If you have any questions, please contact the Reference Desk at x6662 or Carol Ou (Systems Librarian) at x6895.

We know that it may be disorienting if you are used to the old site, but we believe that after you spend just a little time on the new site, you'll find yourself right at home. If you need help finding something or have comments or suggestions for us, please let us know.

Here are some of the features of the new site:

• Subject guides: Rather than just giving you an alphabetic list of databases, librarians have created subject guides to help you find the most useful sources. Of course, we still have alphabetic lists of databases, too.
• How-to's in the sidebar: You can click on questions in the "How to" section and see quick answers, then navigate to longer answers if necessary.
• Live daily hours: The top right corner of most library web pages now displays the correct hours for the day. Click on the hours to see the full hours page.
• More ways to contact us: In addition to the Ask a Librarian page with contact info for the ref desk via email, instant messenger, phone, and in person, most librarians now have web pages with contact info and one-click email forms. You can IM some librarians right from their web page.

It features several articles on the history and current state of the Press at Colorado College, as well as introductions to new library staff, and other Tutt Library news. You can pick up a copy at the library, or download a PDF version of the Fall 2007 Chronicle (930KB).