About CC Libraries
Charles L. Tutt Library
Charles L. Tutt Library is a hub for research, learning, and intellectual community, providing welcoming and inclusive space for students to learn, grow, and thrive at Colorado College.
Acknowledgement of Indigenous Territory: Colorado College is located within the unceded territory of the Ute Peoples. The earliest documented peoples also include the Apache, Arapaho, Comanche, and Cheyenne. An extended list of tribes with a legacy of occupation in Colorado is included here: Colorado Tribal Acknowledgement List.
Overview
Tutt Library supports Colorado College's inquiry-based curriculum with:
- Robust services supporting student learning and a rich array of experts, technologies, and learning spaces (Library Partners)
- Inviting spaces where students and faculty can do scholarly work, including classrooms, group study rooms, reading rooms, senior carrels, Susie B's cafe, events spaces and meetings rooms.
- Over 425,000 physical volumes, a climate controlled Special Collections vault, and online collections supporting teaching and research at Colorado College
Vision
Tutt Library's vision is to be one of the finest liberal arts college libraries in the country, responsive to the distinctive rhythms of the Block Plan and rooted in Colorado College's sense of place.
Mission
Tutt Library's mission is to foster intellectual exploration and discovery. We fulfill this mission in partnership with the Colorado College community in a number of ways:
Delivering research expertise, collections, services, and technologies to support Colorado College's academic mission and the rhythms of the Block Plan.
Creating an inclusive environment that respects, appreciates, and enriches all individuals and groups in our diverse community.
Serving as a hub for academic excellence programs, scholarship, learning, and discovery in a range of collaborative, reflective, and creative spaces.
Teaching students to discover, create, and use information and knowledge with rigor and integrity.
Preserving and sharing Colorado College's intellectual and creative works and building distinctive collections related to our sense of place.
Albert Seay Library of Music and Art
Albert Seay Library of Music and Art, located on the ground level of Sperry S. And Ella Graber Packard Hall of Music and Art, houses one of the largest liberal arts college music research and performance collections in the Western United States, a collection of over 31,000 items which includes books, scores, audio recordings (CDs and LPs), video recordings (Blu-rays and DVDs), periodicals, reference materials, and CD and LP playback devices. Seay Library also provides and facilitates access to online resources pertaining to music, which consist of numerous databases and streaming audiovisual services. You may search the collection via Colorado College Libraries' online public access catalog (OPAC).
The facilities of Seay Library include a multi-purpose study room and a group listening and viewing room—equipped with a flat screen monitor with speakers; playback devices for CDs, LPs, phonograph records, compact cassettes, DVDs, and VHSs; and a Nord Grand digital stage piano—as well as the Department of Art's Art + Technology Lab. The multi-purpose study room can be reserved for meetings and reservation requests may be sent to music.library@coloradocollege.edu. Seay Library also provides access to two off-site collections of orchestral music, which are available for all El Paso County ensembles to request and borrow free of charge.
Please contact Music Librarian & Seay Library Manager Ryan Seward for research assistance, library instruction, and/or collection support within the performing arts disciplines of music, dance, and theatre.
For all questions concerning the Department of Music's music technology collection, please contact the department's Technical Director Schylar Woods. This departmental collection is independent from the collections of Colorado College Libraries and requests to borrow items from this collection are approved by the department's Technical Director.