Library Catalog
Search the library catalog for books and other materials in Tutt & Seay Music Libraries. Staff can check out circulating books from the library, and photocopy reference books for free. You can access e-books from campus, or off-campus via the long number on your gold card.
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg provides access to electronic texts of many works that are in the public domain.
Finding Books to Read
Need help finding a book to read? Please see the reader's advisory LibGuide: The Tutt Library Guide to Finding Books You Can Love.
For more reader's advisory info and book reviews, try the following links:
- BookBrowse This link opens in a new windowFind books to read. Readers' advisory website which locates books by genre, audience, theme, time period and geographic area. Reviews and read-alikes are included with book listings. BookBrowse links to the library catalog, making it easy to find books of interest and determine if they're in Tutt Library. Books not owned by Tutt Library may be ordered through Prospector. Please use the library link for BookBrowse, which grants access to members-only areas and displays the catalog link.
- NoveList This link opens in a new windowReaders advisory service providing access to information on 155,000 fiction titles. Includes author read-alikes, book discussion guides, reading lists and more. Offers training and support for library staff engaged with helping readers find new books to read.
Prospector
Search Prospector for books in the region -- Colorado plus University of Wyoming-Laramie and some libraries in Kansas.
If Prospector won't accept your login, please contact the Circulation Desk at (719) 389-6184.
Books generally take from 3-5 business days to be delivered. You will receive an email notification when requested items arrive. Prospector books can be picked up at the Circulation Desk.
InterlibraryLoan (ILL)
Books (and some other materials) can be obtained from libraries across the country or around the world via Interlibrary Loan (ILL). Register here for an ILL account. Be aware that since the physical book is being shipped through "snail mail", it could take 1-2 weeks for the book to arrive.
Google Books and Other Ebook Sources
Google is not the only wholesale digitization effort going on. Microsoft, Yahoo, and numerous university presses and other publishers teamed up in Fall 2005 to form the Open Content Alliance (OCA; https://www.opencontentalliance.org/) The OCA intends to build a multilingual and multimedia collection. OCA books will in the future be accessible directly through the OCA website and indexed through Yahoo, but are best browed or searched at present through the "texts" section of the Internet Archive site at https://www.archive.org/details/texts.
There are also projects that attempt to index available e-books. The Digital Book Index (DBI) at https://www.digitalbookindex.org/ has kept up reasonably well with existing projects, and the Online Books Page (https://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/) links to 25,000 free e-books, but these figures will be dwarfed by the Google and OCA projects.
- Digital Book IndexThe Digital Book Index has kept up reasonably well with existing projects - as of this writing it has indexed 130,000 books, of which 90,000 are freely accessible.
- Hathi Trust Digital LibraryRepository of research libraries
- Online Books PageThe Online Books Page links to over 1 million free e-books and is updated frequently.
- Open Content AllianceMicrosoft, Yahoo, and numerous university presses and other publishers teamed up in Fall 2005 to form the Open Content Alliance, which intends to build a multilingual and multimedia collection.