Olive Kettering Library

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Olive Kettering Library
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Olive Kettering Library
Location Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States
Type Academic library
Established1954 [1]
Access and use
Population served Antioch College, residents of Yellow Springs
Other information
DirectorKevin Mulhall
Employees4 [2]
Website Olive Kettering Library at Antioch College

The Olive Kettering Library (OKL) [3] is the library of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The library was named after Olive Kettering, the wife of Antioch College trustee Charles Franklin Kettering. [4] [5]

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History

From 1925 to 1954, Antioch College was served by the Horace Mann Library, which was located at Weston Hall. [3] In 1953, Charles Kettering, a benefactor of Antioch College, gave $750,000 for a new building to accommodate the college's expanding library collection. [3] The building was dedicated on October 5, 1955, by Kettering and David Riesman. [3]

In 1967, the library became a founding member of the Ohio College Library Center, one of the first cooperative, computerized library networks. By the 1990s, the Olive Kettering Library had the campus' first community computer lab. [6]

After Antioch College was closed in 2008, the library continued to operate under the college's umbrella organization, Antioch University. [7] After reopening in 2011, Antioch College re-assumed control of the library. [8]

Collections and features

The Olive Kettering Library houses more than 325,000 volumes, 900 periodicals, and 4,000 phonograph records. [4] [8] The library is also home to Antiochiana, Antioch College's archive. Among the items kept in the archive are the papers of Antioch Presidents Horace Mann and Arthur Morgan. [9] [10] The library is also home to The Antioch Review , one of the oldest continuously published literary magazines in the United States prior to it being put on hiatus by the college in 2020. [4] [11]

The Olive Kettering Library has been a member of OhioLINK since 1999. [12] The library is also a member of the Ohio Private Academic Libraries (OPAL) and the Library Council of the Strategic Ohio Council for Higher Education (SOCHE). [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Library Shows Heavy Decay". The Record. September 14, 2007. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
  2. ↑ "College Directory: Olive Kettering Library". 14 February 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Bixler, Paul. "Bixler, Books, and Bibliomania: The Antiochian, January 1965". The Independent. Antioch College. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Antioch College Curriculum Catalog 2014-2016" (PDF). Antioch College. November 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
  5. ↑ Boyd, Thomas Alvin. Charles F. Kettering: A Biography. BeardBooks. p. 212.
  6. ↑ "Let There be Light—and Crunch Time!". The Independent. Antioch College. November 18, 2011. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
  7. ↑ "College Awaits Rebirth as Its Library Labors On". The New York Times . March 9, 2009. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
  8. 1 2 "As Antioch College Reopens, Its Library Stands Ready". American Libraries Magazine. September 27, 2011. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
  9. ↑ "Antiochiana". Antioch College. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
  10. ↑ McDonald, Michael. TVA and the Dispossessed: The Resettlement of Population in the Norris Dam Area. The University of Tennessee Press. p. 316.
  11. ↑ "Uncertain fate for Antioch Review". Audrey Hackett, Yellow Springs News, October 29, 2020. October 30, 2020. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
  12. ↑ "Featured Library: Antioch College's Olive Kettering Library". OhioLINK. Archived from the original on November 20, 2015. Retrieved November 19, 2015.

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