Olive Kettering Library

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Olive Kettering Library
Olive Kettering Library, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
CountryUnited States
TypeAcademic library
Established1954[1]
LocationYellow Springs, Ohio
Access and use
Population servedAntioch College, residents of Yellow Springs
Other information
DirectorKevin Mulhall
Staff4[2]
WebsiteOlive Kettering Library at Antioch College
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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 trustee, inventor, and engineer Charles Franklin Kettering.[4][5]

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.[4]

The Olive Kettering Library has been a member of OhioLINK since 1999.[11] The library is also a member of the Ohio Private Academic Libraries (OPAL) and the Library Council of the Southwestern 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. ^ a b c d Bixler, Paul. "Bixler, Books, and Bibliomania: The Antiochian, January 1965". The Independent. Antioch College. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
  4. ^ a b c d "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. ^ a b "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. ^ "Featured Library: Antioch College's Olive Kettering Library". OhioLINK. Retrieved November 19, 2015.[dead link]

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