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Olive Kettering Library

The Olive Kettering Library (OKL) 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.

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Olive Kettering Library
Olive Kettering Library, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio
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LocationYellow Springs, Ohio, United States
TypeAcademic library
Established19541
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Population served
Antioch College, residents of Yellow Springs
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DirectorKevin Mulhall
Employees42
WebsiteOlive 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.45

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.8 As of 2023, the library had three full-time employees and a small number of part-time student workers.9

Collections and features

The Olive Kettering Library houses more than 325,000 volumes, 900 periodicals, and 4,000 phonograph records.48 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.1011 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 2020.412

The Olive Kettering Library has been a member of OhioLINK since 1999.13 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

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. Bixler, Paul. "Bixler, Books, and Bibliomania: The Antiochian, January 1965". The Independent. Antioch College. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
  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. "As Antioch College Reopens, Its Library Stands Ready". American Libraries Magazine. September 27, 2011. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
  9. "Building Community, Dispatches from the Antioch archives". Reilly Dixon, Yellow Springs News, April 5, 2023. April 5, 2023. Archived from the original on April 26, 2023. Retrieved April 26, 2023.
  10. "Antiochiana". Antioch College. Archived from the original on November 20, 2015. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
  11. McDonald, Michael. TVA and the Dispossessed: The Resettlement of Population in the Norris Dam Area. The University of Tennessee Press. p. 316.
  12. "Uncertain fate for Antioch Review". Audrey Hackett, Yellow Springs News, October 29, 2020. October 30, 2020. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
  13. "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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