Country United States Director James Kapoun Established 1954 Type of business Academic library | Location Yellow Springs, Ohio Phone +1 937-769-1240 Staff 7 | |
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Population served Antioch College, residents of Yellow Springs Website Olive Kettering Library at Antioch College Address Antioch College, 925 Liver St, Yellow Springs, OH 45387, USA Similar Antioch College, Foundry Theater at Antioch C, Yellow Springs Communi, Yellow Springs Dharma, The Wellness Center at | ||
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 trustee, inventor, and engineer Charles Franklin Kettering.
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History
From 1925 to 1954, Antioch College was served by the Horace Mann Library, which was located at Weston Hall. In 1953, Charles Kettering, a benefactor of Antioch College, gave $750,000 for a new building to accommodate the College's expanding library collection. The building was dedicated on October 5, 1955 by Kettering and David Riesman.
By the 1990s, the Olive Kettering Library had the campus' first community computer lab.
After Antioch College was closed in 2008, the library continued to operate under the College's umbrella organization, Antioch University. After reopening in 2011, Antioch College re-assumed control of the library.
Collections and features
The Olive Kettering Library houses more than 325,000 volumes, 900 periodicals, and 4,000 phonograph records. 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. The library is also home to The Antioch Review, one of the oldest continuously published literary magazines in the United States.
The Olive Kettering Library has been a member of OhioLINK since 1999. 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).