The Olive Kettering Library (OKL) is the library of

Antioch College Antioch College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1850 by the Christian Connection and began operating in 1852 as a non-secta ...

in Yellow Springs,

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. The library was named after Olive Kettering, the wife of Antioch College trustee

Charles Franklin Kettering Charles Franklin Kettering (August 29, 1876 – November 25, 1958) sometimes known as Charles Fredrick Kettering was an American inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 186 patents. For the list of patents issued to Kettering, see, Le ...

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

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. In 1967, the library became a founding member of the

Ohio College Library Center OCLC, Inc. See also: is an American nonprofit cooperative organization "that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs for its membership and the library community at large". It was founded in 1967 as the ...

, one of the first cooperative, computerized library networks. 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 Antioch University is a private university with multiple campuses in the United States and online programs. It is the continuation of Antioch College, which was founded in 1852. Antioch College's first president was politician, abolitionist, and ...

. 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 Horace Mann (May 4, 1796August 2, 1859) was an American educational reformer, slavery abolitionist and Whig Party (United States), Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting public education, he is thus also known as ''The Father of A ...

and Arthur Morgan. The library is also home to ''

The Antioch Review ''The Antioch Review'' is an American literary magazine established in 1941 at Antioch College in Ohio. The magazine was published on a quarterly basis. One of the oldest continuously published literary magazines in the United States prior to it ...

'', one of the oldest continuously published literary magazines in the United States prior to it being put on hiatus by the college in 2020. The Olive Kettering Library has been a member of

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since 1999. 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).

References

External links

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