Olive Kettering Library
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| Olive Kettering Library | |
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| Location | Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States |
| Type | Academic library |
| Established | 1954[1] |
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| Population served | Antioch College, residents of Yellow Springs |
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| Director | Kevin Mulhall |
| Employees | 4[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]
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]
