Welcome to your Library
The Courtright Memorial Library is open to students, faculty, staff, and community members – and we serve over 250,000 people per year. Our users describe us as “a place of community that drives innovation in the ways we learn and is the heart of the campus.”
We are proud members of the OPAL, OhioLINK, and SearchOhio consortia, which allows us to provide our users access to hundreds of electronic databases and millions of books, eBooks, and journals. Our collection includes books, music, juvenile, games, DVDs, streaming videos, and many types of equipment such as laptops, cameras, and bikes. The library also houses the university archive, which includes the history of the University and materials on the United Brethren Church, the institution that founded the University in 1847.
The library’s staff members are available to help you succeed here at Otterbein, by helping you find the information you need. Stop by the Customer Service Desk to ask questions or email your Liaison Librarian directly. You can also get Research Help via chat, email, text, or get social with us through Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
If you need assistance finding your way around the library, take a look at our Welcome LibGuide.
Library News & Events
Library Spring Break Hours of Operation
The Courtright Memorial Library will be closed March 7-8th and March 14-15th. We will be open on March 9th through March 13th from 9am - 6pm as well as March 16th from 7:30am - 10pm. Enjoy your Spring Break, Cardinals! Stay safe and have fun. Please note that there will be no Cardinal Card Access until March 16th. The hours of Cardinal Card Access on March 16th will be from 10pm - 12am.
Library Database and Services Highlight
AI Learning Opportunity Curious about the intricacies of the Primo AI interface? Read through this page from Ex Libris. The search works in a few steps, where the tool creates a complex boolean search string out of your natural language query, runs that search in the catalog, re-ranks the top 30 results to try to find items that fit the query best, and selects the top 5 re-ranked results. This process is called Retrieval Augmented Generation, and it's an add-on to…
Becker Art Gallery Artist Reception – Spring 2026
The Courtright Memorial Library proudly presents the photography of Otterbein 2018 alumnus, Jacob Strous. We will be holding a reception for his display in the Becker Art Gallery, on the Lower Level of the Library, on March 5th from 6-7:30pm. Please swing by to tour the gallery and meet the artist himself! Artist Statement:"This collection documents moments of stillness and delight found while traveling through Italy and Colorado — quiet observations of color, light, and people moving through spaces. These photographs…
Digital Commons @ Otterbein
The Digital Commons @ Otterbein is an institutional repository of digital materials that includes faculty scholarship, student projects, historical documents, videos, photographs, video, and other information that benefits the university community. It provides persistent and centralized access, with the aim to preserve and provide a long-term home to research and scholarly activities at Otterbein.
Otterbein University Archives
The Otterbein University Archive is our historical repository. It contains the materials that tell the story of the school, including publications, documents, photographs, and historical artifacts. The Archive also contains materials related to the history of the United Brethren Church, which founded Otterbein in 1847, and its successive denominations.
Contact the Library
138 West Main Street.
Westerville, OH 43081
614-823-1215
library@otterbein.edu
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