Library News & Events
This page will inform you of upcoming events and events at the Courtright Memorial Library. In between news updates on this blog, we use Instagram (@courtrightlib), Facebook (@Otterbeinlibrary), and Twitter (@CourtrightLib) to keep you informed.
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Flight Path: Birding Game Night
Do you like tabletop games? What about birds? Now how do you feel about tabletop games with bird themes? Oh good, we knew you'd be excited! Join us on the Library's 2nd floor, Thursday, November 13th from 6-8pm to play! We'll have such titles as Nestlings, Sibley Backyard Birding BINGO, and Wingspan. Come solo or bring your friends - the more the merrier! Small snacks will be available but feel free to bring your own; gaming and snacking go hand-in-hand,…
Paper Marbling Craft Night
Join us at the Courtright Memorial Library on Wednesday, November 5th from 5-7pm for Paper Marbling Craft Night! We'll be decorating bookmarks (and anything else you want) with a paper marbling technique. Come play with color and shaving cream in this modern take on the ancient Japanese art of suminagashi! If you're looking for handmade holiday gift ideas, this could be the craft night for you. Please note, this craft can be a little messy and does use alcohol dye drops…
Edgar Allan “Poe-try” Reading Event
Celebrate Spooky Season with one of our favorite spooky "Poe-ts" - Edgar Allan Poe! Sign up to read one of his works or support your fellow October and "Poe-try" enthusiasts as an audience member. Read as dramatically, or as morosely, as you want. No talent for poetry is needed here - just the joy of being possessed by the spirit of Poe himself. We will have our Cafe Cart available with snacks and hot beverage options. Finally, decorate one of…
Local Cemetery Lecture
Did you know there are two historic cemeteries close to Otterbein campus? Join us on Wednesday, October 29th from 5:15-6:15pm in Library Room 126 to learn more about our Westerville local final resting places from historian Beth Weinhardt. On conclusion of the lecture, take home a stone rubbing craft kit and a cemetery tour guide to take your very own walkabout adventure as you explore the grounds of Otterbein Cemetery. Please keep in mind that the grounds close after dark. We…
Julie Nye – Fall 2025 Becker Gallery Artist
The Becker Art Gallery of the Courtright Memorial Library welcomes this Fall's Featured Artist, alumna Julie Nye of the class of 2021! We will be hosting an Artist Reception for Julie on Thursday, October 16th at 6pm in the Becker Art Gallery, which is on the Lower-Level of the Library. All are welcome to join us as we celebrate Julie's show, "The Flow". From the Artist: "The Flow is a visual representation of how I feel about my creative process. Before graduating,…
Counseling Center and Library Lunchtime Book Club
12:30-2 p.m., Sept. 30, Nov. 18, Feb. 11, and April 8, INST Approved Join Lesley Cross from the Counseling Center, in collaboration with the Library, for Lunch Bunch and Books, a relaxed campus book club open to students, faculty, and staff. Read at your own pace and choose one book or join for them all. If you don't have the time or energy to read but still want to come join in the discussion and fun, you can do that, too.…
BLISS 2025: Social Dining in Ancient Rome
Wednesday, July 23rd from 12-1p Library room 118 Join us for a Brownbag Lunch Informational Summer Session at the Courtright Memorial Library! Please feel free to bring your lunch to enjoy during Ms. Beal's presentation. Ever wonder what it was like to dine like a Roman? Join us as we explore the archaeological and textual evidence for ancient dining practices. Together, we will consider how the foods we eat, and the way we eat, hold significance for the social identity…
The new Library Service Platform finally goes live!
That’s right Cards, our year long quest to migrate our library service platform (LSP) has finally come to its thrilling conclusion. Come Monday, June 23rd, the OneSearch bar on our homepage will have a shiny makeover! The newly improved OneSearch will give you the opportunity to easily personalize and save your searches as well as enable you to search the Courtright Memorial Library’s collections, our online catalogs, databases, as well as OhioLINK consortia materials all across one platform! Now all…
BLISS 2025: Along the Intentional Path
Wednesday, June 25th from 12-1p Library room 118 Join us for a Brownbag Lunch Informational Summer Session (BLISS) at the Courtright Memorial Library! Please feel free to bring your lunch to enjoy while listening to Dr. Kelly's presentation. Faculty member Jean P. Kelly invites you to carve out space—in your calendar, mind, heart and souls--for yourself as part of a community of seekers sharing stories. Dr. Kelly will share wisdom documented in her spiritual memoir, Less Helping Them, More Healing…
Important Updates for Borrowers
This is your last week to request, check out, and/or renew OhioLINK and SearchOhio items. Access to these systems will be on pause from May 23rd through June 30th, 2025. During this time some items may still be available for borrowing via Interlibrary Loan (hyperlinked). All OhioLINK and SearchOhio items that are checked out to Otterbein users during this pause will need to be returned at a time TBD (before the start of Fall Semester) in order for us to fully close out…
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Westerville, OH 43081
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