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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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…
Library LSP Update 5: Alma Production Freeze
We’re nearly there! Our old and new library service platforms are currently in the midst of data transference. This current freeze will not affect library users but you may have noticed how the Courtright Memorial Library hasn’t switched out any of their displays recently… well that’s because we can’t make any changes to our collection materials locations within our catalog during the migration. Now that we’ve begun all the data transfers, we are well on our way to getting back…
Doggy Destresser
It's finals season once again, and you know what that means - Irish Wolfhounds at the Courtright Memorial Library! Please swing by the patio at our front entrance to meet, pet, and receive those good good puppy dopamine vibes from Professor Candy Canzoneri's very huge and wonderful dogs. If the weather is misbehaving, you can find us in the 1st Floor Alcove inside the Library instead. Please be advised, if you are not a dog person, that the Wolfhounds will…
Button Making Craft Day Round 2
Remember how we had a button making night in February? And y'all kept asking us to do it again? Well fam, we're out here doing it again - this time during the day! From 12p-2p on April 24th in the 1st Floor Library Alcove we will have all the supplies and expertise on designing and creating your very own pinback buttons. Either employ your artistic abilities to doodle out some button art or make use of the Library computers to…
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Westerville, OH 43081
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