Library News & Events
This page will inform you of upcoming events and programs at the Courtright Memorial Library. In support of Otterbein University’s Core Values and the American Library Association Standards and Guidelines, the Courtright Memorial Library serves our community with events and programs that connect users to one another, as well as to information to help them learn and grow.
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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…
Congrats to our FOL Bookmark Contest Winner!
Spring brings with it many things, including our annual library bookmark design contest! Amanda Kline, an Otterbein professor of Art & Design, had 9 of her 2D Design course students submit designs for this year’s contest. We are grateful to Professor Kline for once again partnering with the us to produce student made bookmarks for the Friends of the Library. Library staff and the members of the FOL council vote on the winning design, which we then print to distribute to our…
National Library Week 2025: Drawn to the Library!
"Millions of people across the country visit their libraries every week. What’s the draw? Everything. From young families stopping in for play and story time, to students sketching out their next creative project in a makerspace, to seniors seeking tech help and everyone in between, libraries of all kinds help us connect the dots from one part of our journey to the next. Chart your next literary adventure by browsing the stacks or joining a book club. Let an author color…
Autism and Mental Health Awareness Months
Our April and May heritage month displays are up! Please check out the display on the 2nd floor, which features collection materials that support awareness on Autism (April Awareness) as well as Mental Health (May Awareness). Please let a librarian know if there are any titles you don’t see that you think would make an excellent addition to our library collection! Mental health resources can be found on the first floor by the circulation desk.
Library LSP Update 4: The Big Freeze
And so it begins. The Courtright Memorial Library is now entering the final phase of our migration to the Alma library management system! Things are going to get a little messy around here but all the best glowups do, sis. How will you be affected as we metamorphosis into the beautiful butterfly we were always meant to be? You may find certain parts of our website, collection catalog, or circulation systems down periodically during upcoming program freezes. Rest assured, we…
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