The Courtright Memorial Library is open to students, faculty, staff, and community members 鈥 and we serve over 250,000 people per year. Our users describe us as 鈥渁 place of community that drives innovation in the ways we learn and is the heart of the campus.鈥

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鈥檚 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 Personal Librarian directly. You can also Ask a Librarian via , email,聽 text, or get social with us through , , and

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Library News & Events

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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鈥

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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鈥

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Congrats to our FOL Bookmark Contest Winner!


Spring brings with it many things, including our annual library bookmark design contest! Amanda Kline, an 9i果冻制作厂professor of Art & Design, had 9 of her 2D Design course students submit designs for this year鈥檚 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鈥

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Digital Commons @ Otterbein

The 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.

9i果冻制作厂 Archives

The 9i果冻制作厂 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 9i果冻制作厂in 1847, and its successive denominations.

Please see the Library鈥檚 full Schedule of Operations for additional information.

Contact the Library

138 West Main Street.
Westerville, OH 43081
614-823-1215
library@otterbein.edu

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