Access the Library Catalog

The Olney Friends School Library includes over 9,900 volumes and about 35 current magazines and newspapers in its physical location in the heart of the Main Building. The online catalog also serves as a portal to a wide range of electronic resources through INFOhio, a school library consortium providing sixteen online databases with full-text access to thousands of periodicals. A professional librarian provides information literacy instruction and reference service; purchases library and classroom materials to support an evolving curriculum; and manages library operations, training students to assist with routine tasks as community service. Several desktop computers, wired and wireless internet access, a black-and-white printer and photocopier, and a color printer are all dedicated for student use.

Olney students are also eligible for accounts at the local public library, which is within walking distance. These borrowing privileges gain access to materials from over 150 Ohio public libraries and inter-library loan through OhioLINK, a consortium of eighty-four Ohio college and university libraries and the State Library of Ohio.

The librarian welcomes book purchase recommendations from students and staff! Recent acquisitions include:

• Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire by Jehad Abusalim
• The Overstory: A Novel by Richard Powers
• Maus. [I and II]: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman
• Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley
• All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
• 10 Minutes to Better Mental Health: A Step-by-step Guide for Teens by Lee David and Debbie Brewin
• The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change our Minds, & Shape our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
• Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture, a New Earth by Charles Massey
• An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden World Around Us by Ed Yong
• In His Steps by Charles Monroe Sheldon