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About Our Media Center

Orange County Public Schools' library media programs are the hub of our schools and provide equitable access to resources that engage students in learning. Through promoting reading appreciation, teaching digital and information literacy skills, facilitating inquiry through both independent and collaborative learning, library media programs contribute to ensuring that every student has a promising and successful future.

Media Center Staff

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Pamela Jospeh

  • Orange County Public Schools uses Follett Destiny’s Library Management System to catalog all materials maintained in the school library media center. The Destiny Library Catalog can be accessed by hovering over the Media Center tab on this website and selecting the “Destiny Library Catalog” option from the dropdown menu.

    The public has access to search any school’s library catalog for available titles. The brief video below demonstrates how to search a school’s library catalog.
     


    Spanish Video

     
    Additional library media materials can be accessed through the following links or on LaunchPad.

  • Instructional Materials
    A list of all instructional materials, including those materials used to provide instruction required by Section 1003.42, Florida Statutes, are linked below.

     

    All supplemental instructional materials, purchased by the school or district, are linked below:

  • A list of all materials, specifically books, required as part of a school or grade-level reading lists are accessible below.

  • Our school's classroom libraries are available to the public at the link below and may be searched by title or author.

     

    The spreadsheet linked below identifies titles found to be inappropriate for media center and classroom library collections for all grade levels. Before removing them from circulation, these titles will be read in their entirety to determine their literary value, as a whole, in the context of the Florida Statutes and School Board Policy IJL.

     

  • In addition to the school Media Center, OCPS students have access to numerous online library media resources through LaunchPad. These include:

    Beanstack: This tool can be accessed through the student LaunchPad and makes it easy for students to track their independent reading, earning virtual badges along the way. Students can also write book reviews and complete activities to further engage with what they have read.

    Florida Electronic Library (FEL): A service of the Florida Department of State, the Florida Electronic Library offers over 190 million articles, e-books, videos and other resources.

    Follett Destiny: The Follett Destiny App allows students to preview and check out both paper and ebook copies of books available in their school's collections.

    Sora: The Sora App provides access to school, district and public library e-book collections in a cross-platform format, available to view on smartphones, tablets, or computers.

    Virtual Library Card: The Virtual Library Card allows students access e-books and other library resources including language learning and study tools.

    Westar Music: Westar Music is an expansive collection of music and sound effects licensed for student and teacher use to add sound and music to projects, videos and other student products.

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