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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

Melanie Mahaffey, Media Specialist, Melanie.Mahaffey@ocps.net

  • 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.

  • Orange County Public Schools' collection development procedures are documented on School Board Policy IJL - Library Materials Selection and Adoption. Library media materials, whether purchased or donated, are selected by a school district employee who holds a valid educational media specialist certificate. Our school’s collection development plan can be found within the folder linked below:

  • 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.

    • School and Grade-Level Reading Lists 

     

    Title

    Author

    Course Name

    Grade Level

    Animal Farm

    George Orwell

    English I

    9

    The Tragedy of Macbeth

    William Shakespeare

    English 2

    10

    Of Mice and Men

    John Steinbeck

    English 2

    10

    Otto von Bismarck

    Volker Ullrich

    Cambridge AICE European History

    10

    38 Latin Stories

    Anne H. Groton and James M. May

    Latin

    9-12

    Astronomy 2e

    Andrew Fraknoi, David Morrison, Sidney Wolff

    Astronomy Honors

    9-12

    De Bello Gallico

    Julius Caesar

    Latin

    9-12

    Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata

    Hans Orberg

    Latin

    9-12

    Romeo and Juliet

    William Shakespeare

    Latin

    9-12

    The Aeneid

    Vergil

    Latin

    9-12

    The Anxious Generation

    Jonathan Haidt

    Fitness Lifestyle Design

    9-12

    The Odyssey

    Homer

    Latin

    9-12
           

     

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

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