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About Our Media Center
Welcome to the 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
- Inmaculada Defeo, Media Specialist, Inmaculada.Defeo@ocps.net
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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.
Additional library media materials can be accessed through the following links or on LaunchPad.- Learning Ally (titles assigned by teacher)
- Orange County Library System Virtual Library Card
- Middle Grades Sora eBook Catalog
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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 accessed using the link below:
- Collection Development Plan – Bridgewater Middle School
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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:
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A list of all materials, specifically books, required as part of a school or grade-level reading lists are accessible below.
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Our school's classroom libraries are available to the public at the link below and may be searched by title or author.