Orange County Public Library

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Checkouts | Children's Programs
Reference | Technology | Holds & Loans
Meeting Rooms | Forms

Library Mission Statement:

The Orange County Public Library will provide citizens with materials, information, and services to meet their life needs in a variety of ways. The library will:

• Provide materials to help residents meet their needs for recreational reading, listening and viewing materials.
• Provide materials, services and technologies to help residents answer their questions.
• Provide materials to support the K-12 curriculum for all area students whatever their learning styles.
• Provide materials and services to enable adult patrons to continue to learn and grow throughout their lives.
• Provide service to all county residents by locating an adequate library facility within a 15-minute drive of every county resident’s home.

Our Library is governed by a ten member Library Board of Trustees which is responsible for setting policies, devising a budget and hiring and supervising the Library Director. The Library Director is in charge of day to day operations.

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Our Library offers many free services to the citizens of Orange County and the adjoining counties.

Checkouts

The library provides a wide variety of materials for free checkout by the public: books, books-on-tape, books-on-CD, magazines, music CDs, computer CDROMs, kits, videos and DVDs. A library card must be presented to check out any materials. Click here to search our catalog

The libray also has a download service which allows members to download audio books and eBooks. Click Here to Access the Download Catalog

Children’s Programs

The library provides weekly children’s programs during the school year and special programs for children during the summer.

Reference and Information

The library answers questions and helps people locate information. Click here for our contact information. The Library provides a collection of reference materials designed to help people answer their questions. The Main Library also offers a small collection of genealogy and local history materials. The Wilderness Branch offers a small special collection of Civil War materials.

Computers, Databases & Technology

We provide free public access computers for: Internet searching, word processing and other office applications, use of reference databases such as computer encyclopedias, and CD-ROM learning games for kids. Customers may phone in reservations up to 2 days in advance by calling their local branch. All of our library locations offer wireless Internet access for the public. We also offer remote database and catalog access from home.

Holds and Interlibrary Loans

The Library provides a service where we will hold particular items for patrons to ensure that they can have access to them. This service is often used to ensure customers get new bestsellers quickly but it also is used to bring items from one branch to another so that the individual location’s collections are accessible to anyone in the county. Over 28,000 hold requests were filled in FY2011. We also offer interlibrary loan service to obtain materials which are not in our collections from other libraries for our residents.

Meeting Rooms

All of our Library locations offer public meeting room space.

Application Forms

Library card applications and policies

Meeting room applications and policies

Interlibrary Loan application and policies

Library events calendar

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