An appeal must be submitted in writing only by letter, email, or web form. You are prohibited from entering any Orange County Library System location. The written appeal must be received through any of the options listed below within 30 days of the trespass issue date listed above.
By mail:
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Purpose:
The Orange County Library System has adopted the following procedure to ensure an opportunity for customers to make a formal complaint against a library decision or service.
The Orange County Library System will accept and attempt to resolve all customer concerns at the service delivery...
To give a title a star rating in the catalog:
Log in to your library card account.
Click on New Search.
Search the catalog for the title you’d like to rate.
Our redesign team has a wide variety of skills and backgrounds related to web and integrated library systems. In addition, we sought out insights from patrons through our beta tester team, staff members and the library administration. They provided feedback on the appearance, language and content...
As much as we'd like to improve some of the processes and workflows in the catalog, we do not have complete development access to the catalog system in order to make those types of adjustments. As it is, we're able to make significant changes to the look and language of the catalog to help improve...
It's been many years since the launch of the current version of the catalog. Last year, an academic library system successfully demonstrated that a recent release of themes from our catalog vendor could be customized to provide a responsive site to users. ("Responsive," meaning the full catalog...
To delete an item or multiple items off My Reading History,
Log in to your library card account
Click on the My Reading History button
Click the box next to the item or items that you wish to delete
Click on the Delete Marked button below
You can also delete all the items in your My Reading...
The My Reading History feature is not retroactive. Only items checked out to you after you turn it on will be listed.
If you have checked out items and it does not show on My Reading History, first check to see if you have it turned on. If it is turned on, you may need to refresh your Internet...
By default, this option will be turned off. In order to activate this feature,
Log in to your library card account
Click on the My Reading History button on the right
On the next screen, near the bottom left, click on the Opt In button
To deactivate this feature,
Log in to your library card...
Multiple Words
When searching multiple words the system will automatically supply the Boolean "and" operator between each word; multiple words entered for the search will all occur somewhere in the retrieved records though not necessarily in the order entered. Both examples on the right will...
Type the keyword you want to find. For example:
design
bleachers grisham
Search Tips
Wildcards
Words may be right-hand truncated using an asterisk ('*') in place of other characters. The '*' wildcard may also be embedded in a search string. You may use '?' to replace a single character...
Unfortunately, a few email service providers (aol.com, cfl.rr.com, and yahoo.com) identify the Library's email notices as spam and do not deliver our email to some customers. In order to receive these notices, we recommend that customers either sign up for OCLS' text alerts or provide an alternate...
Yes, we welcome your suggestions. If there is a title that you cannot find in our collection and it meets our materials management policy, please fill out a Suggest-A-Title form.
If there is a title that you think would be a useful addition to the collection and you have verified that the title is not listed in our catalog, use Suggest-A-Title to recommend the title. This form is available to regular card holders.
The following is a listing of the materials Orange County Library System offers through the library collection: