Here are stories about the Orange County Library System from the news media.
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‘Making a Murderer’ lawyer Jerome F. Buting speaks about criminal justice reform at Orlando Public Library
Orlando Weekly
One of the defense lawyers from the Wisconsin murder trial of Steven Avery – covered in depth on Netflix’s hit true crime doc series Making a Murderer, speaks at the downtown library this week.
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GREAT READS: Orange County Public Library’s September book selections
Bungalower
School bells are ringing all over Orange County! Whether the students in your household are young ones just starting out or at the graduate level, Orange County Library System has the resources you need from reference librarians to study rooms to printers for that book report.
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Local Wanderer Pass program allows entry to museums, theater and more
Downtown Community Paper
The Orange County Library System (OCLS) recently launched the Local Wanderer Pass, and it’s proving to be a popular program in the few short weeks since it went live.
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Orange County Library System is closed through Wednesday, due to Hurricane Dorian
Orlando Weekly
The Orange County Library System announced all branches will remain closed from Tuesday, Sept. 3, through Wednesday, Sept. 4, due to the approach of Hurricane Dorian.
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Hurricane Dorian: Orange County libraries will be closed through Tuesday
Orlando Sentinel
Ahead of Hurricane Dorian, the Orange County Library System has announced that all of its libraries will be closed through Tuesday, Sept. 3.
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Lawyer from “Making A Murderer” coming to downtown library
Bungalower
Jerome F. Buting, the defense lawyer from the Netflix series Making A Murderer will host a reading at the Orange County Library System’s downtown branch on Friday, September 13 at 7 p.m.
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Now you can get a passport at the downtown Orlando Public Library
Orlando Weekly
Come next month, you can apply for a passport at the downtown public library in Orlando. And you don’t even need a library card.
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Orlando Public Library hosts a showcase of very short shorts at the One Minute Film Festival
Orlando Weekly
With no film longer than, say, a television commercial (that’s what we used to have before YouTube ads), each film presented in the Orlando Public Library's One Minute Film Festival features an economy of storytelling that’s the filmic equivalent of flash fiction.
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Best Passport to Your Own City: The Local Wanderer
Orlando Weekly
Orlando Weekly's Best of Orlando 2019. If you live in Orange County and you don't have a library card, you are seriously missing out. You can use your card to check out more than books (and ebooks, and audiobooks) – you can get free access to Lynda.comtechnology classes, stream hard-to-find art films and documentaries on Kanopy, even use the Mango language learning app, all for free. And now OCLS has outdone themselves with a new program called the Local Wanderer.
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Library offers free admission to arts & cultural venues
Orlando on the Cheap
We’ve said it before: the library is pretty cool. And now, the library is taking it up a notch by letting cardholders check out local experiences and attractions for FREE.
