Five-year Service Plan and By-laws
The School Library System promotes student achievement by providing the school library media centers of 91 public and 21 private schools in Orange and Ulster counties with:
- Professional development for library and teaching staff.
- Development and maintenance of an automated Union Catalog.
- Resource sharing among schools and other libraries through interlibrary loan via SEAL and OCLC.
- Building and sharing specialized collections through Cooperative Collection Development.
- Coordination of access to commercial online databases and those available at no cost through NOVEL.
- Dissemination of current information concerning libraries and literacy to schools.
- Access to instructional Media Library
- Events to promote literacy such as the Great New York ReadAloud and the Orange County Spelling Contest.
- Puppet collection and related books, professional materials, Accu-cut dies and portable machines for loan.
- Search and administration of available grants to fund school library projects.
Click for Five Year Plan Of Service, 222 kb*
Click For Five Year Plan Of Service Narrative, 197 kb*
By-Laws (PDF*)
