Tag: Friends of the Library

Footnotes Footnotes was a monthly publication presenting "Items of interest from the Orlando Public Library and Orange County Library System." Items of interest included news about library services, branches, staff and volunteers, along with a calendar o ... Read more

The Orlando Public Library Footnotes and the Friends of the Library Newsletters are the ancestors of the library's current monthly magazine, Books and Beyond. As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the library in 2023, these publications preserve th ... Read more

ABOVE: Arnold Sobel at the Northgate Library in 1983. OCLS Extension Department Scrapbook Photographs of employees who worked in the Extension Department and the library Annex from 1966 to 1983, were collected and  carefully and lovingly arranged in a sc ... Read more

CRASH KILLS LIBRARY VOLUNTEER By Rene Stutzman Orlando Sentinel Staff Writer April 28, 2016 Jo Anne Feldstein, 88, who was hit and killed by an SUV last week after volunteering at the Orange County public library downtown, was a New York fashion model in ... Read more

ABOVE featured image: Left to right - Valerie Dawson, Lydia Peters, Dorothy Field. The OCLS Staff Association and the Friends of the Library collaborated to make a quilt to commemorate Orange County Library System's 75 years of library service to this co ... Read more

ABOVE: Orange County Library System Community Relations and Marketing Department Staff - March 2008. Community Relations, now Marketing and Public Relations, is located on the 3rd floor of the Orlando Public Library in downtown Orlando. The staff publish ... Read more