SUNY Orange

For Faculty

  • Meet your librarians:
    • Your librarians are here to assist with library systems and technology. See us to set up accounts for remote database access and interlibrary loan. Come over for a tour of your subject interest to get to know the collection. We can help you find material in our extensive collections.
    • Librarians are on hand to give Library Instruction Classes to your students. We show how to find and use relevant databases and resources and demonstrate evaluation techniques for both internet and database material.
    • Librarians also catalog the flood of incoming resources so they can be properly placed in the collection and found when needed. If there is a gap in the collection please Recommend a Title for the Collection so we can be sure your students have the material they need.
  • The library is an extension of the classroom:
    • The library has tools that can enhance your teaching and allow you to focus on getting the most out of the teaching experience. The library instruction classroom is available when not in use by the library, it has a projector and 18 laptop computers for interactive teaching. For hands-on computer demonstrations the computer lab may be reserved during non-blackout days. The library’s Information Commons is a fully networked mixing bowl where faculty may meet students and other faculty in an open and inviting atmosphere.
  • Information Literacy Guidelines.
    • Orange County Community College policy on information literacy is guided by the Association of Academic and Research Libraries' Information Literacy Standards.* The Middle States Commission on Higher Education requires information literacy to be a part of classroom experience. OCCC's developed a grading rubric (text) to assess students' information literacy skills as part of the ongoing educational self assessment. The rubric (text) presents a continuum of specific indicators designed to measure the growth and development of student information literacy skills within five competency areas.

SUNY Orange Library
115 South Street
Middletown, NY 10940
(845) 341-4855

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