Explore exciting topics, conquer your next school project, or simply feed your fascination for anything and everything. Utah's Online School Library is FREE, it's FUN and it's accessible for K-12 students and educators from anywhere in Utah!
What is the Utah’s Online School Library?
Utah’s Online School Library (UOSL) is a virtual library designed for Utah K-12 students and teachers. It is one component of the statewide Utah’s Online Library project. Access to resources vary by library and include Utah’s Online Public Library serving patrons of public libraries, Utah’s Academic Online Library, for university and college students, Utah’s Online School Library, designed for primary and secondary school students and teachers and Preschool Path, for early learners and their caregivers.
What's in Utah's Online Library?
The reference materials on Utah’s Online School Library are designed to support the “lifelong skills of selecting information from a wide variety of sources, assessing its worth, and applying newfound knowledge to problems, preparing them for learning, doing, and problem solving in college, career, and throughout life.” (Utah Core Information Literacy Standards.)
The resources include:
a. CultureGrams containing reports on over 200 countries and world cultures
b. EBSCO a leading provider of research databases, e-journals, and search tools
c. Gale Reference, cross-curricular content aligned to education standards and topics
d. Scrible online research and writing management platform
e. World Book Online encyclopedia for grades Pre-K through high school, also in Spanish
f. Soundzabound royalty-free music library for students and school media productions
g. Utah Resources: newspapers, encyclopedias, Utah photo archives and state collections
h. eMedia multimedia resources for educators to explore, create, and collaborate
i. Preschool Path resources for early learners, parents, caregivers, and childhood professionals.
