Library Learning Center
Welcome to the West High School Library
Need it now? Try OverDrive e-books!
Ebooks are books you can read on a digital device. No library needed.
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Click here for OverDrive
- User name: Your school email address (see below if you do not know your student email address)
- Password: your school computer password
- Search our online collection of e-books and audiobooks.
- Click on the red "borrow" box of the book you choose. Then read in a browser window.
- You can borrow up to 3 books at a time. Whenever you log back in, it will take you to where you left off!
- Books get returned automatically.
Check out our catalog to see if we have the title or subject you are looking for. View our hundreds of new titles in fiction, non-fiction, and graphic novels. There are ideas in these books that you definitely need to read.
Our collection also has audiobooks on CD, ebooks that you can read on any device, and playaways.
From there, you can log in to Destiny using your student Username and Password to check your due dates. Overdue notices will be sent to your student email account, so learn how to log in!
How do I get to my student Email or Canvas account?
Go to Microsoft Office 365.
Login: Imagine a student named Edith Wharton, who has a student number of 012345.
Her email username would be edith.w345@slcstudents.org
Password is the same password you use to login to the computers at school.
Canvas
Your user id is your school email (see above); password the same as your school password.
Contacts
Kara Budge
Titles: Library Technology Teacher
Shay Hudson
Titles: Afternoon Library Assistant
Resources
Library information
The library is open to students and staff from
- 8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Mondays-Thursday)
- 8:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (Friday)
Utah's online library is open 24/7. This year's home access login code available from librarian, posters outside west library, and on bookmarks.
Our mission is to provide instruction, materials, and resources to support the learning needs of the West High Community. We are committed to acquiring resources that are inspirational, educational, and relevant to advance student understanding of the Utah Core Curriculum and to enhance the life of the mind. More info: Library Disclosure Info
Please see the Digital Citizenship Safety Report.
Checkouts
Show your student ID to check out materials. You are responsible for what you check out, so keep track and take good care of them.
Books check out for 3 weeks.
- 5 items can be checked out at a time.
- Return or renew materials on time to maintain checkout privileges and avoid fines.
- If your book becomes several weeks overdue, your account will be charged for a replacement copy.
Yes, we check out magazines!
Magazines can be kept for 1 week.
We've added some NEW magazine subscriptions for 2017: Servo (robotics), Chess Life, National Review (politics), Thrasher (skateboarding), Chop Chop (cooking), Easy English News and News For You.