Library

Hello Everyone, I am Mrs. Carol Smallwood, your Library Media Specialist at University Park Elementary,
I’ve been at the helm, running the library here for almost 18 years now. I am happy to be your Media Mentor to

help guide you thru the University Park Library collection.
As we continue into the 2024-2025 school year,
I want to point out 4 different ways to check out books:
1. Check out physical books from the library.
2. Check out an ebook through our library catalog website:

https://destiny.k12northstar.org/common/servlet/logout.do?tm= Once you are on the
               main page, it will show all the schools in our district. To see just what we have in our
               own school collection, scroll down to the link that says “University Park Elementary”
               and click on that link. It will take you to our catalog. Log in on the top-right corner of
               the page. Use your student’s s# and the same password they use to log in for their
               computer at school. That way, when you are ready to place a hold for a book or to
               access Sora, you will already be logged in. To find ebooks, type in “ebooks” in the

               search box.

3. An ebook thru the Sora app is available on ClassLink. Log into ClassLink using either your faculty # and

password, or your student # and normal password, (same one used in the lunch line)
4. You can put a HOLD on a book. If we do not have that title in our school collection,

              you can request it from another elementary school. I will be happy to help both staff and students learn

how to use the Inter Library Loan program.

Our library is the heart of the school, where you can learn & create!

The school library’s mission is to:

Create programming that supports and allows for the investigation of intellectual curiosity, and instilling the life-long love of reading as one of the main goals!

"Reading is the original virtual reality"

‒quote by Carol Smallwood in 2016; University Park Elementary Library Media Associate.
If you need to contact me: (907)479-6963 x 44035 or carol.smallwood@k12northstar.org