Research & Learn

Featured Resources

Auto Repair Source
Beehive Library Consortium
Candid's Foundation Directory Online
Creativebug
Digital Learn
Learning Express
Mango Languages
ProQuest Current Newspapers
Small Business Reference Center
Utah's Online Library

Resources by Category

Arts and Music

Creativebug has thousands of award-winning art & craft video classes taught by recognized design experts and artists.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Utah Arts & Museums seeks to advance Utahns’ quality of life through arts and museum experiences and cultural opportunities. 

Computer & Digital Skills

If you are new to computers, haven't used them for a while, are a little unsure and uncomfortable, or just need a bit of a refresher, we have the tools to help you tackle technology at your own pace and gain the confidence you need to succeed.

From Microsoft Office and email, to reading, math, and more—GCFGlobal.org offers more than 200 topics, including more than 2,300 lessons, more than 2,000 videos, and more than 50 interactives and games, completely free.  We all have outside responsibilities, so we make it easy for you to learn at your own pace, on your own time.

Learning Express Library is an innovative, web-based learning solution that provides users, from elementary students to adult learners, with instant access to the most comprehensive collection of test preparation tools, skill-building materials, and career resources available.

Grants & Scholarships

Foundation Directory Online (FDO) delivers quality funding prospects. By combining exhaustive data with intuitive search functionality and informative data visualizations, FDO delivers the information you need to reach your fundraising goals.

Grants to Individuals gives you access to detailed information on more than 10,000 foundations that give grants or scholarships to individuals.  Link to this resource will only work on-site at the Moab Library. 

Use GuideStar to look up a nonprofit and access the most complete data available.

Homework Help

Academic Search Premier is a leading multidisciplinary research database. It provides acclaimed full-text journals, magazines and other valuable resources. Covering virtually every general interest subject area.

Learning Express Library is an innovative, web-based learning solution that provides users, from elementary students to adult learners, with instant access to the most comprehensive collection of test preparation tools, skill-building materials, and career resources available.

Utah's Online Library offers premium databases that are unavailable on the free internet. 

Jobs & Careers

Powered by the automotive experts at MOTOR, Auto Repair Source provides the most accurate, authoritative and up-to-date service and repair information for thousands of domestic and imported vehicles.

From Microsoft Office and email, to reading, math, and more—GCFGlobal.org offers more than 200 topics, including more than 2,300 lessons, more than 2,000 videos, and more than 50 interactives and games, completely free.  We all have outside responsibilities, so we make it easy for you to learn at your own pace, on your own time.

Grants to Individuals gives you access to detailed information on more than 10,000 foundations that give grants or scholarships to individuals.  Link to this resource will only work on-site at the Moab Library. 

Learning Express Library is an innovative, web-based learning solution that provides users, from elementary students to adult learners, with instant access to the most comprehensive collection of test preparation tools, skill-building materials, and career resources available.

Small Business Reference Center offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as tools to address many small business and nonprofit topics. 

Languages and Culture

Mango Languages is an online language learning system teaching actual conversation skills for a wide variety of languages. It’s the easiest way to learn to speak a foreign language.

Utah Arts & Museums seeks to advance Utahns’ quality of life through arts and museum experiences and cultural opportunities. 

Law & Legal

Legal Information Reference Center is an online database designed to assist the general public in legal matters of all kinds. It includes exclusive full text for many top consumer legal reference books, as well as thousands of legal forms. 

Small Business Reference Center offers exclusive full text for many top consumer small business reference books, as well as tools to address many small business and nonprofit topics. 

Lifelong Learning

Academic Search Premier is a leading multidisciplinary research database. It provides acclaimed full-text journals, magazines and other valuable resources. Covering virtually every general interest subject area.

Powered by the automotive experts at MOTOR, Auto Repair Source provides the most accurate, authoritative and up-to-date service and repair information for thousands of domestic and imported vehicles.

Access and download best-selling audiobooks, ebooks, digital magazines and videos from our OverDrive Beehive Library Consortium. Download the free Libby app to access content on your mobile devices. If you need assistance, please contact the library.

The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. 

If you are new to computers, haven't used them for a while, are a little unsure and uncomfortable, or just need a bit of a refresher, we have the tools to help you tackle technology at your own pace and gain the confidence you need to succeed.

From Microsoft Office and email, to reading, math, and more—GCFGlobal.org offers more than 200 topics, including more than 2,300 lessons, more than 2,000 videos, and more than 50 interactives and games, completely free.  We all have outside responsibilities, so we make it easy for you to learn at your own pace, on your own time.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Learning Express Library is an innovative, web-based learning solution that provides users, from elementary students to adult learners, with instant access to the most comprehensive collection of test preparation tools, skill-building materials, and career resources available.

Research guides to the Library's collections, as well as subject guides prepared by Library of Congress staff.

Mango Languages is an online language learning system teaching actual conversation skills for a wide variety of languages. It’s the easiest way to learn to speak a foreign language.

Explore thousands of vintage and contemporary photographs, diaries and letters, oral history interviews, films, and maps which document the history and development of the Colorado Plateau from ancient cultures to the present.

Search over 350 digital collections, containing over 1 million digital photographs, maps, books, videos, audio recordings, and other items.

Utah Arts & Museums seeks to advance Utahns’ quality of life through arts and museum experiences and cultural opportunities. 

Utah's Online Library offers premium databases that are unavailable on the free internet. 

Local History

Beginning in 1989 Moab Museum directors, an Editorial Board, and a multitude of regional experts selected story topics and wrote, edited, and published well researched and highly readable stories about life on the Colorado Plateau.

The Castle Valley Times was a community newsletter published monthly from 1992 to 1998.  All issues have been digitized and are freely available via Utah Digital Newspapers.

The Moab Museum is featuring the photograph collection of Fran and Terby Barnes. Francis A. "Fran" Barnes (1922-2003) was an avid traveler and photogrpher who invested most of his life from 1965 onward devoted to documenting the natural wonders of the desert southwest surrounding Moab, Utah. 

Founded in 1896 the Grand Valley Times published issues until it merged with another Moab newspaper to become the Times Independent in 1919.

Moab Museum is a cultural and natural history museum dedicated to sharing the rich stories of the Moab area.

Explore thousands of vintage and contemporary photographs, diaries and letters, oral history interviews, films, and maps which document the history and development of the Colorado Plateau from ancient cultures to the present.

The Times Independent was formed in 1919 when two Moab newspapers, The Grand Valley Times and The Independent merged.  Utah Digital newspapers offers free access to all issues published 1919 - 2005.

Search over 350 digital collections, containing over 1 million digital photographs, maps, books, videos, audio recordings, and other items.

The Utah Digital Newspapers collection holds over two million pages of historic Utah newspapers and it grows monthly.

Preserving and sharing Utah's past for present and future generations.

Utah Historical Quarterly is the official journal of Utah history, published on behalf of the Utah State Historical Society since 1928. UHQ's mission, from its earliest issues to the present, is to publish articles on all aspects of Utah history and to present Utah in the larger context of the West.

Newspapers and Magazines

Includes the following newspapers: Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret News, Wall Street JournalUSA TodayNew York TimesLos Angeles TimesWashington Post, and Chicago Tribune. 

The Utah Digital Newspapers collection holds over two million pages of historic Utah newspapers and it grows monthly.

Utah's Online Library offers premium databases that are unavailable on the free internet. 

Reading Recommendations

Andy and Shari from Back of Beyond Books and Jessie from the library recommend the best (and sometimes the worst) of what they've been reading and discuss all things literary.

Reference and Research

Academic Search Premier is a leading multidisciplinary research database. It provides acclaimed full-text journals, magazines and other valuable resources. Covering virtually every general interest subject area.

Powered by the automotive experts at MOTOR, Auto Repair Source provides the most accurate, authoritative and up-to-date service and repair information for thousands of domestic and imported vehicles.

The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. 

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.

Legal Information Reference Center is an online database designed to assist the general public in legal matters of all kinds. It includes exclusive full text for many top consumer legal reference books, as well as thousands of legal forms. 

Research guides to the Library's collections, as well as subject guides prepared by Library of Congress staff.

Explore thousands of vintage and contemporary photographs, diaries and letters, oral history interviews, films, and maps which document the history and development of the Colorado Plateau from ancient cultures to the present.

Search over 350 digital collections, containing over 1 million digital photographs, maps, books, videos, audio recordings, and other items.

Utah Historical Quarterly is the official journal of Utah history, published on behalf of the Utah State Historical Society since 1928. UHQ's mission, from its earliest issues to the present, is to publish articles on all aspects of Utah history and to present Utah in the larger context of the West.

Utah's Online Library offers premium databases that are unavailable on the free internet. 

eBooks and Audiobooks

Access and download best-selling audiobooks, ebooks, digital magazines and videos from our OverDrive Beehive Library Consortium. Download the free Libby app to access content on your mobile devices. If you need assistance, please contact the library.

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.