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Access to textbooks and other required readings is essential to student success in our courses. However, that access is not always available, as these items can sometimes be prohibitively expensive for our students to access. Cal Poly Humboldt Library's Textbook on Reserves Program helps to improve student success on campus by providing free, easy access to textbooks and other required readings. Our Course Reserves Collection includes physical books, eBooks, and other course materials available for free check out to students enrolled in those classes. Learn more about our program by clicking here.

Faculty & Instructors: now is the time to get your requests for textbooks in for the Spring 2023 semester! We can accept instructor copies, will place books from the Library stacks on reserves, and we can purchase new texts as well, both physical and digital. Get your request in by Tuesday, January 3rd to give us the best opportunity to have materials available for students by the time instruction begins.

Course Materials on Reserve Request Form

Cal Poly Humboldt's 29th annual Indigenous Peoples’ Week (IPW) honors Native American history, culture, and art and focuses on issues that impact Indigenous communities. It will be held Monday, October 10th through Monday, October 17th.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day was first adopted in 1992 in the city of Berkeley, California in place of Columbus Day. The recognition brings awareness to the injustices that took place against Native Americans as a result of Columbus’s false narrative of “discovering America.”

IPW events are coordinated by Indian Tribal & Educational Personnel Program, which has supported Native American Indian students for more than 50 years.

See the full schedule of events at  itepp.humboldt.edu/indigenous-peoples-week.

Try the Library's new 24/7 chat for research help. Chat with a librarian and get help with your research - anytime of the day or night!

Learn more at libguides.humboldt.edu/help/chat

The University Library invites the Cal Poly Humboldt campus community and the Arcata community to the Library ribbon cutting ceremony event.

On Wednesday, September 21 at 3pm on the steps of the Library, we will have a ribbon cutting ceremony where Provost Jenn Capps, Library Dean Cyril Oberlander, and Associated Students President Juan Giovanni Guerrero will speak about the reopening of the Library, the remarkable collaboration by all that made this milestone possible and what it means to our students.

Following the ribbon cutting, come inside the Library and take a self-guided passport tour of all four floors and rediscover your favorite places. See what spaces have changed, the new services we provide and what remains ever a classic. Start your tour in the newly renovated lower level, home to vital student support services and make your way all the way to the third floor where Special Collections and the Center for Teaching & Learning support researchers and teachers. During your journey be sure to explore the digital dissection table, the Makerspace, the augmented reality sandbox, the flight simulator and the Brain Booth, as well as, the Learning Center, The Press, and the Cal Poly Humboldt Authors Hall.

As you travel around the Library enjoy coffee, cookies and brownies and fill your passport with stamps from our eight student-inspired spaces to be eligible for a Library souvenir that will remind you why the Cal Poly Humboldt Library is a favorite destination for all.

Cal Poly Humboldt graduate and former library student assistant, Rawan Almakhloog, has joined the Library staff as a Resource Sharing and Acquisitions Support Specialist. That means she can help you find the resources you need through Interlibrary Loan from other libraries in the CSU and around the world!

Read more about Rawan on the Library blog, Our Whiteboard.

Please welcome Morgan Barker, Cal Poly Humboldt's new Sustainability Librarian!

Morgan joins us from the Center for Teaching & Learning and you can read more about her on Our Whiteboard Blog.

Amanda Dinscore, the new College of Professional Studies Librarian, joins the library staff on August 15th to help with your research and instructional needs.

Read more about her on Our Whiteboard Blog and please welcome her to campus!

Library Scholar interns lead projects such as researching and writing for the web, curating exhibits and engagement programs, creating presentations, and text layout and digitization for the Press@Humboldt. Students benefit from project-based learning and undergraduate research opportunities that produce hands-on learning in Special Collectins, Digital Media, or Scholarly Communication.

Read more in our blog at Library Scholar Internships: Experiential Learning in the Library.

Cyril Oberlander, Dean of the Cal Poly Humboldt Library shares the Library's transformation into a place with more than books during this OLLI Brown Bag Lunch Presentation on May 16, 2022. Take a virtual tour to see how smart space changes have increased the use and popularity of the University Library and hear what other exciting things are happening here! Some examples from the slideshow are below:

Transformation of the 3rd floor, north, after seating study

Images of other interactive areas found in the building: Flight Simulator, Anatomage Table, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality

For more information about OLLI and their Brown Bag Presentations go to https://extended.humboldt.edu/olli.