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Services for Students
Textbooks on Reserve
Borrow your textbook from the library and save money! Check the Course Reserves list by class or instructor to see if the library has it. If you don't see your class listed, ask your professor to place the textbook on reserve.
Research Help
Reference Librarians are available 24/7 to help with your research projects and assignments.
Start by looking for materials at Cal Poly Humboldt in OneSearch, the Library's online catalog. The catalog has close to a million records for all types of materials that you have access to immediately, not just books, but video, electronic books, magazines, and more.
If you don't find what you're looking for through the Library, you're not out of luck. We can help you find materials from other CSU libraries and libraries throughout the world and it’s free to make a request! OneSearch searches the combined CSU Catalog of all 23 libraries and request items using the built-in interlibrary loan system. For anything else you can’t find through the CSU Libraries log in to InterLibrary Loan and make a request!
A critical part of the student research process is keeping track of references (citations)—journal papers, books, web pages, images, quotations, etc.—that support your research so that you can properly cite them in your work using a required publication style. Zotero is the recommended reference management tool for Cal Poly Humboldt students. Check out the SkillShops Calendar to see if a free workshop will be offered to get you started with Zotero.
OneSearch, the Library's online catalog has over 4000 theses produced since 1950. You can browse by degree and/or enter a subject or title keyword or phrase, author or year. Results can be sorted by author, title or year. Most theses from Fall 2005 onward are available fulltext in Humboldt Digital Commons.
SkillShops/Workshops
SkillShops are free, co-curricular workshops facilitated by staff, faculty and students across campus. Each Skillshop is 50-minutes and helps you explore, create, and innovate with topics related to personal, professional, and academic success. Check out the SkillShops & Programs Calendar to register or to see the dates and times of current offerings or select from a number of more advanced and specialized Online Skillshops!
Journals & Magazines
The Cal Poly Humboldt library offers you access to well over 70,000 journals and magazines and the vast majority are online, electronic only. If you know of a title that you want to see, use our Journal Finder to look up a title or browse by subject categories.
If you are looking for articles on a subject or topic, select one of our specialized databases from our Articles and Databases pages. Most journals and magazines are available in full text online, but if you see a link to Find It @ Cal Poly Humboldt, click it. The Find It @ Cal Poly Humboldt service links all of our full text electronic journals together and automatically connects you to Interlibrary Loan when we don't have a subscription.
Loan Periods
Loan periods for books and other materials vary
Learning Center/Writing Studio
The Learning Center, located on the first floor, south, offers free tutoring for engineering, math, science, and general subjects. They also run the Writing Studio, providing free writing support for Cal Poly Humboldt students at any stage of the writing process and the Supplemental Instruction (SI) program to help you succeed.
Events
In addition to presentations and poetry readings that are scheduled throughout the year, the Cal Poly Humboldt Library hosts annual events that everyone is invited to attend and participate.
Each fall, when classes start, there is a Welcome Back Open House, where everyone can be introduced to the services and features that the Library offers.
In February, The Cal Poly Humboldt Authors Celebration in the Authors Hall honors Cal Poly Humboldt authors for their scholarship and creative work. Any member of the Cal Poly Humboldt community, including authors themselves, may submit the names of authors using this form.
ideaFest is a showcase of research and creative projects held on the first Friday of May. More than hundreds of students, faculty, & staff from Cal Poly Humboldt present their research, performances, digital projects, and more! The research may also be published in Humboldt Digital Commons or the ideaFest Journal.