Support Student Success Through Free Textbook Access!
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 short term loans to students enrolled in those classes. We currently possess 89% of all reported required texts for the Fall 2025 Semester, but we can get that number higher!
We are now taking requests for Fall 2025 textbooks! Get your requests in soon so you can to ensure your texts are available to students at the beginning of the semester!
Submit your Textbook on Reserve Requests today!
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. Now is the time to add texts to our Course Reserves for the Fall Semester! Get your requests in soon to ensure your texts will be available as early in the semester as possible!
Latest PMC Academic Affairs
- Webinar Series: 2025 Navigating (Beyond) Academic WatersCo-hosted by the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Hydrology Section Student Subcommittee August 27 - November 5, 2025
- Mid-Semester Feedback ProgramFaculty - did you know that you can receive confidential feedback from your students at mid-semester to assist you in understanding how they are experiencing your class?
- The Learning Center has an new AI PolicyLearning Center AI Policy The Learning Center supports student success by fostering deep, lasting learning through active engagement, evidence-based strategies, and peer-to-peer collaboration. As generative AI becomes more integrated into education and the workplace, the Center views it as a tool to augment—not replace—human learning.
- You're Invited: Arcata Sanctuary in Solidarity Day – Saturday, August 23rdAs part of Cal Poly Humboldt’s Fall 2025 student orientation and in collaboration with Centro del Pueblo and Equity Arcata, which is a partnership between Cal Poly Humboldt and the City of Arcata, we invite you to join us on Saturday, August 23rd, for “Sanctuary in Solidarity Day.”
- Get a FREE annual membership with ZipCar!Cal Poly Humboldt has partnered with Zipcar, with four cars on campus that are available on-demand 24/7 and that can be reserved by the hour or day. Sign up by 11/15/2025 and get a FREE annual membership! Zipcar is car sharing, an alternative to car rental and car ownership that gives you the freedom to take a car when you want it, and put it back when you’re done. With ZipCar you get: