Support Student Success Through Free Textbook Access!
Textbook on Reserves Program
Cal Poly Humboldt Library
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 85% 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!
Learn more at our Library Reserves Website. 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 upcoming Spring Semester! Get your requests in soon to ensure your texts will be available as early in the semester as possible!
Latest PMC Student Affairs
- Cal Poly Humboldt Professional Development Newsletter - September 2025This month inside Cal Poly Humboldt Professional Development Newsletter:
- 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.”
- L4Humboldt: Gather & Grow Schedule: Week of August 4 - August 8There is one more week of L4Humboldt: Gather & Grow. L4Humboldt offers a unique opportunity to connect with colleagues and the local community, foster meaningful relationships, and exchange knowledge and ideas. You are invited to explore 10 sessions taking place the final week of August 4 – August 8. Monday, August 4 12pm - Music, Time, Meaning and You, Library room 209 2pm - Making Vision Boards & Button Art, Library room 209 Tuesday, August 5
- L4Humboldt: Gather & Grow Schedule: Week of July 28 - August 1There are two more weeks of L4Humboldt: Gather & Grow. L4Humboldt offers a unique opportunity to connect with colleagues and the local community, foster meaningful relationships, and exchange knowledge and ideas. Check out all upcoming sessions here. You are invited to explore 11 sessions taking place the week of July 28–August 1. Monday, July 28 1pm - Cultivating a Growth Mindset, Library West Windows, 2nd fl
- You're Invited: Equity Arcata Open House & Crabs Game – Saturday, July 2Equity Arcata is excited to welcome the campus and local community to an Open House event on Saturday, July 26, celebrating the organization’s new office at "The Annex" (925 E Street, behind the Arcata Transit Center, between 9th & 10th Streets). This event is designed to foster connection, uplift community voices, and engage residents in shaping a more equitable Arcata. Open House: 4:00–6:00 p.m.