You can get help with your research, even when you can't come to campus!
Use the icon above to contact a reference librarian by chat or email.
If chat is not available at the moment, email library-reference@redwoods.edu, and a librarian will respond as quickly as possible. Please allow at least 48 hours for responses to emails!
Many useful resources are available in the College of the Redwoods Library, including books, reference books, eBooks, and videos. Additional resources may be available at the Del Norte or Humboldt County Libraries and Cal Poly Humboldt Library. Visit those libraries' websites to search their catalogs. Use OneSearch to find books and other resources about your topic in the CR library and selected, college-level resources on the web.
The Humboldt State University call numbers are the same Library of Congress numbers as those at College of the Redwoods.
Check the Reference sections also.
Humboldt County Library Call Numbers
At the public library check the catalog, but also be aware that useful resources may be in the Juvenile or children's collection, the YA or Young Adult collection and in the Reference section.
Reference materials have detailed information about various topics. They must be used in the library. This means that they are always available for students.
General collection and Oversize books can be borrowed for three weeks and renewed for another three weeks. Books are filed in alpha-numeric order on the shelf by "call number", a unique location code number. If you click on a book in the gallery below, and it's a print book, you will open the library catalog record with the information you need to request the book by phone - be sure to copy down the call number, title and author.
E-books are listed in OneSearch along with printed books, and can be used for research exactly the same way you would use a traditional book. If a book in the gallery below is an e-Book, it will open on your computer screen, but it may require you to login to open it if you are off-campus.
You can limit your search to e-books by selecting "book" as the resource type, and selecting availability of "online". Most e-books allow you to print or download a certain number of pages to your device, but how many varies from one publisher to another.
Streaming videos are available through the library's video databases, including Films on Demand. You can search for additional online videos by going directly to Films on Demand using the link below.
Below are some specific videos that are available from Films on Demand:
DVDs are located on the shelves beside the Reference Desk. They can be checked out.
Any Humboldt County resident can get a free public library card.
To get an HSU library card, if you are not enrolled as an HSU student or employed by HSU, you must pay a fee.