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Borrowing materials
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Our normal hours are 9:00 AM-4:45 PM, but hours change on holidays and at finals. For a full calendar, click here.
Enter the sliding doors on the 3rd floor of the A building. For maps and directions, click here.
Getting help
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Subscriptions
Certain courses at Hostos are now "zero textbook cost" courses. They have been designed so that you do not have to buy any books, and instead will read materials that are available for free.
To find these courses in OneSearch, click on "course attribute":
Then scroll down to select "zero textbook cost" from the dropdown menu:
Many colleges are now looking for alternatives to expensive textbooks, using what are called Open Educational Resources (OER). To learn more about OER projects at Hostos, please see this guide - it was written mainly for faculty, but may also interest you if you are a student interested in learning more.
FREE digital subscriptions to the New York Times and to the Wall Street Journal are available for all CUNY students, faculty, and staff. For both newspapers:
If you’re looking for older articles, please note that this subscription will only let you download five articles/year published between 1923-1980. The good news is that you can use the New York Times Historical Database – this is a resource that Hostos Library already subscribes to. From here, you can access an unlimited number of older NYT articles published between 1851 and five years ago.