Faculty Toolkit

Library Resources at a Glance

Welcome to the Hostos Community College Library website. We offer academic resources and services to support college programs, individual courses, faculty research and much more. 

About the Hostos Library Collections

Hostos Library Collections include:

• Print books: We have over 50,000 books in our circulating and reference collections. The Reserves collection contains nearly 1000 current textbooks and other required texts.

• Ebooks: Hostos has access to over 90,000 scholarly ebooks. We also subscribe to over 5000 titles to support our allied health, office technology, social sciences, and science, and humanities programs.

• Journals: Through nearly 175 databases and individual subscriptions, we provide access to nearly 60,000 journals.

• DVD’s and streaming videos: Hostos has nearly 2000 films on DVD available in our audiovisual and leisure collections and we subscribe to streaming services that provide access to thousands more titles.

• Leisure collections: We make popular periodicals, books, and DVDs available to patrons to encourage the joy of reading and of watching great films.