General Library Information
The three campus libraries provide access to books, periodicals and electronic resources. Professional librarians are always available to assist students.

Students may check out materials on any campus in the district with their San Jacinto College ID card. The online catalog provides access to over 200,000 volumes on the three campuses. Most materials can be checked out for three weeks. Each library’s handbook, available either online on the San Jacinto College website or in hard copy, describes the resources in each library in more detail.

Students may check out books from many colleges and universities in Texas by presenting a valid San Jacinto College ID card along with a TexShare card, which is available from all San Jacinto College libraries. The three libraries also facilitate interlibrary borrowing. The library charges borrowers for overdue or lost materials. There is a charge of fifty cents ($.50) per day on each overdue item and $1.00 per day for the reserve items that can be checked out.

Students on all campuses have online access to a large number of databases in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as to the full text of over 6,000 periodicals through TexShare. Librarians provide instruction in using these resources and accessing them from home. Reference assistance is also available by email at the Library Website: Ask a Librarian.