Library Guides: Local History: Home

Best Bets

If you're short on time, the following resources are your best bets:

Cuesta Library Search at https://cuestacollegelibrary.on.worldcat.org/discovery.

The Black Gold online catalog at http://www.blackgold.org/polaris/default.aspx , which shows books owned by all county libraries.

Historical Markers of San Luis Obispo County

Cal Poly Special Collections

Special Collections and Archives Department

The Kennedy Library’s Special Collections and Archives department provides access to original materials documenting the history of the San Luis Obispo region, with special emphasis on ethnic studies and environmental history.

California Historical Markers

Historical Markers of San Luis Obispo County

Welcome

Welcome to the guide for San Luis Obispo County history. Use the tabs above to navigate to different sections of the guide. This page contains general resources for county history.

Resources have been listed if they have print or online collections available for use. Museums and historical societies in the county that do not have these have not been listed; for example, Templeton Historical Society or Morro Bay Natural History Museum.

Cuesta Library Search

Online Archive of California

Online Archive of California

The Online Archive of California (OAC) provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary resource collections maintained by more than 200 contributing institutions including libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California and collections maintained by the 10 University of California campuses

Calisphere

Calisphere
Calisphere is the University of California’s free public gateway to a world of digitized primary sources. Chronologically-themed collections containing more than 150,000 photographs, documents and works of art may be searched by keyword or browsed by topic.

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Library Information

SLO CAMPUS LIBRARY HOURS

Cuesta library services are currently online. See online library hours for Spring 2021 below. Click for Information about library services.

Monday: 8 am - 8 pm
Tuesday: 8 am - 8 pm
Wednesday: 8 am - 8 pm
Thursday: 8 am - 8 pm
Friday: 8 am - 4 pm
Saturday: 10 am - 2 pm (only Feb 27, Mar 6 & 13, May 8 & 15 in Tutorial Virtual Lobby)

The Open Lab in the library on the SLO campus (building 3200) is open Mon. - Fri. 8 am - 4:30 pm for computers, printing and internet access.

For tech support requests, email support@cuesta.edu

For help getting textbooks and course reserves, email circulation@cuesta.edu

SLO PHONE (voicemail only)
Circulation Desk: (805) 546-3155
Reference Desk: (805) 546-3157

NORTH COUNTY LIBRARY HOURS

Cuesta library services are currently available online. See online library hours for Spring 2021 below. Click for Information about library services.

Monday: 8 am - 8 pm
Tuesday: 8 am - 8 pm
Wednesday: 8 am - 8 pm
Thursday: 8 am - 8 pm
Friday: 8 am - 4 pm
Saturday: 10 am - 2 pm (only Feb 27, Mar 6 & 13, May 8 & 15 in Tutorial Virtual Lobby)

The student computers in the Campus Center (building 1000) will be open Mon. - Fri. 8 am - 5 pm for internet access and printing.

For tech support requests, email support@cuesta.edu

For textbooks and course reserves, email circulation@cuesta.edu

California Newspaper Project

California Newspaper Project
The CNP catalog is the most comprehensive source of information about California newspapers. It details newspaper titles and holdings from more than 1,400 libraries, museums, historical societies and publishers' offices throughout the state. The catalog contains records for over 14,400 U.S. newspaper titles held in California repositories; close to 9,000 of these newspapers were or are published in California.