Books for Bulldogs is a free service that allows currently enrolled AHC students to borrow textbooks for an entire semester.
Rules and Guidelines:
- Your Allan Hancock College student ID is your library card. Your ID must be current and you must have the physical or mobile scannable ID available to check out anything from the library.
- Currently enrolled AHC students are eligible to borrow textbooks.
- Three (3) textbooks limited per student.
- There is no guarantee that requested textbooks will be available, as textbook supply is limited.
- The program does not carry access codes or course packets. (please see the bookstore for these items)
- Book orders are filled in the order requests are received.
- Requests open the morning of the first day of the semester.
BOOK PICKUP INSTRUCTIONS
Textbook requests for the Summer 2026 semester open in the library catalog June 8th. You will receive an email with pickup instructions when your request is successfully placed. If you do not receive an email your request was not filled. Please keep in mind, supplies are limited.
The libraries in Santa Maria and Lompoc both now offer students the option of using our external locker system that is avaiable 24/7. Just choose SM-Lockers or LVC-Lockers as your pickup location during the request process in the catalog.
Items not picked up after one week will be placed back into the collection.
Please refer to the Textbooks tab for more information on searching for and requesting textbooks in the catalog.