University Archives staff have digitized many of the materials in University Archives and provide public online access to these materials. They are accessed through Digital Commons (student publications, Academic Senate) and University Archives Online Collections (photos, yearbooks, catalogs, unpublished documents, audiovisual materials, etc.). You can search across these collections broadly at these links:
Tips for searching online:
Or you can search within specific collections, which are listed here:
Course Catalogs
Student Newspapers
Cal Poly Report
Annual Reports
Cal Poly Academic Senate Minutes, Agendas, and Resolutions
El Rodeo Yearbooks
The computer uses something called "Optical Character Recognition" (OCR) to read the page. Depending on the quality of the original text, the text that the computer reads may not be clean. See this example:
Sometimes you may not find what you are searching for because the computer did not read the text correctly! Try many different keywords to search if you are not finding what you are looking for.