Online Catalogs
To find books in the UCLA Library and beyond, use the following catalogs:
- UC Library Search This link opens in a new windowContains information about materials owned by the UCLA Library and other UCLA collections.
Does not contain full-text articles or article citations. - WorldCat (OCLC FirstSearch) This link opens in a new window
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Contains the holdings of thousands of libraries worldwide. Citations for books, journals, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, computer files, newspapers, slides, videotapes, etc., in a variety of languages.
Tips for Book Searching
When searching for books, here are a few strategies to start with:
- If you are not sure of where to start, do a KEYWORD search for relevant terms or phrases (put the phrases in "quotation marks".
- If you already have a relevant book or article in hand, use its bibliography to find other sources;
- Do a subject heading search in a catalog (see box to the right).
- Use quotation marks if you want to search a phrase.
- Use ? to truncate a word, e.g., american? will retrieve american and americans.
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