Quick Links
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- UCLA Library CatalogThe UCLA Library Catalog lists books and journals (not journal articles) owned by the UCLA Library.
- SRLF (Southern Regional Library Facility)Many library materials, archives, and manuscript collections are housed in the SRLF. Utilizing high-density shelving, the collections are stored in a climate-controlled environment designed to preserve them. Materials can be retrieved for use in campus libraries or to be checked out.
- Campus Library Instructional Computing Commons (CLICC)Borrow a laptop, reserve a group study room, use a scanner, etc.
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- UCLA Schedule of Classes
Welcome
This guide is designed to help you get started using the UCLA Library. It is not subject-specific--you can select other guides that have been created for a class or a discipline. Click on Research Guides at the top of this page to get to the list.
The UCLA Library houses more than ten million volumes and forty thousand journal subscriptions. Reference librarians are available to help you with your research needs, in-person, by telephone, by email, by on-line chat, on 
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Course Reserves
The Course Reserves tab in the UCLA Library Catalog lists all materials placed on reserve by instructors in the Arts, Biomedical, College, East Asian, Management, Music, Research, and Science and Engineering libraries, including:
- Library-owned materials (books, compact disks, video, etc.)
- Instructors’ personal copies of materials
- Electronic documents (articles from online journals, scanned versions of print documents, sound recordings, images, and Web pages)
Course lists from this tab show the circulation status of library-owned materials and instructors’ personal copies.
Get Help
- Get Help!Ask for help in person at a reference desk, by phone, email, or chat.
- Find a Subject SpecialistYou can consult with librarians about your topic. Check this list to find one who works in your subject area and contact them by phone or email.
- Research GuidesLibrarians have created dozens of research guides for specific classes or disciplines that will lead you to resources, both digital and print.
Connect from Off-Campus or via Wireless On-Campus
Most of the links on these pages go to subscription sources which are accessible from any computer on campus. UCLA students, faculty, and staff can access these sites from off-campus using either the Bruin Online Proxy Server (a simple setting in your browser) or the UCLA VPN Client (a program you install on your computer).
To access restricted resources from your laptop on campus, use either the eduroam wireless network (secure data connection) or the UCLA_WIFI wireless network (restricted, but unsecured).
[NOTE: If you are using a Mac, you may need to use Firefox, not Safari, to read some of the pdf material.]
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