When searching for books in the UCLA Library Catalog, here are a few strategies:
- Do a Keyword search using terms or phrases (put whole phrases in "quotation marks").
- If you have the title of a book you want, do a Title search.
- If you find a useful book, click on the Subject(s) to get a list of subject headings that will lead to other books on the same topic.
- Use a question mark to find all words that share a root. Searching for american? will retrieve american and americans.
- If you already have a book or article on your topic, use its bibliography to find others on the same topic.