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Community Engagement and Social Change M190A (Fall 2019)

Find resources to help you do the research and write your paper for this class.

Subject Headings and Call Numbers

Use subject headings to identify useful books for your research. Use call numbers to locate the books you have identified.

Possible Library of Congress subject heading to use for topics in your prompt. Search Subject List (start of) for: 

  • Educational change
​Once you get to a list of Subject headings, you can select the ones you want and click on them to get to a list of titles. 

Interlibrary Loan

If you need a book or journal article that the UCLA Library does not own or is lost or missing, you can make an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) request and we will try to get it for you. Use the form linked on this page. There is no cost for making an ILL request, but you should allow one or two weeks for the item to arrive. Journal articles will most often be sent to you as a link to a pdf scan in your email.

How to Read a Book

Tips for Book Searching

When searching for books in the UCLA Library Catalog, here are a few strategies to start with:

  1. If you are not sure of where to start, do a Keyword search for relevant terms or phrases (put the phrases in "quotation marks")
  2. If you find a useful title, click on the Subject(s): to get a list of subject headings that will lead to other books on the same topic
  3. If you already have a relevant book or article in hand, use its bibliography to find other sources on the same topic
  4. If you have the title of the book you want, do a Title (start of) search to find the call number
  5. Use quotation marks if you want to search a phrase
  6. Use ? to truncate a word, e.g., america? will retrieve american and americans

Powell Library Map Check to see where your call number is located.

Young Research Library Map Check to see where your call number is located.

Dissertations

The UCLA Library provides access to the full-text of many dissertations through our subscription to ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. The link to full-text does not always appear in the UCLA Library Catalog. If you find a reference to a dissertation (often in an article database), the best strategy is to go to the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses website and search for the Document title. If the full-text is available, there will be a  link to click on.