Everything goes in the one box at the top. A call number goes to the shelf map; anything else searches UCLA’s catalog.
Results are scoped to the library you say you’re at, newest first, and widen to the rest of UCLA only if yours has nothing. All 21 libraries work. Only Biomed stacks copies resolve to a shelf you can walk to.
The catalog ranks nothing and corrects no spelling, so both happen here. A typo or two still finds the book.
Each control is shorthand for a token you could type. The tokens are echoed above the results, so nothing narrows silently.
Type field:value anywhere. Quote values with spaces, prefix with - to exclude. Everything else is ordinary search text. Every index below was probed live on 2026‑08‑05; none of them returns nothing.
title: ti:title:"internal medicine"author: au: by:au:"longo, dan"subject: su:mesh:mesh:neoplasmslcsh:series:series:Langegenre: form:genre:atlases, genre:handbooksuniform:publisher: pub:pub:Elsevierplace:note:isbn: issn:cn: call:cn:"WM 100" browses the class.nlm: lc:lang:lang:spanish, lang:jpnyear: date:year:2015 · year:>=2015 · year:2010..2020 · year:2015+ · year:1990safter: before:after:2015 before:2020type: format:material: item:loc:loc:birfat: in:at:yrl, at:powell, at:law, at:sel, at:arts, at:music, at:clark, at:srlf… Also at:here for the one you picked, at:stacks for Biomed’s walkable shelves, at:ucla for everywhere.sort:word*cardio* catches cardiology and cardiovascular. End of a word only: *word is ignored, car*logy matches nothing.all relation: every word must appear somewhere in the record. Quote a phrase to require the words together.shelf:shelf:yes keeps only copies that resolve to a real shelf face.level:level:8 or level:8,10. Only books on those stack levels.avail:avail:yes. Only titles Alma reports as on the shelf now.online:online:no. Excludes anything with an electronic copy.editions:editions:all lists every printing separately instead of grouping them.carrier: is:carrier:print excludes them. Editions group per carrier, so a recording never leads a book.Examples:
Upload photos of ILL slips or a pull list (JPEG/PNG) and the call numbers are read for you, or type them in.
The walk starts at the highest floor and takes the stairs down one floor at a time. The elevator skips floors or goes up. Over five books is a truck trip, so it is the elevator between every floor.
Text recognition runs in your browser and is imperfect, especially on handwriting. Check the list before building.