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The oldest Library on campus.
What is Powell (College) Library?
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This is where you can get 1 on 1 research consultation with a reference specialist.
Where is the Inquiry Space in 220 Powell Library?
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This where you can study for 24 hours starting third week of the quarter.
What is Night Powell? **During 10th and finals week, all of Powell will be open 24/7, offering free coffee and fruit at midnight.
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This building has free printing (100 pages), test banks, counseling, and swimming pool.
What is the Student Activities Center (SAC)?
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Students can eat and drink here while they study.
What is the food policy in some Libraries?
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There are 10 of these on campus.
What is the number of UCLA libraries on campus.
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This is where you can get help with formatting, proofreading, and writing essays.
What is the Undergraduate Writing Center? *Located in A61 Humanities Powell 228 (Sun-Thurs 6-9 pm)
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This is where you can rent a textbook that a professor has put on 2 hour reserve for your class.
What are the course reserves?
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This program allows you to participate in meditation, play with puppies, get a massage, do origami and more at Powell Library.
What are the Stressbusters series?
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Cookbooks, Graphic Novels, Travel Books, Manga, Science Fiction, Recent Fiction (and even a sustainability collection).
What are the community collections/fun books/nonacademic book collections in the Library?
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This method helps you choose an interesting paper topic, then narrow it down until you find a specific research question.
What is topic mapping?
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This new service for students provides research help on the Hill, partnering with the Undergraduate Writing Center.
Where is Rieber 115? **Open Sunday - Thursday, 7 - 9 PM
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This is where can you find information about summer travel study and education abroad programs.
What is the International Education Office in 1332 Murphy Hall?
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This is an organization that promotes campus mental health and wellness promotion through individual counseling and psychotherapy, group therapy, emergency intervention, and more. Located near the Intramural Field and Wooden Center.
What is CAPS (Counseling and Psychological Services)?
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Concerts, Dances, Edible Book Festival, International Game Day more!
What are events at the Library?
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Item needed to check out laptops and books, pay for printing and photocopying, and enter the building after the library closes.
What is the Bruincard?
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You use this method to figure out a paper topic and narrow your research questions.
What is topic mapping?
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These are located at Young Research Library and allow multiple people to work together. HDTVs are available at these stations. Talking is allowed.
What are the collaboration pods? ** You can reserve these pods at the CLICC Lab within 24 hours (library.ucla.edu/clicc)
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This is an organization that promotes academic achievement and excellence through academic advising, collaborative learning workshops, mentoring, scholarships and more. (Located in Campbell Hall).
What is AAP (Academic Advancement Program)? **high-need families, are the first in their families to go to college, are recent immigrants, or come from populations that have been historically underrepresented at the university
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Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 here with a typewriter.
Where is the basement of Powell?
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The on campus location where you can access rare and unique primary resources including letters, photographs, books, maps and oral histories.
What are the UCLA Library Special Collections? For example, there are at YRL and the Biomedical Library
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This is a guide compiled by a librarian for a subject area that contains relevant readings, databases specific to your subject, and more.
What is a Library Research Guide?
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This where you can get 24/7 online research help from a librarian.
What is the "Ask a Librarian" widget?
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This is how you access UCLA's digital resources from off campus.
What is the Proxy Server or Virtual Private Network (VPN)?
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You can rent laptops with expensive programs, and reserve group study rooms here.
What is the CLICC Lab?