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Access articles and electronic books from the Library's subscription databases from off-campus! When you click on a database, you will be prompted for your user name (your student ID) and PIN (the two-digit month and day of your birth in MMDD format). You can also go directly to https://library.wlac.edu.

Example for student with ID number 88-123-4567 born February 25th:

User name: 881234567
PIN: 0225

OneSearch Library Catalog Tutorial

This Fall 2022 Semester, the library is offering a new online OneSearch Library Catalog Tutorial.  The tutorial is available in our library catalog, in many of our library research guides, and on our library website.

Upon completion of the OneSearch Library Catalog Tutorial, library patrons should be able to:

1. Find the OneSearch online library catalog.

2. Search for and locate books and e-books, videos, articles, digital media, and more in the library's collection.

3. Request items from other LACCD libraries.

At the end of the tutorial, there is a short online quiz, which provides users feedback.

Watch the video tutorial below for a demonstration of how to search ProQuest databases.

Search ProQuest below for articles related to dental hygiene or mortuary studies.

Below are suggested databases and search tips for your research.

• Use AND to narrow your results by searching for two keywords simultaneously. 
  Example: cavities AND flossing
• Use OR to broaden your results by searching for either of two or more keywords
  Enclose terms separated by OR in parentheses
  Example: (cavities OR caries)
• Use quotation marks ("") to search for terms as a phrase
  Example: "tooth decay"
• Use asterisks to retrieve additional forms of a word
  Example: teen* retrieves teens, teenager, teenagers, teenaged.
• Limit results to academic or scholarly sources for academic sources.
• Limit results to reviews to see just book reviews.
• Limit results to desired time period

Putting it all together

Use all the above search tip sto refine your search. 
Example: ("tooth decay" OR caries OR cavities) AND (children OR youth OR adolescen*)

Find additional information through the following databases.

Winter 2025 In-Person Hours (Jan 6 - Feb 6)

Monday - Thursday: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Friday-Sunday, Holidays: Closed

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