Keyword search asks you to guess the phrase the author chose. Pustakalaya reads for meaning instead — so the question you actually have is enough to find the page that answers it.
“why does a transformer core get hot even when nothing is plugged in?”
→ Electrical Machines, ch. 4, p.112 — hysteresis loss
→ IEEE Trans. Magn. 2019 — core loss at no load
→ Solved paper, GATE 2021, Q.34
020 — Library & information sciences
Full shelves, empty search logs.
Most institutional collections are well stocked and barely used. The collection is rarely the problem — the way in is. Four things a keyword box can’t do:
01
Read the question, not the keywords
Intent, subject and reading level are all taken from how the question is phrased, then matched against meaning across every format you hold.
02
Summarise with the receipts
The gist of a chapter or a paper in seconds, every statement linked back to the page it came from. Nothing unsourced.
03
Order the reading
Give it a topic and it sequences what you hold — foundations, then depth, then practice — instead of returning a flat list.
04
Index what's already yours
Theses, notes and a decade of past papers come in during onboarding and sit under the same search as everything else.