As a default, your profile should appear on the home page, immediately below the navigation menu. Alternatively, you can put it at the bottom of the main column or, if you've got two content columns, anywhere in the rightmost column.
While some people like to put their profile only on the home page, be aware that the vast majority of users access guides from searching, and thus bypass the home page. Another reminder that every page is home.
Every box on the page has a title. Most of the titles tell you what's in the box. Makes sense, right? But for some reason, the default title on your profile box is "Subject Guide." That does not make sense. So you probably want to change it.
You've got a lot of options: your name, your title (if it's short), "The Author," "Contact Your Librarian," "Subject Specialist," basically anything you think describes the contents or purpose of that box. Subject Specialists should probably put their subject role, since it doesn't appear in the box (see below).
Subject specialties in LibGuides v2 are now tied directly to the guide subject taxonomy, which tend to be much broader than librarians' actual assignments. This is OK when listing the librarians associated with a subject, but not so much when listing the subjects in your profile box where it implies responsibility for entire broad disciplines. Because of this we've suppressed the subject display in profile boxes. If you want them to appear, your best option is to put them in the box title (assuming they're not too long). Alternately, you can put them in the free text area of your profile page.
A final option is to supress your system-generated profile box and create a custom profile box which you reuse on each guide. Or you can make different custom profiles for different subjects. Whichever you use, try to keep the basic elements of the standard profile for consistency.
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<div class="s-lib-profile-div s-lib-profile-center s-lib-profile-image" id="s-lib-profile-image-993"><a href="http://guides.library.ucla.edu/prf.php?account_id=1743"><img alt="Profile Image" src="//s3.amazonaws.com/libapps/accounts/1743/profiles/993/profilepic-cropped.jpg" /></a></div>
<div class="s-lib-profile-div s-lib-profile-center s-lib-profile-name" id="s-lib-profile-name-993">Scott Martin</div>
<div class="s-lib-profile-div s-lib-profile-center s-lib-profile-email" id="s-lib-profile-email-993"><a class="label label-info" href="mailto:smartin@library.ucla.edu" style="font-size:1.6em;" title="smartin@library.ucla.edu">Email Me</a></div>
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<div>Collections, Research, and Instructional Services<br />
A1540 Young Research Library</div></div>
<div class="s-lib-profile-div"><strong>Subjects:</strong>
<div>Subject 1, Subject 2, etc.</div></div>
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For various reasons, there may be times when you want to create a guide without listing a specific owner. It's not enough just to supress your profile—the guide still shows up as "by Your Name" in the listings. To get around this, we've created a dummy account under the name "UCLA Library". Any LibGuide admin can change the owner of a guide to UCLA Libary and then define you and others as editors. UCLA Library will then be the owner, and no names will be publicly associated with the guide.
Any guide "owned" by UCLA Library should still have one or more individuals responsible for maintaing it. These people should be identified on a non-visible page so that LibGuide administrators know who to contact.
There can also be dummy accounts for units or other functional groups. (Management has one.) Just ask a LibGuides admin to add one for you.You can either tie it to a real email address, in which case you can use the profile collectively, or use a fake email and delete the profile boxes.