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The UCLA Library Research Guides (LibGuides) system is intended to provide public research guides for users of the UCLA Library. All published guides should be designed with this goal in mind.
All published guides must conform to the rules of the Library's web and editorial style guides.
Research Guides content is governed by the Library's web content strategy.
Research Guides section:
Curated lists of resources and instructional content by subject or course should utilize the LibGuides content management platform. This allows database assets to utilize the A-Z Database List, which is centrally maintained by the Electronic Resources Management Committee (ERMAC) in conjunction with the California Digital Library (CDL). Research Guides (LibGuides) resources/pages can be linked from the website using Simple Cards or Associated Content flexible page blocks.
Do not use LibGuides for the following Library website content types: Services, Events, News, Location information, Spaces, Workshop Series or Event Series, Programs/Initiatives, Job Listings or Student Jobs/Opportunities, Library Policies or Staff Member Profiles.
See the full content strategy.
Accounts may be created for non-Library staff, but only for the purpose of collaborating on the production of public UCLA Library research guides. All guides must have at least one Library employee as a co-owner. (Note that the Law Library has its own LibGuides subscription, as do most of the other UCs.) All content created in the system is copyrighted by the Regents of the University of California
When a guide owner leaves the Library, that individual's unit should designate someone else to take ownership of their guides on an interim or permanent basis and inform one of the LibGuide system administrators to make the transfer. The new guide owner is responsible for maintaining the guide and serving as a point of contact for questions related to it. A generic "UCLA Library" account is available for guides we don't want publicly associated with an individual, but "behind the scenes" there still needs to be someone responsible for maintaining those anonymous guides. (This information can be recorded on invisible pages inaccessible to the public.)
Admin: This level is held by members of the LibApps Management team, DIIT and selected staff involved in maintaining the A-Z List.
Regular: The standard account level.
Editor: A special account for editing individual guides.