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The System Settings area of your LibGuides site (from Admin > System Settings) allows admin accounts to control general settings related to system information; proxy, guide and search options; analytics code; access rules; and accessibility.

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• System and institution information
  Contains general information about your LibGuides system.
• Proxy and library systems
  Allow you to integrate external systems with LibGuides.
• Guide options
  Allow you to customize the default settings for your guides.
  • Enable or disable sharing your system's guides with the LibGuides Community
• Search options
  Allow you to customize the default search scope of your guides, as well as whether or not to allow your site to be crawled by search engines.
• Add Google Analytics or other custom analytics code to LibGuides
  Allow you to embed JavaScript-based tracking code (from Google Analytics, for example) in all of your public LibGuides pages.
• Access Rules (CMS only)
  Allow you to restrict access to your LibGuides site, specific groups, individual guides, and/or e-reserves based upon a user's IP address or by authentication users via LibAuth.
  • Restrict access to your site, a group, a guide, or your e-reserves by IP address
  • Restrict access to your site, a group, or a guide with LibAuth authentication
• System settings: accessibility (CMS only)
  Allows you to enable (or disable) the use of the H1 and H2 heading choices in the rich text editor.