 What is a LibGuide? An Introduction to Library Research Guides. This video tutorial introduces library research guides or LibGuides, what they are and where to find them on the library website. LibGuides or LibGuides are library guides created by your Bellevue College librarians. There are different types of LibGuides. Topic guides, like the Nothing About Us Without Us, LibGuide for Disability Advocacy and Awareness, Course Guides, curated for classes at BC, such as this English 201 guide, Subject Guides, like this guide for sustainability. These guides provide starting points for research in a particular field of study, and how-to guides, such as the Citation Style and Formatting Guides for MLA and APA. In addition to providing resources on a specific topic or field of study, most LibGuides also include contact information for the Subject Librarian for that field, usually on the guide home page. Here's the Health and Wellness Resources Guide, which has a photo of Subject Librarian Lisa. To find the LibGuides, start at the library home page, then click on the menu option for Research Guides. This will bring you to the LibGuides home page. You can view guides by group, subject, type, and owner, or show all LibGuides at once. Use the search bar under the menu options to search for a specific guide or topic. Let's check out the MLA9 LibGuide. This is the ninth and most recent edition of MLA. The Citation Guides, such as the MLA9 guide, have resources for formatting citations as well as example citations. The home page provides an overview of this guide, and there are menu options on the left side of the page. The What Are Citations option from the menu gives a definition and overview of citations and why it's important to cite your sources. About MLA9 explains what has changed between this ninth edition of MLA and previous editions. It also gives an overview of MLA as a citation and formatting style. Now let's click on the menu option for Citing Articles. This page gives the basic format for an article citation as well as example citations for articles from common publication formats, print, database, and websites. Other menu options provide format and examples for MLA9 citations of books, videos, music, and much more. Another menu option gives examples for in-text citations. The Questions page offers additional resources for MLA9 citations and formatting. If you have additional questions, please contact your BC Librarians. You can reach us on the Ask a Librarian chat or by email, reference at BellevueCollege.edu.