## 5.1. Who owns a reading list?

If you want to collaborate, it is important to know who owns a reading list. Formally, you are not automatically the owner (List owner) of a reading list that you have created. Your profile shows the lists that you own in the Lists owned by me tab (see Figure 2).

This may seem like an unusual approach, but it ensures that educational support staff and others (such as student assistants or university library staff) can create reading lists for teaching staff when they do not have the time or are unable to do so themselves.

Please note: Before you can formally make someone the owner of a reading list, the future owner must have logged into VU Reading Lists at least once so that they are known to the system.

If you create reading lists for others, you can make them List owner by going to the Edit menu of the relevant reading list and using the Assign list owner option (Figure 20). This can be yourself or a colleague at the VU. It is also possible to have more than one owner – this can be useful if a course has multiple lecturers.

The main purpose of adding a List owner is to make it easier for students to find the list in VU Reading Lists by searching for the name of their lecturer. This also means that being a List owner does not automatically mean that you can add new items to that list and publish the list. For that, you need the role of List publisher (see section 5.2). All VU employees are automatically assigned the role of List publisher when they log in to VU Reading Lists for the first time.

Figure 20 The Edit menu in a VU Reading List

When you have assigned someone else as the owner of a list, that list will show up in their My Lists-tab of the main menu. If you no longer need to work with the list, you can then safely remove it from your own My Lists-tab; the list will not be deleted.