On the Change Document Library Settings page, you can do the following:

• Change the description of the document library, the contact name and e-mail address, and the version limit.

  Note  If you are a server farm administrator, you can change the document library display name.

• Find links to manage document library security, document profiles, and content sources.

Edit the settings for a document library

1. Navigate to the Change Document Library Settings page by doing one of the following:
   • On the SharePoint Portal Server Central Administration for server_name page, in the Component Configuration section, click Configure document libraries (Web Storage System-based) . On the List and Manage Document Libraries page, click Edit to the right of the document library that you want to change.
   • On the Site Settings page, in the Optional Document Libraries section, click Change document library settings.
2. On the Change Document Library Settings page, in the Name and Description section, in the Document library description box, you can change the description for the document library.

   If you are a server farm administrator, you can change the name in the Document library friendly name box.

3. In the Document Library Contact section, you can do the following:
   1. In the Contact name box, change the name of the user or group to which you are assigning overall responsibility for the document library.
   2. In Contact e-mail address box, change the e-mail address for the contact.

      The contact e-mail address can be that of an individual user or a group. This e-mail address is used as the reply-to address for e-mail messages sent by the document library during document approval routes.

4. In the Specify version limit check box, you can change the limit in the Number of versions to retain box.

   Note  This setting does not affect the number of minor versions retained.

5. In the Document Library Tasks section, there are links from which you can do the following:
   • Manage document library security. For more information, see Manage Security for a Backward-Compatible Document Library.
   • Manage document profiles. For more information, see Create a Document Profile.
   • Manage content sources. For more information, see Managing Content Sources.

   Note  If you click the links to navigate away from the Change Document Library Settings page before saving your changes, you may lose the changes.

6. Click OK.