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A Guide to LibGuides: Find out about how to create and edit LibGuides, view training sessions, & check out some tips, tricks, and best practices for guides.

"Top of the Guide" Checklist

Subject(s): REQUIRED for Visibility & Findability

  • Add subject associations to your guide by clicking on the pencil icon in the top left corner next to Subjects
  • Please associate your guide with at least one subject for findability

Tag(s): REQUIRED for Visibility & Findability

  • Add tags to your guide by clicking on the pencil icon after
  • Please associate your guide with at least one tag for findability
  • Use old Tags or create new ones
  • Add as many as you like

Discover by Design

Subjects:

  • Subject categories allow you to organize your guides by a particular subject area. This allows users to easily find and access subject-specific LibGuides via the FIU Libraries comprehensive Subject Resources page. 
  • Subject experts can also be added to subject-specific guides to let patrons know who they can reach out to for additional assistance.

Tips:

  • Make sure your assigned subjects are relevant to guide content.
  • More subjects means higher visibility.
  • If you feel there is a subject that would apply but isn't available, reach out to Guide Admins to see if a new subject can be added.

Tags:

  • Tags provide a way to organize guides by keywords. Unlike subject categories, which can help facilitate easier browsing, tags are used to improve search results.
  • Not only do tags help improve the relevancy ranking of guides, they also appear as facets on the search results page, giving patrons another option for filtering results.

Tips:

  • No such thing as too many tags!
  • Try to include common misspellings.
  • Try to include any acronyms or abbreviations.
  • Think of ways a student would word a search.

Having a hard time? Try ChatGPT!

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Image of ChatGPT providing examples of tags related to Asian Studies.