Strategies to improve findability
There are three especially useful ways to make your guide more findable: guide titles, subject associations, and keyword tags you can assign.
Subject Associations
- Subject Associations show up as main heading on the LibGuides site
- Add as many relevant subjects as needed to make guide findable
- Request new subjects to be added through the instruction coordinator
Assigned Tags
- Tags help group topics together by context
- Try to use no more than 10 tags
- Use existing tag when relevant to group tag categories
Guide Titles
- Format class guides titles by using the department, course number and instructor name so students can find the class guide
- Format subject guides with the name of the discipline
- Format other guide titles with descriptive words and keep titles to 2 or 3 words
- Ex: Choosing Your Sources, Doing Literature Reviews
- All guides should have an easy URL assigned for ease of linking Use an underscore between words
- Example: eng280_rosenberger