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GODORT Best Practices for LibGuides

Subjects

For Lib Admins, available subjects are listed at https://godort.libapps.com/libguides/classifications/subjects. See the GODORT Subjects below.

Additional subjects include:

  • Indexes and Databases
  • Public Policy
  • How To
  • Topics in the News
  • Social Justice, Civil Rights
  • State Government 
  • Local Government
  • International

*Contact a member of the Technology Committee to add a subject.

Assigning Subjects and Tags to a Guide

Subject categories provide a way to organize guides by topic, discipline, or subject area. On the default LibGuides homepage, these will appear grouped under the "By Subject" tab.

Tags provide a way to organize guides by keywords. Primarily used to improve search results, you can also create widgets that allow users to view guides assigned to your tags.

Steps to Assign Subjects and Tags

To edit a guide's assigned subjects and tags, you must first edit your guide.

Adding Subjects:

Click on the pencil icon next to the Subjects field at the top of the guide.

From the Select Subjects modal, choose the subject categories you want to apply from the dropdown.
You can assign a guide to as many subjects as you'd like.

  • You can only choose from the listed subjects.
  • New subjects can only be added from the Admin > Metadata & URLs > Subjects tab.

Save.

Adding Tags:

Click on the pencil icon next to the Tags field at the top of the guide.

From the Select Tags modal, start typing the name of your tag in the text field.
If that tag already exists in the system, select it from the dropdown list of results.
Otherwise, you can add your new tag by simply pressing Enter when you finish typing.
​Click the OK button.