Tags are descriptive category labels or keywords that you and other library members attach to a title. Tags help you categorize titles in ways different from how your library classifies them. A tag can be a single word or a phrase.
Why Add Tags?
Tags help other members to find what they’re looking for, and enable you to organize your shelves in a meaningful way. Tags work alongside traditional indexing systems such as author, title and subject to enrich the library’s catalog. When a user clicks on a tag, they will see a list of items that have been tagged with the same term.
To add tags from a shelf
- Log in to your account.
- Go to the shelf containing the title and find the item.
- On the toolbar at the bottom of the item, click Tags.
- In the Add Tags popup, click into the text box to add that type of tag. You can add four types.
- Genre tags tell others what type of work this is, such as mystery, anime, or self-help.
- Tone tags might include gloomy, exciting or straightforward.
- Theme tags describe topics or specific subjects, such as coming of age or baking the perfect cookie.
- Personal tags are for your personal notes. Words you enter in this field are not visible to other library users, but you can still use them to filter your shelves. For example, you may want to use this to tag books read in summer 2018.
- You can type single words or phrases. Use commas to separate multiple tags.
- Click Done when you’re done entering your tags.
- Close the popup when you are finished.