Organizing Libraries | SharePoint Tutorial pdf

Organizing Libraries

Libraries are a way to organize documents within a site. There are a couple factors to help you decide when to create a new library and where to put it:
=> WSS limits searches to the site-level. If you’re not using MOSS or MOSS/S, include all of the libraries you want members to be able to search in top-level sites rather than sub-sites.
=> There are no hard limits to the number of files you can have in a document library, but <4000 files per folder provides the best performance. Also, it makes sense to organize libraries in a way that users can find documents without too much scrolling or paging.
=> You can have a very large number of libraries in a single site. Again, it makes sense to organize libraries in a way that users can find them without too much scrolling or paging.
You organize the documents within a library using folders or views. Each approach has advantages and disadvantages as shown in Table.
Table:. Organizing documents with folders or views