# Contents management in Library

**URL:** https://discuss.openedx.org/t/contents-management-in-library/5945
**Category:** Educators
**Created:** [October 13, 2021, 11:31am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/contents-management-in-library/5945 "2021-10-13T11:31:52Z")
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### Author: ![Hoang\_PHAM\_HUY](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/hoang_pham_huy/32/2216_2.png) [@Hoang\_PHAM\_HUY](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Hoang_PHAM_HUY)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2021, 11:31am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/contents-management-in-library/5945/1 "2021-10-13T11:31:52Z")

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Hi

I really like Library in open edX. I can define question bank by Library and apply those questions in many courses.

That’s perfect, but… It is so primitive the feature of Library now. For example I want to group questions into categories, or I want to define the level of difficulty for each question. Then, in my course, I can randomize questions from bank, within a category, of by level of easy/medium/hard… For now, I have to create many Library (one for each category and then, for each difficulty level again… Oh my God!!!). When I have many Library, moving questions among those Libraries is a nightmare.

Anybody has sugession for using Library in more efficient way? Or is there any plan to upgrade Library feature in next release? Or there is a Library XBlock which I don’t know?

Thank you for any comments.

HP.

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### Author: ![antoviaque](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/antoviaque/32/32_2.png) [@antoviaque](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/antoviaque)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2021, 8:48pm UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/contents-management-in-library/5945/2 "2021-10-18T20:48:53Z")

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@Hoang_PHAM_HUY Yes, there are some plans to improve libraries – see these related threads:

> [@How can I actually use Library content in a Course?](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/how-can-i-actually-use-library-content-in-a-course/4123):
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> I’ve created a simple Library with content about how to set up labs. I created 2 Text Components within that Library to hold the instructions. I want to now reference those two Text Components in multiple Courses. How can I do this? I can’t actually see any way to do that, and it doesn’t say anything about using the content in a class here, only creating it and sharing it: [8.5. Working with Content Libraries — Building and Running an Open edX Course documentation](https://edx.readthedocs.io/projects/open-edx-building-and-running-a-course/en/latest/course_components/libraries.html)

> [@Current state of Content Libraries v2 (with Blockstore) and frontend-app-library-authoring](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/current-state-of-content-libraries-v2-with-blockstore-and-frontend-app-library-authoring/5304):
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> Hi everyone, So this is somewhat related to this post: … but I figure it probably warrants a separate topic/thread. slight_smile In the aforementioned talk, @braden briefly mentions (near the very end, link with timestamp: [Building with Blockstore - How OpenCraft Developed LabXchange Using Open edX by Braden MacDonald - YouTube](https://youtu.be/DARBuFcEb8w?t=1569)) the frontend-app-library-authoring MFE which would help course authors build Blockstore-based v2 content libraries. (To the best of my knowledge that is the only s…

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### Author: ![Hoang\_PHAM\_HUY](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/hoang_pham_huy/32/2216_2.png) [@Hoang\_PHAM\_HUY](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/Hoang_PHAM_HUY)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2021, 3:04am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/contents-management-in-library/5945/3 "2021-10-20T03:04:36Z")

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Thank you very much @antoviaque for your reply.  
I will follow the discussion threads you mentioned to update info.

Best regards  
HP
