For those of you who use (popular micro-blogging platform) Twitter, we are happy to announce that you can now link to your feed right in your LibGuides profile. All you need to do is add your Twitter username to your LibGuides profile, and we will automatically add an icon and link to your…
Here are the most recent cummulative stats for the LibGuides community. Community Sites: 183 Librarian Accounts: 3001 Total Guides: 6565 Total Pages: 34,747 Number of Visits 177,824 Monthly Page Views: 2,660,335
To further support integration with 3rd party applications and services, LibGuides can now export its statistics reports into two new formats. The “Plain” option will display your report in a new window, formatted in such a way that it can easily be copied and pasted into another application or sent…
Tiffany was nice enough to send us an email this week, showing an innovative way that DePauw University has expanded their LibGuides system beyond subject-based research. She describes the project focus as follows… “While we value our role in supporting curricular and research needs, academic librarians should also support their students’…
Just a reminder that Springshare will be at the Computers in Libraries (CIL) conference next week in Arlington, VA. If you are attending the conference, please set aside some time to come by booth #214 and say hello. We will be doing live demos of LibGuides and will have product brochures…
With the addition of Springfield Technical Community College this morning, the LibGuides membership has grown to 150 sites! Our community has grown by an impressive 60 sites since January, and we are expecting even better things for the remainder of the current school year. LibGuides would not be nearly this…
Last week we had a few people ask if we could improve the layout of the book boxes within LibGuides. The development team really hustled this weekend, and we are happy to announce that the requested changes went live this evening. While there are some small changes regarding the layout,…
We wanted to take a moment to highlight two of our newest community members, and the innovative ways they are using LibGuides to provide more than just subject-guides. Scottsdale Community College has both a “traditional” LibGuides system, as well as a second site which they are using as their library…
We recently came across a post from Sara at the world famous Tactless Librarian blog, that presents an interesting use for LibGuides. Sara has been creating research guides for course-specific instruction sessions held at the library. These “class shortcut pages” contain all the information presented during the instruction session, including reference tools, polls,…
We are happy to report that LibGuides made the front page of The Butler Collegian last week. The article outlines all the right reasons for the success of LibGuides at Butler, and echoes what we’ve heard from our member libraries world-wide. All of us at Springshare are very proud that…
