The look and design of your LibGuides will change depending on your audience. If you’re designing LibGuides for adults, graduate students, or advanced learners – you’ll focus more heavily on library resources, advanced searching techniques, and information literacy skill reinforcement. When designing LibGuides for children, think bright, colorful, engaging, and entertaining. No matter…
The LibAnswers 2.16 update rolled out this morning, and we’re thrilled to bring you some fresh updates to Social Media Management! Get Social – Now With Images! Exciting news – the LibAnswers Social Media Management tool is about to get even more social! You can now send and receive images…
If you’re not already on social media, we hope we’ve made a case in our recent blog post and August SpringyNews newsletter for you to consider hopping on the social media train. But if not, perhaps this recent Pew Research Report on Social Media might change your mind. They found that…
So, you’ve heard about it by now, right? Riiight? The upcoming Chrome browser release, version 62 – slated for October 17, will give a warning when a user lands on a non-https page which contains forms. FireFox, Edge, and other modern browsers will follow suit as well, and warn users when they…
Happy August everyone! We rolled out a couple of small LibAnswers features and a handful of bug fixes today – check it out… Features: Knowledge Base Explorer: The Queues filter now has a “Select All” option…especially helpful for folks who have a lot of Queues! Answer Page > Tags: For…
Whether you’re on Pinterest, Facebook, or Twitter – social media is a powerful tool for relationship building and creating brand loyalty. Increase Brand Recognition Libraries are in a prime position to use social media to engage with customers, develop positive and sustaining relationships, and promote advocacy. Every opportunity you have to share and…
Some big improvements to your spaces are here in this update! Category-level Booking Forms One of the most common requests we’ve gotten to improve spaces has been to allow individual categories to use their own booking forms. We’re happy to say this is now an option, and even individual equipment items…
Now, more than ever, there is a needed skill for identifying and fact-checking news. Librarians have rushed to fill that void creating numerous LibGuides showcasing the dangers of clickbait, the importance of research, and teaching literacy skills showing users how to identify and avoid fake news. To that end, we’re showcasing all…
Springshare is pleased to announce that we are bringing data centers online in Canada on July 9, 2017! All Canadian customers will be hosted on these servers. In Q3 & Q4 we’ll bring servers online in Australia and Asia, respectively. These new servers host v2 products only: LibGuides v2, E-Reserves…
Summer’s here, and with that comes events you want to share. We’ve added some new ways to show off your calendar events! Social Media Sharing You can now post your new events to Facebook and Twitter! In your calendar settings, there’s a new “social media” setting. You can use any…
