We’re very excited to check off another frequently-requested item off our development to-do list – LibGuides now offers full OAI-PMH support. Need a refresher on OAI-PMH? To borrow from the official project site: The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting is a low-barrier mechanism for repository interoperability. Data Providers are…
New month, new stuff! We’re planning on releasing yet another action-packed LibGuides release this week. Here’s a peek at what’s coming… 🙂 E-Reserves: Additions! Modifications! Fixes! This release has it all. Oh E-Reserves…how do we love thee? Let me count the ways: E-Reserves Form & Administrative Area: Yup, it’s true…E-Reserves…
We’re bringing you some really exciting updates with v2.1.6, including a new LTI tool, enhancements to E-Reserves, custom column widths in tabbed-nav guides, and a bunch of great fixes. We’re aiming to release this update later this week Thursday, April 30th at 12pm Pacific. There will be no downtime. 🙂…
Whether you attended ACRL in Portland, or not, you can still watch (and rewatch!) guest presenter’s Emilie Vrbancic and Monica Ruane Rogers speak about their use of Springy Tools. Teaching from LibGuides: Quick Tips for Interactive Learning Emilie Vrbancic – University of Colorado at Colorado Springs About (11min 13sec): Do…
If you haven’t had a chance to preview the UNF’s LibGuides customizations, run (don’t walk) your typing fingers over to http://libguides.unf.edu. We chatted with Jeremy Hall, UNF’s Virtual Services Librarian, about their LibGuides customizations, CMS functionality, Springy Tools integration, and the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. Okay, we’re kidding about that last…
LibGuides 2.1.5 is coming soon, and it’s all about the little things that have big impacts…and a pretty big thing for good measure! 😉 We’re aiming for Friday, March 20, 2015 Monday, March 23, 2015 starting around 4pm U.S. PDT.* There will be no server down time nor disruption in functionality when…
On Saturday, February 28th from 10:00 PM – 3:00 AM Eastern Time, Bowker will be running an important update. All Syndetics book cover art images in LibGuides and LibGuides CMS (both version 1 and version 2) will be unavailable during this infrastructure maintenance window. This is not a result of…
Changes in the way assets work We heard from many of you that it was frustrating that Regular and Editor-level accounts were not able to edit assets that they did not own, even on guides to which they were assigned as editors. It’s been a long time coming, but this…
LibGuides v2 servers will be down for planned upgrades for about 90 minutes on Friday, February 13th starting at 10pm U.S. EST / 7pm PST. Why the down time for this release? Well, we’re making some updates that require database changes while no one is using the system. 🙂 This…
Admin Stuff Use Your Library’s Syndetics ID for Cover Art – If you’re a Syndetics customer, you can now add your Syndetics ID to LibGuides! Any new Books from the Catalog that you add will use your images. Previously-added Books from the Catalog will stll use the default set of…
