Some might say that we’re a tad psychic here at Springshare. Others might say we’re a bit wackadoo. In fact, both of these groups are right! When we heard that Google is retiring their RSS feed aggregator tool, Reader, on July 1st 2013 we weren’t a bit surprised. We anticipated that something like this might happen when…
A Librarian’s Guide to Etiquette posted a great blog item this week on the hilarity of creating the perfect LibGuides Profile picture. All jokes aside, we’ve heard from many libraries that adding a profile pic really *does* increase patron familiarity and comfort level when approaching librarians. So picking a good picture is…
Sandy be darned! A hurricane can’t slow us down – the LibGuides Update is now live! We’ve got a bunch of exciting features to share. Friendly URLs are a whole lot friendlier! We’ve expanded the Friendly URL functionality throughout LibGuides! It’s now super easy to assign a friendly URL to…
We waited until today to post the explanation behind yesterday’s LibGuides connectivity issue because we wanted to make sure that the fixes we deployed took care of the issue. Here’s what happened: a couple of weeks ago our hosting facility had a big infrastructure upgrade – new routers, switches, the…
Earlier this month, we rolled out a huge statistics update – huzzah! We’ve heard lots of good feedback about the new functionality – words like “awesome”, “fascinating”, and “super cool” have been flying around. We’ve also heard from some folks who miss the simplicity and scannability of the previous monthly hit reports….
Good morning SpringyLand! We rolled out a code update last night, including our hugely anticipated Statistics Update – huzzah! What’s new this time? Statistics, You Complete Me. We’ve completely redesigned the way we capture and report statistics: Daily stats reports – goodbye monthly aggregate stats! Custom Date Ranges – run…
By now you’ve probably heard that Meebo is discontinuing its chat service on July 11, 2012. The good news is that LibChat will be ready before then. The even better news is that is it so super awesome that even if Meebo wasn’t cancelling their chat, you’d still switch to LibChat in…
We had a code rollout last night – read on to discover the new features we’ve added! E-Reserves Updates– we’ve introduced a ton of new features for the E-reserves module! We’ve added a new E-Reserve Request Form option! This makes it easy to collect reserve item requests from instructors. For…
By now, most of you know about our Best Of site. It houses a collection of guides considered “Best” for one reason or another – best page layout, best collection of resources, best use of images… you get the idea. 🙂 The best part of Best Of? We’ve already contacted…
Here at Springshare, we really do love librarians – so we whipped up a little Valentine’s gift for all our libraries. Check out these new-and-awesome features, and let us know – will you be our Valentine? Enhanced Content in Books from the Catalog box* Wouldn’t it be nice if you…
