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New in LibInsight – Custom Chart Colors!

Customize your LibInsight charts to match your organization’s official color palette, or customize Dashboards per review period or project. Define your custom colors at the system-wide level and you’ll see them in your dataset analysis charts, cross-dataset analysis, and dashboards. Head on over to System Settings to set your system…

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New LibInsight Update!

Hey there LibInsight users, we’ve released a bunch of new features for some summer data fun! Database & eBook Invoice Line-Items and Cost-per-use Statistics Last month we added the ability to attach invoices to your E-Journal & Database and eBook platforms; this month brings more invoicing goodness: line items! Adding…

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LibInsight: Database-level Stats and a Whole Lot More!

We have some fantastic news for Electronic Resources Librarians as we head into invoicing and end-of-year stats gathering season. Are you ready for database-level statistics?? With the latest LibInsight code release, you can upload the COUNTER Database Report 1 (DB1)—either by uploading files or by retrieving them via SUSHI, if the publisher…

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Using LibInsight to Showcase Library Services at USF: Sarasota-Manatee

The University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee Librarians use LibInsight-Lite to gather data about their instruction, research assistance, head counts, and questions asked at their information commons resource desk. How do they communicate these stats to outside stakeholders? They created an infographic! Pulling data from LibInsight-Lite, librarians created an easily readable…

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“We’re All In, Because It’s Easy”

..says Andrew Adler, director of the Georgetown College Library, when asked why the Library is using the entire platform of Springshare tools. Andrew, like most librarians, wears a lot of hats. From teaching library instruction, manning the reference desk, creating training tutorials for student workers, and being available nine hours a week for…

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“Count” on LibInsight to kick off ALA Midwinter week 2017 with a bang!

Springys will be heading to Atlanta this week for ALA Midwinter 2017, but Springy HQ is still rocking and rolling out new features this week! First up is LibInsight 0.15, now available in a browser near you! Here’s the rundown: Counts/Aggregate Dataset Type As librarians, we count a lot of…

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Friday Fun! New LibInsight Features

New Chart Type in Dashboards We’ve added a new chart option in Dashboards; the new Stacked chart option lets you visualize the multi-select or single-select fields in your custom datasets in a new way. Here’s a side-by-side comparison: While both visualize how different answers compare to one another, stacked charts…

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New to LibInsight: Track Individual Reference Questions, and More!

Up until now, to track and analyze reference questions, a library had to create a custom dataset. That’s still possible, of course, but if you’re a librarian who likes things in the right categories (and we know you are!), you can use a new option in the Reference Dataset to track…

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Spring Goodies! New Features in LibInsight

Spring is officially here in the northern hemisphere, and this year it brings a whole basket of goodies to LibInsight. We are super-excited to announce widgets for Gate Count datasets, a community-wide shared dataset for tracking your ACRL Survey answers, and a special Easter-egg–a new home screen! Here’s the rundown: Gate…

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LibInsight SUSHI Integration is HERE!

Fish might not go well with our American customers’ Thanksgiving Day turkey, but boy do we have a LibInsight update that we hope you’ll be thankful for—SUSHI integration. What’s SUSHI? It’s a protocol that enables LibInsight to connect directly to your e-resources vendors for data retrieval, eliminating the middle steps…

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