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End of Year Prep and Springshare Holiday Schedule

November 25, 2024 | By Corinne

We know that many of you are busy wrapping up the semester and planning for upcoming holiday closures. You’re figuring out how best to communicate schedule changes to your patrons, accommodate staff time off, and update your hours and availability for 2025. Don’t fret – Springshare has you covered! ‘Tis the Season for Changing Schedules With the holidays rapidly approaching, you’re likely making plans for when your library is closed or has reduced hours of operation. For a step-by-step plan to get your LibAnswers, LibCal, and LibStaffer ready to go for your staff and patrons, check out this Springboard Tutorial. We…

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Code Release: New LibCal, LibAnswers, LibInsight, LibStaffer, LibConnect, & LibWizard Features Coming Your Way!

November 10, 2021 | By Rebecca Reed
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We’re thrilled to bring you all new updates for Fall! These releases are on their way to you next week, and will be live in all regions by the end of the day on Friday, November 19, 2021. LibCal We’ve added a new “Integration Status” report, so Admins can see the current integrations that each account holder has set up – this includes both Exchange/Google Appointment syncs, and Online Appointment/Event…

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Thanks for a Great LJ Fall Summit!

November 3, 2021 | By Kirsten

We had a wonderful time at this year’s Library Journal Fall Summit. While we missed the hustle and bustle of the exhibit hall, we loved chatting with all of you during our live screencasts and in our virtual booth!   Watch Our Presentation on Exceeding Patron Expectations in the New “Normal” Speaking of Screencasts…. the LJ Fall Summit may be over, but you can still watch our recording from the conference! This presentation discusses the patron experience during the Covid-19 pandemic and how that has…

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LibConnect w/ ILS Integration: Save Time & Increase Engagement with Auto-Updates

October 28, 2021 | By Talia

At the end of August, we (re)Introduced LibConnect to the Springy verse. Long story short, we rebranded LibCRM to be LibConnect because we’re rolling out amazing Email Marketing functionality with ILS Integration. And, we’re happy to say, that functionality has now arrived! LibConnect’s Email Marketing tool has ILS integration which auto-retrieves patron information making it easy to send them stunning marketing emails. Even better, our ILS Integration has auto-update functionality…

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Springy Participation in Upcoming Conferences

October 19, 2021 | By Ginna Nicolas

We can’t begin to tell you just how much we miss attending traditional conferences like we did in the before times. They’re always this terrific opportunity to be in the same room with our enthusiastic librarians. We love to answer your questions, show you what’s new and exciting, share awesome little tips and tricks, and you just can’t beat the fun of putting a face to an email. We hope…

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Staying in the Know – Keeping Up with Springshare

October 14, 2021 | By Talia

Knowing all the stuff you’re supposed to know that you don’t know – it’s an exhausting endeavor. How can you know the stuff you don’t quite know yet that you’re supposed to know?! See, even we’re tired just thinking that through. Here at Springshare, we have several different channels for you to communicate with each other, with us, and to keep updated on Springshare news. So, we thought we’d make…

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Recent Webinars You Might’ve Missed! Recordings Available

October 6, 2021 | By Talia
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No matter what library type you work for (Academic, Public, Special, K12, etc), back-to-school season seems to affect us all. Whether you’re getting yourself geared up for students to come back to your building/campus, or you’re getting your own kiddos ready, or you’ve been inundated with back-to-school ads and commercials – August and September seem to be dedicated to one thing. Okay maybe two things, is anyone else sick of…

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Code Release: New LibCal, LibAnswers, LibGuides, & LibStaffer Features Coming Your Way!

October 1, 2021 | By Rebecca Reed
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These releases are on their way to you next week, and will be live in all regions by the end of the day on Friday, October 8, 2021. LibCal Mapping Tool Updates – we’ve added a natural delineation between “maps within the current location” and “maps at other locations” when linking to a map, and added a preview option to preview how a map will appear before making it live….

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Springy Consulting and Springy Support – Who’s Who and What’s What

September 23, 2021 | By Ginna Nicolas

Last week we sent an email campaign to users who subscribe to the Springshare marketing list, reminding them about our new Springy Consulting service. This new Consulting service is all about us spending quality time singularly focused on helping customers with specific projects. Having Springy expert hands and extra one-on-one help with projects is a good thing, especially in these overwhelming times. Our goal is to make the lives of…

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We Added Another LibConnect Webinar!

September 15, 2021 | By Talia

If you missed our announcement about LibConnect and email marketing, you then missed our two recent webinars highlighting the new email marketing functionality! But have no worries, we added one more webinar to the schedule so you have another chance to get a preview sneak-peek of our newest email marketing functionality. Wednesday, September 29, 2021 1:00pm – 1:30pm What is LibConnect with Email Marketing? We’ve added powerful email marketing functionality…

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(re)Introducing LibConnect: Patron Engagement & Email Marketing

August 25, 2021 | By Talia

LibCRM, our Customer Relationship Management Tool, got tons of awesome new features and a new name to boot! Meet LibConnect, which combines powerful CRM functionality with an integrated email marketing platform so that you can better connect and engage with your patrons to offer targeted services, resources, and more. New Email Marketing Functionality We’ve added powerful email marketing functionality to the LibCRM Customer Relationship Management tool and gave the product a new…

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