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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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Using LibCal Appointments for Virtual Study Rooms

August 11, 2021 | By Talia
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During the last 18 months of the pandemic, libraries had to adapt, and quickly, to meet the needs of their virtual learners. Academic libraries, in some cases, had only a few days to get their online services actually online before they had to close their doors. The Barry University Law Librarians had a similar situation – and on top of that, they realized that a lot of law school students…

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

August 6, 2021 | By Sarah
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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, August 13, 2021. We have so much to share with you about this release it’s almost too much to put into a single blog post…so we didn’t! Starting with this release, we’re using our Springy Share blog platform to let you know when releases are…

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Interact with LibCal Interactive Maps!

August 4, 2021 | By Talia
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The LibCal mapping add-on module was released a few weeks ago and we know you’ve been dying to get your virtual hands on it. And now’s your chance! We’ve released some fun interactive examples for you to explore and navigate [end of puns]. Plus, if you want an in-depth dive including front and back-end screens, sign up for a webinar below! Endless Use Cases LibCal’s Interactive Mapping module is more than just booking seats…

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Coming Soon: The Springy Share – Our New Blog Design!

July 22, 2021 | By Talia

For some time now, we’ve thought that the Springshare blog was in need of a facelift in its design and features. Springy tools have grown in leaps and bounds, and it’s about time our blog did, too! And today, we’re super, super excited to announce that a brand new look and feel for the Springshare blog is on its way. We’re calling it The Springy Share: Keeping up with all…

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New New SpringyU Project just for You!

July 14, 2021 | By Talia
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If you hadn’t heard, SpringyU is our self-paced learning portal where you can learn all about Springshare tools in three different ways: New SpringyU Project Just Launched! The newest project is New Employee Onboarding and uses parts of LibAnswers, LibCal, LibWizard, and LibStaffer to make the administrative work of new employee onboarding less tedious — allowing you to focus your efforts bringing the new employee up to speed. As each…

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Study Rooms Without Walls – A Learning Lab With Barry Law Library

July 7, 2021 | By Talia
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It’s hard to believe 2021 is already halfway over and our July Learning Lab is right around the corner! This month, we’re excited to host Diana Botluk, Megan Humphries, and Rachel Parks from the Barry Law Library. As a result of social distancing guidelines, the library closed its physical study rooms for much of the 2020 school year. So Diana, Megan, and Rachel set out to create a place where…

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Improve Your LibGuides ROI – Lean Library Webinar (EU-Optimized Timezone)

June 30, 2021 | By Talia
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In case you missed it, in March we announced an exciting partnership with Lean Library, a browser extension from SAGE Publishing, that delivers library services directly into the patron’s workflow via a customizable plugin. We’ve kicked off this partnership by integrating LibGuides with the browser plugin – allowing you to deliver contextual point-of-need help. You spend a lot of time creating and maintaining your LibGuides – maximize the return on…

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Code Release: New LibCal, LibAnswers, LibGuides, LibStaffer, and LibInsight features coming your way!

June 25, 2021 | By Neil Levine
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June is here, and we’re so excited to bring you a bevy of new features! From our new interactive mapping tool in LibCal, to introducing LTI 1.3 support in LibApps, to chat stability improvements and a full ticket JSON export in LibAnswers, we truly have something for everyone! These releases are on their way to you next week, and will be live in all regions by the end of the…

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Think Outside the ‘Seat’

June 22, 2021 | By Talia
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For many of you, LibCal Seats was the solution for helping you reopen your buildings safely. With built-in occupancy measurements and check-in/out functionality, it allowed you to reopen your buildings with capacity restrictions and functionality for track & trace. Now that life is slowly starting to return to normal after 500+ days of uncertainty, fear, and stress – many of you might be thinking of other ways you can use…

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LibCal Mapping Has Arrived!

June 16, 2021 | By Talia
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You may remember us talking about LibCal’s new interactive mapping module back in April, and now we’re happy to announce the general availability of this exciting new LibCal add-on. And while we’d like to think we love all of our new features equally, sometimes there’s one that makes us sit back and say, “Woah, this is pretty awesome.” That’s how we feel about the new mapping module. It adds a…

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