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Can’t Get Enough of LibMaps? We’ve Added More Sneak Peeks!

March 10, 2025 | By Kirsten
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We’ve heard you loud and clear, everyone’s buzzing about LibMaps! Due to overwhelming interest, we’re adding two more sneak peek sessions in March-including one later this week! That means two extra chances to explore Springshare’s newest tool and see how it can transform the way patrons navigate your library. What’s All the Hype About? LibMaps brings your floor plan to life with interactive mapping and collection wayfinding features. Whether patrons are searching for a specific book, a quiet study space, or a key library service area, this innovative tool makes it easy to bridge the digital-to-physical library experience. With seamless…

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Tips for Ensuring Scheduling Success

January 28, 2022 | By Talia

Let’s be honest – managing staffing schedules is just the pits. Trying to remember who works which days. Who has scheduled time-off. Who hates mornings and prefers afternoons. And don’t even get us started on scheduling workstudy students. Many Springies were former academic librarians in charge of scheduling dozens and dozens of workstudy students, semester after semester, trying to keep track of their class schedule, their social commitments, and their…

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Use Springshare Tools to Meet Your 2022 Goals

January 20, 2022 | By Kirsten
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January is a great time to look ahead and think about your organizational and professional goals for the new year. Whether you’re planning for a big change, or simply want to improve your workflow and sharpen your skills in 2022, Springy HQ is here to support you! As such, we’ve put together a list of ideas that will help you elevate your skills, and make your organization look good while you’re at it!   Get Technical – Learn basic HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap We know this sounds…

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Top 10 Springshare Blog Posts of 2021

January 13, 2022 | By Talia
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Can you believe it is 2022 already? Here at Springy HQ, we’re working hard on strategic plans for the year including mapping out some awesome new features coming your way, planning our training session schedule, upcoming SpringyCamps, and more. But before we start off our 2022 blogging at 100mph, let’s do our annual recap of last year’s best blog posts. Without further ado, here are the best posts of 2021! 1….

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

January 6, 2022 | 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, January 14, 2022. LibCal We’ve extended support for our new Hybrid event functionality to various pages – you can now view hybrid event data in the Event Explorer, API, and Homepage Components. We’ve simplified the process of adding Regular level user permissions to Calendars! Admins…

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Springshare Support Closed for the Holidays

December 21, 2021 | By Kirsten

This year is almost in the rearview mirror (and TBH, we’re okay with that!) but before we say goodbye to 2021, we thought we’d take a look back at all the hard work the Springshare team has done over the past twelve months. Springshare Support answered more than 24,300 questions in 2021 and the FAQs they created were visited more than 600,000 times. Wow! Springhare’s Training Team held 211 training…

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Holiday Support Hours + Springy Learning!

December 15, 2021 | By Kirsten
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With winter holidays and vacations, December is a quiet time for many libraries and offices. Projects are stalled, patrons are home, you’re left sitting at the Reference Desk wondering how to stay productive. We have an idea for you! How about some online learning to sharpen your skills with Springshare tools? Whether you want to take a deep dive into LibGuides or learn how to create your own canned messages…

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Code Release: LibCal, LibConnect, & LibStaffer Features Coming Your Way!

December 9, 2021 | By Rebecca Reed
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These releases are on their way to you in the next 2 weeks, and will be live in all regions by the end of the day on Tuesday, December 21, 2021. LibCal Hybrid Events Have Arrived! – With this release, we’ve added the ability to create events that are held both Online and at a Physical location. You can set separate maximum registrations for the Online and Physical portions of…

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Your Springshare End of Year Checklist

December 1, 2021 | By Kirsten
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As 2021 draws to a close, we know that many of you are preparing for the end of the year and the end of the fall semester. This means you’ll likely be thinking about how to best communicate building closures to your patrons, work out holiday coverage plans, and update policies and documentation for the new year. We always aim to be as helpful as possible here at Springshare so…

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Launch LibChat, Literally, On Any Website

November 22, 2021 | By Talia
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Offering a chat reference service is a great way to give real-time, personalized, reference services to library users. It helps patrons who are unable (or too uneasy) to enter a building or visit a desk to ask for help. Virtual chat reference is an accessible extension of your library’s reference desk – into the web ether. It’s an emoji smiley face instead of a physical one. However, it relies on…

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Route LibAnswers & LibChat Through Authentication Layer!

November 16, 2021 | By Talia
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Do any of the scenarios sound familiar? Do you only want registered card holders or students/faculty to launch a LibChat? Are you a hospital, government, or law library needing to restrict access to your LibAnswers FAQs to only your authorized list of patrons? Do you want to restrict your LibAnswers ‘Ask Us’ Form from being submitted by anyone on the world wide web? In case you missed it, LibAnswers recently…

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