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A Marketing & Outreach Webinar with LibraryWorks!

May 7, 2024 | By Lilly
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Modern libraries are community hubs that offer valuable programs, resources, and spaces that uniquely reflect the diverse populations they serve. Despite dynamic offerings, many libraries struggle to break the perception that they are simply a place to check out books. Taking control of the narrative doesn’t have to be challenging! Given the right tools and methods, you can shape your public messaging to communicate value and get prospective and existing patrons excited about library offerings. We’re teaming up with LibraryWorks to offer a FREE webinar on the subject! In this 1-hour webinar, we’ll explore: Proven marketing and outreach methods designed…

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A New Integration: LibChat & LibKey Nomad++

January 26, 2024 | By Kirsten
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We’ve got some great news for you on this lovely Friday afternoon – LibKey Nomad++ from Third Iron can be integrated with Springshare’s LibChat to help your library meet users wherever they’re researching! LibKey Nomad++, an enhancement of LibKey Nomad, is a browser extension that enables access to a library’s full-text resources as research is conducted online. LibKey Nomad provides one-click access to full text from sites like PubMed, Wikipedia,…

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Present With Springshare at PLA 2024!

January 23, 2024 | By Lilly
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LibLearnX is in our rearview mirror, and the Springy Team is gearing up for a busy conference season! With our newly formed Public Library Division, we’re especially excited for PLA in Columbus this April. Here at Springy HQ, we’re busy preparing, but there’s one thing that would make PLA the best conference ever – you! Join us for a flash presentation! There are many reasons to attend a conference –…

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Where’s Springshare the Next Few Months?

January 17, 2024 | By Corinne
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Our conference calendar is filling up! Here’s a preview of where you can find Springshare between now and April. (Don’t worry – we’ve got plenty of conferences coming for the rest of the year. Stay tuned!) ALA LibLearnX – Baltimore, MD When: Saturday, January 20 – Monday, January 22 Where: Baltimore Convention Center, Booth #1016 At the end of this week, the Springy crew is braving the brisk January temperatures…

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A Platinum Win for Patron Point in 2024 MLAs by LibraryWorks

January 12, 2024 | By Lilly

Awards Season is upon us! No, we’re not referring to the Golden Globes or Academy Awards; we’re talking about the red-carpet event of the library world, the Modern Library Awards from LibraryWorks. We are thrilled to report that our email marketing and engagement tool, Patron Point, has received a platinum award in the tenth annual MLAs. This is the third consecutive year Patron Point has received the honor!  The MLAs…

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Top 10 Springshare Blog Posts of 2023

January 9, 2024 | By Corinne
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2024 is already off to a running start, but we’d like to take a moment to reflect on the past year. In 2023, we added Patron Point to the Springshare lineup, introduced new features and interfaces built for today’s modern libraries, and shared fun tips and examples from the Springy team and our client community. Let’s get into it – here are the top 10 blog posts of 2023! 1….

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New Springy Public Library Division!

January 5, 2024 | By Lilly
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If you’ve ever sent along a feature request during a support interaction or through the Lounge, you know that we take our users’ needs very seriously. So seriously that our tools have evolved over the years to meet the changing needs of the library community. Lately, we’ve noticed our public library users have grown; there are around 1,100 public libraries using Springy Tools around the world! We’ve also noticed that…

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Yearly Wrap-Up + Springy Holiday Schedule

December 21, 2023 | By Kirsten
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The end of the year is almost upon us! We’re here to show you how to prep your Springshare tools for staff vacations and shifting hours – so your final week of 2023 goes as smoothly as possible! So before you set that Out-of-Office message, make sure you take a look at this handy guide that our wonderful Springy Support Team has put together. This guide will give you all…

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RemoteLock Integration with LibCal Spaces

December 18, 2023 | By Talia

Are you tired of keeping track of keys for your building’s public-use rooms? Study rooms? Conference rooms? Meeting spaces? Are those keys always going missing, even when attached to giant heavy blocks of wood and a metal chain? We completely understand AND commiserate. Several Springys were librarians and remember those days of tracking down missing keys, calling locksmiths, and watching the cycle repeat over and over again. Well, no more!…

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Patron Point at LMCC 2023

December 14, 2023 | By Talia
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The Springshare team is taking a breather between conferences this month – but this gives us the perfect opportunity to reminisce about the fun we had at the 2023 Library Marketing and Communications Conference in Indianapolis last month and plan ahead for our trip to Baltimore for ALA LibLearnX in January! Looking Back at LMCC Did you catch up with the Patron Point crew at LMCC 2023 last month? LMCC…

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

December 8, 2023 | By Juri Kyoya
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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, December 15, 2023. LibCal We’re excited to bring you a new widget for Equipment Booking! This new widget makes it easy to embed your library’s available equipment in any website. Head to Equipment>Widgets to create a new widget. We’ve added the ability to manage exceptions…

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