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LibCal: The Most Popular Event, Ticketing, and Kit Management Software for Libraries

November 21, 2024 | By Kelsey

LibCal is an affordable, library-focused tool for event management, space bookings, appointment scheduling, Library of Things & museum passes lending, and more! Libraries are a launchpad for activities-onsite and online events, one-on-one appointments, community reading initiatives, exam study nights, cake pan lending, author visits, and so much more! LibCal offers the tools to manage the what, where, when, and who of just about everything. LibCal is an established and reliable solution used by over 3,600 libraries, and growing, worldwide! 6 Stellar LibCal Features That Will Propel Your Library to New Heights Selecting software for your library can be intimidating, so…

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Springshare Tools: Excellent Examples You’ve Got To See!

August 28, 2019 | By Ginna Nicolas
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Librarians Are Doing Such Amazing Work — We Have To Share! The level of energy is always pretty high here at Springshare. But, lately, we’ve been seeing such exceptionally cool work being done with our solutions, that the excitement level definitely goes up even more. We absolutely love to see smart LibGuides, super helpful LibAnswers FAQs, stunning and useful LibInsight dashboards and seamless integrations of LibCal. What do we love…

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Ideas for Re-engaging Patrons in LibAnswers

August 15, 2019 | By Talia
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If you’ve been using LibAnswers for awhile, you might be looking for fun and new ways to reinvigorate and boost usage of your various LibAnswers services.It happens to all of us, we get into a groove and then coast along. But, if you’re noticing your stats are staying consistently steady, or flatter than Wile E. Coyote after using a catapult (this pun brought to you by Springy Greg! 🙂 ),…

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Code Release: New LibCal, LibGuides, LibAuth, LibInsight, LibWizard, LibAnswers, and LibCRM features coming your way!

August 2, 2019 | By Sarah
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We’re not sure how this happened so quickly, but it’s already August! Many of our customers are in “back to school” mode, finishing up projects and getting everything ready for the new school year. That means here in Springy-land our support and training teams are sprinting to help all of you with everything you need to start the new school year right (and just start August on the right foot,…

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Feature Spotlight: LibCal Spaces Parent/Child Relationship

July 24, 2019 | By Talia

Today’s blog post is all about highlighting an awesomely powerful little feature in LibCal – the Parent/Child relationship in Spaces. Let’s break it down. Let’s say that you have a large room that patrons are allowed to reserve… let’s call it Room 110. That room can also be divided into smaller spaces, for example, Room 110A, Room 110B, and Room 110C. You want to allow patrons the ability to reserve…

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Easily Promote Events with LibCal & LibGuides

July 17, 2019 | By Ginna Nicolas
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Getting The Word Out! Isn’t it funny how even if you line up the hottest author for a reading, or meticulously plan your annual benefit gala, or use data to predict the best dates and times for children’s story hour — events are only considered a success if enough people show up? You could have Aerosmith opening for Oprah to interview the cast of GOT in your garage — but…

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Using LibAnswers for Library Security

July 8, 2019 | By Ginna Nicolas
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Keeping Track of Safety Issues Just Got Easier. Libraries get their fair share of incidents that happen involving the safety of the staff, students and/or include the compromise of the building. Many institutions piece together a way to keep track of these via various reporting tools that range from spreadsheets to pen and paper recording, etc. You want to be able to take down what happened. It’s important to be…

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Code release: New LibCal, LibGuides, LibWizard, LibStaffer, LibAnswers, and LibCRM Features

June 25, 2019 | By Neil Levine
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It’s finally summer here in the northern hemisphere, and we’re enjoying every second of it! Even with the warmth and sunshine trying to distract us, we stayed focused in order to bring you a whole new round of awesome updates to your Springy products…though we may have taken some frisbee and badminton breaks. 😉 These releases (with the exception of LibAnswers and LibWizard) are on their way to you this…

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Springshare’s Heading to ALA – Dash to the Flash!

June 17, 2019 | By Talia

If you’re heading to the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C and you thought all the amazing guest speakers were outside the exhibit hall, think again! Be sure to stop by Springy Booth #3136 to attend one of our amazing 10-15minute flash presentations! We’ll have guest speakers showcasing how they’re using Springshare Tools in their Library plus Springy-led sessions showing quick overviews of LibGuides, LibAnswers, LibCal, and more.  And if…

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How The LTI Integration Tool Embeds Its Way Into Your Hearts

June 12, 2019 | By Ginna Nicolas
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When Point Of Need Is Where It’s At! You know where you ought to be. Point of Need has become one of those phrases that sounded awkward at first — but is now a philosophy that’s the foundation of a strategy. In the library’s effort to provide excellent service, meeting your patrons where they are certainly works toward anticipating their needs and reducing friction. It helps boost usage and your…

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LibAnswers 24/7 Cooperative aka QuestionPoint Acquisition

June 4, 2019 | By Slaven
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Thank you to everyone who emailed us with excitement about the news of Springshare acquiring QuestionPoint. Besides the info in the press release, and the LibGuide (of course 😉 ) we created to answer migration questions  (https://buzz.springshare.com/qp-migration), we’d like to spell out our reasoning behind this very big deal for all libraries interested in online reference service. First, let’s summarize the main points regarding transitioning existing QuestionPoint customers onto the…

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