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LibGuides, LibAnswers, LibCal and LibStaffer Features Coming Your Way!

March 14, 2025 | 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, March 21, 2025. LibCal You can now include a QR code within your event registration confirmation emails for easy event check-in! On the day of the event, librarians can scan the QR code using a mobile device and check in the patron with one click. Easy event check-ins for the win! To use this new feature, when creating a new event that requires registration, set the “Enable check-ins via QR Codes” to “yes”. For Equipment,…

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Limited Series: Hear Librarians Discuss How They Use LibWizard

September 19, 2019 | By Talia
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One of the best ways to learn how to use a tool, or to see if a tool is right for you, is to see how others are using it. To that end, we’ve asked some amazing librarians to showcase how they’re using LibWizard in their institutions. This October limited webinar series has some amazing presentations that you won’t want to miss! For those of you who don’t know, LibWizard is our…

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Share LibWizard Surveys With Some Fields…Pre-Filled For Ease

September 11, 2019 | By Ginna Nicolas
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Getting Feedback Just Got A Whole Lot Easier! Libraries mean it when they say they want patron feedback. The term gathering intelligence couldn’t be more appropriate than when considering feedback surveys. Expertly crafted instruction sessions are just the beginning of this essential relationship being built between the librarians and their patrons. How did they find out about the session? Did it deliver what was promised or marketed? What did it…

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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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