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Special Guest Speaker Presentation One Week From Today

May 15, 2024 | By Corinne
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When technical difficulties prevented us from streaming and recording one of our guest presentations at last month’s PLA conference, we knew we had to devise another way to get this presentation to you. We are positively delighted that our guest speaker, Cathay Keough from Sarasota County Libraries, has graciously agreed to return for a special webinar next Wednesday, May 22 at 1pm ET! Expanding Options for Community Access Sarasota County Libraries have introduced a groundbreaking feature: allowing patrons to present their ID via Ask Us/LibChat for immediate issuance of a library card. How? Using LibAnswers’ Microsoft Teams and Zoom integrations…

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LibGuides Update: E-Reserves Item Search, Patron Login with LibAuth, LibAuth Setup Wizard, and a Ton More Updates!

December 21, 2017 | By Sarah
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Check out this giant present for your holiday celebrations! Or if you’re not into December holidays, Happy 2018 from Springy to you! 🙂 There are a ton of new features for you to explore in LibGuides this month. Log into LibApps patron accounts with LibAuth If you head over to LibApps > Admin > Manage Patron accounts = and if you see accounts listed there, those users can now sign…

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LibCal 2.12 – Hours Module Improvements and More now Live!

December 21, 2017 | By Sarah
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We’ve been busy beavers here at Springy HQ, and we have several fun new features to share! We’re making the hours module easier to manage and rolling out several great quality of life features, just in time for the holidays! Hours Module Improvements New Daily Hours Widget – We’ve added a new widget to the hours module to make sharing your open hours a breeze! The new Daily Hours Widget…

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Tis the Season for (spring)Sharing – Tip #3: Is Your Library Holi’Ready?

December 20, 2017 | By Talia
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A big part of holiday planning is knowing where to be, and when. You’ve got dinner plans at your friend Tina’s house on the 24th at 6pm and latkes at your cousin Tim’s abode on the last day of Hannukkah. Coordinating all of those invitations and appearances requires a lot of planning and forethought. Will the train be packed at 5pm causing you to be late? Should you take 95N…

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New in LibInsight – Custom Chart Colors!

December 19, 2017 | By Sarah
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Customize your LibInsight charts to match your organization’s official color palette, or customize Dashboards per review period or project. Define your custom colors at the system-wide level and you’ll see them in your dataset analysis charts, cross-dataset analysis, and dashboards. Head on over to System Settings to set your system colors. If a chart requires more colors than you’ve specified, random colors will be chosen. If the Randomize box is…

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Tis the Season for (spring)Sharing – Tip #2: Cultivating a Homemade Experience

December 15, 2017 | By Talia
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Nothing says the holidays more than homemade. Whether you’re baking rugelach, hand-crafting thoughtful gifts, or DIY’ing your decorations – you’re sending the message that your guests are special and deserving of homemade. Nothing beats homemade, but it can take a lot of effort, time, and work! If you’re looking to bring that ‘homemade’ feeling to your library, you’re probably daunted by the idea of providing a homemade experience for each…

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Tis the Season for (spring)Sharing – Tip #1: Getting Emoji’tional

December 11, 2017 | By Talia
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While your library might be winding down from the hectic schedule of finals or if you’re experiencing the general slowdown of traffic and questions typical during this time period – here are some quick (and fun!) things you can do, right now. We’ll be releasing our Tis the Season for (spring)Sharing as a blog series from now till Dec 22nd! So come back and check out our other Springy Tips….

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7 Tips for Making Your Case to Use LibGuides CMS to Power Your Website

December 8, 2017 | By Talia
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When updating the library’s website, you’re not making that decision in a vacuum. More often than not, it’s a group decision that must go through multiple layers of stakeholders and departments. If you’re advocating moving your Library Website into LibGuides CMS, you’ll need some feathers in your quill to strengthen your position. Here are seven tips designed to help you ‘make your case’ towards moving your library website into LibGuides…

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Tips for Designing LibGuides for Children

December 5, 2017 | By Talia
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The look and design of your LibGuides will change depending on your audience. If you’re designing LibGuides for adults, graduate students, or advanced learners – you’ll focus more heavily on library resources, advanced searching techniques, and information literacy skill reinforcement. When designing LibGuides for children, think bright, colorful, engaging, and entertaining. No matter what children are doing online, whether its entertainment or education, they’re looking to have fun. Your LibGuide should be simple…

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BiblioEvents and LibCal Integration

November 15, 2017 | By Talia
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Here at Springy HQ, we’re super excited to announce a unique integration between BiblioEvents and LibCal’s Spaces Bookings! How does it work? When creating an event inside of your BiblioEvents admin interface, you can reserve the space/room for that event inside LibCal. *Update: 11/16/2017* The recording of the webinar is available now! Watch this 1hour recording and learn how BiblioEvents and LibCal Spaces are integrated. Attend a Webinar and Learn…

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LibCal 2.11 – Event Updates and More are Live!

November 2, 2017 | By Sarah
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The LibCal 2.11 release is live, and we have loads to tell you about! We’ve redesigned the Manage Event Screens to bring you many new event management features, plus Event Templates are here! Read on for all the details. New Manage Event Screens So many of you have asked us for additional features and functionality for managing events – marking attendance, more email flexibility, etc. When we coded all this…

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