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

May 10, 2024 | By Sarah
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These releases are on their way to you over the next 2 weeks, and will be live in all regions by the end of the day on Friday, May 24, 2024. LibGuides The all new Blogs are here! We’re excited to bring you a new host of homepage options, blog statistics, and much more granular controls over all types of functionality, including appearance and comments. Check out the lounge post on the new blogs functionality for the full scoop! Our new Sublists functionality is here! Use the new sublist functionality to identify a subset of your existing A-Z databases, and…

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Fall LibGuides Updates – Check ’em Out!

October 26, 2017 | By Sarah
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We released support for uploading your own HTTPS (SSL) certificates in September, and boy have you been using it! You’ve had a lot of great questions and helped us devise an improved Certificate Management page that is more intuitive to use. Haven’t uploaded a certificate yet? Need to renew and upload a new one? No problem! Just log into LibApps and head to Admin > Domains & Certificates. Click the…

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LibAnswers 2.16 Update – Sharing Images is Here!

October 25, 2017 | By Sarah

The LibAnswers 2.16 update rolled out this morning, and we’re thrilled to bring you some fresh updates to Social Media Management! Get Social – Now With Images! Exciting news – the LibAnswers Social Media Management tool is about to get even more social!  You can now send and receive images via Twitter and Facebook. It’s never been easier to share content and provide best-of-the-best customer service to your patrons. You’ll find…

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LibStaffer 2.5 Update Now Live!

October 24, 2017 | By Sarah
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Our latest LibStaffer update hits on a couple of major requested features, including staff claiming unfilled shifts (without having to go through a schedule admin), staff “favoriting” their own shifts, and tons of nice-to-have improvements to various schedule views. Staff can Claim Available Shifts As one of our most requested features, we’re thrilled to bring you the ability to claim unfilled shifts, without having to go through a schedule admin….

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Social Media’s Role in Higher Education Libraries

October 10, 2017 | By Talia
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If you’re not already on social media, we hope we’ve made a case in our recent blog post and August SpringyNews newsletter for you to consider hopping on the social media train. But if not, perhaps this recent Pew Research Report on Social Media might change your mind. They found that 69% of Americans use social media today. And of that 69%, 86% are between the ages of 18-29. Check out…

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Moving from LibCal Room Bookings to Spaces: More Functionality, More Features, More Fun!

October 5, 2017 | By Talia

When we first released the LibCal Equipment Booking Add-On Module, we saw a need to integrate room bookings with the equipment reservation process. Wouldn’t it be neat if a patron could reserve a room and related equipment in the exact same reservation? And also, wouldn’t it be great if we could revamp the way Room Bookings calculates availability by connecting it to the LibCal Hours module? And while we’re at it, what…

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Springy https-a-palooza is Go!

September 28, 2017 | By Anna
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It’s here – the release you’ve all been waiting for: the Springy https-travaganza! 🎉 And yes, it’s “Springy” vs. a specific product, because this affects all of our products. Let’s go through the list of fun new stuff, shall we? LibAnswers & LibCal Now Support SSL Certificates (via LibApps) LibApps Admins can now upload security certificates for LibAnswers and LibCal custom domains! It’s not just LibGuides anymore, folks. All products…

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HTTPS-a-palooza And What Are We Doing About It

August 24, 2017 | By Slaven

So, you’ve heard about it by now, right? Riiight? The upcoming Chrome browser release, version 62 – slated for October 17, will give a warning when a user lands on a non-https page which contains forms. FireFox, Edge, and other modern browsers will follow suit as well, and warn users when they land on forms which are not loaded over https. Let’s go over what this actually means since there is a…

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LibGuides Accessibility Updates, AZ Page Stats, HTTPS Certificates and more!

August 17, 2017 | By Sarah
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Accessibility fixes This week at Springy HQ we are pleased to bring you the following accessibility fixes. Our first pass of fixes in the last few months focused on “errors” on all public pages; this pass hits the E-Reserves module as well as many things classified as “alerts”—things that could technically adhere to guidelines but needed examining. See something else we need to consider? Let us know! Click the Support tab…

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LibAnswers Update Live!

August 16, 2017 | By Anna

Happy August everyone! We rolled out a couple of small LibAnswers features and a handful of bug fixes today – check it out… Features: Knowledge Base Explorer: The Queues filter now has a “Select All” option…especially helpful for folks who have a lot of Queues! Answer Page > Tags: For systems where tags are not locked down, when typing in a tag, the list of matching tags is now listed…

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LibCal Equipment Booking Update Coming Your Way

August 9, 2017 | By Slaven
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On the heels of last month’s major LibCal Spaces update, this month we’re bringing the same types of accessibility and mobile-friendly updates to the Equipment Booking module! 🙂  This required some changes to the Equipment Booking grid and the booking details / confirmation pages, so if you’ve customized those, you’ll want to check your system post-update on August 16, 2017 (U.S. time) to make sure everything looks as it should. Remember,…

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