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Conference Travel Tips From the Springy Crew

Library conferences bring folks together for a few days packed with books, ideas, resources, and some of the best people in the world – librarians! The Springy team collectively has quite a few years of travel experience under our belts, so we’ve compiled this list of conference and travel tips for you. Whether you’re a seasoned conference-goer or a relative travel newbie, we hope some of these tips will help you have the best conference experience ever. If you’re heading to the Public Library Association Conference in Columbus, OH next week, be sure to swing by Springshare’s Booth #501 to…

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What are We Thankful for? Great New LibGuides Features!

We’re celebrating turkey day early with some new features that we know you’ll love: a brand new Gallery Box, new features for Patron accounts, and some accessibility improvements, too! Patron Accounts: Import and Self-Registration Options Patron Accounts are used in LibGuides for patron participation in Discussion Boards (CMS Only) and blog comments. Until now, Patron Accounts were created one-at-a-time, or by sending email invitations. We’ve added two new options to make creating…

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LibAnswers 2.9 Update Now Live!

Exciting news, we have a slate of LibAnswers updates to share! This release is all about LibChat – we’ve introduced several “holy cow, that is awesome!” features, including chats that can follow the patron from page to page, searchable transcripts, and accessibility updates. Let’s get to the good stuff! Follow Me Chat Widgets It’s a common frustration – a patron is chatting with you and happens to navigate to another page…

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LibCal 2.6.2 Now Live!

We have a post-Halloween treat to share with all the LibCal fans out there – the 2.6.2 update is now live! This update includes all treats and no tricks, with updates to the Equipment Booking module and expanded administrative controls in the Events module, including registrations and waiting lists. Equipment Booking Updates Automatically Cancel Reservations if not picked up on time – If patrons don’t pick up equipment in a timely fashion, release it…

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LibGuides, Literacy, and Literati Webinar

November 16, 2016: 2:00pm – 3:00pm EDT Led by Bethany Reisch, librarian at Northshore Technical Community College, this 60min free webinar will highlight using Credo Literati tools in conjunction with LibGuides to promote information literacy. Using LibGuides to power their website, Bethany worked with students to increase usage via their feedback. Student surveys helped to inform the redesign of their Library website and the adding of additional resources via Credo…

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LibWizard 1.7.6 Now Live!

We’re keeping the LibWizard hits coming – the 1.7.6 update is now live! We have several nice features to share this time around, including expanded feedback options, updated alert messages, and an expanded Date & Time field. There’s lots to love in this update, so let’s get to it! Correct Answer Feedback We’ve heard requests from several folks who wanted to provide more color and feedback to their patrons for…

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Fall Friday Fun! A few LibGuides Updates

We are gearing up for big LibGuides updates this fall, and while you wait, we have a few smaller features to share. We have improved the behavior of Search Boxes so that their scope can be changed based on your preferences. Folks who are using a guide as their system homepage don’t have to worry—if we detect a redirect URL, the search box on your custom guide will automatically search…

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LibWizard 1.7.5 Update Now Live!

We have lots of exciting changes for LibWizard to share! With this update we’re introducing fully customizable language options, new Patron data fields for Name, Phone, & Email, plus a bevy of bug fixes and smaller updates. But first, we have exciting news – LibWizard’s move to a new server infrastructure is complete. We moved to a new infrastructure with multiple backup and recovery points, which will enable us to…

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LibCal Equipment Booking is Here!

We have super exciting news to share – the Equipment Booking module of LibCal is ready to be unveiled to the world and we’re confident it will revolutionize how libraries manage equipment reservations. From advertising equipment availability, to managing the reservation process, to managing inventory and check in / check out we’ve got your needs covered. The LibCal Equipment Booking is an optional module to our LibCal platform. It makes reserving…

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Search & A-Z Management Release is Here!

Brand new to LibGuides today are some big new updates that are sure to get your fall or spring semester off to a great start! The best news is that more is yet to come! 😃 First, let’s talk search. As we announced on August 18, we’re rolling out a new and improved search that will present you and your users with links directly to the pages that match your…

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Awesome LibGuides A-Z and Search updates still coming – just a week later

Couple of weeks ago we announced super exciting LibGuides updates with a slew of great new functionality, from social sharing and thumbnails, to brand-new A-Z database management functionality and much-improved LibGuides search. The first part of the functionality refresh went out last week (social sharing and guide thumbnails) and just as we were getting ready to release the A-Z and Search changes we ran into a few snags which necessitate that…

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