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Celebrating 17 Years of LibGuides

April 30, 2024 | By Kirsten
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Happy LibGuides Day! Today marks the 17th anniversary of the first LibGuides install. In honor of this occasion, we’re reflecting on the inaugural LibGuide from 2007 and highlighting a selection of our favorite LibGuides, all crafted by YOU! A Glimpse into the Past Temple University was the very first member of the LibGuides community! On our 10th anniversary we caught up with Steven Bell from Temple to reminisce about the early days of Springshare and LibGuides. The very first LibGuide at Temple University, Circa 2007. “Librarians were eager to move paper research guides and pathfinders to the web, but were frustrated by…

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LibAnswers +Social: Your Library’s Full Communication Platform

August 15, 2016 | By Talia
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Last month, we announced a major new LibAnswers enhancement which enables you to manage your library’s social media activity from with your LibAnswers platform. Please join us for a “LibAnswers +Social” webinar series and learn how you can effectively – and efficiently – use LibAnswers as your full library communication platform. LibAnswers is already the most popular all-in-one reference and help desk platform for libraries. It integrates live chat, ticketing functionality,…

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LibAnswers: Social Media Management is Here!

July 20, 2016 | By Sarah
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The LibAnswers 2.8 Update is now live, and with it we’re thrilled to announce our new Social Media Management functionality inside LibAnswers. Nowadays so much communication happens on social media hence it’s essential for libraries to effectively – and efficiently – communicate with users on social media channels, too. LibAnswers now helps libraries effortlessly manage their social media presence and communication with users. Monitor and respond to conversations happening on Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest. Publish new posts, tweets, and pins,…

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LibGuides Webinars: Courseware Integration & Amazing A-Z Updates

July 13, 2016 | By Talia
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Blog Post Updated: Monday, July 18th New Tour Date Added (30min) Two-Part Tour: 1. Courseware Integration with LibApps LTI (Included with LibGuides CMS) Embed your library content and services into courseware and watch the usage increase exponentially. What’s the LibApps LTI? Watch this 5min Refresher Video! Seamlessly integrate tailored subject-specific resources inside courseware, scalable across hundreds (or thousands) of courses. Create a ‘Library Page’ displaying point-of-need help, subject specialists, room…

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Exposing Credo Content Through LibGuides Webinar

July 12, 2016 | By Talia
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Borrow, Repurpose, and Share August 3, 2016 at 2:00pm EST Led by Sara Davidson, Head of User Communication and Instruction at the University of California Merced, this 30min free webinar will highlight CREDO reusability strategies. Specifically, how CREDO content can be shared, reused, and showcased inside your LibGuides. Sara will demonstrate how they’re using CREDO search widgets, direct linking to books, and an integrated tutorial in UC Merced’s Instruction LibGuides. Talia…

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Updating to LibGuides v2 – New Migration Options

July 6, 2016 | By Anna
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Tuesday night we rolled out a shiny new updating-to-v2 process for our LibGuides v1 friends and we can’t wait to have you try it! We’ve reduced the number of steps it takes, so you can breeze right into the v2 experience. The best part? You can easily go from live with v1 to migrated and live with v2 in a DAY. Yup, you read that right. Express Migration runs both the migration and…

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NCSU’s Makerspace Program Wins SLA’s Springshare Innovation Award

July 1, 2016 | By Talia
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The winner of the 2016 Springshare Innovation Award is North Carolina State University Libraries’ Makerspace Program at the D.H. Hill Library! The Academic Division of the Special Library Association (SLA) offers a Springshare Innovation in Libraries Award. Springshare donates this award which “recognizes a new program or service that demonstrates an innovative approach to academic librarianship”.(1) NCSU’s Makerspace Program is doing incredible work with 3D design and printing, 3D scanning, wearable electronics, programming with Arduinio &…

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New LibGuides Community Site

June 21, 2016 | By Anna
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Hello Springyverse! We are pumped to announce that we have a brand new LibGuides Community site! 🙂 We’ve completely rethought the Community site and are thrilled with the results. Guide Search, Institution Search, Librarian Search, and introducing….Springy Picks! Let’s take this one-at-a-time, shall we? Find Guides allows you to search v2 guides (get inspired!), and the results page has facets on guide type, subjects, tags, and library type for filtering. Find Institutions helps you find…

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Pre-ALA LibGuides Updates: HTML Validation, Remotes Scripts, LTI, & E-Reserves

June 15, 2016 | By Sarah
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Over the last few weeks, we’ve released a bunch of small updates and features that will make your (work)life much easier and fun to boot. HTML Validation It’s happened to all of us; you’ve got some widget code, and you paste it into your LibGuide’s Media/Widget asset type and blammo! It blows up your LibGuide. Turns out that your widget code was missing a closing HTML tag. Or, you’re working…

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It’s Hot In Orlando – Time To Get Flashy

June 9, 2016 | By Talia
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…with our presentations, of course! </wink> Springshare’s heading to the ALA Annual Conference in Orlando, from June 24 – 27 and we’ve got an action-packed schedule of flash presentations, free giveaways, coloring time, and more. Plus, you won’t want to miss seeing how your colleagues use Springshare tools. While it might be hot outside, it will be even hotter at Booth 562. Flash Presentations All weekend long, we’re doing 15-min flash…

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Springshare & ACRL Collaborate to Provide Springy Tools to Member Units

May 25, 2016 | By Talia

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) is the largest division within ALA representing almost 20% of the total ALA membership with more than 11,000 members, 17 sections, 21 discussion groups, 17 special interest groups, 8 active task forces, 44 chapters, and 51 committees. To say this division is active would be an understatement! Another understatement? How excited we were to collaborate with the ACRL offices to provide LibGuides and LibAnswers…

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