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LibCal: The Most Popular Event, Ticketing, and Kit Management Software for Libraries

November 21, 2024 | By Kelsey

LibCal is an affordable, library-focused tool for event management, space bookings, appointment scheduling, Library of Things & museum passes lending, and more! Libraries are a launchpad for activities-onsite and online events, one-on-one appointments, community reading initiatives, exam study nights, cake pan lending, author visits, and so much more! LibCal offers the tools to manage the what, where, when, and who of just about everything. LibCal is an established and reliable solution used by over 3,600 libraries, and growing, worldwide! 6 Stellar LibCal Features That Will Propel Your Library to New Heights Selecting software for your library can be intimidating, so…

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Friday Fun! New LibInsight Features

May 20, 2016 | By Sarah
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New Chart Type in Dashboards We’ve added a new chart option in Dashboards; the new Stacked chart option lets you visualize the multi-select or single-select fields in your custom datasets in a new way. Here’s a side-by-side comparison: While both visualize how different answers compare to one another, stacked charts have the added bonus of indicating the rough total for each option. Stacked charts are available for Bar, Column, and…

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Beyoncé’s Lemonade – The LibGuide Heard Round the (twitter)World

May 18, 2016 | By Talia
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On April 28th at 9:09am, Jenny Ferretti, the Digital Initiatives Librarian at the Maryland Institute College of Art, tweeted that she had published a LibGuide on Beyoncé’s Lemonade visual album. The response, especially on Twitter, was astounding. In just 24hrs, Jenny’s LibGuide had over 14,000 views and her tweet has been retweeted and liked over 200+ times. The NYPL even got in on the buzz and tweeted Jenny’s LibGuide to their over 1.5Million…

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Quick LibGuides Update: New Layout and Export All Records for Tabular Data

May 2, 2016 | By Sarah
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UPDATE to the update: This LibGuides update went live approximately 5:22 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. We hope you enjoy the new look and the All Records Export! We have heard from quite a lot of you that you’d like to download lists of various things in your systems and massage or share that data with Excel. We’re in the process of implementing new code that will make this much easier….

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New to LibInsight: Track Individual Reference Questions, and More!

April 29, 2016 | By Sarah
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Up until now, to track and analyze reference questions, a library had to create a custom dataset. That’s still possible, of course, but if you’re a librarian who likes things in the right categories (and we know you are!), you can use a new option in the Reference Dataset to track those individual transactions. How? When you create a Reference dataset in your LibInsight installation, you’ll see three options: If you…

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New Hanover County Public Library’s Knowledge Base in the Cloud

April 22, 2016 | By Talia
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Rachel Langlois at the New Hanover County Public Library had a problem, she needed to create a cloud-based and mobile-friendly staff Knowledge Base. This Knowledge Base, replacing their paper manuals, needed to be flexible enough to be accessible by staffers anywhere and at anytime, but also secure enough so that patrons couldn’t gain access. The New Hanover Public Library is a power Springy user, with subscriptions to LibGuides CMS, LibAnswers, LibCal, and…

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HTML Backups of Deleted Guides Now Available!

April 20, 2016 | By Talia
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It’s happened to all of us – you’re spring cleaning your guides and you accidentally delete a guide by mistake. All that content…just gone. Well, guess what! We’ve added a bunch of new functionality to LibGuides v2 so that accidental guide deletions are a thing of the past. Are You Sure You Want to Delete? Inside a guide, we’ve added in a prompt that requires confirmation to triple-check that you really really…

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LibWizard 1.7.3 Update Now Live!

April 15, 2016 | By Sarah
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Hola, LibWizard fans! The LibWizard 1.7.3 update is now live, and we have lots of great improvements to share. In this update we’re happy to introduce several frequently-requested features, including email confirmations for patrons, flexible grading improvements, accessibility updates, and a whole lot more. We can’t wait to tell you about these great new features, so let’s get to it! Patron Email Confirmation on Survey Submission This is a great…

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LibCal 2.4.5 – MyScheduler Updates Now Live!

April 6, 2016 | By Sarah
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Oh boy, we have some fun MyScheduler updates to share! With this release we’re aiming to make life easier for admins, and what better way to keep your sanity intact than to add centralized MyScheduler management and a whole new way of presenting your MyScheduler appointments to the public? We’re excited to hear what you think, so let’s get right to it! MyScheduler Groups Have you ever wished for more…

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Hello LibCat – Springshare’s Smart Cat for Libraries

April 1, 2016 | By Talia
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We’re thrilled to announce the newest member to our Springshare Suite of Apps – LibCat! It’s a culmination of efforts by Springy programmers, veterinarians, and biologists around the world to meet a real need in today’s libraries… a smart cat designed for libraries by librarians. With LibCat, patent-pending, enhance your feline friend’s abilities with useful features, robust statistics…all with the same furr’nominal support you’ve come to expect from a Springshare…

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Springshare’s Going Public!

March 29, 2016 | By Talia
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…Libraries, that is! We’re heading to the Public Library Association Annual Conference (PLA) next week, from April 6 – 8. You won’t want to miss swinging by Booth 433. Why? Well, for starters, you’ll want to attend a 15-min flash presentation on Springshare tools for a chance to win a free cat coloring book. And speaking of coloring, we have a Springy Color Me Decal we need your help filling in. Awesome, right?…

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