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Streamline Your LibGuides: Hiding Breadcrumbs Made Easy

July 24, 2024 | By Kirsten
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If you’re looking to give your LibGuides a unique and personalized touch, CSS is your best friend! With CSS, you can take full control over your guide’s visual presentation, from colors and fonts to spacing and layout. It’s like having a magic wand to make your content look exactly how you want. Want to make your headers pop, your links stand out, or your buttons more clickable? You can do all that and more! One of the easiest ways to customize the look of your LibGuides with CSS is by hiding the breadcrumbs. At the top of each public page,…

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New Springy Public Library Division!

January 5, 2024 | By Kirsten
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If you’ve ever sent along a feature request during a support interaction or through the Lounge, you know that we take our users’ needs very seriously. So seriously that our tools have evolved over the years to meet the changing needs of the library community. Lately, we’ve noticed our public library users have grown; there are around 1,100 public libraries using Springy Tools around the world! We’ve also noticed that…

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Yearly Wrap-Up + Springy Holiday Schedule

December 21, 2023 | By Kirsten
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The end of the year is almost upon us! We’re here to show you how to prep your Springshare tools for staff vacations and shifting hours – so your final week of 2023 goes as smoothly as possible! So before you set that Out-of-Office message, make sure you take a look at this handy guide that our wonderful Springy Support Team has put together. This guide will give you all…

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RemoteLock Integration with LibCal Spaces

December 18, 2023 | By Talia

Are you tired of keeping track of keys for your building’s public-use rooms? Study rooms? Conference rooms? Meeting spaces? Are those keys always going missing, even when attached to giant heavy blocks of wood and a metal chain? We completely understand AND commiserate. Several Springys were librarians and remember those days of tracking down missing keys, calling locksmiths, and watching the cycle repeat over and over again. Well, no more!…

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Patron Point at LMCC 2023

December 14, 2023 | By Talia
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The Springshare team is taking a breather between conferences this month – but this gives us the perfect opportunity to reminisce about the fun we had at the 2023 Library Marketing and Communications Conference in Indianapolis last month and plan ahead for our trip to Baltimore for ALA LibLearnX in January! Looking Back at LMCC Did you catch up with the Patron Point crew at LMCC 2023 last month? LMCC…

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Code Release: LibCal, LibAnswers, LibStaffer, LibGuides, LibApps, LibInsight, & LibWizard Features Coming Your Way!

December 8, 2023 | By Juri Kyoya
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These releases are on their way to you next week, and will be live in all regions by the end of the day on Friday, December 15, 2023. LibCal We’re excited to bring you a new widget for Equipment Booking! This new widget makes it easy to embed your library’s available equipment in any website. Head to Equipment>Widgets to create a new widget. We’ve added the ability to manage exceptions…

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End Your Year with Guest Presenters & a SpringySession!

December 4, 2023 | By Kirsten
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The end of the year provides the perfect occasion to reflect on your achievements and gather valuable insights. Cap off 2023 on an insightful note by tuning in to two fantastic webinars! Join us for one (or both!) of these sessions, designed to enrich your knowledge and inspire you as you transition into the new year. Don’t miss the chance to wrap up the year with a wealth of new…

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Cross ‘Watch Patron Point Webinar’ Off Your To-Do List

November 28, 2023 | By Talia

It’s the human condition to always overestimate how much time we have. “I’ll get to that tomorrow,” we tell ourselves. Tomorrow becomes next week, and that becomes next month, and so on and so forth. Until suddenly, December is around the corner and the end of the year is nigh – and we go into full rushing-around-mode trying to fit everything we wanted to get done by year’s end into…

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Springshare Holiday Schedule

November 17, 2023 | By Kirsten

The hustle and bustle of the summer and fall are finally behind us, and the holiday season is on the horizon! If you caught our 2023 year in review in the most recent edition of our SpringyNews newsletter, you know that we’ve had a busy year so far! Some Springy Highlights From 2023: We saw 84 product updates across 7 products. We held 1,876 webinars & training sessions, with a total of over 6,500…

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Stop Your Patrons from Ghosting You: Increase Engagement with Patron Point

November 9, 2023 | By Corinne
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Meet the newest member of the Springshare Suite of tools! Patron Point, a fully featured email marketing automation platform, helps your library to onboard new patrons, engage current users, and reinvigorate inactive patrons by sending highly personalized emails. Next week, we’re hosting two webinars to show you how to use Patron Point to keep your users informed, excited, and coming back for more. Springy Talia, VP of Marketing at Springshare,…

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Frights & Festivities: A Double Celebration

October 30, 2023 | By Kirsten
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As the crisp autumn leaves fall and the nights grow longer, two vibrant and culturally rich celebrations come to life, each with unique charm and significance. Halloween, celebrated on October 31, conjures images of costumes, jack-o’-lanterns, and trick-or-treating, while Día de los Muertos, observed from November 1 – 2, paints a picture of marigolds, sugar skulls, and heartfelt remembrance. These two festivals, although distinct in their origins and customs, share…

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