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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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Introducing LibAuth – Authentication for Springshare Tools

January 5, 2016 | By Slaven
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We are excited to announce a new tool in Springshare’s cloud platform of apps – LibAuth. LibAuth is our implementation of patron authentication inside Springshare apps and systems. This is important new functionality which will make Springshare tools even more useful and more applicable to a wide variety of use-case scenarios within libraries. We have big plans for LibAuth and will be enhancing it further to offer innovative authentication-based solutions and services…

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Park View LibGuides: Learning on Their Time & Their Device

December 21, 2015 | By Talia
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Stephanie Mills is a School Librarian at Park View Middle School in Cranston, Rhode Island. And to say that she is awesomazing, well, would be an understatement. Through the Rhode Island Library Information Network for Kids, Stephanie and 70 other School Libraries in Rhode Island, have access to LibGuides through a single shared LibGuides CMS system. This way, participating libraries get their own customizable group and as students navigate through from…

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LibAnswers 2.6.5: LibChat Updates Coming Soon!

December 17, 2015 | By Sarah
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We’re cooking up another great LibChat update that’s coming soon to a computer near you! We’re planning a chat server restart to bring these updates live on Wednesday, December 23rd at 8:00am EST. There will be no downtime for the LibAnswers system as a whole. Over the past few months we have dedicated a lot of development time to making the most popular chat platform for libraries even better and the…

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LibCal 2.3 Update – A New Look and a Whole Lot More!

December 15, 2015 | By Sarah
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The LibCal 2.3 update just rolled out, and we’re thrilled to introduce a whole new way of looking at Calendars and Events. There are so many things to love in this update – everything from the updated/modern look for calendar, event, and homepage displays, to the new tools that make it easier to find events, and the new event publishing workflow for managing the publication of events at larger libraries. Excited? Us…

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Using LibCal to Create Dynamic Digital Signage

December 3, 2015 | By Talia
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The University of Hull’s Brynmor Jones Library runs a program of drop-in sessions to cater to new and returning students. The sessions are over a 6-week period with up to eight individual sessions each day. In 2014, upcoming sessions were displayed on digital signage manually. The manual nature of updating the digital signage resulted in updates being missed and past sessions being shown. So, in 2015, the Library decided to do…

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LibGuides 2.1.9 Update Live!

December 2, 2015 | By Anna
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Hello Springyverse! On this hopefully-beautiful-where-you-are day, we want to add a little more sunshine with a bunch of new LibGuides features. 🙂 This is a long one, so hold on to your hats and enjoy the read… mSite Builder is here! mSite Builder is the next generation of LibGuides v1’s Mobile Site Builder…but trust us when we say, it’s a totally different animal. You’ll get up to speed right away, since adding…

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LibInsight SUSHI Integration is HERE!

November 23, 2015 | By Sarah
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Fish might not go well with our American customers’ Thanksgiving Day turkey, but boy do we have a LibInsight update that we hope you’ll be thankful for—SUSHI integration. What’s SUSHI? It’s a protocol that enables LibInsight to connect directly to your e-resources vendors for data retrieval, eliminating the middle steps of downloading files from your vendors and uploading them into your E-Journals / Databases or eBooks datasets.   Reports available…

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LibAnswers 2.6.4 Update Now Live

November 19, 2015 | By Sarah
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The LibAnswers 2.6.4 update rolled out this morning! This mini-update includes several awesome LibChat improvements and a new widget option to boot. It also includes a number of back-end server updates, which make LibChat even more stable and more powerful than ever before! New Widget Option – Skip Entry Screen LibChat provides you with tons of options to customize the Chat Entry form, i.e. what question(s) you wish to ask the patron –…

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LibCal + iPads = Happy Students @ Duke University Libraries

October 28, 2015 | By Talia
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When we heard that Duke University Library was doing something cool with their surplus iPads, we had to find out more. In a nutshell, they upcycled several gen1 iPads to create touchscreen room booking interfaces, using LibCal, outside their reservable Project rooms. Bottom-line, students love the convenience of booking a Project room when, and where, they need it. They can see when a room is available, when it’s booked, and they…

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LibSurveys 1.6 Update Now Live

October 15, 2015 | By Sarah
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Hey Springy-land! This week we rolled out a LibSurveys update with some great new features and thoroughly squashed bugs. 🙂 System-wide Settings Admin level users can now customize the look and feel of all of the forms and surveys in your system in a single bound! (‘Cause Admins are kinda like Superman, don’t you think? 😉 ) Check out these new options under Admin > System Settings: Page Header for All Surveys – Upload…

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