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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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LibGuides Release 2.1.7

June 3, 2015 | By Anna
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New month, new stuff! We’re planning on releasing yet another action-packed LibGuides release this week. Here’s a peek at what’s coming… 🙂 E-Reserves: Additions! Modifications! Fixes! This release has it all. Oh E-Reserves…how do we love thee? Let me count the ways: E-Reserves Form & Administrative Area: Yup, it’s true…E-Reserves now has a super-duper-awesome form you can post for your faculty and their administrative partners so they can easily send…

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LibAnswers 2.4 Update – LibChat Updates and Consortial Shared Systems

May 27, 2015 | By Sarah
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LibAnswers 2.4 is coming this weekend! This update will include improvements both large and small. We’re planning to roll this update out at 8:00am EDT this coming Saturday, May 30th. There will be no downtime for the overall LibAnswers system, with the exception of several minutes of downtime for users currently logged in to LibChat. Read on for more information about this exciting update! LibChat Operator Screen Update We’re in full-on spring…

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LibGuides 2.1.6 Coming Soon!

April 29, 2015 | By Anna
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We’re bringing you some really exciting updates with v2.1.6, including a new LTI tool, enhancements to E-Reserves, custom column widths in tabbed-nav guides, and a bunch of great fixes. We’re aiming to release this update later this week Thursday, April 30th at 12pm Pacific. There will be no downtime. 🙂 LibApps LTI Tool for LibGuides CMS With LibGuides v2, we made it easier to integrate your guides / content anywhere…

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LibCal v2.2 Update Now Live

April 23, 2015 | By Sarah
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We’re super-excited about this LibCal v2 code update. It brings major new functionality to the system as well as several nice-to-haves and bug fixes: 2-Way Sync with Outlook for MyScheduler. With the previous update which covered Google Calendar 2-way sync, we now have full integration with two most widely used enterprise calendar platforms. You can embed MyScheduler widgets on any webpage so that your patrons and faculty can easily schedule…

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Springshare Support Model: We’re Presenting @ Computers in Libraries!

April 20, 2015 | By Talia
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Putting UX Into Customer Service: The Springshare Model When: Tuesday, April 28th from 1:30pm – 2:15pm Where: B203 Abstract: Talia Richards, a Springy Librarian, will be presenting on how you can use Springshare’s model for customer service in your library. Drawing inspiration from real-world examples, Richards shares practical tips, strategies, and implementation techniques that illustrate ways in which libraries can better integrate the user experience into their customer service model….

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LibAnswers 2.3.1 Coming Soon!

April 16, 2015 | By Sarah

LibAnswers 2.3.1 is coming this weekend! This update will include improvements both large and small. We’re planning to roll this update out at 8:00am EDT this coming Saturday, April 18th. There will be no downtime for the overall LibAnswers system, with the exception of several minutes of downtime for users currently logged in to LibChat. Read on for more information about this exciting update! New LibAnswers Spam Filters We’ve been hearing…

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Watch ACRL 2015 Guest Presenters, Emilie & Monica, Present on Springy Tools!

April 8, 2015 | By Talia
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Whether you attended ACRL in Portland, or not, you can still watch (and rewatch!) guest presenter’s Emilie Vrbancic and Monica Ruane Rogers speak about their use of Springy Tools. Teaching from LibGuides: Quick Tips for Interactive Learning Emilie Vrbancic – University of Colorado at Colorado Springs About (11min 13sec): Do you create course specific LibGuides for library instruction? Are you looking for ways to incorporate active and collaborative learning into…

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New Base Languages – Brought to you by Springshare

April 1, 2015 | By Talia
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Now that we have Language Options in LibGuides v2 and LibAnswers v2, we felt it was time to kick it up a notch and give you what you’ve been clamoring for all these years. After agonizing research that took the better part of 7 years and painstaking creation, not to mention incredible bouts of wordsmithing, we’re amped to bring to you: THE BEST BASE SYSTEM LANGUAGES OF 2015! Many, oh…

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Outstanding LibGuides v2 Customization – Interview with University of North Florida

April 1, 2015 | By Talia
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If you haven’t had a chance to preview the UNF’s LibGuides customizations, run (don’t walk) your typing fingers over to http://libguides.unf.edu. We chatted with Jeremy Hall, UNF’s Virtual Services Librarian, about their LibGuides customizations, CMS functionality, Springy Tools integration, and the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. Okay, we’re kidding about that last one, can you blame us for an homage to Douglas Adams? Onto our interview with Jeremy, one hoopy frood who…

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New Trier High School – Then & Now

March 24, 2015 | By Talia

Five years into using LibGuides with 968 Published Guides and a v2 Migration – New Trier High School has a lot to talk about! So, we thought an interview was in order! Springshare first interviewed New Trier in our December 2011 newsletter and in just a few short years, a lot has changed. Let’s catch up. 😉 Q. Can you give us some background on how you’re using LibGuides? The…

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