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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 v2 Beta Site Requests

December 13, 2013 | By Slaven
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We’re happy to announce that LibGuides site admins can now request a LibGuides v2 beta site via your LibGuides v1 Admin dashboard! We know the anticipation has been building and we appreciate your patience for the past few weeks. There was an important last-minute code change we had to make – switching from the no-longer-supported Bootstrap 2.3 to the new Bootstrap 3. It meant changing literally every screen and changing…

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LibGuides Sneak Peek Webinars

November 4, 2013 | By Anna
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We’re super excited – the LibGuides sneak peek webinars start this week! 😀 We’re offering sessions for our customers a couple of times a week over the next few weeks, and yes, for those of you outside of a reasonable time zone for attending, we will be recording them. (The recordings should be available by the end of next week. Keep an eye on the “Springy News” box on your LibGuides…

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Awesome LibGuides Customization – With a Twist!

September 10, 2013 | By Talia
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There are three things you should know about Oregon State University. First, their mascot is Benny the Beaver. Second, OSU has more majors and minors than any other University in the state of Oregon – impressive! Third, they are the newest members of the LibGuides Community, with one of the nicest LibGuides customizations to boot. The Twist in the story is that OSU’s Libguides content actually came from their legacy…

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LibAnalytics & the Institutional Review Board

September 5, 2013 | By Springshare
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There are few information gathering processes in academia as important as those of the Institutional Review Board (IRB). Federally-mandated in the U.S. (other nations have their own systems), IRBs are designed to protect the rights and welfare of human subjects who take part in research. But the IRB process, while recognized as vital, can seem onerous to busy faculty and other researchers and even to members of the boards that…

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Meet LibStaffer – Web-based Staff Scheduling Management for Libraries

August 22, 2013 | By Sarah
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We love creating tools that make (professional) lives of busy librarians a little easier, a tad more efficient, and much more pleasant. As the saying goes, time is money so if we can save you time – especially when doing mundane tasks that “just need to be done” – that’s a big win in our book. Let’s talk about one of these types of tasks: staff scheduling for various service…

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Springy Products, Public Libraries, and Younger Adults

August 21, 2013 | By Springshare

No one has given them a cutesy label yet—thank goodness for that—but 16-29 year olds have been identified by Pew Research as a key and, in many ways, surprising demographic for public libraries. The under-30 crowd has particular needs and particular ways they want their needs met. Pew’s recent report “Young Americans’ Library Habits and Expectations” says members of this age group are not only heavy technology users, but “value…

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LibGuides & Faculty Collaboration = Scholarship to ALA

July 19, 2013 | By Talia
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Graduate Assistant Laura Browning was on a mission! She wanted to cultivate a strong collaborative relationship between faculty in the English department and the library’s instruction program at Florida State University. How did she accomplish this? Start off with a strong line of communication with English faculty and their T.A.s. Next add in a dash of marketing and library promotion. Mix in personalized emails and face-to-face meetings. And the cherry…

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LibAnalytics Insight Platform

June 27, 2013 | By Slaven
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We hope we got your blood pumping with yesterday’s post about the next-gen LibGuides. But there’s more good news to share – we’ve been busy working on another platform which, we believe, will have an even greater impact on libraries than LibGuides has had. Here’s the scoop… We know librarians love statistics. You collect statistics on all aspects of library operations, and keep those in spreadsheets, tick sheets, on staff…

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LibGuides: The Next Generation!

June 26, 2013 | By Anna
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2007 2013 It’s been 6 years since LibGuides was first released and oh, my, what a ride it’s been! Almost 4,000 live sites, 55,000+ librarians using it, hundreds of millions of page views every month, and hundreds of new features introduced since 2007. We’re in this for the long haul, and behind the scenes we’ve been working on the next generation of LibGuides – the system that will keep things…

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Springshare’s Getting Flashy!

June 19, 2013 | By Talia
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The ALA Annual Conference! A time of year to meet up with old friends, learn new things, eat delicious food, and visit your fave library vendor, of course! Well this year, we’ve got several surprises in store for you. <sly grin> We’re unveiling our biggest ever update to LibGuides – a complete and utter redesign of the LibGuides public interface. Is it amazing? You betcha! Do we have some spectacular…

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