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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 Profiles – Your Library. Your Librarian.

December 6, 2012 | By Talia
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A Librarian’s Guide to Etiquette posted a great blog item this week on the hilarity of creating the perfect LibGuides Profile picture.  All jokes aside, we’ve heard from many libraries that adding a profile pic really *does* increase patron familiarity and comfort level when approaching librarians. So picking a good picture is important – and here’s why. We all call 1-800 customer service numbers and chat online with nameless faceless support. Interacting…

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LibAnswers and LibChat Updates Now Live!

November 29, 2012 | By Sarah
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Good Morning Springyland – we’ve rolled out a LibAnswers and LibChat update! This time around we’re focusing on some of your most requested features – here’s the highlights reel: LibChat Updates File Transfers – Patrons and Librarians can now share files via chat, all with the click of a button.* Operator-to-Operator Chat – We’ve made it easy to chat with other online LibChat operators. Just click on another operator’s name,…

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LibCal Update Now Live!

November 5, 2012 | By Sarah
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The LibCal Update is now live! Check out our previous post or the video walkthrough for an overview of all the Calendar changes we’ve implemented. In addition to the major Calendars overhaul, we’ve added several frequently requested features: Keep Track of Patrons with Room Bookings We’ve added new tools to the Room Bookings area to help you keep track of the users that book rooms in your system! There’s a new checkbox…

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LibGuides Update

October 29, 2012 | By Sarah
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Sandy be darned! A hurricane can’t slow us down – the LibGuides Update is now live! We’ve got a bunch of exciting features to share. Friendly URLs are a whole lot friendlier! We’ve expanded the Friendly URL functionality throughout LibGuides! It’s now super easy to assign a friendly URL to most static pages within LibGuides, including: Individual Pages in a guide Subject Category Pages User Profile Pages Group Homepages Even…

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LibCal Update, Coming Soon!

October 29, 2012 | By Sarah
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Awesome new LibCal calendars are coming your way. We’ll perform a code update on November 5th, to introduce many new features to LibCal. There will be no downtime. The biggest change you’ll notice is the way Calendars display – they’ll be much more flexible, super customizable, and a whole lot prettier. View a video walkthrough of the awesome new features. jQuery Calendars – yeah! The new Calendars are based on the…

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Your Secret Weapon: The LibGuides Community

October 10, 2012 | By Sarah

Last week, we read a great article by Joyce Valenza on her NeverEndingSearch blog in School Library Journal. She mentions several excellent resources for digital curation, and as you might imagine, one of them happens to be our favorite – the LibGuides Community. Here’s a quick excerpt: Lately, I find myself using LibGuides in ways never expected. Sure, as a member of the community, I can ask a fellow curator if I…

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Web Developers: Come Work for Springshare!

October 4, 2012 | By Sarah

Hey there, Springy Nation! We’re a fast growing company, so we’re always looking for ninja-skilled Web Developers to help us carry out our mission of providing the best web software for libraries. This is what we’re looking for:  LAMP skills of the ninja caliber, including 3+ years PHP / MySQL experience and Unix / Apache skills Experience in scaling web infrastructure Front-end JS programming experience (e.g. jQuery or dojo) Experience with Nginx,…

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Monday’s LibGuides Server Issues Post-Mortem

September 11, 2012 | By Slaven
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We waited until today to post the explanation behind yesterday’s LibGuides connectivity issue because we wanted to make sure that the fixes we deployed took care of the issue. Here’s what happened: a couple of weeks ago our hosting facility had a big infrastructure upgrade – new routers, switches, the whole nine yards. But yesterday something went wrong with the shiny new stuff which caused one of our critical servers…

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Springshare does not support SOPA or PIPA

September 10, 2012 | By Slaven

As we were wrapping up some fixes regarding the LibGuides connectivity issues today, we noticed some tweets alluding that we somehow support SOPA/PIPA because the attack on GoDaddy coincided with the LibGuides server connectivity issues. Let me be clear in no uncertain terms – we do not support SOPA or PIPA, and LibGuides issues  today were not due to the attack on GoDaddy. To wit, we have a couple of…

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LibGuides – Monthly Statistics Updates Now Live

August 29, 2012 | By Sarah
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Earlier this month, we rolled out a huge statistics update – huzzah! We’ve heard lots of good feedback about the new functionality – words like “awesome”, “fascinating”, and “super cool” have been flying around. We’ve also heard from some folks who miss the simplicity and scannability of the previous monthly hit reports. We’re all about easy, so we’ve added these reports back in to the new stats interface! Here’s how to get…

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