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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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Web Developer Ninjas: Come Work with Springshare!

March 27, 2012 | By Sarah

Hey there, Springy Nation! We’re hunting for a few great Web Developers to help us carry out our mission of creating awesome web software and providing even awesome-r service to our libraries. If you have mad skills and a thirst for innovation (or you know someone who does), we want to talk to you! This is what we’re looking for:  LAMP skills of the ninja caliber, including 3+ years PHP /…

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LibAnswers – New Features are Live!

March 21, 2012 | By Sarah
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Can you feel it? Spring is here, and we’re celebrating with a new crop of LibAnswers features! New in LibAnswers: SMS now available in Canada and the UK! Picture it: a text messaging service that’s directly tied in to your LibAnswers workflow. Send and receive SMS messages, create auto-responders, and enjoy a wealth of statistics – all from one centralized interface. We’re thrilled to extend this service to our clients in…

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LibGuides & CampusGuides Updates Now Live!

February 15, 2012 | By Sarah
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Here at Springshare, we really do love librarians – so we whipped up a little Valentine’s gift for all our libraries. Check out these new-and-awesome features, and let us know – will you be our Valentine? Enhanced Content in Books from the Catalog box* Wouldn’t it be nice if you could enter an ISBN and automatically retrieve information for any book? Now you can! Just enter an ISBN, and we’ll…

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Mobile Site Builder: Now in Multiples!

February 7, 2012 | By Anna
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Things that are good on their own but better in multiples: Winning Lottery Numbers Ice Cream Scoops Vacation Days Donuts Roses When your hometown wins the Superbowl, Stanley Cup, World Series and NBA Finals all in the same year (Not this year Boston!) …. and Springshare’s Multiple Mobile Sites Builder! If you’ve been looking for a way to create multiple mobile sites for your institution, here’s your opportunity: subscribe to Springshare’s…

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LibCal – New Features (already!)

November 14, 2011 | By Sarah
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For those of you who haven’t experienced the wonder of LibCal yet, we’re offering a great deal – our 3-for-free deal gets you 3 Calendars, 3 Schedulers, & 3 Room Bookings for free!  In the 2 months since LibCal was released, we’ve already installed over 250 systems, and added more than 20 new features based on user requests. Here are a few highlights: Calendars/Event Management The Wait List feature is…

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LibGuides & CampusGuides – SEI Update is Live!

October 31, 2011 | By Sarah
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The new LibGuides & CampusGuides SEI update is live! Thanks go out to everyone who offered feedback that led to this major redesign of the back end interface. For a full walkthrough of the organization changes, check out: http://help.springshare.com/lgcg-sei. Here are some of our favorite highlights: The new Dashboard screen (you’ll see it when you first log in) is clean and (we hope!) easy to navigate. You can always get back…

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200,000 Library Guides (and still counting!)

October 24, 2011 | By Sarah
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We’ve often been amazed by the astounding growth rate for guides in LibGuides & CampusGuides – clearly, librarians have a lot of wisdom to share! And today’s milestone has surprised us yet again – as of today, there are over 200,000 librarian-created guides in the system, and more than 1.3 million pages of content in those guides. What’s more amazing is, it took almost 3 years to hit the first 100,000 guides,…

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LibGuides & CampusGuides Code Update Coming Soon!

October 12, 2011 | By Sarah
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As you may already know from the last couple of newsletters (June and September), we’re getting ready to release a new version of the system, with significantly updated dashboard and management screens. The current dashboard hasn’t changed since the system’s inception in 2007, and we’ve added hundreds of new features, so… things were getting a little cramped back there, if you know what we mean. 🙂 This update will affect…

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New in LibAnalytics: Duration Analysis

October 3, 2011 | By Sarah
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You probably know this about us by now, but when we hear great ideas from clients, we like to make them happen fast. Created thanks to a mix of great ideas and Ninja know-how, our new Duration Analysis report is a great way to view how much time you’re spending on transactions (instruction sessions, research consultations, etc.). Here’s how it works: When you record a transaction, make sure you’re recording…

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New LibAnalytics Features: Instance Designer and Widgets

September 25, 2011 | By Sarah
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We are announcing two important new features for LibAnalytics: Instance Designer and LibAnalytics Widgets. These new features open up a slew of possibilities to use LibAnalytics in a whole new way. Our new Instance Designer makes it easy to fully customize the look and feel of your instance! It has everything from reordering fields using a drag-and-drop interface, to being able to define instructions and help text for each field. The new interface makes…

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