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Conference Travel Tips From the Springy Crew

Library conferences bring folks together for a few days packed with books, ideas, resources, and some of the best people in the world – librarians! The Springy team collectively has quite a few years of travel experience under our belts, so we’ve compiled this list of conference and travel tips for you. Whether you’re a seasoned conference-goer or a relative travel newbie, we hope some of these tips will help you have the best conference experience ever. If you’re heading to the Public Library Association Conference in Columbus, OH next week, be sure to swing by Springshare’s Booth #501 to…

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New Features of the SMS Module for LibAnswers

We are pleased to announce a first major update of the SMS Module for LibAnswers. Our SMS Module clients now have these 3 exciting new functions available to them: Send an SMS. You can now send direct SMS messages to patrons from LibAnswers (i.e. not just reply to a text message sent by a patron but also initiate a text message as well). On the My Admin screen click on…

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Spring 2010 Code Updates

As some of you have surely noticed by now, we released some pretty significant updates to LibGuides, LibAnswers and CampusGuides over the last weekend.  These updates represent several months of work from our talented tech team, along with dozens of suggestions from our LG / LA / CG user communities!  As you will see, there is a lot to review, so lets get started! LibGuides The LibGuides text editor now…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – April 2010

This month we celebrated the 3 year anniversary of the first LibGuides site being installed. Thanks to all our community members for helping to create a truly amazing resource for students around the world! Community Sites: 1274 Librarian Accounts: 19,754 Total Guides: 85,260 Total Pages: 542,293 Unique Visitors: 1.43 million Page Views: 36 million

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The Unquiet Librarian: Top Ten Reasons I Love LibGuides

This morning we wanted to do something a bit different, and feature a blog post from one of our LibGuides community members – Buffy Hamilton aka the Unquiet Librarian. Buffy is a media specialist/teacher-librarian at Creekview High School in Canton, Georgia and is also one of the most active proponents of LibGuides within the K-12 space. We highly recommend that you subscribe to Buffy’s blog for a unique insight on…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – March 2010

Another record month for the LibGuides Community – we welcomed 73 new libraries and our “page views” and “unique visitors” stats were the highest they have ever been! Community Sites: 1208 Librarian Accounts: 18,956 Total Guides: 81,573 Total Pages: 518,035 Unique Visitors: 1.51 million Page Views: 39 million

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – February 2010

We added 60 new libraries to the LibGuides community in February – and that’s the shortest month of the year! Community Sites: 1132 Librarian Accounts: 17,900 Total Guides: 76,813 Total Pages: 488,073 Unique Visitors: 1.24 million Page Views: 33 million

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LibAnswers – Instant Message Notifications for New Questions/Comments

We rolled out the initial (beta) release of the LibAnswers/Instant Messanger integration, so please check it out. Log on to your main LibAnswers admin page (My Admin) and under System Settings tab select “IM Notifications” option. This is where you can setup the integration (you must have a valid GTalk account to do this, but you can use any IM aggregator, e.g. Meebo, Digsby, etc. to receive IM notifications). Once you set this up, any…

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Building a Global LibGuides Community – 25 Countries and Counting

Every now and then we stop for moment, take a deep breath, and marvel at the amazing growth of our LibGuides Community – 1,100+ libraries and 17,000+ librarians creating useful guides, collaborating, and sharing content and ideas. We knew we had many international libraries on board, but we recently realized we’re global in a real “global” way – 25 countries and counting: from dozens of libraries in our northern neighbor Canada, and just as…

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“No Cover Art” Placeholder Images for Books

Even though you have options to use cover art for books from both Syndetics and Amazon, there are some titles for which there are no covers available. So, we created a few placeholder images you can use instead. This is useful if you have 3 or so books in your Books from the Catalog box, and two have covers while the 3rd one does not. In order for all items to align nicely within…

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Montly LibGuides Stats – January 2010

The LibGuides Community started off 2010 with a bang, adding 49 new member libraries in the month of January! Community Sites: 1072 Librarian Accounts: 16,947 Total Guides: 71,325 Total Pages: 455,024 Unique Visitors: 978,139 Page Views: 26.1 million

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