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Post-PLA Recap: Amazing Guest Speakers & More!

April 16, 2024 | By Talia
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Is PLA actually over?! Our disbelief stems from the fact that we’re still buzzing from the event and feeling like the conference vibrancy and vivacity are still with us! Alas, if only! We had such a great time at this year’s PLA conference in Columbus, OH – overeating (just a smidge) from Bare Burger across the street (I mean, those fries, right?), chatting with so many of you at our booth, and hearing about how you are using Springshare Tools to meet the needs of your patrons. From guest speakers presenting at our booth (recordings linked below) to sessions mentioning…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – February 2010

March 4, 2010 | By Marc
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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

February 25, 2010 | By Slaven
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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

February 24, 2010 | By Slaven

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

February 3, 2010 | By Slaven
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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

February 2, 2010 | By Marc
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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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Facebook API Problems

February 2, 2010 | By Marc
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We have had several reports that the LibGuides applications for Facebook have had intermittent problems over the last week or so.  Since the applications have not been changed in some time, it appears that the problem may be with the Facebook API.  This is further supported by the Facebook Developers Platform Live Status page at http://developers.facebook.com/live_status.php, which is currently showing an “API Latency”, which is the likely source of the…

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Serials Solutions – LibGuides A-Z List Management is Now Live!

January 26, 2010 | By Marc
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We are excited to announce the general availability of the Serials Solutions import tool for LibGuides. This management tool enables our common subscribers to create Database A-Z LibGuides powered by the authoritative e-resource data from Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks.  If you subscribe to both LibGuides and any 360 services or Summon, you can now import your entire database list into LibGuides via an easy to use management screen! For more information…

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Visual Data Analyzer for LibAnswers Reference Analytics

January 6, 2010 | By Slaven
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We have a new, incredibly useful, report available for the LibAnswers Analytics module – the Visual Data Analyzer. It enables you to create custom X/Y Charts for any combination of metadata values, for even greater insight into how your reference service *really* works. Yes, you heard it right – now you can pick any two parameters in your reference tracking metadata (i.e. the stuff you decided to track and record…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – December 2009

January 5, 2010 | By Marc
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What a great way to end the year – with Charles Darwin University becoming LibGuides member library #1000.  Congratulations to all LibGuides sites for being part of such an amazing community of educators! Community Sites: 1023 Librarian Accounts: 16,068 Total Guides: 66,703 Total Pages: 424,688 Unique Visitors: 792,496 Page Views: 19.6 million

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Please Join Us for a Demo of LibAnswers

January 5, 2010 | By Marc
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We have scheduled several online demos for Thursday and Friday of this week to introduce people to our exciting LibAnswers system.  What is LibAnswers you ask?  Well – LibAnswers is a web-based question-and-answer system and FAQ builder for libraries.  It enables patrons to search the knowledge base and ask questions from anywhere.  Our auto-suggest feature matches the patron’s question with an existing answer in the system, and they are automatically…

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