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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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Monthly LibGuides Stats – November 2010

December 1, 2010 | By Marc
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Community Sites: 1764 Librarian Accounts: 26,386 Total Guides: 128,272 Total Pages: 829,040 Unique Visitors: 2.08 million Page Views: 51.75 million

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LibAnswers Code Update – Mobile, Multi-lingual, Faster… Oh my!

November 30, 2010 | By Slaven
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If you noticed a lack of code updates for LibAnswers in the past couple of months, that was just the quiet before the storm because we are excited thrilled to announce a major LibAnswers code update which went live last night. There are lots of little fixes in this update but the biggest changes are: Mobile version of LibAnswers. It’s here. And it looks awesome! Just like with LibGuides, the…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – October 2010

November 1, 2010 | By Marc
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This month we are happy to report that the LibGuides / CampusGuides community has surpassed two million unique visitors in a month for the first time! Combine that with our highest ever monthly page-view total, and its easy to see our community is growing faster than ever! Community Sites: 1710 Librarian Accounts: 25,521 Total Guides: 122,421 Total Pages: 790,532 Unique Visitors: 2.10 million Page Views: 57 million

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CampusGuides Transform Librarians into Tech Innovators

October 26, 2010 | By Anna
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Just as the librarians at Johnson & Wales University (Providence) found Springshare tools helped them earn a “Rock Star” status on campus, we’re pleased to report that another library recently earned kudos from their university community.  Nova Southeastern University Libraries won 1st place in the professional category of the university’s 12th Annual Technology Fair for their creative adaptations of CampusGuides for educational technology. We spoke with librarians Carrie Gits and…

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Springy Training Program

October 21, 2010 | By Sarah
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Have you met our Community & Training team? Cause we’re excited to meet with you! This month, thanks in large part to requests from the Springshare Community, we’re excited to announce the launch of our new training program! Whether you’re just starting out with a brand-new system, or you’re a seasoned vet who wants to know more about new product features, we’ve got a session that’s right for you. Our…

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Springy News – October 2010

October 15, 2010 | By Marc
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The theme for our October newsletter is “mobile”! As a premier provider of useful (and cool) web apps for libraries we want to make sure we got your mobile needs covered as well. We released the mobile version of LibGuides, and the reviews have been uniformly great. We did not dive head first into mobile to get something out quickly – instead we carefully designed the mobile version from the…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – September 2010

October 4, 2010 | By Marc
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In September the LibGuides community surpassed 50 million page views for the first time. Yikes – that’s a lot of page views! Community Sites: 1663 Librarian Accounts: 24,499 Total Guides: 116,034 Total Pages: 748,598 Unique Visitors: 1.85 million Page Views: 52.89 million

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New Features for LibGuides/CampusGuides and LibAnswers

September 27, 2010 | By Slaven
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Over the weekend we successfully completed another major code update (without any system downtime – kudos to our tech team!) and rolled out many new features. Watch for the full details of all new features in our upcoming October newsletter, but here is the summary: LibGuides/CampusGuides: Mobile interface for your guides! The system auto-detects mobile devices and serves the mobile version. It’s pretty cool, check it out. Also, we don’t…

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Promoting your LibAnswers SMS/Texting service

September 21, 2010 | By Slaven
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Our client libraries will really like this new thing we’re doing – namely, we have started creating marketing/advertising/pr materials to help our clients promote the wonderful things they are doing with our products – LibAnswers, LibGuides, and CampusGuides. The first marketing/advertising “how to” we put together is for LibAnswers – http://help.springshare.com/advertisingsms. It’s full of great ideas and practical advice about how to encourage patrons to use your LibAnswers SMS service –…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – August 2010

September 1, 2010 | By Marc
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Viewing the numbers from last month, its pretty clear that our community is ramping up for another school year with LibGuides and CampusGuides!  In August we saw the creation of our 100,000th research guide, and very soon our page total will go over the 700,000 mark and our membership will grow to over 1600 libraries worldwide.  Quite an accomplishment for our community members to say the least! Community Sites: 1598…

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