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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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100,000 Library Guides (and counting…)

August 10, 2010 | By Slaven
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We were so excited about the just-released code updates, new products, modules, etc. that we almost missed a super-cool milestone for our flagship platform. As of last week there were 100,000 guides in our LibGuides community. That is an amazing achievement by our community, and it speaks volumes about the ease of use and the popularity of our platform. In just 3 years librarians have created over 100,000 guides (as…

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August 2010 Code Update

August 5, 2010 | By Sarah
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July and August are (we’re told) the “Dog Days” of summer – apparently for some, the heat and humidity of the season is supposed to cause stagnation and inactivity. Frankly, we think it’s a bunch of hooey – librarians are as busy as ever, and so are we! So while some folks are out there are wasting afternoons on front porches, sipping iced tea and fanning sweat from their brows,…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – July 2010

August 1, 2010 | By Marc
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Community Sites: 1524 Librarian Accounts: 22,088 Total Guides: 99,618 Total Pages: 643,088 Unique Visitors: 871,431 Page Views: 24 million

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A Shining Example of LibGuides – Gulf Oil Spill Information Center (GOSIC)

July 14, 2010 | By Sarah
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When we see impressive examples of the content created by librarians with LibGuides, we don’t just yell “holy smokes!”, we also share it with the world. The Gulf Oil Spill Information Center (GOSIC) site, created by the librarians at the University of South Florida (USF) is a great example of what happens when you give librarians an easy-to-use tool to publish information and share their knowledge. http://guides.lib.usf.edu/gulf-oil-spill This is a…

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New LibAnswers Features

July 9, 2010 | By Slaven
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We came back from ALA in D.C. full of ideas for new features for our products. We’ve already coded a bunch of new stuff for LibAnswers (the LibGuides/CampusGuides update is coming soon as well) and here are the new features we just rolled out: Importing of LibGuides accounts into LibAnswers. It’s true – it’s here and it is not even Christmas yet! Now our libraries who have both LibGuides/CampusGuides and…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – June 2010

July 1, 2010 | By Marc
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The calendar may say its summer vacation, but the LibGuides / CampusGuides community is growing faster than ever.  We set another record last month, adding 90 (ninety!) new libraries to our member list, and we couldn’t be more excited! Community Sites: 1445 Librarian Accounts: 20,862 Total Guides: 93,597 Total Pages: 600,496 Unique Visitors: 894,000 Page Views: 24 million

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New Features of the SMS Module for LibAnswers

June 14, 2010 | By Slaven
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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

May 11, 2010 | By Marc
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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

May 6, 2010 | By Marc

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

April 19, 2010 | By Marc
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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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