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November 28, 2023 | By Talia

It’s the human condition to always overestimate how much time we have. “I’ll get to that tomorrow,” we tell ourselves. Tomorrow becomes next week, and that becomes next month, and so on and so forth. Until suddenly, December is around the corner and the end of the year is nigh – and we go into full rushing-around-mode trying to fit everything we wanted to get done by year’s end into just a couple of weeks. Well, have no fear – there’s no rush to watch any of the Springshare webinar recordings by the end of 2023. They’re not going to…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – February 2009

March 1, 2009 | By Marc

Here are the most recent stats for the LibGuides community!  Despite being a short month, new records were set across the board, with all-time high numbers of unique visitors and page views.  February was also the first time that our community reached over 1,000,000 individual visits in a single month! Community Sites: 525 Librarian Accounts: 8757 Total Guides: 28,858 Total Pages: 163,486 Unique Visitors: 451,842 Page Views: 13,601,087 Site Up-time:…

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Item Linking and Reusing of Content

February 16, 2009 | By Slaven
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After a few months of working on this (thank you to all our clients who suggested and contributed to the idea), I am very pleased to announce a major step in the evolution of LibGuides: item-level linking and reusing of content in the system. Say what? Here’s the scoop… Previously, you were able to “link to” (i.e. reuse) the LibGuides pages and the LibGuides content boxes. For example, you’d create…

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LibGuides Member Site #500

February 9, 2009 | By Marc
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We are very happy to announce that with the addition of Creekview High School this evening, our LibGuides community has grown to 500 member libraries! Thank you to all the LibGuides users out there for your great feedback and for promoting our community on your blogs, Twitter feeds, poster sessions and conferences. We are on pace to have another great year, and we are looking forward to seeing what innovative…

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Updating the LibGuides Facebook Apps.

February 5, 2009 | By Slaven
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Some of you may notice that our three Facebook applications are unstable (or even not working) for the next couple of weeks. Do not be alarmed – we are working on updating (in fact, re-writing) all three of our FB apps to take advantage of the new Facebook API. It was frustrating to have to change the code all the time because Facebook API kept changing (from the original specifications, in the early days) so…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – January 2009

February 1, 2009 | By Marc

Here are the most recent stats for the LibGuides community! Community Sites: 492 Librarian Accounts: 8236 Total Guides: 25,962 Total Pages: 163,486 Unique Visitors: 327,142 Page Views: 10,615,000 !!

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Wrapping Up A Successful Webinar Series

January 28, 2009 | By Marc
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Last week, Mazen Khoury and Kristiana Burk presented the final session in the ‘user experience’ webinar series. Many innovative ideas were presented during these sessions, and the response from the LibGuides user community has been overwhelmingly positive. We at Springshare would like to thank Kristiana and HowStuffWorks.com for all the hard work that went into creating these sessions, and we look forward to working with them in the future! For…

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User Experience Webinar Reminder

January 21, 2009 | By Marc

LibGuides / HowStuffWorks user webinar #8 – the last of the current series – is scheduled for this Thursday at 3pm Eastern. The Information Amusement Park: Make Learning Fun: Discovering information doesn’t have to be boring. Learn how to incorporate different types of marketing and browsing techniques, editorial calendars, scavenger hunts, polls, and more to encourage page views and return visitors. -and- Mix It Up: a Thematic Approach to Organizing…

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User Experience Webinar Reminder

January 14, 2009 | By Marc

LibGuides / HowStuffWorks user webinar #7 – “Taking it to the Next Level: Layered Content” – is scheduled for this Thursday at 3pm Eastern.  You’ve pulled together your first set of subject guides using some of the core resources from your collection. Learn how to use “layered content” like image galleries, top 10 lists, quizzes and more to drive page views while creating a more holistic view of a topic….

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LibGuides Basic Training – Jan 27th

January 14, 2009 | By Springshare

Please join me on January 27th at 2pm Eastern for the first Open LibGuides Training Webinar!  This Training Session will focus on the basic steps of creating guides, adding content, and managing your LibGuides page via the new Command Bar.  Reservations are not required, although you are welcome to RSVP via the Springshare Lounge if you would like to let us know you will be attending. To join the meeting:…

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LibGuides Related Presentations at ACRL

January 13, 2009 | By Marc

A quick scan of the conference program for the upcoming ACRL meeting in Seattle shows an impressive four sessions dedicated to LibGuides! Reinventing Research Guides: LibGuides at Two Academic Libraries Guides to Go: Using LibGuides to Deliver Information From Static to Dynamic: Using LibGuides to Create Discipline-Specific Research Guides at West Virginia University Libraries Do the Outcomes Justify the Buzz?: An Assessment of LibGuides at Cornell University and Princeton University…

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