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LibCal: The Most Popular Event, Ticketing, and Kit Management Software for Libraries

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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Major LibGuides/CampusGuides update

Last night we updated our production servers with the new code for LibGuides/Campusguides, that we’ve been working on for the past few months. This was a major code update and it fixed all outstanding bugs, in addition to introducing several important new features: Better (much better) full-text search capability with real relevance-based ranking and search syntax highlighting. In other words, when you perform a search in your system and jump…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – October 2009

Community Sites: 952 Librarian Accounts: 16,083 Total Guides: 61,643 Total Pages: 389,578 Unique Visitors: 1.20 million Page Views: 34.20 million

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Embedding Wolfram Alpha Search Widget Inside your LibGuides

You have probably heard about Wolfram Alpha by now. It is a new search engine/technology – a “computational knowledge engine that draws on multiple sources to answer user queries directly.” (quote from their website).  Some people think it’s the next big thing in search, others disagree, but one thing is true – it’s a neat technology. Recently, the folks behind it released the Wolfram Alpha widgets which can be embedded…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – September 2009

With 1 million unique visitors generating a combined 30 million page views in the month of September, we think its safe to say that school is definitely back in session! Community Sites: 914 Librarian Accounts: 15,288 Total Guides: 56,363 Total Pages: 356,204 Unique Visitors: 1.01 million Page Views: 31.64 million

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A-Z Database Lists in LibGuides – Beta Testers Needed (Serials Solutions Users)

We noticed that many of our clients are creating A-Z Database Lists in LibGuides. So, we want to make it easier for you to create and maintain these guides, and to that effect we are close to finishing a major new enhancement called, well, A-Z Database List Management (not a lot of room for creativity on naming this). This new functionality will help you create and manage A-Z lists, but most importantly it…

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New Features for Subject Categories Pages

We’re excited to announce the new and expanded subject category functionality in LibGuides and CampusGuides. These changes are significant in both the UI sense (see below) but also in that they represent another step in opening up our platform to let you organize and track non-LibGuides resources. With this, LibGuides can (and should 😉 become your go-to platform for organizing any subject-specific resources you collect and have access to, regardless of whether they are…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – August 2009

August was a month that brought many new milestones for the LibGuides community, including: – The addition of 70 new libraries – our largest single month increase ever! – There are now more than 14,000 librarians actively using the LibGuides software. – LibGuides now contains more than 50,000 individual research guides. – The number of links added to the LibGuides community has now surpassed 1 million! Community Sites: 870 Librarian…

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LibGuides server connectivity issues – update

Hello folks, just an update – we are restarting the servers again so there will be a 10 minute downtime, in order to restore the access.

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LibGuides Connectivity Problems – Fixed

In a typical Murhpy’s Law fashion, as soon as we posted the previous blog update about the connectivity issues, we figured out the problem and fixed it, so I believe this issue is now behind us and the new servers will start acting like they’re supposed to – healthy, fast, and uninterrupted. Not to bore you with the details, but the problem was related to the memory swap issue – the…

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Intermittent connectivity problems to LibGuides servers

This past Sunday we performed a major upgrade to our hardware (to prepare for the increased usage for the upcoming school year), but it appears there are some problems with the new setup. We are working diligently to figure out what’s going on, and in the meantime we apologize for any brief service interruptions you may experience. We will post an update on the blog as soon as we figure out (and…

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