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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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New LibAnswers Feature – Recommended Answers

July 29, 2009 | By Slaven
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Our new LibAnswers system is generating a lot of great buzz, and we believe for a good reason – it is an innovative reference 2.0 tool with a refreshing new twist on the “ask a librarian” service. Many built-in Social Features, Twitter integration, FAQ knowledge-base builder, the Query Analysis, the Auto-Suggest widget… are some of the cool features that got people excited. Let’s add another one to this list –…

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LibAnswers, CampusGuides, Chicago ALA

July 7, 2009 | By Slaven
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We emailed this update to all admins today, but for those users who didn’t get the email here’s a recap: The betas of LibAnswers (http://demo.libanswers.com) and CampusGuides (http://demo.campusguides.com) have arrived (and they look great)! We’d love for you to check them out and give us your feedback, suggestions, and comments. You can read more information about both of these cool new products at http://www.springshare.com/libanswers and http://www.springshare.com/campusguides. Send us a quick…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – June 2009

July 3, 2009 | By Marc

Here are the most recent stats for the LibGuides community!  In June we welcomed 66 new libraries to the LibGuides community, our busiest month to date! Community Sites: 746 Librarian Accounts: 12,135 Total Guides: 40,316 Total Pages: 252,870 Unique Visitors: 399,179 Page Views: 12,199,911

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New LibGuides Features for Summer 2009

June 15, 2009 | By Marc

A large update was applied to the LibGuides servers last night that included many new features, optimizations, and other improvements.  Here are a few of the more noteable changes that were made: RSS Feeds: Users can now subscribe to several different RSS feeds that contain information about content being added to LibGuides.  These feeds are setup to display information about a) content added to a specific guide, b) content added…

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Summer Updates

June 12, 2009 | By Marc
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It has been a busy summer for us at Springshare, and we have a lot of exciting news to announce, so lets get to it! Starting things off, the LibGuides Community has been growing at a record pace over the last few months.  We added 43 libraries in March, 52 in April, an astounding 57 libraries in May, and 31 through the first 1/3rd of June.  Just today we installed…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – May 2009

June 1, 2009 | By Marc

Here are the most recent stats for the LibGuides community! Community Sites: 678 Librarian Accounts: 11,383 Total Guides: 36,911 Total Pages: 231,365 Unique Visitors: 441,892 Page Views: 11,371,780

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – April 2009

May 2, 2009 | By Marc

Here are the most recent stats for the LibGuides community! Community Sites: 623 Librarian Accounts: 10,450 Total Guides: 34,060 Total Pages: 213,881 Unique Visitors: 564,246 Page Views: 14,586,949

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Happy Anniversary!

April 30, 2009 | By Marc
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It was two years ago today that Temple University became the first member library of the LibGuides community.  In those early days we were thrilled to add just one or two new libraries each month as word began to spread about the cool things you could do with LibGuides.  Today, LibGuides is growing by one or two libraries each day (!!) and our level of excitement and commitment has never been…

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Secure HTTPS Logins, CampusGuides and LibAnswers

April 6, 2009 | By Marc
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Happy Spring everyone – our favorite season here at Springshare! As you know, we are constantly striving to improve LibGuides based on the feedback we receive from our community members.  In that regard, we are pleased to announce that we have upgraded LibGuides to support secure logins via HTTPS/SSL.  From now on, when you login to LibGuides you will be auto-redirected to a secure channel before being prompted for your…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – March 2009

April 4, 2009 | By Marc

Here are the most recent stats for the LibGuides community…another record month in terms of visitors and views! Community Sites: 568 Librarian Accounts: 9670 Total Guides: 31,932 Total Pages: 199,752 Unique Visitors: 550,154 Page Views: 15,980,798 Site Up-time: 100.0%

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