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Tales From the Co-Op: October Exchanges

October 29, 2024 | By Kelsey
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The newest edition of Tales From the Co-Op is here! If you missed the most recent post in this series, be sure to catch up with the September Exchanges. The LibAnswers 24/7 Chat Cooperative provides your library with continuous, reliable chat coverage through LibChat, staffed by expert librarians with MLS degrees and cooperative members from partner libraries worldwide. Whether your librarians are busy, it’s after hours, or you’re focusing on in-person services, the Co-Op ensures your patrons get immediate, high-quality assistance whenever they need it. By participating in the 24/7 Co-Op, you guarantee seamless support for your patrons, no matter the circumstances….

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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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Springshare & LibGuides at ACRL Seattle

March 12, 2009 | By Marc

One more reminder that Springshare will be attending the ACRL conference in Seattle this upcoming weekend.  Please visit us at Booth #639 and be sure to bring your questions and suggestions related to LibGuides! More importantly, there are seven (!!) presentations discussing real-world examples of LibGuides and its impact on student research.  You can find a list of these presentations on the Springshare Lounge ACRL page or by viewing the ACRL conference program.

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Honorable Mentions

March 3, 2009 | By Marc

Online discussions of LibGuides are coming at a fast-and-furious pace these days; here are a few of our favorite blog posts and reviews from the last few weeks: Loving LibGuides – The Unquiet Librairian A week or so ago, my library’s subscription to LibGuides went live!  I have designed three research pathfinders so far, and I am totally in love with the clean design I can produce with ease… Instructional…

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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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