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Tie Up Loose Ends Before Year-End with Springy Tools

December 18, 2024 | By Hannah

2024 has been another year for the books! Our Support Team answered more than 23,000 questions, with over 89% of those questions being answered within the first 24 hours! Springshare’s 1,523 FAQs were viewed almost half a million times. Our Training Team held over 150 product training sessions, and we offered three days of SpringyCamp. This was the first year we had a full day of SpringyCamp dedicated to Public Libraries (and we’re thinking it won’t be the last!). The Springshare Lounge was lively with almost 4,000 active users, who posted over 1,400 discussions and 800 feature requests. With all…

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Celebrating Black History Month 2024

February 16, 2024 | By Corinne
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In honor of Black History Month, observed in February in the United States and Canada, we’re highlighting some incredible LibGuides that celebrate Black voices and stories. This month is dedicated to “paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society” (blackhistorymonth.gov) and “honour[ing] the legacy of Black people in Canada and their communities” (canada.ca). From the LibGuides Community Marymount Library…

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Happy Library Lovers’ Month from Springshare!

February 13, 2024 | By Corinne
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Here at Springshare, we’re constantly amazed at the ingenuity and determination of our member libraries and their staff. We love when you ask a question or share ideas in the Springshare Lounge with fellow members of the Springy community. We adore when you write in to our Support Team to ask for advice on how you can accomplish your next great idea. It makes our day when you present about…

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New LibWizard Interactive Tutorials

February 6, 2024 | By Kirsten
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LibWizard Interactive Tutorials are here! With Interactive Tutorials, you can create an engaging learning experience for your students and patrons using interactive hotspots, callouts, and questions built into your slides. Interactive Tutorials launched for all LibWizard Full systems in December 2023, but if you haven’t had a chance to check it out or you want some more info, we’ve got two upcoming webinars! What can you do with Interactive Tutorials?…

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Code Release: LibCal, LibAnswers, LibStaffer, LibGuides, LibApps, LibWizard, & LibInsight Features Coming Your Way!

February 2, 2024 | By Rebecca Reed
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These releases are on their way to you next week, and will be live in all regions by the end of the day on Friday, February 9th, 2024. LibCal We’ve added a Free Image Library to the Create Event screen, which makes it very easy to find images from Pixabay to use as featured images in your events! Our new Remotelock integration is certified and ready! We have new bulk…

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A New Integration: LibChat & LibKey Nomad++

January 26, 2024 | By Kirsten
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We’ve got some great news for you on this lovely Friday afternoon – LibKey Nomad++ from Third Iron can be integrated with Springshare’s LibChat to help your library meet users wherever they’re researching! LibKey Nomad++, an enhancement of LibKey Nomad, is a browser extension that enables access to a library’s full-text resources as research is conducted online. LibKey Nomad provides one-click access to full text from sites like PubMed, Wikipedia,…

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Present With Springshare at PLA 2024!

January 23, 2024 | By Kirsten
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LibLearnX is in our rearview mirror, and the Springy Team is gearing up for a busy conference season! With our newly formed Public Library Division, we’re especially excited for PLA in Columbus this April. Here at Springy HQ, we’re busy preparing, but there’s one thing that would make PLA the best conference ever – you! Join us for a flash presentation! There are many reasons to attend a conference –…

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Where’s Springshare the Next Few Months?

January 17, 2024 | By Corinne
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Our conference calendar is filling up! Here’s a preview of where you can find Springshare between now and April. (Don’t worry – we’ve got plenty of conferences coming for the rest of the year. Stay tuned!) ALA LibLearnX – Baltimore, MD When: Saturday, January 20 – Monday, January 22 Where: Baltimore Convention Center, Booth #1016 At the end of this week, the Springy crew is braving the brisk January temperatures…

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A Platinum Win for Patron Point in 2024 MLAs by LibraryWorks

January 12, 2024 | By Kirsten

Awards Season is upon us! No, we’re not referring to the Golden Globes or Academy Awards; we’re talking about the red-carpet event of the library world, the Modern Library Awards from LibraryWorks. We are thrilled to report that our email marketing and engagement tool, Patron Point, has received a platinum award in the tenth annual MLAs. This is the third consecutive year Patron Point has received the honor!  The MLAs…

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Top 10 Springshare Blog Posts of 2023

January 9, 2024 | By Corinne
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2024 is already off to a running start, but we’d like to take a moment to reflect on the past year. In 2023, we added Patron Point to the Springshare lineup, introduced new features and interfaces built for today’s modern libraries, and shared fun tips and examples from the Springy team and our client community. Let’s get into it – here are the top 10 blog posts of 2023! 1….

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New Springy Public Library Division!

January 5, 2024 | By Kirsten
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If you’ve ever sent along a feature request during a support interaction or through the Lounge, you know that we take our users’ needs very seriously. So seriously that our tools have evolved over the years to meet the changing needs of the library community. Lately, we’ve noticed our public library users have grown; there are around 1,100 public libraries using Springy Tools around the world! We’ve also noticed that…

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