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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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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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User Experience Webinar Reminder

January 6, 2009 | By Marc

LibGuides / HowStuffWorks user webinar #6 – “Serving a New Generation: Exploring Web 2.0 and Beyond” – is scheduled for this Thursday at 3pm Eastern.  For more information about attending this free webinar, please visit the events page at the Springshare Lounge.

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Monthly LibGuide Stats – December 2008

January 1, 2009 | By Marc

Its time to wrap up 2008 – an exceptional year for the LibGuides community!  In addition to the community totals, we have also included our 2007 totals and the percentage growth for each row, so you can see the progress we all made this year.   2008 Total 2007 Total Growth Rate Community Sites: 464 88 427% Librarian Accounts: 7603 1188 539% Total Guides: 23,202 3740 520% Total Pages: 145,902…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – November 2008

December 1, 2008 | By Marc

Here are the most recent stats for the LibGuides community! Community Sites: 428 Librarian Accounts: 7201 Total Guides: 21,553 Total Pages: 134,521 Unique Visitors: 354,656 Page Views: 8.79 MM

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Internet Explorer Browser Caching Issue

November 24, 2008 | By Slaven
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In the last few weeks we had several problem reports where users said that the previously deleted content magically reappears on their guides, or that text entered into the rich text editor reverts to its previous version (and/or that text changes are not being saved), or that the list of tabs is not updating after making changes to it, etc. All these (and a few other) issues have one thing in common (and…

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User Experience Webinar Reminder

November 11, 2008 | By Marc

The “Organizing Content for Success: Taxonomies for the Everyday User” webinar last week was a great success!  For those of you that were unable to attend, the session video is available online at for no charge. Our 3rd webinar – “It’s all about the User: Practical Personas” – is scheduled for this Thursday.  For more information about attending this free webinar, please visit the events page at the Springshare Lounge.

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LibGuides Member Site #400

November 6, 2008 | By Marc
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We are very happy to announce that with the addition of University of Illinois Chicago this afternoon, our LibGuides community has grown to 400 member libraries!  Many of you will remember how excited we were to reach our 100th member library earlier this year, and since then our user base has grown quickly to say the least  By the end of this year there will be 7000 librairans around the world working…

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LibGuides Webinars – Call For Ideas

November 5, 2008 | By Slaven
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As many of you know, we are currently conducting a series of “User Experience” webinars in cooperation with the super-cool and very knowledgeable Kristiana Burk of HowStuffWorks.com. We will record and archive these (as well as all future LibGuides webinars) so that you can watch them offline if unable to participate. The first couple of webinars are our ‘test-bed’ of sorts, to help us master the platform and the recording process. If…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – October 2008

November 2, 2008 | By Marc

Congratulations to the LibGuides community members – your unique visitors increased by 25% when compared to September and total page views were just a bit shy of 10 million! Community Sites: 396 Librarian Accounts: 6813 Total Guides: 21,189 Total Pages: 116,818 Unique Visitors: 337,795

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