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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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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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Google Scholar Content Box & ‘Linked Pages’ Feature

October 21, 2008 | By Slaven
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Thanks to the continued (excellent) feedback from our clients, we are pleased to announce the availability of two new features in LibGuides: 1) Google Scholar Content Box. This content box enables users to search the Google Scholar database from LibGuides. The librarian can also create a “default query” for users of Google Scholar. The query will appear when the visitor loads the box. Since Google has not yet released the official…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – September 2008

October 1, 2008 | By Marc

Here are the most recent cummulative stats for the LibGuides community. Community Sites: 362 Librarian Accounts: 6218 Total Guides: 17,101 Total Pages: 112,669 Unique Visitors: 246,513 An important milestone was reached in the month of September – as a community, our members have now published over 100,000 pages of content within LibGuides!  Lucky page #100,000 can be found on Jeremy Cusker’s Operations Research and Information Engineering guide in the Cornell…

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OpenSearch Compliance and LibX Browser Bar Support

September 22, 2008 | By Marc
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LibGuides is now OpenSearch compliant!  From the OpenSearch Wikipedia page: “OpenSearch is a collection of technologies that allow publishing of search results in a format suitable for syndication and aggregation. It is a way for websites and search engines to publish search results in a standard and accessible format.” What does this mean for your library patrons?  The OpenSearch specification provides web browsers with a means to auto-detect search engines,…

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New LibGuides Features, and Improved Community Site

September 22, 2008 | By Slaven
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Thanks to the (awesome) feedback and ideas from our client libraries LibGuides is getting better all the time. The latest round of feedback/ideas resulted in the 4 new features we just released. The new look for the Community Site (http://community.libguides.com), with cleaner interface and the ability to browse guides by Subject. See more in-depth description of the new community site at the end of this post. Improved “Browse All Guides” page for…

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