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End of Year Prep and Springshare Holiday Schedule

November 25, 2024 | By Corinne

We know that many of you are busy wrapping up the semester and planning for upcoming holiday closures. You’re figuring out how best to communicate schedule changes to your patrons, accommodate staff time off, and update your hours and availability for 2025. Don’t fret – Springshare has you covered! ‘Tis the Season for Changing Schedules With the holidays rapidly approaching, you’re likely making plans for when your library is closed or has reduced hours of operation. For a step-by-step plan to get your LibAnswers, LibCal, and LibStaffer ready to go for your staff and patrons, check out this Springboard Tutorial. We…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – July 2008

August 1, 2008 | By Marc

Here are the most recent cummulative stats for the LibGuides community. Community Sites: 305 Librarian Accounts: 5152 Total Guides: 12,145 Total Pages: 69,929

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Problems with Del.icio.us boxes inside LibGuides

July 31, 2008 | By Marc

Several users have sent us emails in the last few days asking why their del.icio.us boxes, which used to work fine, are now only showing a very limited set of tags. After looking into the issue in depth, the conclusion is that – for now – we can’t do anything about this because it’s a problem with the del.icio.us api code. We get del.icio.us tags to display in LibGuides by using …

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Upgrading LibGuides Servers

July 29, 2008 | By Slaven
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The growth of LibGuides has been nothing short of amazing, but the best part is that we are just getting started! New libraries are signing up every day, so the current statistics (300 libraries, 5000 librarians using the system, 11,500 guides created with 70,000 subject pages) will look like small potatoes 6 months from now. To ensure the smooth growth of our community, and to be able to handle the increasead…

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User Management in LibGuides and New API Functions

July 20, 2008 | By Slaven
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We rolled out another set of new LibGuides features this weekend. There are a lot of little things in this release, like code optimizations which will make the pages load faster, but the main new features are: Sys admins now have a real user account management console, from which they can create new accounts, promote existing accounts to admin-level (and demote them as well), reset passwords, and delete user accounts. If you are…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – June 2008

July 1, 2008 | By Marc

Here are the most recent cummulative stats for the LibGuides community. Community Sites: 257 Librarian Accounts: 4265 Total Guides: 9859 Total Pages: 56,993

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Honorable Mentions: Anaheim Edition

June 27, 2008 | By Marc

Library Lady Dee posted about adapting LibGuides to document internal library procedures and policies.  While the “hit by a bus” analogy is a bit of a downer, the idea of reaching out from beyond the grave to instruct on ILL intricacies makes up for it.  Thank you Dee, and please be careful crossing the street! Cindi has created a great LibGuides intro video for the BIGWIG Social Software Showcase 2008…

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New Springshare Website is Live

June 25, 2008 | By Marc

Our new website is live at http://springshare.com and we think it came out great! Be sure to check out the new video on the LibGuides page.

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Another LibGuides Related Presentation @ ALA

June 20, 2008 | By Marc

The excellently titled “Research Guides Remixed” – hosted by Steven from Princeton University and Margaret from Oregon State – will cover the creation of research guides via LibGuides as well as Oregon’s ICAP. Part of the ACRL College Science Librarian’s Discussion Group, the session takes place Sunday, June 29th, 2008  01:30 pm – 03:30 pm at the Hyatt Regency Orange County (HYATT) Salon I. Springshare’s Libguides, Oregon State University’s open…

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Springshare @ ALA Annual Conference

June 16, 2008 | By Marc

Just a reminder that we will be at the ALA Annual conference in Anaheim, CA later this month.  If you are attending the conference, please set aside some time to come by booth #874 and introduce yourself. During the conference, Tiffany and Kathryn from DePauw will be hosting a poster session titled “Guides 2.0: Supporting Campus Programming and Current Events” that explores LibGuides beyond traditional subject guides.  From the session abstract……

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Google Search Box as a Content Box Type

June 9, 2008 | By Slaven
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Among the new features we announced today, the “Google Search Box” content box type is perhaps the most important because it is a harbinger of future functionality for searching content inside LibGuides boxes. Our grand plan for world library domination involves creating a set of APIs which anybody (e.g. library techies who wish to create native catalog search content box in LibGuides, or database publishers who wish to create a…

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