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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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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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New LibGuides Features Announced

June 9, 2008 | By Slaven
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Our tech guys have been busy cranking out code so we have another batch of new features to announce. They all come as a direct result of the suggestions and ideas from our customers, so keep up the great work and continue providing us constructive feedback. The new features we are announcing today are: Enhanced user profiles. The system administrators can now define up to 5 additional fields for user…

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New Look of the LibGuides Community Site

June 4, 2008 | By Slaven

Based on the feedback from our users, we have revamped the LibGuides community site. The URL is still the same – http://community.libguides.com so check it out when you have a moment. Besides the cleaner look, we have added a new feature – “Browse Institutions” which enables you to filter and find institutions by State/Country, in addition to the old method of filtering institutions alphabetically. So, now you can find all LibGuides institutions…

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Customizing the Look and Feel of LibGuides

June 3, 2008 | By Slaven
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As most of our LibGuides admins know, there is a  system-wide customization screen in the Admin functions area (under the System Settings tab). This screen enables you to customize the look and feel of your LibGuides system. With a bit of knowledge of html and css style sheets, you can go a step further and truly customize every aspect of the look and feel of your LibGuides. To help you along, we created a…

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Monthly LibGuides Stats – May 2008

June 1, 2008 | By Marc

Here are the most recent cummulative stats for the LibGuides community. Community Sites: 215 Librarian Accounts: 3556 Total Guides: 7973 Total Pages: 49,225

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LibGuides – 200th Member Site!

May 22, 2008 | By Marc

Northfield Mount Hermon School joined LibGuides this morning, bringing our total site count to 200!  Our membership has just about doubled since January, and we have quite a few more groups that will be joining the community in the next few months. Thanks to everyone for making the first half of 2008 a very successful one for Springshare and our LibGuides community members!

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