Our client libraries will really like this new thing we’re doing – namely, we have started creating marketing/advertising/pr materials to help our clients promote the wonderful things they are doing with our products – LibAnswers, LibGuides, and CampusGuides. The first marketing/advertising “how to” we put together is for LibAnswers – http://help.springshare.com/advertisingsms….
Viewing the numbers from last month, its pretty clear that our community is ramping up for another school year with LibGuides and CampusGuides! In August we saw the creation of our 100,000th research guide, and very soon our page total will go over the 700,000 mark and our membership will…
We were so excited about the just-released code updates, new products, modules, etc. that we almost missed a super-cool milestone for our flagship platform. As of last week there were 100,000 guides in our LibGuides community. That is an amazing achievement by our community, and it speaks volumes about the…
July and August are (we’re told) the “Dog Days” of summer – apparently for some, the heat and humidity of the season is supposed to cause stagnation and inactivity. Frankly, we think it’s a bunch of hooey – librarians are as busy as ever, and so are we! So while…
Community Sites: 1524 Librarian Accounts: 22,088 Total Guides: 99,618 Total Pages: 643,088 Unique Visitors: 871,431 Page Views: 24 million
When we see impressive examples of the content created by librarians with LibGuides, we don’t just yell “holy smokes!”, we also share it with the world. The Gulf Oil Spill Information Center (GOSIC) site, created by the librarians at the University of South Florida (USF) is a great example of…
We came back from ALA in D.C. full of ideas for new features for our products. We’ve already coded a bunch of new stuff for LibAnswers (the LibGuides/CampusGuides update is coming soon as well) and here are the new features we just rolled out: Importing of LibGuides accounts into LibAnswers….
The calendar may say its summer vacation, but the LibGuides / CampusGuides community is growing faster than ever. We set another record last month, adding 90 (ninety!) new libraries to our member list, and we couldn’t be more excited! Community Sites: 1445 Librarian Accounts: 20,862 Total Guides: 93,597 Total Pages:…
We are pleased to announce a first major update of the SMS Module for LibAnswers. Our SMS Module clients now have these 3 exciting new functions available to them: Send an SMS. You can now send direct SMS messages to patrons from LibAnswers (i.e. not just reply to a text…
As some of you have surely noticed by now, we released some pretty significant updates to LibGuides, LibAnswers and CampusGuides over the last weekend. These updates represent several months of work from our talented tech team, along with dozens of suggestions from our LG / LA / CG user communities!…
