We are excited to announce the general availability of the Serials Solutions import tool for LibGuides. This management tool enables our common subscribers to create Database A-Z LibGuides powered by the authoritative e-resource data from Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks. If you subscribe to both LibGuides and any 360 services or Summon,…
We have a new, incredibly useful, report available for the LibAnswers Analytics module – the Visual Data Analyzer. It enables you to create custom X/Y Charts for any combination of metadata values, for even greater insight into how your reference service *really* works. Yes, you heard it right – now…
What a great way to end the year – with Charles Darwin University becoming LibGuides member library #1000. Congratulations to all LibGuides sites for being part of such an amazing community of educators! Community Sites: 1023 Librarian Accounts: 16,068 Total Guides: 66,703 Total Pages: 424,688 Unique Visitors: 792,496 Page Views:…
We have scheduled several online demos for Thursday and Friday of this week to introduce people to our exciting LibAnswers system. What is LibAnswers you ask? Well – LibAnswers is a web-based question-and-answer system and FAQ builder for libraries. It enables patrons to search the knowledge base and ask questions…
Happy New Year to all the LibGuides admins, librarians and content creators around the world! This quick blog post is to let you all know that the yearly statistics clean-up for LibGuides was performed this afternoon. This annual maintenance ensures that our database and reporting engine are optimized and ready…
We are very excited to announce a partnership with Syndetics Solutions, to enable you to use Syndetics book covers in LibGuides “Books from the Catalog” content boxes. You do not have to be a Syndetics subscriber to use this new functionality. We are thankful to our friends at Syndetics for…
We have added another statistics report to the already sizable Reference Analytics module functionality – the “Daily/Hourly Question Distribution” table. The report is available from the “Reference Statistics” and “Reports Wizard” screens in the Reference Analytics Tab. The report shows the number of questions asked each hour, for all Mondays, all…
We were going to celebrate the 1000-th question answered via LibAnswers, but before we could say “cheese”, we realized this number already stands at 1547. Wow! Given that the system was released only recently, this speaks volumes about how popular and useful the system is going to be, and how easy…
Since we introduced LibAnswers at the Chicago ALA, pretty much everybody who has seen the system has been blown away (in a good way 😉 ). LibAnswers is the new, web 2.0 approach to online reference. Patrons can ask questions using natural language and the system will automatically suggest answers, the…
What library will have the honor of being LibGuides member #1000? Stay tuned for an announcement coming in the next few days! Community Sites: 995 Librarian Accounts: 16,669 Total Guides: 64,500 Total Pages: 400,208 Unique Visitors: 1.18 million Page Views: 30.10 million
