Springshare Support Blog

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…

“Academic librarians have long maintained general pathfinders for subjects like art, biology, and sociology, and course-specific guides to support instruction. While we value our role in supporting curricular and research needs, academic librarians should also support their students’ needs for extracurricular, recreational, health, and other information, just as a public library does. We can and should provide resources about current and campus events, such as visiting speakers, colloquia, festivals, and exhibits.

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University’s librarians are finding new ways to support campus activities and engage with student and faculty interests.”

We highly recommend you attend this session which will take you ”beyond subject guides” and introduce some new LibGuides tricks.

Just a reminder that Springshare will be at the Computers in Libraries (CIL) conference next week in Arlington, VA.   If you are attending the conference, please set aside some time to come by booth #214 and say hello.  We will be doing live demos of LibGuides and will have product brochures available – perfect for taking back to the director or purchasing officer at your library!

During the conference there will be two presentations that discuss real-world implementations of LibGuides; we recommend you try to attend both if time allows.   The first session, “Library Web Presence: Engaging the Audience” (B102 – 11:30am), will discuss how to improve library web services, using the LibGuides implementation at Temple University as an example.

The second presentation, “Facebook Apps & Libraries Friendly Future” (C203 – 1:30pm), will show how libraries can leverage the power of social networking to engage their students in new ways.  For additional information regarding these sessions, please check out the full CIL schedule online.

We look forward to seeing you there!