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Comment on New LibGuides and CampusGuides Updates by zarinnie

zarinnie — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 23:28:55 +0000

This is really helpful

Comment on Announcing Mobile Site Builder and LibAnalytics by chohertz

chohertz — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:01:41 +0000

We just signed up for the Mobile Builder and it is, like every other Springshare product, fantastic!!! The integration in with our LibGuides is wonderful, and the interface is so easy to use! I am thrilled with this product already!

Thanks, as always, for your great support!

Comment on A-Z Import Now Pulls in Custom Database Names by annaburke

annaburke — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 21:02:40 +0000

I believe that you are correct in thinking that if you replace the URLs in your Serials Solutions client center, those will be the URLs pulled into your LibGuides site. You might try changing one (keeping the original URL handy somewhere) and then run the import again in LibGuides – see if that URL updates.

You absolutely can edit the A-Z guide however you want! It’s a guide like any other guide in your system, so you can move boxes around, reorder pages, add additional content (pages, boxes, links)…anything you want! The important part is: you must have 27 properly named boxes in your guide (A, B, C, … Y, Z, #). As long as those boxes exist, you can do anything else you want to the guide.

We have a whole guide dedicated to this tool: A-Z Resource List Management. That guide will take you through running the import, modifying the guide, and re-running the import to update your list. It also includes examples of other sites who’ve used the import tool and then modified their guides – that’s on the “Add More to Your A-Z Guide” page.

If you have any other questions, please let us know: training (at) springshare (dot) com

Comment on A-Z Import Now Pulls in Custom Database Names by pandafe476

pandafe476 — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:19:31 +0000

I am a newbie when it comes to LibGuides. I have successfully imported my resource A-Z list and noticed that the imported URLs are not the referral URLs used by my library system. I believe we can change that by adding our referral URLs to the Serial Solutions Knowledgeworks base, can’t we?

Is there a way to edit the A-Z list like any other LibGuide? If so, can anybody point me in the right direction as far as where to find online help?

Comment on Del.icio.us Tag Clouds & Sharing of LibGuides by marcbertone

marcbertone — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:47:22 +0000

Hello Khue – At the time that we created our Delicious box in LibGuides, the Delicious API did not support retrieving tag bundles, only the complete set of tags for a user. As such, it was not possible for us to retrieve one specific bundle to be displayed within LibGuides. I believe that since that time, Delicious did update their API to support bundles, so we should be able to add this feature to LibGuides during one of our upcoming code updates. I will make sure to add this to our feature request queue with a note that says to update this post once the feature has been coded. Thanks for the question / suggestion!

Comment on "No Cover Art" Placeholder Images for Books by marcbertone

marcbertone — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:42:31 +0000

Hi Victor – the first two placeholder images we created are not book specific, so you could use either of those for your DVD cover art. If you would prefer something that looks more DVD specific, you could create your own image, upload it to a web-server (or your personal image library in LibGuides), and then paste the path to that image into the cover art field for your DVD entries. I hope those suggestions are helpful!

Comment on "No Cover Art" Placeholder Images for Books by victorlieberman

victorlieberman — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:30:13 +0000

Are there any “no cover art” URLs for DVD cases?

Comment on Del.icio.us Tag Clouds & Sharing of LibGuides by khuenoway

khuenoway — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:53:06 +0000

Hi,

Del.icio.us has a feature where you can bundle your tags. For example,if I’d like to group links that are related to tags LibGuides and Chemistry, I can create a bundle, say, named LibGuides_Chem, to group these bookmarks together.

My question is:

In Libguides, is there any way we can specify the del.icio.us tag cloud to the level of group bundles? I tried to put the # after the del.icio.us user name (for example smith#LibGuides_Chem and it did not seem to work.

It would be such a chore that I have to create different del.icio.us accounts to group links for different subject guides. In my case, it would be 4 separate account for the geology guide, the chemistry guide, the physics, and the environmental science guide. Well, you get the point …

Thanks!

Khue

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Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:21:26 +0000

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Comment on "No Cover Art" Placeholder Images for Books by » LibGuides Tip for books without covers Reference at Newman Library

» LibGuides Tip for books without covers Reference at Newman Library — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:11:46 +0000

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