http://support.springshare.com Official Support Blog for Springshare and LibGuides Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:06:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here are the most recent cummulative stats for the LibGuides community. Community Sites: 362 Librarian Accounts: 6218 Total Guides: 17,101 Total Pages: 112,669 Unique Visitors: 246,513 An important milestone was reached in the month of September - as a community, our members have now published over 100,000 pages of content within LibGuides!  Lucky page #100,000 can be found on Jeremy Cusker's ... http://support.springshare.com/2008/10/monthly-libguides-stats-september-2008/ I am pleased to announce the availability of the link checker function in LibGuides. The system will check for broken links inside LibGuides boxes (for all boxes except the rich text box type) twice a month and produce the report which will enable you to fix these broken links easily. ... http://support.springshare.com/2008/09/link-checker-function-in-libguides/ The Springshare Team would like to announce that HowStuffWorks.com, the Web site famous for its easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works, will be working with the LibGuides product as our first content partner.  HowStuffWorks will create free multimedia “Hot Topic” Guides for library users of all ages.  The HowStuffWorks portfolio ... http://support.springshare.com/2008/09/an-exciting-content-partnership-with-howstuffworkscom/ LibGuides is now OpenSearch compliant!  From the OpenSearch Wikipedia page: "OpenSearch is a collection of technologies that allow publishing of search results in a format suitable for syndication and aggregation. It is a way for websites and search engines to publish search results in a standard and accessible format." What does this ... http://support.springshare.com/2008/09/opensearch-compliance-and-libx-browser-bar-support/ Thanks to the (awesome) feedback and ideas from our client libraries LibGuides is getting better all the time. The latest round of feedback/ideas resulted in the 4 new features we just released. The new look for the Community Site (http://community.libguides.com), with cleaner interface and the ability to browse guides by Subject. See more ... http://support.springshare.com/2008/09/new-libguides-features-and-improved-community-site/ We have not highlighted a LibGuides related blog post in some time, but when we saw the post on the Gonzobrarian blog today, we couldn't resist! One of the fruitions of my library’s attendance at a recent conference was to become more fully introduced to the increasingly popular service called LibGuides. ... http://support.springshare.com/2008/09/nice-libguides-related-blog-post/ Here are the most recent cummulative stats for the LibGuides community; over 20,000 content pages were added last month! Community Sites: 337 Librarian Accounts: 5782 Total Guides: 14,596 Total Pages: 90,180 http://support.springshare.com/2008/09/monthly-libguides-stats-august-2008/ We're excited to unveil our new (and much improved) user forums/LibGuides users network/videos/calendar of events website - The Springshare Lounge at http://springsharelounge.com. The Lounge is the next step in our community-building efforts - it is a true social network for our librarians to exchange ideas, questions, comments, suggestions, etc. Our old user forums had serious limitations, which ... http://support.springshare.com/2008/08/springshare-lounge/ We've achieved a lot of "firsts" in the Library software world in terms of web 2.0 stuff - LibGuides was one of the first commercial library software with a Facebook app (we now have three), among the first to integrate with Del.icio.us, etc. Today I am pleased to announce another "first" and, ... http://support.springshare.com/2008/08/libguides-twitter/ After our server upgrade went as smoothly as possible (zero downtime for patrons), we were alerted today that several (5, to be exact) of our clients were not able to access the new servers. After scratching our heads and looking at the problem from every possible angle (I'd like to ... http://support.springshare.com/2008/08/issues-with-accessing-new-servers/