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For the past couple of months a lot of our development efforts went into planning and coding for the global data center expansion. We are almost finished with this process, and starting in April, the pace of development of new features in all our tools will accelerate again!
For our European clients who are concerned with their Springshare apps being hosted on US soil, we are establishing a new server cluster at the AWS facility in Ireland. This server cluster is completely independent of our US server cluster, so the data in there will not “cross” into the US. We will announce the Canadian, Australian, and Asian server clusters in the upcoming months, as well.
This is not just for LibGuides but for *all* Springshare apps:
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We’re moving all v2 sites and content for customers located in Europe.
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Exciting news for LibWizard fans, the LibWizard community site is coming soon! The new community site will be loosely based on our current LibGuides community site (community.libguides.com). It will make it super easy to search and browse for LibWizard content - including forms, surveys, quizzes and assessments - at institutions who choose to share, to help inspire your own creations!
A dedicated A-Z Analyze Holdings page gives you several ways to review your database holdings, each in its own box. The first box provides you with an overall summary of your holdings, including:
Summary Analysis |
Subject Analysis |
Vendor Analysis |
A-Z Items Analysis |
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We'll be adding more features to make LTI setup easier and faster. Plus, better statistics.
This will be rolled out to LibGuides and E-Reserves so end-users can authenticate into your Guides and E-Reserves Courses.
We'll soon be offering the ability to compile, curate, and publish OER content within LibGuides.
Enable your in-house developers to develop exciting apps and functionality to turn LibGuides, LibAnswers, LibCal, and LibCRM into data and content repositories, letting you distribute this data and content from our apps to anywhere, at the point-of-need.
We will expand Write APIs based on users’ feedback. Let us know what you want the Write APIs to do, and we’ll put it on the to-do list.
If your library currently subscribes to the Room Booking module, then have we got news for you. In our next update, we're going to make it super duper easy for you to upgrade your existing Room Bookings to the all new Spaces module! "Spaces" is the free upgrade to the existing Room Booking module - it vastly improves the flexibility involved with reserving spaces at your library, and includes tons of commonly requested Room Booking features, like:
We'll be adding auto-posting to social channels from within LibCal. So promoting your newly added events will be a breeze on Twitter and Facebook.
You asked for it, and it's coming. If your library changes for equipment or space usage, you'll be able to associate and charge usage fees.
Admins will be able to define input parameters for the auto-scheduling functionality. For example:
We're going to make it easier and faster for you to build and style your LibChat widgets.
Plus, we're adding in the ability to:
Analyze e-resource usage at the database level rather than just at the platform level.