Conduct online appointments and events seamlessly with new Zoom integration! Connect your license to LibCal to automatically generate meeting URLs right from the appointment and event.
Account permissions:
Event Calendars:
Equipment & Spaces:
Many of you have asked if you can pair your LibApps logins with your single sign-on (SSO), and now you can in LibAuth! As of May, you can now:
This means that a) you can hide the LibApps login screen and direct logins to your organization's instead, and b) that you can revoke access to LibApps simply by removing that person from your authentication system's group specified in your LibAuth configuration. We hope this is helpful, especially for large institutions!
​LibGuides tabbed box change:
Additional features and fixes:
The May release brought a big update to the Queue question form builder, making it more flexible and easy to use! Now you’ll be able to:
Language Internationalization:
Queues and Tickets:
FAQs:
LibChat
24/7 Chat Cooperative:
QuestionPoint Data Portal
With the March release, we added a special portal page for viewing historical QuestionPoint data for former QuestionPoint clients. This portal page includes the top-level Institution Stats report for viewing stats on the total questions answered by each institution.
We’ve also included a portal for each site’s previous QuestionPoint Service History, which provides access to the past 3 years’ worth of chat and email interactions from your QuestionPoint system. Admins can head to Admin > QuestionPoint Data and select a report or transcript to view.
Miscellaneous Updates:
In March, we released the long-awaited privacy scrub tool! Now you can specify which fields in your LibWizard items are scrubbed on a rolling, monthly basis.
Additional Improvements
Accessibility fixes:
Schedules/Shifts
Time Off:
Holidays:
General and Accessibility fixes:
Check out the newly redesigned Reports area!
Interactions
Profiles
We've been working behind the scenes to refactor the code for our LibAnswers, LibCal, LibGuides, and Google Analytics datasets.
Additional features and fixes:
Our online Appointments and Events integration with Zoom was received with great excitement, and we’ve heard your requests for more meeting software options!
While the Spaces module was created with different types of library spaces in mind, new social distancing measures require specific considerations with the use of building space. We’re developing new features to manage individual seats within these spaces.
Finally, we’ve begun working on one much-requested Appointments feature! In the coming months, we’ll be adding the option to centralize some appointments settings, including associating a booking form with a location/group and appointment type, rather than the individual person. This will greatly help library staff who provide both tech help and research assistance appointments.
We’re working our hardest to get these much needed LibCal features to you as soon as we’re able! Keep an eye on our blog for future developments.
In March, we let folks know about an upcoming update to the rich text editor (RTE). At the time, customers had the option to try it out early, but now we are preparing to release it to all sites this summer. If you'd like to make the switch now, let us know by filling out our form!
As previously announced, we will be moving all sites to HTTPS-required this summer now that browsers are starting to enforce the secure HTTPS protocol.
Also this summer, we will be deprecating the older v1.0 LibGuides API in favor of the v1.1 API (guides, assets, accounts, subjects) and the v1.2 API with OAuth2 (database assets). If you have website content that is currently using the 1.0 API, please update your calls to use one of the newer versions.
Later this year, we will begin to adapt LTI 1.3 to take advantage of its new features and improved security.
Finally, we will be rolling out popularly-requested improvements that will allow you to easily make some customizations that currently require CSS (like setting colors for tabbed boxes!).
We'll be sure to provide more details about all the above changes on our blog, so please keep an eye out there this summer for more information!