Public Libraries
An Affordable, Librarian-First Platform Helping You Succeed on a Shoestring Budget. Engage & Inform Users, Collaborate With Your Staff, Build Relationships, and Demonstrate Your Value to Stakeholders.
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Grow Library Usage
Showcase special events, promote resources, and provide subject access by local expert librarians with LibGuides. Summer Reading projects, Local History initiatives, Archival collections - you have many resources that patrons miss. LibGuides helps index it in Google and other search engines.
Drive Traffic into the Library
Create demand for your programming with great-looking event pages using LibCal. Manage online registrations and promote events on social media. Connect with users through research consultations. Easily manage your Makerspaces and library equipment with the Equipment & Spaces module.

Extend Your Digital Reach
Extend your virtual reference and capture the digital generation with LibAnswers. Your patrons are online 24/7 - create searchable FAQs so that common answers are just a click away. Real-time chat and social media integration makes you available at their point-of-need.
Promote Information Literacy
Library literacy extends beyond your front doors. Create engaging, self-paced learning tutorials with live interactive websites, embedded videos, LibGuides, and more with LibWizard. Your patrons can engage with the library and expand their information literacy skills at the same time.
Meet Diverse Needs Of Your Users
Power Your Library's Online Presence - Securely
Springshare tools provide a secure, and affordable, platform to power your online presence. Everything from building and maintaining an effective website, to extending your online reach in a secure way is right here - contained in a single platform.
Easily Build & Maintain Your Website
... And Offer Add-on Services to Boot
Extend the Library's Reach Into Your Community
The Springshare platform helps you embed your librarians deep in the community - from local schools, to the City Hall, civic organizations and the like. The library is an integral part of the community, and our tools help you maintain a strong online presence, too.
LibGuides is one of the most flexible platforms I use. Not only can it do almost anything, the interface is so intuitive that anyone can skillfully use it. I’ve taught many folks at my school how to use LibGuides for their course-pages, project descriptions, photo galleries, and more! Plus working with the folks at Springshare is always a pleasure!
Improve Internal Workflows and Processes
Close The Feedback Loop
Getting continuous feedback from your users about their library experiences and research and information needs is essential. Creating smart forms and embedding them on any webpage helps your users get their word and their point across. LibWizard helps you do all this, and more...
Create and Analyze Comment Forms & Surveys
Use the point-and-click form and survey builder to create any type of form or a survey. Then use the powerful analytics tool to analyze the results. Simple and effective!

Create Online Tutorials and Self-Paced Quizzes
Your users span the range of skill sets and information literacy. Use LibWizard to create self-paced quizzes and assessment modules for information literacy and library instruction. Online tutorials are great for showing users how to use your many library tools and services.
Demonstrate The Library’s Value
With detailed statistics available in all our tools, you can deliver an informative and engaging "library story" and demonstrate the library’s positive impact on the community.
Promote Learning and Information Literacy

Reduce Library Anxiety
With so much stuff out there, users don't know where to start. Create helpful LibGuides, build-self paced LibWizard tutorials & assessments, and use LibAnswers to answer users' questions via chat, SMS, Facebook, Twitter, or email.

Support Local Schools and Online Learners
Work with local school librarians and teachers to create guides to support the school curriculum. If they use LibGuides, they can reuse your content with a click of a button. With the rise of online education and MOOCs, you can offer strong support to online learners - create curated LibGuides, offer research appointments via LibCal, and reference/research help with LibAnswers.

Promote Information Literacy
LibGuides and LibWizard are essential information literacy tools. Create guides on a wide array of topics - from fake news, to job searches, to help with community resources and social services. Create tutorials and self-paced quizzes to reinforce the information literacy content in LibGuides. LibCal helps with promoting information literacy classes held in the library.
Open and Extensible Platform - A Boon For Developers
We've built the platform from the ground up to be extensible and open. Integrate with your campus-wide authentication easily using our free LibAuth module. Utilize LibGuides A-Z lists and content boxes as a centralized content-store and use APIs to distribute this content anywhere. LibCal's APIs enable your developers to integrate hours, events registration, rooms booking into any mobile app or a website. Library developers and IT teams will find the Springshare platform as useful and as easy to use as the librarians do. Ours is a developer-friendly platform that brings everyone - and everything - together in one place. Plus, it's constantly evolving and improving, too!
Learn More About Our #librarianfirst Platform

LibGuides / CMS
Curate and showcase library resources. Create guides, build websites, A-Z lists, or a staff intranet. Embed library resources anywhere. And that's just a start! More >>

LibAnswers +Social
Communication and Social Media for Libraries. LibChat, Email ticketing, SMS, Twitter, etc. Build a knowledge base & FAQs. Detailed reference stats. More >>

LibCal
Manage Library Hours, Online Event Signups, Room & Equipment Bookings, Research Consultations, etc. Integrations with Calendars, Outlook, gCal, iCal... More >>

LibInsight
An affordable tool to gather & analyze all library statistics. SUSHI harvesting, COUNTER statistics, Cross-dataset analytics, custom dashboard builders... More >>

LibCRM
CRM platform tailored for the needs of libraries. Your users are your most important asset. Build and cultivate strong relationships with your community. More >>

LibStaffer
Move away from paper and spreadsheets. Manage staff schedules, service point staffing, student-worker, and volunteer hours. Powerful reporting to boot. More >>

LibWizard
Create web forms, conduct surveys & solicit feedback. Build interactive tutorials and test users' research skills with quizzes & assessments modules. More >>

E-Reserves
A cost-effective solution for E-reserves, Reading Lists and Document Management. Integrates with LibGuides, and with courseware via LTI module. More >>
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