7/31/2013
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The Corona Public Library Chooses ByWater Solutions’ Koha Support

ByWater Solutions, an open source community contributor and America’s forefront provider of Koha support, announced today that the Corona Public Library, of Corona, CA. is now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.

ByWater Solutions completed the migration for the Cornona Public Library’s 140,000 plus volumes earlier this year and will be providing ongoing Koha support and hosting services to them. Their custom OPAC can be viewed at: http://corona.bywatersolutions.com.

Chris Tina Smith, Library Supervisor at the Corona Public Library, commented about their migration to Koha with ByWater:

“ByWater has been great to work with. We had a really short timeline to make the transition from our old ILS to Koha and the whole staff at ByWater worked with us to make sure we done with time to spare. With the onsite training, library staff were ready to go on our go-live date.”

Chris Dixon, Technical Services for Corona also commented on the transition to Koha:

“The Corona Public Library went live about a month ago and we are very happy with Koha.  When searching, it is very refreshing to use an ILS that is intuitive and displays relevant results in a logical manner.  The ByWater staff have been extremely supportive and helpful through the migration process and have displayed their creativity and expertise when solving issues that have come up during this transition phase from our old ILS.”

About Corona Public Library:

The Corona Public Library welcomes and supports all people in the enjoyment of reading and pursuit of lifelong learning. Working together, we strive to provide access to information, ideas and knowledge through books, technology, programs, services and other resources. We believe in the freedom to read, to learn and to discover. We see the Corona Public Library as the vital center for informational and educational services, programs and cultural activities in the city by creating an open atmosphere, embracing new ideas and changes, and by making use of developing technologies and training staff to implement those services. For more information please visit: http://www.coronapubliclibrary.org/

About Koha:

Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). In use worldwide, its development is steered by a growing community of libraries collaborating to achieve their technology goals. Koha’s impressive feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base. It includes modules for circulation, cataloging, acquisitions, serials, reserves, patron management, branch relationships, and more.

Koha’s OPAC, circulation, management and self-checkout interfaces are all based on standards-compliant World Wide Web technologies–XHTML, CSS and Javascript–making Koha a truly platform-independent solution. Koha is distributed under the open-source General Public License (GPL). For more information about Koha, please visit: http://koha-community.org/

About ByWater Solutions:

ByWater Solutions is a full service, high quality support and implementation company dedicated to providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their ILS than a traditional proprietary solution can offer. ByWater Solutions has a proven track record in first rate Koha implementation and support with library systems of all sizes. Our highly ranked, comprehensive support is what sets our company apart from any other vendor in the industry. Partnering with ByWater Solutions to support Koha not only lowers the cost of implementing and maintaining an ILS, but more importantly empowers libraries by giving them the flexibility and freedom they deserve. For more information please visit: http://bywatersolutions.com/

North Bethesda, MD, July 31, 2013- LibLime, a division of PTFS, announces that Rocky View School District, located in Alberta, Canada, has finished migrating the final libraries to LibLime Koha 4.14. With the last group of school libraries to join and go live on LibLime Koha, the entire school district is now live in the LibLime Koha 4.14 union catalog.

Rocky View School District has been working with LibLime’s project management staff on data migration, system configuration, and training for the past year and a half. With the completion of the latest group of libraries, the full union catalog now contains 48 locations, nearly 210,000 bibliographic records, over 588,000 items, and over 27,000 patrons.

About The Rocky View School District
Rocky View Schools serves residents to the west, north, and east of the City of Calgary. The jurisdiction provides educational services to over 18,000 public students from Kindergarten to Grade 12. Rocky View Schools is the fifth-largest school board in Alberta, employing more than 2,000 staff.

About LibLime - PTFS
LibLime – PTFS is the global leader in providing support for the Koha open source ILS. Rather than sell software licenses for static, hard-to-customize software products, the PTFS LibLime Division educates libraries about the benefits of open source, enabling them to make choices about how best to provide their communities and staff with better technology services. The PTFS LibLime Division then facilitates deployment of Koha in libraries by providing outstanding consulting, development, implementation, and support/hosting for libraries of all types and sizes. PTFS is also the developer of the world’s leading content management software, ArchivalWare, and specializes in meeting library personnel staffing requirements, digitization, and metadata keying services. For more information, see http://liblime.com or http://ptfs.com or http://archivalware.net.