12/18/2013
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ByWater Solutions Welcomes Rocio Jordan as Migrations Specialist

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and the U.S.’ forefront provider of Koha support, is happy to welcome Rocio Jordan as its new Migrations Specialist. Rocio will join our expert Koha migrations team in assisting new partners in the transition to the Koha open source ILS.

Rocio has a graduate degree in Information Science from the University of North Texas and an undergraduate degree in Vocal Performance from Oklahoma City University. Rocio’s love of libraries first began in elementary school when she sought comfort in the books recommended by the school’s librarian and grew as she held positions in archives and preservation. Having grown to love databases as a research assistant with the Fort Worth ISD, she decided to put these two together and pursue a career that would allow her to manage data for libraries and information organizations.

Rocio commented on his recent decision to join ByWater Solutions:

“I am thrilled to be part of a team that puts libraries first! ByWater Solutions has a strong commitment to its partners and I’m happy to be with them as they welcome libraries to the open course community.”

Joy Nelson, Director of Migrations, had this to share:

“With her affinity for customer service and project management, Rocio is a great fit with our migration team. Her background and experience with information systems and database design is a huge asset for us.”

About ByWater Solutions:

With over 10 years of experience, ByWater Solutions offers customized hosting, data migration, configuration, installation, training, support options and development of the enterprise class open source library system, Koha. Offering a 24/7 technical helpline, ByWater Solutions’ clients have the support system they need to make their software work for them. ByWater Solutions pledges to share 100% of all developed code to the Koha community for the strengthening and advancement of the Koha ILS. For more information about ByWater Solutions, please visit: http://www.bywatersolutions.com

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