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The National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Goes Live on ByWater Solutions Koha Support

ByWater Solutions, an open source community contributor and America’s forefront provider of Koha support, announced today that the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago is now live on their Koha open source integrated library system.

ByWater Solutions has completed the migration of the Libraries’ more than 65,000 titles and is providing ongoing hosting and support services to the library. The Library’s customized online catalog can be viewed at: http://catalog.ngc.co.tt/

Brendan Gallagher, CEO of ByWater commented on the Library’s move to Koha:

“We love to see the flexibility of Koha in action. The NGC library needed an extensible catalog at an affordable price and Koha fit the bill to perfection.”

About the National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago:
he National Gas Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited (NGC) is a key player in the development of the local natural gas industry of Trinidad and Tobago. Established by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, in August 1975, NGC is today an investment grade company. NGC’s international credit ratings are BBB+ from Standard and Poor’s, Baa3 from Moody’s and AAA from CariCris. With an asset base of over $US 7 billion, NGC is one of the largest companies in the Caribbean and Latin America measured by assets. For more information about the NGC please visit: http://ngc.co.tt/about/

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,HTML5, 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/