ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that CLiC (Colorado Library Consortium) has added Lamar Community College Library, Lamar, Colorado to their consortium. They will be using Koha for their ILS and Aspen Discovery for their catalog.

ByWater completed the transition of the libraries' 10,000 plus holdings from Follett ILS and is providing ongoing support services to the library. The Lamar Community College Library Discovery System can be viewed at https://lamarcc.catalog.aspencat.info/.

About Lamar Community College Library
Lamar Community College offers a variety of two-year degrees and certificates through on-site and online courses. Lamar Community College is focused on the educational needs of Prowers, Baca, Kiowa, and Cheyenne Counties.

Read more at https://www.lamarcc.edu/academics/library/about-the-library/.

About CLiC (Colorado Library Consortium)
CLiC is an infrastructure for libraries throughout Colorado. Vision: Helping libraries achieve greatness in their communities. Mission: Connecting. Energizing. Inspiring. Services for libraries throughout Colorado.

Core Values

Deliver friendly service
Seek opportunities for collaboration
Support growth and discovery
Celebrate successes
Save money for libraries
Blend work & play to create fun
Read more at https://www.clicweb.org/about-clic/who-we-are/

About ByWater Solutions
ByWater Solutions is a full service, high-quality Open Source support and implementation company dedicated to providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their systems than a traditional proprietary solution can offer. ByWater Solutions has a proven track record in the first-rate implementation and support services with library systems of all sizes for the Koha ILS, Aspen Discovery, Folio LSP, Coral ERM, and Libki PC Management.

Our highly ranked, comprehensive support is what sets our company apart from any other vendor in the industry. Partnering with ByWater Solutions not only lowers the cost of implementation and maintenance of OSS but more importantly empowers libraries by giving them the flexibility and freedom they deserve. For more information please visit https://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, 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 Aspen Discovery
Aspen is a full-featured Discovery System that integrates with e-content and other 3rd party providers, giving your patrons comprehensive access to all of your materials in one place. Aspen combines your library catalog with e-content, digital archives, and enrichment from all major third-party providers improves relevancy and ease of use, provides native reading recommendations, displays all formats of titles within one result (FRBR) and much more. Aspen was created to give users an improved experience over other Discovery systems with less of an impact on library budgets. For more information about Aspen please visit: https://bywatersolutions.com/projects/aspen-discovery

For More Information
Jessica Zairo
Marketing & Outreach Coordinator
ByWater Solutions
bywatersolutions.com
Phone:(888)900-8944

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that King's College, Leonard Corgan Library in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania is now live on Koha!

ByWater completed the transition of the libraries' 214,000 plus holdings from Polaris ILS and is providing ongoing support services to the library. The libraries' customized Koha OPAC can be viewed at https://kings.bywatersolutions.com/.

About Leonard Corgan Library
The D. Leonard Corgan Library supports the mission of King's College by actively participating in the instructional process and serving as a gateway to global information resources. The Library provides a learner-centered environment, information resources, instruction, and services to meet the curricular and research needs of students, faculty, and staff. The library fosters the development of information skills that are critical to independent intellectual inquiry and lifelong learning.

Read more at https://www.kings.edu/academics/library

About ByWater Solutions
ByWater Solutions is a full service, high-quality Open Source support and implementation company dedicated to providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their systems than a traditional proprietary solution can offer. ByWater Solutions has a proven track record in the first-rate implementation and support services with library systems of all sizes for the Koha ILS, Aspen Discovery, Folio LSP, Coral ERM, and Libki PC Management.

Our highly ranked, comprehensive support is what sets our company apart from any other vendor in the industry. Partnering with ByWater Solutions not only lowers the cost of implementation and maintenance of OSS but more importantly empowers libraries by giving them the flexibility and freedom they deserve. For more information please visit https://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, 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.

For More Information
Jessica Zairo
Marketing & Outreach Coordinator
ByWater Solutions
bywatersolutions.com
Phone:(888)900-8944

FOLIO Launches Fameflower Release
~ Open Source Project Release Focuses on App Development and Integration ~

PHILADELPHIA — May 19, 2020 — FOLIO, a community collaboration to develop an open source Library Services Platform (LSP), has launched the Fameflower Release. The FOLIO Fameflower Release is the sixth in a series of named releases that define the features and functionality of the open source LSP and represents a significant list of workflow features for library staff.

The release offers integration improvements for VuFind and EBSCO Discovery Service™ customers in addition to user experience (UX) improvements and accessibility features. Platform improvements include:

• Matching and replacing inventory/MARC records with import along with import of holdings and items
• Ability to export single and batches of records which includes the creation of record lists with improved filtering. Export of Accounting vouchers.
• Improved Keyboard navigation & UI improvements
• Renewal and export of agreements. License term comparisons.
• Improved searching and filtering of vendors
• Orders and invoicing in non-default currencies and order cloning. Improved receiving and check-in.
• Custom fields for user records
• KBART import Management and display of non-serial resources in agreements
• Custom labels, acquisition/access status for eHoldings
• eUsage – improved harvesting management and ability to download stored reports
• Improved call number support and item record sorting for inventory
• Course Reserves

Jesse Koennecke, Chair of the FOLIO Product Council and Director, Acquisitions and E-Resource Licensing Services, Cornell University Libraries from the FOLIO Community says the Fameflower Release demonstrates FOLIO’s commitment to library innovation. “The release gives librarians many features that collectively show a vast amount of development in FOLIO that has occurred during a single quarter. Many of these features, developed by librarians for librarians are not available with traditional ILS vendors and are designed to improve staff workflows.”

The FOLIO open source project provides libraries of all sizes with choice when selecting an LSP or building library services beyond traditional functionality. Built on a microservices architecture, the FOLIO platform ensures that components can be readily developed or replaced in new releases as technologies and requirements evolve.

For a full demonstration and roadmap update, visit the Open Library Foundation’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/OpenLibraryFoundation.

About FOLIO
FOLIO is a collaborative effort among libraries, vendors, developers and consortia that leverages open source technology and a community-based effort to redefine library services and innovate based on library futures. By building on what libraries need and by leveraging library expertise as well as vendor capacity and velocity, FOLIO is designed to move libraries forward, build on the services they provide and redefine the role libraries play within their institution. FOLIO also levels the playing field and makes open source technology available to all institutions regardless of size or staffing. FOLIO brings vendors together to innovate and host services for customers and introduces open source as a service to libraries. To sign up to participate or receive more information go to www.folio.org.

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For more information, please contact:
Kathleen McEvoy
Media Relations, FOLIO
978-223-0438
kathleen@folio.org