ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that the Collier Library and Information Services at the University of North Alabama is now live on Koha!

ByWater completed the transition of the library's 882,000 plus holdings from Sierra ILS and is providing ongoing support services to the library. The library's customized Koha OPAC can be viewed at https://una.bywatersolutions.com.

James Mitchell, Systems Librarian at Collier Library at the University of North Alabama recently commented on the migration.

ByWater Solutions helped us to make the usually stressful process of migrating a library system easier. With a knowledgeable and friendly migration, systems, and education team, ByWater Solutions was quick to respond to our needs and help us meet deadlines for a successful implementation. I have no doubt that the ByWater Solutions team will continue to be as responsive and helpful to us after implementing Koha as they did when we were preparing to migrate to Koha.

About Collier Library and Information Services
Collier Library and Information Services will function as a critical partner to every member of the University of North Alabama pride and as a leader within the state by being an intellectual centerpiece physically and virtually, rooted in discovery, research, scholarship, and information fluency.

Read more about Collier Library and Information Services.

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

Rockville, MD, August 24, 2020 – LibLime has been selected by a U.S. Federal Government Library as the winning vendor to implement the Bibliovation Library Services Platform (LSP) to manage their bibliographic collection. LibLime responded to the library’s RFP, and with a solid technical response and a compelling cost proposal wonthe contract. LibLime will work closely with government staff to provide implementation and support services to the library. .
About Bibliovation
The Bibliovation LSP is 100% web-based, providing all system access to researchers, library staff, and system administrators through web browsers. With FedRAMP authorized IaaS and PaaS certification made available through the Amazon AWS Cloud, Bibliovation offers libraries a secure and cost-effective hosting solution. Supporting MARC21, Dublin Core, RDA, and geotagging, Bibliovation helps libraries manage both traditional and digital content all in a single Rest API-based platform. Bibliovation includes an EDI-compliant acquisitions component; a completely MARC-based cataloging editor for bibliographic, holdings and authority records; and full patron empowerment for purchase requests, ILL requests and reference requests directly from the Discovery Layer. The July 2020 release of Bibliovation includes a variety of new features such as ERM support, expanded union catalog circulation functionality, automatic digital object ‘OCR upon ingest’ using the digital content module, and a new reporting module.

About LibLime
LibLime is a global leader in providing support for open development Library Service Platforms (LSP). Rather than sell software licenses for static, hard-to-customize software products, LibLime educates libraries about the benefits of open development, enabling them to make choices about how best to provide their communities and staff with better technology services. LibLime then facilitates deployment of the LSP in libraries by providing outstanding consulting, development, implementation and support/hosting services. To learn more or receive budgetary service estimates, please visit: https://liblime.com/

Duluth, Ga., August 20, 2020: Equinox Open Library Initiative announces the availability of Curbside Pickup for libraries using Koha ILS. The specifications and workflow for the new Koha plugin were designed by Equinox staff members Galen Charlton, Sally Fortin, and Andrea Buntz Neiman following the successful release of the Curbside Pickup functionality developed by Equinox for Evergreen ILS in June. The Koha plugin specifications were released to the Koha community with a call for co-sponsorship on July 29, 2020. Koha developer Kyle M. Hall of Bywater Solutions announced initial development of Equinox’s specifications this week.

“I am proud of how quickly our team at Equinox was able to produce a design and specification for this feature in support of the Koha community,” said Andrea Buntz Neiman, Project Manager for Software Development at Equinox. “Open Source communities thrive on collaboration, and I am glad that Bywater saw the value of this design and answered our call for co-sponsorship with in-kind development.”

The new feature will support Koha libraries as they adapt services to meet changing needs as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Curbside Pickup extends existing functionality in Koha to coordinate curbside lending and expedite communications using the ILS. The feature functions as a plugin for Koha, and provides new staff management tools for curbside pickup appointments. These staff management tools include setting pickup intervals, setting the number of pickup slots allowed per interval, and whether patrons may directly schedule their own appointments.

Equinox has supported Koha ILS and partnered with the Koha community since 2009. Equinox is proud to serve Koha customers across North America with experienced support and migration teams and flexible, state-of-the-art hosting.

Equinox’s most recent Koha migrations include the Equinox Open Source Grant recipients Spark Central and Biblioteca Nacional de Puerto Rico. To learn more about these and the other Koha libraries supported by Equinox, please visit https://www.equinoxinitiative.org/highlights.

About Equinox Open Library Initiative
Equinox Open Library Initiative Inc. is a nonprofit company engaging in literary, charitable, and educational endeavors serving cultural and knowledge institutions. As the successor to Equinox Software, Inc., the Initiative carries forward a decade of service and experience with Evergreen, Koha, and other open source library software. At Equinox OLI we help you empower your library with open source technologies. To learn more, please visit https://www.equinoxinitiative.org/.

About Koha
Created in 1999 by Katipo Communications for the Horowhenua Library Trust in New Zealand, Koha is the first open source Integrated Library System to be used worldwide. The software is a full-featured ILS with a dual-database design (search engine and RDBMS) built to be compliant with library standards. Koha’s OPAC, staff, and self-checkout interfaces are all web applications. Distributed under the General Public License (GPL), libraries are free to use and install Koha themselves or to purchase support and development services. For more information on Koha, please visit http://koha-community.org.

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Contemporary art enthusiasts and professionals alike can now subscribe to the modern digital archive of ART AFRICA, a quarterly publication that reports on the latest developments around contemporary art from Africa and the diaspora. The new cutting-edge archive, which dates back to 2017, was created in partnership with digital archiving experts Exact Editions and is accessible seamlessly across web, iOS and Android devices.

Founded in 2002, ART AFRICA writes art history from an African perspective. Through intellectual dialogue and discourse on the internationalism and multiculturalism of the arts from Africa, the title facilitates an easier navigation of the cultural and language differences of the continent. Every issue comprises insightful positioning pieces, in-depth interviews, features, profiles and reviews.

The intuitive cross-platform reading interface allows individual and institutional subscribers to easily jump between issues, whilst the comprehensive search function enables the instant location of specific terms, artists or pieces at the click of a button.

ART AFRICA is available in the Exact Editions shops here:

Individuals: https://shop.exacteditions.com/art-africa

Institutions: https://institutions.exacteditions.com/art-africa

Browse the modern archive for 7 days here:

https://bit.ly/3kFxiDg

Co-Founder Suzette Bell-Roberts commented: “This new archive is another string to our subscriptions bow. ART AFRICA is already a vital academic resource that is found on the library shelves of global art collectors, museums and gallery directors and artists, and the new digital edition will only expand our reach internationally.”

Managing Director of Exact Editions, Daryl Rayner, remarked: “The digital archive is a brilliant next step for ART AFRICA to continue its 18-year evolution. The magazine’s intelligent design makes it a delight to browse in the digital edition, and this new format will ensure that its important content reaches new eyes.”

About ART AFRICA:

Contemporary art publication ART AFRICA has been writing art history since 2002, believing that addressing the subject from an African perspective is essential to changing the narrative about art from the continent and owning it proudly. Over the last 18 years, the magazine has become a collector’s item; the highly curated editorial strategy and intelligent design ensure that every single edition of the magazine makes a valuable addition to the archive. 

About Exact Editions:

Exact Editions is a digital publishing company based in London. It is a team of producers, developers and designers that turns periodicals with archives into dynamic, user-friendly digital editions. Exact Editions specialises in digitising content, selling subscriptions and providing streaming solutions across web, iOS and Android platforms. Exact Editions are also the innovators of ‘Reading Rooms’ technology, so publishers can provide streaming, time-limited, access to digital editions.

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that HELM (Higher Education Libraries of Massachusetts) an association of Massachusetts college libraries in public higher education has added 4 more libraries to their HELM catalog. Northern Essex Community College, Berkshire Community College, Springfield Technical Community College, and Bristol Community College joined the group this year.

ByWater completed the transition of the libraries' 115,000 plus holdings from Symphony and Evergreen ILS is providing ongoing support services to the library. The HELM Catalog can be viewed at https://catalog.helmlib.org/.

Nate Curulla, CRO of ByWater Solutions recently commented on their migration.

Watching the Higher Education Libraries of Massachusetts (HELM) grow their Koha Community has been amazing over the last few years. We are excited to see the academic Koha Community grow in Massachusetts!

About Northern Essex Community College
The Library welcomes all users, including Northern Essex Community College students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community guests.

Read more about the Northern Essex Community College Libraries.

About Berkshire Community College
Open to the BCC community and the general public, the Jonathan Edwards Library provides a rich on-site collection, as well as online resources and is home to numerous events throughout the year. The library maintains a website that grants 24/7 access to full-text online articles, videos, and ebook databases to BCC students, faculty, and staff.

Read more about the Jonathan Edwards Library at Berkshire Community College.

About Springfield Technical Community College
Springfield Technical Community College is committed to accessibility and inclusion, ensuring that all are able to access college programs, activities, and events.

Read more about Springfield Technical Community College Library.

About Bristol Community College
A Bristol Community College Library can be found on the Attleboro, Fall River, and New Bedford Campuses. Research Librarians are available at these locations, as well as virtually for all BCC students, including distance learners and students at the Taunton satellite.

Read more about Bristol Community College Libraries.

About HELM
HELM (Higher Education Libraries of Massachusetts) is a growing consortium of Massachusetts public higher education libraries that share an integrated library system, allow direct borrowing of materials, and collaborate on professional development opportunities. HELM was formed to develop and sustain cooperative initiatives and to enhance library resources, systems and services for all member libraries.

Read more at: https://libraries.flo.org/HELM-Public/about

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 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