ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced that Sacramento County Public Law Library is now live on Koha! The catalog can be viewed here: https://catalog.saclaw.org/.

ByWater completed the transition of the library’s almost 24,000 holdings from SirsiDynix Horizon and continues to provide support services for Koha.

Assistant Director Jean Willis recently commented on the implementation, "Our library’s internal Koha migration team appreciated the tremendous, detailed support and training that ByWater provided for our ILS migration. Our library utilizes all modules of Koha, so the learning curve was steep. ByWater’s transition team, led by Donna and Lucas, definitely ensured a successful outcome.”

About The Sacramento County Public Law Library
The Sacramento County Public Law Library is physically located in downtown Sacramento, California, but our outreach is worldwide due to our content-rich website, which is our highly regarded and heavily used virtual branch. The law library offers a wide range of services including online MCLE classes, an in-house Civil Self-Help Center, access to print and electronic resources, and professional law librarian legal reference assistance.

Visit us at https://www.saclaw.org

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
Director of Library Sales & Outreach
ByWater Solutions
bywatersolutions.com
Phone:(888)900-8944

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced that Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania is now live on FOLIO!

ByWater completed the transition of the library's 195,000 plus records from Millennium this winter and is providing ongoing support services to the library. As part of their partnership with ByWater, EBSCO Information Services will be providing hosting services along with complimentary products to ensure a complete and well managed FOLIO instance.

Ian Walls, FOLIO Implementation Lead, recently commented on the migration, "We're excited about bringing Saint Vincent College up as one of the first libraries in the world on FOLIO. They have been a pleasure to work with throughout this implementation, and have brought fun new challenges to solve that will help to push the capabilities of FOLIO as it grows"

About Saint Vincent College and the Dale P. Latimer Library
With more than 1,500 students, Saint Vincent College offers the personal attention and educational tools to integrate your intellectual aptitudes with your professional goals. Student life at Saint Vincent College is enriched by the unique programs, activities and opportunities that collectively shape the educational journey of those who live and learn here.

Dale P. Latimer Library
The original Saint Vincent Library collection began with 100 books which founder Boniface Wimmer brought with him from Germany in 1846. Through the leadership of the late Father Fintan Shoniker, O.S.B. and of Father Chrysostom Schlimm, O.S.B., the Library has grown into a collection that includes nearly 250,000 books and periodicals, 99,000 microforms such as microfilm, microfiche and cards, and 3,000 musical scores. The collection also has more than 100 rare books dating to the 15th Century, including a copy of The Canterbury Tales, produced in 1478 by the first printer in England, William Caxton.

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

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.

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 EBSCO
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is the leading discovery service provider for libraries worldwide with more than 11,000 discovery customers in over 100 countries. EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) provides each institution with a comprehensive, single search box for its entire collection, offering unparalleled relevance ranking quality and extensive customization. EBSCO is also the preeminent provider of online research content for libraries, including hundreds of research databases, historical archives, and clinical decision tools serving millions of end-users at tens of thousands of institutions. EBSCO is the leading provider of electronic journals & books for libraries, with subscription management for more than 360,000 serials, including more than 57,000 e-journals, as well as online access to more than 1,500,000 e-books. For more information, visit the EBSCO website at www.ebsco.com. EBSCO Information Services is a division of EBSCO Industries, Inc., a family-owned company since 1944.

For More Information
Jessica Zairo
Director of Library Sales & Outreach
ByWater Solutions
bywatersolutions.com
Phone:(888 )900-8944

EBSCO Information Services Launches EBSCOed™
~ Platform Supports a Unified, Online Learning Experience ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — January 12, 2021 — EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) announces the availability of EBSCOed™ powered by Stacks, a web-based content management system that makes it easy for schools to aggregate and streamline access to their digital resources in an interoperable, personalized experience. Developed in partnership with Publishers’ Warehouse, the central source for textbooks in Alabama, EBSCOed serves as a single, easy-to-use online access point to approved educational resources across the state or within a school district’s community.

With EBSCOed, K-12 schools receive streamlined access to content as approved and determined by the institution, which would include (but is not limited to) subscription resources, proprietary content, licensed materials, textbooks, approved open access content and professional development materials. EBSCOed enables students, teachers, administrators, staff and parents to access educational content anytime, anywhere from a user-friendly interface. Additional integration options are offered with a school’s course management system, learning management system, Google™ Classroom, chat tools and events management resources, among others.

EBSCO Information Services Vice President, SaaS Product Technology and Innovation and Stacks Founder Kristin Delwo says the platform is intended to bring together disparate technologies, platforms and solutions to provide the unified experience that schools need. “EBSCOed demonstrates an innovative, new concept, bringing together multiple tools to provide a one-stop-shop for students and educators. As more schools are moving online, now is the time for innovation to help ease this transition for districts nationwide.”

For more information on EBSCOed, visit: https://www.ebsco.com/products/ebscoed.

About EBSCO Information Services
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is the preeminent provider of online research content and search technologies serving academic, school and public libraries; healthcare and medical institutions; corporations; and government agencies around the world. From research, acquisition management, subscription services and discovery to clinical decision support and patient care, learning, and research and development, EBSCO provides institutions with access to content and resources to serve the information and workflow needs of their users and organizations. EBSCO Information Services is a division of EBSCO Industries, Inc., a family owned company since 1944. For more information, visit the EBSCO website at: www.ebsco.com.

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For more information, please contact:
Jessica Holmes
Communications Director
(978) 356-6500 ext. 3485
jmholmes@ebsco.com

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that they are providing support for the Aspen Discovery Open Source system for Santa Fe Public Library in New Mexico!

You can view their catalog here: https://catalog.santafelibrary.org/

Addie Van Salisbury, of the Aspen Discovery Team, commented on the implementation, "We are so excited to work with Santa Fe Public Library and love their enthusiasm for Aspen Discovery. Prior to going live, they had already put together over a dozen placards to highlight their e-collections. We're excited to see what they do once they start diving into the Website Builder functionality."

About Santa Fe Public Library
The mission of the Santa Fe Public Library is to inform, enrich, and educate the members of the community by creating and promoting access to a diversity of ideas and information, and by supporting lifelong learning and reading. In accomplishing its mission, the library honors the community's unique cultural heritage and traditions, while preparing its community members for the future.

Read more at https://santafelibrary.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.

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.

For More Information
Jessica Zairo
Director of Library Sales & Outreach
ByWater Solutions
bywatersolutions.com
Phone:(888)900-8944

The Koha Community, home of the world's first free and open-source library system, announced last month that the Koha 20.11 release is available. This major release includes 9 new features, 354 enhancements, 412 bugfixes. Full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-20-11-released/.

Release Manager, Jonathan Druart, recently commented on the release! "I would like to thank the whole development core team for our constant communication improvement.We managed to better focus on the same topics at the same time and we are going to enhance Koha quicker and greatly in the next cycle. I am really looking forward to continue what we started over the last 6 months! Mason, our package manager, did an impressive work the last couple of cycles to improve our packaging system, thanks to him! Thanks to BibLibre, ByWater Solution and PTFS Europe for their continuous support and trust in me.'

Access the Release: https://bywatersolutions.com/news/koha-community-announces-20-11-release

Release Team
The release team for Koha 20.11.00 is

Release Manager: Jonathan Druart
Release Manager assistants:
Martin Renvoize
Tomás Cohen Arazi
QA Manager: Katrin Fischer

QA Team:
Marcel de Rooy
Joonas Kylmälä
Josef Moravec
Tomás Cohen Arazi
Nick Clemens
Kyle Hall
Martin Renvoize
Alex Arnaud
Julian Maurice
Matthias Meusburger

Topic Experts:
Elasticsearch — Frédéric Demians
REST API — Tomás Cohen Arazi
UI Design — Owen Leonard
Zebra — Fridolin Somers
Accounts — Martin Renvoize
CAS/Shibboleth — Matthias Meusburger
Bug Wranglers:
Michal Denár
Holly Cooper
Henry Bolshaw
Lisette Scheer
Mengü Yazıcıoğlu
Packaging Manager: Mason James

Documentation Managers:
Caroline Cyr La Rose
David Nind
Documentation Team:
Martin Renvoize
Donna Bachowski
Lucy Vaux-Harvey
Kelly McElligott
Jessica Zairo
Chris Cormack
Henry Bolshaw
Jon Drucker
Translation Manager: Bernardo González Kriegel

Release Maintainers:
20.05 — Lucas Gass
19.11 — Aleisha Amohia
19.05 — Victor Grousset

Release Maintainer mentors:
19.11 — Hayley Mapley
19.05 — Martin Renvoize

Thank You to our Library Partners for the Sponsorship of New Features:
Cooperative Information Network (CIN) [19889] LocalHoldsPriority needs exclusions
Northeast Kansas Library System (NEKLS) [20936] Holds history for patrons in OPAC
Southeast Kansas Library System (SEKLS) [23820] Club hold pickup locations should be able to default to patron’s home library

Thank You to our Library Partners who have Contributed Patches for Koha:
Tomás Cohen Arazi (138)
Nick Clemens (173)
Andrew Fuerste-Henry (13)
Lucas Gass (22)
Kyle M Hall (91)
Owen Leonard (209)
Liz Rea (1)
Lisette Scheer (3)
Joe Sikowitz (2)

Thank You to our Library Partners who Tested Patches for Koha:
Athens County Public Libraries (209)
ByWater-Solutions (299)
Chetco Community Public Library (2)
Fenway Library Organization (2)
Latah County Library District (3)

We also especially thank the following individuals who tested patches for Koha:
Tomás Cohen Arazi (168)
Donna Bachowski (3)
Bob Bennhoff (11)
Christopher Brannon (14)
Nick Clemens (146)
Rebecca Coert (7)
Sarah Cornell (1)
Andrew Fuerste-Henry (65)
Daniel Gaghan (3)
Jeff Gaines (1)
Bonnie Gardner (1)
Lucas Gass (20)
Todd Goatley (1)
Kyle M Hall (118)
Heather Hernandez (5)
Abbey Holt (7)
Barbara Johnson (20)
Jill Kleven (1)
Rhonda Kuiper (1)
Owen Leonard (78)
Jennifer Marlatt (1)
Jesse Maseto (1)
Kelly McElligott (17)
Kim Peine (3)
Liz Rea (14)
Jason Robb (4)
Lisette Scheer (29)
Michael Springer (1)
Debi Stears (1)
Myka Kennedy Stephens (1)
Deb Stephenson (1)
George Williams (1)
Jessica Zairo (2)
Christofer Zorn (4)

Thank you to our Library Partners who contributed to the Koha manual:
Kelly McElligott (9)
Kyle M Hall (1)

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 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.