ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that the Koha Open Source ILS now has integration with Patron Point, the leading community engagement platform for public libraries. This partnership opens the Koha Community to drive their digital marketing and their community engagement. Patron Point works to connect Koha to a wide range of third-party services such as eBook platforms, databases, events, and many others.

Brendan Gallagher, Founder & CEO, ByWater Solutions, recently commented on the integration, "The integration between Koha and Patron Point opens up many opportunities for our mutual library partners to increase community engagement. The pride and enthusiasm Patron Point exhibits in the work they do is exhilarating."

Together, ByWater Solutions and Patron Point support several libraries using the integration with Koha, including:
Ajax Public Library of Ontario, Canada
Benbrook Public Library, Texas
Jackson County Library Services, Oregon
Salina Public Library, Kansas
Siskiyou County Public Library, California

Ian Downie, Vice President, Growth at Patron Point recently commented on the integration, "Libraries on the Koha platform can now leverage the full power of Patron Point in their marketing activities, creating powerful and automated marketing campaigns to engage their communities. It has been great working with the team at ByWater who has proved to be very knowledgeable and supportive and there is a great synergy between the businesses."

About Patron Point
Patron Point is the leading marketing automation platform driving patron engagement in public libraries around the world. It is the first of its kind patron engagement platform built specifically for public libraries harnessing data from a wide range of library systems including the ILS, eBook platforms, event/PC/room booking systems, databases, and website to build a unified view of the patron’s engagement with the library.

With Patron Point, libraries more fully engage their patron audience across multiple channels including email, website forms and pop-ups, web widgets, and social media tracking. Libraries can benefit immediately from a foundation of Proven Programs™ or create their own workflows that are customized to their unique user communities and needs.

Libraries interested in learning more about Patron Point can visit the website and request a short online demo.

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

EBSCO Information Services Releases the EBSCO eBooks™ Open Access Monograph Collection
~ Growing Selection of Thousands of Open Access, DRM-Free E-Books ~

IPSWICH, Mass. – June 17, 2021 – EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) is releasing a new e-book collection containing thousands of high-quality open access (OA) e-books from the world’s most trusted university presses and scholarly publishers. The EBSCO eBooks™ Open Access Monograph Collection is DRM-free and available at no cost on the EBSCOhost® platform and easily discoverable via EBSCO Discovery Service.

The EBSCO eBooks Open Access Monograph Collection was created in collaboration with university presses and scholarly OA publishers such as University of Michigan Press, Taylor & Francis and Temple University Press to provide libraries and end users with choice and access to a large selection of discoverable content, which will continue to grow by the thousands. With the collection, libraries gain access to all current and future OA e-books with DRM-free access on the EBSCO platform, providing a consistent user experience with other e-books in the library’s collection.

In addition to providing high-quality content with accessible functionality, the Open Access Monograph Collection has been carefully handpicked and packaged to save librarians time when searching for and qualifying OA content. Libraries can download free, full OCLC MARC records and/or activate these collections for discovery in leading discovery services and can generate dedicated usage reports on the collection. Titles will be preserved in Portico to ensure stability and access over the long term. This OA e-book collection complements other EBSCO efforts to support open access including Faculty Select™, an easy-to-use interface that connects faculty with open textbooks, Open Educational Resources (OER) and access to DRM-free e-books from top academic publishers.

EBSCO Information Services Director of Product Management Kara Kroes Li says that the curation and provision of this collection demonstrates EBSCO’s longstanding commitment to accessibility, sustainable publishing and open research. “EBSCO is committed to making content available to libraries and their end users on the open web to drive usage, extend reach and increase library impact. Users receive the benefit of the most accessible platform for open access monographs, with the additional benefits of EPUB online, full e-book downloads, and a full suite of research tools.”

For more information on the EBSCO eBooks Open Access Monograph Collection, visit: https://more.ebsco.com/ebooks-open-access-2021.html.

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:
Erica Gilson
Senior Communications Specialist
EBSCO Information Services
978-356-6500 x2182
egilson@ebsco.com