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    June 22nd, 2021LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that they are partnering with PTFS Europe, who will be providing support and hosting services for the Aspen Open Source Discovery system in the UK. PTFS Europe provides a full range of services needed to implement, host, and support Open Source products.

    Mark Noble, Aspen Discovery Developer, recently commented on the partnership, "We're excited to partner with PTFS Europe to bring Aspen Discovery to a wider audience. This partnership will allow Aspen Discovery to grow to meet the needs of new partners within Europe and will benefit our current partners within North America with support for new languages, new enrichment services, and new eContent vendors. The staff at PTFS Europe have been wonderful to work with and we are pleased to continue to build this relationship."

    The partnership between ByWater Solutions and PTFS Europe is not the first. ByWater Solutions and PTFS Europe work collaboratively in the Koha Community, the world's first free and open-source library system.

    Jonathan Field, Cofounder and Managing Director of PTFS Europe recently commented on the partnership, "We are delighted to be collaborating with ByWater Solutions on Aspen. We have a long history of working together to drive the direction of the Koha library system. Now we want to enhance this relationship to promote and support Aspen Open Source Discovery. There is no doubt that Aspen has a big future in the UK and we believe it offers something unique to libraries in what has been a largely unchanged market in recent years. So we’re very excited to help promote, develop and support the Aspen open source community in the UK at this exciting time in the product’s evolution."

    About PTFS Europe
    PTFS Europe provides a wide range of products for the library market. These include the open-source library systems Koha and FOLIO, RT: request tracker for enquiry management, Coral for electronic resource management, Metabase business analytics, and the Knowvation digital repository. An ISO27001 company, PTFS Europe, provides the full range of services needed to implement, host, and support these products.

    More information on PTFS Europe: www.ptfs-europe.com

    Any questions? Please contact Fiona Borthwick, fiona.borthwick@ptfs-europe.com

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

    Company Name: 
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    June 22nd, 2021LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that they are providing support services for Koha ILS for Motlow State Community College in Tennessee! Bywater Solutions completed the transition of Motlow State Community College's 69,000+ items from Alma to Koha and is providing ongoing support services to the library. The libraries' customized Koha OPAC can be viewed at: https://motlowscc.bywatersolutions.com

    Sharon Kay Edwards, Director of Libraries, recently commented on the implementation, "I've been so pleased with ByWater's service! Every step of the way through this migration, ByWater's team has been "in the trenches" with us. The training was personable, helpful, and quite frankly, fun! Coming from a consortium where much of our institutional autonomy in the ILS was outside of our control, we're very excited to have full control over our collections, catalog, circulation rules, and well....everything! We've taken this opportunity as a team to build the library we've all talked about for so long—with ByWater's guidance and aid. Although the idea of "migration" was a scary one, it's been a great experience overall, and we're so excited to begin fall semester with Koha!"

    About Motlow State Community College (MSCC)
    MSCC Libraries are made up of four library branches- Moore County Campus Library, Smyrna Campus Library, Fayetteville Campus Library and McMinnville Campus Library. The libraries follow a mission of:

    - Providing equitable access to a comprehensive collection of informational resources, including print and eBooks, article databases, and additional electronic resources for a diverse population of students, faculty, staff, and the community at large.

    - Equipping a community of lifelong learners with critical thinking and evaluation skills by teaching information and digital literacy both individually and collectively through proven research methods and innovative reference tools.

    - Supporting a broad-spectrum of patron needs through superior user-centered services—welcoming all levels of skill and ability.

    Read more here: https://www.mscc.edu/academics/library/index.html

    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.

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

    Company Name: 
    Organization Type: 
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    June 18th, 2021LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced that Concordia University Texas Library in Austin, TX is now live on Koha!

    ByWater completed the transition of the library's 43,500 plus bibs from Voyager and is providing ongoing support services to the library. The library's customized Koha OPAC can be viewed at https://ctxlibrary.bywatersolutions.com/

    Kalleen Marquise, Partner Engagement Specialist, recently commented on the migration, "The Concordia team went through this migration during a difficult time, having experienced a severe weather event in February causing damage to their library. Throughout, the staff kept providing virtual assistance to students while going through this implementation! It was amazing to see their perseverance and we were proud to support them during this time."

    Concordia University Texas (CTX) Library
    The mission of the CTX Library is to enable their users to find the right information, in the right place, at the right time, in the right way to meet their needs/wants/desires and to support and enhance the educational mission of the University. In this way, they fully support life-long learning and Concordia's overall mission to develop Christian leaders.
    Find out more here: https://www.concordia.edu/resources/ctx-library/about-the-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
    Director of Library Sales & Outreach
    ByWater Solutions
    bywatersolutions.com
    Phone:(888)900-8944

    Company Name: 
    Organization Type: 
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    June 18th, 2021LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced that HELM (Higher Education Libraries of Massachusetts), an association of Massachusetts college libraries in public higher education has added Worcester State University Library to their HELM catalog.

    ByWater completed the transition of the libraries' 130,000 plus holdings from Horizon and is providing ongoing support services to the library. The HELM Catalog can be viewed at https://catalog.helmlib.org/.

    Valerie Burnett of the Data and Migrations Team at ByWater Solutions recently commented on their migration, "I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to work on this project with the team at HELM and Worcester Library. It is so exciting to see more higher education libraries in Massachusetts embrace Koha and ByWater Solutions."

    About Worcester State University Library
    The Library is the intellectual heart of Worcester State University, a place where members of the campus community converge, collaborate, learn, and discover. Library staff assist users at the research help desk and by phone, email, and online chat. Library staff provide classroom instruction on information literacy and research skills helping students navigate the complex information network of Google, Wikipedia, print and electronic books, periodicals, and media.
    Read more: https://www.worcester.edu/About-the-Library/

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

    Company Name: 
    Organization Type: 
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    June 17th, 2021LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    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

    Company Name: 
    Organization Type: 
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