ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that the Koha Open Source ILS now has integration with INN-Reach, a resource-sharing tool from Innovative Interfaces, Inc. ByWater Solutions partnered with Theke Solutions and Innovative Interfaces, Inc. to develop the integration between the two platforms.

Nate Curulla, CRO, recently commented on the integration, "ByWater Solutions and Theke Solutions are thrilled to have developed the first open-source integration with INN-Reach and look forward to the new connections our library partners can make with their community now that the functionality is available."

The INN-Reach Plugin adds functionality that integrates the central INN-Reach server to Koha. When patrons make requests from that INN-Reach server, data pushes directly into Koha easily allowing staff to manage borrowing and lending. These requests create bibliographic records, item records, and holds automatically without staff intervention.

Tomás Cohen Arazi, Developer and Owner of Theke Solutions, recently commented on the development, "When developing the integration for INN-Reach and Koha, we tried to make it seamless and familiar to use for Koha users. We wrapped it into a plugin that implements both an ILL-backend for Koha, and also tons of API routes that are required to integrate all the ILL workflows that INN-Reach supports."

Jon Driscoll, Library Systems Specialist at Tutt Library, Colorado College recently commented on the project and work with the ByWater Solutions' team, "Days like this are why I love working with Andrew, Tomas, and Bywater in general. I'm usually impressed with the support we get but the responsiveness during this project has been phenomenal. I keep getting to amaze people when something they report is fixed within a day or two. You continue to validate our decision to migrate and work with Bywater and exceed my expectations daily. Thank you!"

About INN-Reach
INN-Reach, a resource-sharing tool by About Innovative Interfaces, Inc., is a cost-saving borrowing solution for libraries that conveniently gives patrons access to more materials and a better discovery experience. This user-initiated consortial borrowing system enables participating libraries to dramatically increase the number of materials they offer, reduce fulfillment time, and raise their profile and visibility in their user communities.

Read more about INN-Reach at https://www.iii.com/products/resource-sharing/

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 Theke Solutions
Theke Solutions is an open-source, library services support and development company. They provide expert support and development or fully featured, scalable library management solutions and repositories.

Theke Solutions offers support services with library systems of all sizes for the Koha ILS and DSpace (repositories). Learn more about Theke Solutions at https://theke.io/

About Innovative Interfaces, inc.
Innovative, a ProQuest company, provides leading technology solutions and services that empower libraries and enrich their users worldwide. Innovative offers one of the most comprehensive portfolios of library automation products on the market today, serving academic, public, national, consortia, and corporate and special libraries. Headquartered in Emeryville, California, Innovative has a global presence—serving thousands of libraries in 66 countries and offices worldwide. For more information, visit www.iii.com.

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

We hope you enjoyed the 2021 American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Conference as much as we did. We thank everyone who stopped by our virtual booth and who joined us for the Virtual Koha Law Library Users Group.

We want to thank our fabulous speakers:

Barbara Engstrom, Executive Director, King County Law Library

Laurel Moran, Assistant Director, Legal Information Management, San Diego Law Library

Keely Ward, Research Manager, Holland & Knight LLP⁠

Karen Westwood, Law Library Director, Anne W. Grande Law Library

If you missed the event we have some great clips available for you here:
https://bywatersolutions.com/news/2021-american-association-of-law-libra...

Learn More 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 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.

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

Join the ByWater team and Koha community members for a live event to help the Koha community squash some bugs! We are hosting this event on Tuesday, August 10th at 11am EST- pop in at anytime to join us during this two hour event!

When is the Bug Squashing Bonanza?
We will be hosting a YouTube Live session where we will SQUASH SOME BUGS!!!! Come in and chat with us and ask questions any time during this two hour live event.

Find the event in your time zone using the UTC converter: https://bit.ly/3y9mqUe

Join Us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/bywatersolutions/live

What is this?
The Koha community has in the past created a day for volunteers to come together and squash some bugs! ByWater would like to also contribute to this effort and will host a live event to allow users, ByWater team members, and Koha community members to join in and sign off some bugs. We want to see Koha as robust and powerful as it can be, so with a joint effort, we believe we can achieve great things.

Who can attend?
Anyone! If you have never explored the Koha Dashboard or yet learned to sign off on a bug, today is the day to expand your Koha knowledge and learn to give back! If you have contributed to the community in this way and would like to join in, please do so! We are so excited about this opportunity to work with fellow Koha users and chat about the future of Koha.

Koha Community Resources
There are lots of ways to get involved in the Koha community, here are some great resources to get you started.

Chat on Developers and other Koha Community members on IRC: https://koha-community.org/get-involved/irc/

IRC Channel Tips and Tricks: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/IRC_Channel

IRC Regulars: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/IRC_Regulars

Community Facebook: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Community_Facebook

Bugzilla: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/

Koha Sandboxes: https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Sandboxes

ByWater Solutions Sandboxes: https://sandbox.bywatersolutions.com

Koha Dashboard: https://dashboard.koha-community.org/

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that team members will be at the Virtual 2021 SEFLIN Regional Conference Whose Library Is It Anyway: Improvisation in Improbable Times conference. The event will be held virtually on Thursday, July 29, 2021.

ByWater Solutions will be available to discuss open-source technology and answer any questions concerning your library and the implementation of an open-source solution. Please make sure to stop by our zoom breakout room!

Whose Library is it Anyway: Improvisation in Improbable Times
Libraries are no strangers to uncertainty and change: continually adapting to meet the evolving needs of the community. The 2021 SEFLIN Regional Conference seeks to celebrate, explore, and empower libraries by highlighting ways libraries respond to and meet ever-changing external and internal challenges. The SEFLIN Regional Conference will offer presentations, posters, and lightning talks that focus on ways libraries can continue to create safe, equitable, inviting, and innovative spaces, programs, services, and more!

About SEFLIN
SEFLIN, the Southeast Florida Library Information Network, is a non-profit membership organization of Southeast Florida libraries dedicated to supporting cooperation between all library types in our service area.

The SEFLIN region includes Broward, Martin, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach counties with a service population of over six million.

Founded in 1984, SEFLIN strives to pioneer innovative services that support library staff and library services.

SEFLIN is one of five Multitype Library Cooperatives in Florida.

Mission: Empowering Libraries to Transform Communities

Read more at https://seflin.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.

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