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    September 4th, 2021LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    We are pleased to announce our newest session of The Library is Open Podcast! This session features an interview with Justin Hoenke. Justin is the Team Leader: Libraries & Community Spaces at Wellington City Council in New Zealand. Justin and Jessie talk about libraries, communities and most importantly kindness.

    Listen Now!
    https://redcircle.com/shows/the-library-is-open

    About Justin Hoenke
    Justin is a community focused librarian & manager who believes that when we all respect each other, work together, and have honest communication that we can accomplish the most amazing things. At the Libraries & Community Spaces at Wellington City Council in New Zealand he provides strategic direction and leadership for 2 public libraries and 4 community centers. Justin is also the author of a a regular column titled A Day in the Life of a Librarian in Information Today Magazine. This 9 times/year column is focused on speaking with librarians and others in the information management professional about trends, inspiration, technology, management, and more.

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    September 4th, 2021LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that they will be a sponsor at the 2021 SEFLIN Virtual Conference Libraries the Intersection of Technology & Innovation - Advocating for Dignity in a Digital World. The event will be held virtually on Friday, September 17th from 10:00am - 4:00pm EST.

    Libraries the Intersection of Technology & Innovation - Advocating for Dignity in a Digital World
    From metadata to makerspaces librarians are champions for equitable content and access, moving toward dismantling the digital divide. Librarians’ conscious use of technology provides innovative approaches to challenges within our communities. Understanding technology’s role in our world and its impact is imperative for our profession

    Keynote Protecting Privacy and Dignity in the Attention Economy by Christine Bannan, Policy counsel - New America's Open Technology Institute

    For more information please visit the conference page: https://seflin.org/2021VC/

    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.

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

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    September 4th, 2021LISWire aggregatorUncategorized

    "With this release we're thrilled to help our libraries develop a community translation system that all Aspen libraries can participate in to better serve patrons where English is not their primary language." - Mark Noble

    Surprise! We released 21.11 a week early to bring even more enhancements to our Aspen Discovery libraries. This release is focused primarily on these areas:

    Developed a community translation system that allows all of Aspen to be translated; and for translation to be shared centrally across all Aspen libraries
    Created a more dynamic "My Account" section that more visually presents an overview of the patron's account and even includes personalized title recommendations
    Updated the "Materials Request" form to make internal workflows and staff commenting more streamlined when processing these requests
    The work we did on languages and translation the last several weeks has been a labor of love, analyzing every piece of text and code to make sure that Aspen Discovery is fully translatable. The enhancements to translations allows Aspen to better serve patrons where English is not their primary language. Furthermore, in the spirit of the open source community, we have developed a way to share translations across Aspen libraries. A central server will host all the translation work done in the community and be available to other libraries, so that libraries can access a variety of languages for their patrons. Beyond sharing translations, this infrastructure opens up future doors for our libraries to share more information like Placards and Browse Categories across the Aspen community.

    In the "My Account" section of the patron account, we made the font and design more visually accessible when showing an overview of the patron's checkouts, holds, overdue items, and items ready for checkout. We also gave the ability for libraries to turn off or turn on an image of the the patron's library card and information on card expiration dates. In line with our main goal of Aspen, to maximize patron usage of all library materials, we also included a "Recommended for You" carousel within the patron account. From there, a patron can click through their own personal display of titles, learn more about an item, and even check the item out!

    We added additional functions to the Materials Request form so that libraries can choose to turn on internal communication options for their staff to improve workflows. This enables libraries to make staff comments such as deciding to move forward with the request or reason for denying request.

    Along with these major improvements, we made dozens of other enhancements to areas like searching and indexing, the Aspen app, permissions, and enhancements specific to each underlying ILS. Find out more about these in the full release notes below. In the next release, our goals are to improve Aspen's geolocation capabilities as well as to continue making updates to the Aspen app.

    Read Full Release Notes: https://bywatersolutions.com/news/aspen-discovery-announces-21-11-00-rel...

    Watch a Preview of the Release: https://www.youtube.com/embed/hSu6K8cfk8g

    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/record grouping) 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

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