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

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that KnowledgeWare Technologies is now providing support for Aspen Discovery. ByWater Solutions is working with KnowledgeWare (http://kwareict.com/en) who is based in Saudi Arabia, to bring Aspen to the Middle East. KnowledgeWare has done extensive work on the Arabic translation and right justification development efforts within Aspen and ByWater will be providing assistance and consultation in partnership with them on several projects they have secured within the region.

Nate Curulla, CRO, ByWater Solutions, recently commented on the integration.

We are extremely happy to see the open source platform grow internationally and provide libraries with a flexible discovery layer.

Together, ByWater Solutions and KnowledgeWare Technologies partnership helps expand Aspen Discovery to libraries in the Middle East.

Massoud M. AlShareef, Managing Director, KnowledgeWare Technologies recently commented on the integration.

Aspen Discovery not only brings rich e-content (e-books, e-audio, e-movies, e-articles, etc.) to libraries, integrated natively with their existing catalog, but Aspen also makes it reality that patrons can now enjoy online preview, place hold, check-out, and check-in titles from popular e-content providers, like Overdrive, Hoopla, and Axis 360. This is a whole new enabler for local libraries to realize that their vision of providing most of their services, if not all, online is no longer a dream yet to become true. Aspen also opens the doors wide open for Arabic e-content providers to start realizing that with Aspen Discovery platform they can now reach out easily to their customers via their local libraries’ channels and services.

About KnowledgeWare Technologies
KnowledgeWARE Technologies (Kware) is a pan Arab systems integration firm specializes in Bilingual (Arabic/English) Information Access Technology. Kware has been providing services like localization, development, installation, integration, customization, and support of popular solutions for libraries and knowledge management centres in the middle east region since 1999. Kware is the official Arabic translation and localization arm today behind the vast majority of OSS Arabic/English library projects, including Arabic Koha ILS, DSpace IR, VuFInd Discovery, SubjectsPlus, ORCID, and FOLIO LSP. Kware is extendIng its OSS localization experience to bring the full-featured OSS Discovery System, Aspen Discovery, to the Arabic Libraries. For more information please visit http://kwareict.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 & Outreach
ByWater Solutions
bywatersolutions.com
Phone:(888)900-8944

"We hope our power users will love the new ability to cancel, freeze, and thaw holds in bulk as much as we enjoyed developing these and many more new features."

Aspen Discovery 21.08 has lots of new features that will help patrons, especially power users, to be more efficient. It also includes numerous changes to make administration easier. Finally, there are some back end changes to enable future performance enhancements and new indexing functionality.

Our power patrons with long holds lists will love the ability to freeze, thaw, and cancel multiple holds at once. This new feature will allow users to minimize the number of clicks needed when they work with their holds list.

We have also updated the display of holds for patrons using Koha’s auto renew feature to give them more information about what will renew when, and if a title cannot be auto renewed, why it cannot.

We’ve also introduced support for some advanced hold functionality within Polaris including the ability to confirm holds when needed and place call number holds for items with volume information in them.

Other key features include: Quipu eCARD integration; improvements for permissions especially for large consortia; support for new formats including Book + CD, Book + DVD, CD + Book, Library of Things, and Book Club - Large Print; indexing improvements for Hoopla, OverDrive, and the base indexing process. Over 50 changes and improvements are included in this release of Aspen Discovery.

Read the Full Release Notes: https://bywatersolutions.com/news/aspen-discovery-announces-21-08-00-rel...

Watch a Preview of the Release: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4C4IY9eMXs

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

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that they will be presenting at the 2021 American Libraries Association (ALA) Virtual Conference on June 22, 2021. ByWater Solutions at American Library Association 2021 Virtual Conference

Presentation Schedule
These events will be accessible from the ALA Virtual Conference Platform for all attendees. The events will be listed on the "Other Events" page on the Annual website for ByWater Solutions.

Register for the sessions below here: https://bywatersolutions.com/news/bywater-solutions-to-present-at-ala-an...

June 22, 10:00am - 10:30am Central
How can ByWater help my library move to an Open-Source Solution?
In this 30 minutes webinar, we will introduce ByWater Solutions, 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 your system.

June 22, 12:00pm - 1:00pm Central
The Ultimate Guide to Koha
In this 1 hour webinar, The Ultimate Guide to Koha, we will cover how staff can intuitively navigate through the models on the staff client and how your patrons can get the most out of the Koha OPAC!

June 22, 2:00pm-2:30pmpm Central
10 Reasons Why Aspen Discovery is Right for Your Library
In this 30 minutes webinar, 10 Reasons Why Aspen Discovery is Right for Your Library, we will cover an overview of what Aspen Discovery has to offer and how libraries are utilizing Aspen's customizations to promote all their library has to offer.

June 22, 4:00pm - 4:15pm Central
Top 5 myths of Open Source! Are you ready to be the Game Changer?
Oftentimes people get nervous when talking about open-source software and data. In this 15 minute presentation, we demystify the preconceptions you might have about open source!

About the American Libraries Association
The object of the American Library Association shall be to promote library service and librarianship.” The stated mission is, “To provide leadership for the development, promotion, and improvement of library and information services and the profession of librarianship in order to enhance learning and ensure access to information for all.
Read more at: http://www.ala.org

About ByWater Solutions
ByWater Solutions is a full-service, high-quality Koha support and implementation company dedicated to providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their ILS than a traditional proprietary solution can offer. ByWater Solutions has a proven track record in first-rate Koha implementation and support with library systems of all sizes.

Our highly ranked, comprehensive support is what sets our company apart from any other vendor in the industry. Partnering with ByWater Solutions for Koha support not only lowers the cost of implementing and maintaining an ILS, but more importantly empowers libraries by giving them the flexibility and freedom they deserve. Visit us at http://bywatersolutions.com.

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

Are you looking for a more flexible and affordable ILS? Are you interested in all the buzz surrounding discovery layers? Then, we have solutions for you! Attend any or all of the upcoming webinars with ByWater Solutions to learn more about Koha ILS and/or Aspen Discovery!

Aspen Discovery Webinars
Aspen is a full-featured Discovery System that integrates with eContent and other third-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. It also improves relevancy and ease of use, provides native reading recommendations, displays all formats of titles within one result (record grouping), and much more. Aspen was created to give users an improved experience over other Discovery systems with less impact on library budgets.

Learn more about Aspen Discovery

Register Through these links: https://bywatersolutions.com/news/discover-aspen-webinar-series

Discover Aspen: 10 Reasons Why Aspen Discovery is Right for Your Library on June 29 at 1pm EST

Discover Aspen: Boost Patron Engagement with Aspen Discovery on July 21 at 2 pm EST

Discover Aspen: What to Expect When Implementing Aspen Discovery on August 25 at 1pm EST

Discover Aspen: Aspen Discovery 101 on September 29 at 1pm EST

Discover Aspen: Promoting Events, Electronic Resources and eContent with Aspen Discovery on October 18 at 2pm EST

Discover Aspen: Implementing Aspen Discovery within a Consortium on November 16 at 3pm EST

Discover Aspen: Aspen Discovery 101 on December 15 at 1pm EST

Koha ILS Webinars
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.

Learn more about Koha ILS: https://bywatersolutions.com/projects/koha

Register Through these links: https://bywatersolutions.com/news/discover-koha-webinar-series

Discover Koha Webinar: The Ultimate Guide to Koha on June 22nd at 1pm ET

Discover Koha Webinar: Engaging your patrons with the Koha OPAC on July 20th at 2pm ET

Discover Koha Webinar: Tackling Technical Services with Koha on August 25th at 3pm ET

Discover Koha Webinar: The Ultimate Guide to Koha on September 27th at 1pm ET

Discover Koha Webinar: Acing the Customer Experience within Koha on October 20th at 2pm ET

Discover Koha Webinar: Analyzing Reports and Administration with Koha on November 18th at 3pm ET

Discover Koha Webinar: 10 Tips to Make Migrating to Koha a Success on December 16th at 1pm ET

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