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Chapman and Cutler Law Library chooses ByWater Solutions' Koha Support

Press Release: ByWater Solutions [March 28, 2014]

03/28/2014. ByWater Solutions, an open source community contributor and America's forefront provider of Koha support, announced today that the library at the Chicago, IL. office of Chapman and Cutler, is now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.

ByWater Solutions completed the migration of Chapman and Cutler's 10,000+ bibliographic records, nearly 300 patrons and nearly 38,000 serial issues in late 2013 and will be providing ongoing Koha Support and Hosting services. Their custom mobile-friendly OPAC can be viewed at http://catalog.chapman.com.

Brendan Gallagher, CEO of ByWater, Commented on the new partnership between ByWater and Chapman and Cutler:

"We are thrilled to have the opportunity to partner with the staff of the library at Chapman and Cutler and look forward to a long a productive relationship together! The flexibility of Koha's reporting functionality is a perfect match for a law library that needs statistics on the use of the library quickly and the system's flexibility makes it possible to customize the interface to the needs of the staff and patrons."

About Chapman and Cutler

Chapman and Cutler has been focused on finance for 100 years and serves a broad spectrum of clients that participate in the global financial markets. Founded in 1913, the firm has over 230 attorneys with offices in Chicago, New York, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Washington DC. For more information about Chapman and Cutler, please visit: http://www.chapman.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–XHTML, 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 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 to support Koha 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. For more information please visit: http://bywatersolutions.com/

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Publication Year:2014
Type of Material:Press Release
Language English
Issue:March 28, 2014
Publisher:ByWater Solutions
Company: ByWater Solutions
Products: Koha -- ByWater Solutions
Libraries: Chapman and Cutler
Subject: System announcements -- installations
Record Number:19056
Last Update:2024-11-24 11:29:12
Date Created:2014-03-29 14:46:11
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