ByWater Solutions, America's forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that they are providing support and hosting services for the Aspen Open Source Discovery system for the Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC) in Centennial, Colorado. Aspen will be working in concert with CLiC's already existing Koha ILS to provide patrons seamless access to all of the library's print, electronic, and enhanced content resources.
You can view CLiC's Aspen interface by visiting: https://catalog.aspencat.info/
Here is a recent quote from Mark Noble, Developer for Aspen Discovery:
I really enjoyed working with the team at CLiC to make Aspen Discovery even easier to maintain for large consortiums and giving even more control to administrators. This represents a huge leap forward for Aspen Discovery, both for front and end users.
About CLiC
Vision
- Helping libraries achieve greatness in their communities
Mission
- Connecting. Energizing. Inspiring. Services for libraries throughout Colorado.
Core Values
- Deliver friendly service
- Seek opportunities for collaboration
- Support growth and discovery
- Celebrate successes
- Save money for libraries
- Blend work & play to create fun
Read more at: https://www.clicweb.org/about-clic/who-we-are/
Here is a recent comment from Bob Bennhoff, AspenCat Services Manager:
AspenCat libraries are excited about the move to Aspen Discovery. In partnering with ByWater for our discovery layer as well as our ILS, the future looks bright in having both work together seamlessly. I think Aspen Discovery is the best discovery layer product on the market today, but I'm most thrilled with all the new features yet to come.
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
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.