Aspen has always been about providing choice to libraries, and the 25.03 release includes multiple features that give libraries more options on what technologies they use and how information is presented to patrons. Grove will be presenting on all of these enhancements at the upcoming April 10th webinar, What's New in Aspen.

Library software has seen a trend towards all-in-one solutions to manage patron interactions from a single platform. Aspen believes that libraries should have a choice, so in addition to the four existing event platform integrations, Grove has now developed an event management platform entirely in Aspen!

This release also includes an entirely new way to search materials - the Series Search! Aspen now includes Series Records that link to all titles in a series. Series records are created from series data in MARC records combined with series data from other sources such as eContent records and content enrichment sources. Aspen administrators can also edit Series Records by adding or subtracting titles owned or not owned by the library and making adjustments to the series title, description, author, and audience.

Web Resources in Aspen also saw a significant upgrade in how to present databases and specific websites in Aspen. With these updates, Aspen will now include an automatically-generated A-Z databases page, Category and Audience pages for Web Resources, as well as the ability to create custom Web Resources pages based on multiple categories and audiences. There will also be a new Web Resources Source Type to integrate into Web Builder pages and the ability to automatically create a Placard from an existing Web Resource.

Join us for the What's New in Aspen webinar on April 10th, at 2:00 pm Eastern/11:00 am Pacific to learn more about these features and other recent Aspen development from Grove! Register here.

We'd also to thank the following libraries for sponsoring development from Grove for Aspen 25.03:

• Colorado Department of Corrections
• Colorado Library Consortium (CLiC)
• Metropolitan Library System
• Minuteman Library Network
• SWAN Library Network
• Wyoming State Library (WYLD)

About Grove

Grove for Libraries offers development, hosting, support, and more for Aspen Discovery, Aspen LiDA, and other projects related to Aspen. Grove employees also contribute time and expertise to all Aspen Community meetings as well as dedicated Office Hours to help grow and support all libraries and organizations using Aspen. Learn more at https://www.groveforlibraries.com/

About Aspen

Aspen is a suite of library software that started with the flagship Discovery and now includes additional modules such as the LiDA mobile app and Web Builder. Aspen is in use by more than 2,000 libraries worldwide and is supported by a community of hundreds of librarians. Learn more at https://community.aspendiscovery.org/