Interested in learning more about Koha and Aspen Discovery? If so, please join us at our Ohio Partner Summit on Tuesday, August 12, 2025 at the Cuyahoga County Public Library for this FREE event. The Summit will be held from 10am-3pm.
ByWater Solutions, in partnership with the Cuyahoga County Public Library, will host members and potential users interested in learning more about the Koha and Aspen Communities to discuss how open-source solutions can benefit your library.
Topics will include
- Advantages of Koha and Aspen
- Customer and staff functionality
- Technical services, collection development, 3rd party integrations
- How collaborative developments work in the Koha and Aspen communities
The Summit will be held on the Tuesday before Digipalooza 2025. For more information about the Digipalooza event, please visit the Digipalooza 2025 Homepage.
Event Details
- Location: Cuyahoga County Public Library's Administration Building, 2111 Snow Road, Parma, OH 44134
- Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2025
- Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm
- Registration for the Free Event
Agenda
Library partners throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and the surrounding areas will discuss open source, Koha, Aspen, and more!
Below is a tentative agenda. If you are interested in presenting, please email outreach@bywatersolutions.com.
- 9:30 am Breakfast and Networking
- 10:00 am Welcome and Introductions
- 10:15 pm Opening Keynote
- 11:00 am Presentation
- 11:30am Presentation
- 12:00 pm Lunch (Catered by ByWater Solutions)
- 1:00 pm Presentation
- 1:30 pm Presentation
- 2:00 pm Koha and Aspen Open Source Community and Collaboration
- 2:30 pm Q&A / Trivia
- 3:00 pm Closing
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, Metabase, 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 Cuyahoga County Library
Mission
To empower individuals and communities by providing opportunities for all to read, learn, create, and connect.
Vision
We envision a thriving and inclusive Cuyahoga County where all residents benefit from and are inspired by Cuyahoga County Public Library's innovative resources, services, and programs.
Learn More by visiting https://cuyahogalibrary.org/about.
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, HTML5, 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 Aspen
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. With included features like web builder and mobile app (Aspen LiDA), Aspen was created to give users an improved experience over other Discovery systems, with less impact on library budgets.