ByWater Solutions, America's forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced that the Walla Walla County Rural Library District in Washington is now live on the Koha ILS and Aspen Discovery with ByWater Support. ByWater Solutions completed the migration of over 31,500 bibliographic records providing the library with customized implementation and training for their open source solutions.
Chessa Grasso Hickox, Deputy Director & Cataloger and Digital Collections Manager, recently commented on the migration:
WWCRLD is thrilled to transition back to Koha after being away as a customer for several years! We are excited for the renewed opportunity to streamline our services, elevate the experience of our patrons and staff, and we look forward to innovations with our new and enhanced integrated library system environment.
We have been so impressed with the responsiveness of our ByWater team and with the level of excellent support we received during implementation and after. We are proud to once again be part of an open-source community that is always listening to its users and deftly responding to our changing needs and challenges."
About the Walla Walla County Rural Library District
The Walla Walla County Rural Library District was established in 1972 with a permanent tax base and operates as an independent municipal corporation under Washington State law. The Walla Walla County Commission appoints members to the Library District Board of Trustees, each with a 5-year term. As a body, the Board holds all subsequent legal authority. With an annual budget of approximately $2 million, the District serves the 26,000 rural residents of unincorporated Walla Walla County, the cities of College Place and Prescott, and the census-designated places of Burbank and Touchet.
Read more here: https://www.wwcrld.org/about-u...
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, Aspen Discovery, Metabase, and Libki.
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 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 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. Aspen Discovery also includes a companion APP, Aspen LiDA, that gives your patrons an intuitive, user-friendly way to manage their own library experience. For more information about Aspen please visit https://bywatersolutions.com/projects/aspen-discovery.