ByWater Solutions, America's forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced that the Lydia Taft Pratt Library has joined the Catamount Library Network in Vermont and is now live on the Koha ILS and Aspen Discovery with ByWater Support. ByWater Solutions completed the migration providing the library with customized implementation for their open source solutions.
Emily Zervas, Director of the Putney Public Library (migration lead on this project) commented:
"Joining the Catamount Library Network allows small, rural libraries like Lydia Taft Pratt Library to offer their communities a much larger selection of materials through the shared catalog. We're so happy to be link between so many people and collections!"
About the Catamount Library Network
The Catamount Library Network, Inc. is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation organized with the primary purpose of creating an open-source multi-library shared catalog and integrated library system, using the Koha platform, for a consortium of participating Vermont libraries.
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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.