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2024 Tennessee Summit
by Jessie Zairo on Aug 16, 2024
Interested in learning more about Koha and Aspen Discovery and what they can do for your library? Then join us at the Tennessee Summit on Wednesday, November 6, 2024, for this FREE event.
Together with our partner library Williamson County Public Library System, ByWater Solutions, and members of the Tennessee Koha and Aspen Communities, we will discuss how open-source solutions will 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
Event Details
Location: Williamson County Public Library System 1314 Columbia Ave. Franklin, TN 37064
Date: Wednesday November 6, 2024
Time: 9:30am - 3:30pm
Agenda
We will have our library partners throughout Tennessee and Alabama presenting on topics throughout the day pertaining to open source, Koha, Aspen, and more! If you are interested in presenting, please email outreach@bywatersolutions.com
9:30 am Networking and Refreshments
10:00 am Opening Remarks and Welcome - Bill Kessler, ByWater Solutions
10:30 am Williamson County Hosting Library Presentation - Jessica Jeffers, Library Director, and Amanda Jones
11:00 am Break
11:15 am Panel Discussion
12:00 pm: Lunch
1:00 pm: Tour of Library - Jessica Jeffers, Library Director
1:30 pm: Koha and Aspen Open Source Communities
2:00 pm: Presentation
3:00 pm : Q&A and Trivia
3:30 pm: Closing
About Williamson County Library System
MISSION - Create a diverse and accessible atmosphere that provides windows to the past, pathways to the future, and enrichment of the community in the present.
VISION - Cultivate an environment for lifelong learning, growth, and connection.
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 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.
For more information about Aspen please visit https://bywatersolutions.com/projects/aspen-discovery.
For More Information
Email: outreach@bywatersolutions.com
ByWater Solutions
bywatersolutions.com
Phone:(888)900-8944
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