ByWater Solutions Announces Support of Aspen Discovery for the Alachua County Library District

by Elise Aiello on Sep 5, 2024

ByWater Solutions announced that they are providing support and hosting services for the Aspen Open Source Discovery system for the Alachua County Library District in Florida. Some highlights of their customization include:

• hoopla, Libby, sideloading O'Reilly and Flipster
• Events, EBSCOhost and Archives integrations
• css on menus and for format icons

The library's custom catalog can be viewed at https://discover.aclib.us/?browseCategory=new___recently_added_library_acld

Paul Lightcap, Senior Library Manager of Technical Services, Alachua County Library District, commented on the implementation:

The Alachua County Library District is excited to launch Aspen as our new, easy-to-use library catalog that will provide access to all our print and digital collections. We think that our library users will love the personalized recommendations as well as the chance to make and share lists of titles, recommend books for purchase, and find upcoming library events within a single interface.”

About the Alachua County Library District

Alachua County Library District is an independent special district and the sole provider of public library services to approximately 271,000 citizens in Alachua County, serving urban and rural communities through 12 branch locations, two bookmobiles, and multiple deposit collections. Its goal is to provide all community members with free, open and equal access to education, information, and entertainment.The Library District’s mission is to build a better community by creating opportunities to participate, connect, and discover.

Read more: https://www.aclib.us/about

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, Folio LSP, Coral ERM, 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 Aspen Discovery

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

Elise Aiello
Partner Engagement Specialist
ByWater Solutions
bywatersolutions.com
Phone:(888)900-8944