Grove City College Henry Buhl Library is Live on Koha with ByWater Support

by Elise Aiello on Aug 5, 2024

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced that the Grove City College Henry Buhl Library in Pennsylvania is now live on Koha ILS with ByWater Support. ByWater Solutions completed the migration of over 142,900 item records and 155,000 bibliographic records.

The customized OPAC can be viewed here:

https://libcatalog.gcc.edu/

Barbra Munnell, Senior Director of Library Services at the Henry Buhl Library, commented:

Henry Buhl Library, on the campus of Grove City College serves over 2,500 students with over 133,000 books, 450,000 e-books, and 90 databases encompassing more than 75,000 full-text journals. After 30 plus years with the same proprietary vendor, Buhl Library chose Koha and ByWater Solutions to provide a more sophisticated user experience and were extremely pleased with the ease of the migration. We did not know what to expect, but the staff at ByWater guided us through the preparation, migration, and post migration, easing our fears and making the process much less worrisome."

About the Grove City College Henry Buhl Library

Henry Buhl Library of Grove City College will provide its students, faculty, staff, and administration with the resources necessary to support their educational needs and objectives. The library will provide materials of high quality and timeliness that present a variety of intellectual perspectives so as to create a collection that is current and representative of the topics and viewpoints found in various fields of study.

As one of the major information centers of the campus, the library seeks to promote information literacy for all students and faculty across all areas of study and will subsequently provide, with the assistance of the College administration and staff, the services necessary to support this endeavor.

Read more at https://hbl.gcc.edu/.

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 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.

For More Information

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