ByWater Solutions and Penticton Public Library Recognized for Excellence in Accessibility

by Elise Aiello on Jul 10, 2024

ByWater Solutions and the Penticton Public Library, a ByWater partner library in Canada, were recognized by the National Network for Equitable Library Service (NNELS) for excellence in accessibility. The NNELS recently reviewed the Penticton Public Library's website and catalog and gave an outstanding review. One team member at NNELS went on to say, “I’ve been impressed with how engaged Penticton Library has been with us during their work on this project. They’ve been willing to make site changes where feasible to implement our suggestions, which means most of the things we’ve been bringing up”. Another shared, “I was impressed Penticton Library was able to engage ByWater to make changes to the catalogue”. And finally, a team member a bit more removed from the testing of the project shared, “It’s like looking at a whole new site! It was a bit of a well-organized clutter with poor contrast before, and now it’s beautiful!!”

About the Penticton Public Library

The Penticton Public Library is a municipal library located in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada, a community of 33,000 people. The city is situated in the south Okanagan Valley nestled between Okanagan Lake and Skaha Lake. The Okanagan Valley is part of the interior plateau known as the Okanagan Highland, surrounded by the Cascade Mountains in the west and the Monashee Mountains to the east. Library Service in Penticton began on Sept. 18, 1909 when the Penticton Public Library Reading Room and Library was opened.

Learn more: https://www.pentictonlibrary.c...

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