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ByWater Solutions Announces the Community Connections Webinar Series
by Kelly McElligott on Oct 25, 2023
Are you looking for a more flexible and affordable ILS? Are you interested in all the buzz surrounding discovery layers? Then, we have solutions for you! Attend any or all of the upcoming webinars with ByWater Solutions to learn more about Koha ILS and/or Aspen Discovery!
Aspen Discovery Webinars
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. Aspen was created to give users an improved experience over other Discovery systems with less impact on library budgets.
Aspen LiDA (Library Discovery app) is the companion to Aspen Discovery. The app expands the robust offerings currently available with Aspen Discovery; including intuitive searching, visually engaging browsing, patron account management, and suggested searches to bring an enhanced library experience to your patrons. Download for free now in the Google Play and Apple App Store.
Learn more about Aspen Discovery
Registration Links
Introduction to Aspen Discovery
Jan 22, 2024, 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
- In this 30-minute webinar, Aspen Discovery Basics, we will share an overview of the Aspen Discovery layer and how it can easily pair with your existing ILS. 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.
Watch this recorded webinar.
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PLA (Public Library Association) Conference Preview
Feb 13, 2024 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
- Join the team at ByWater for this 30-minute webinar showcasing upcoming features in Koha and Aspen. The team will be highlighting these features at the upcoming Public Library Association conference in April. The PLA conference will be held April 3-5 in Columbus, Ohio! This three-day event will feature over 100 thoughtfully curated education sessions that focus on shaping the future of public libraries.
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Implementing Aspen Discovery Within a Consortium
Mar 28, 2024, 01:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
In this 30-minute webinar, Implementing Aspen Discovery Within a Consortium, we will explore the process of implementing Aspen Discovery when you are in a consortium! The customizations available are great for sharing resources while also preserving each library's individuality and branding.
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Enhancing the Patron Experience with Aspen Discovery
Apr 25, 2024 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
All of our main goals in developing and improving Aspen are related to user experience - both library patrons and staff. There are a number of ways Aspen gives the power to the patron to control their library catalog experience. In this webinar, we will show you how Aspen achieves this with personalized browse categories, relevant search results, app notifications, and more!
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Come Check Out the Aspen Discovery LiDA app!
May 7, 2024 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
In this 30-minute webinar, Aspen LiDA Mobile Experience, see how patrons can discover all the amazing resources that your library has to offer. The Aspen LiDA app expands the robust offerings currently available with Aspen Discovery, including an intuitive and visually engaging catalog, user-friendly website builder, and mobile responsive website design, to bring an enhanced library experience to your patrons. Join us as we discuss how Aspen can provide a truly seamless patron and staff experience.
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Utilizing the Aspen Discovery Web Builder Feature
Jun 11, 2024 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
- In this 30-minute webinar, we will highlight the many options libraries have with the Web Builder built into Aspen DIscovery. We will show off how our library partners have implemented Web Builder into their library using web resources, polls, custom forms, basic & custom pages.
Register in Advance for this webinar!
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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Koha ILS Webinars
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.
Registration Links
Implementing Koha at Your Library
Jan 17, 2024 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
- Thinking about migrating your library to Koha, in this 30-minute webinar, we will outline and describe the steps to successfully migrate your library to Koha.
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PLA (Public Library Association) Conference Preview
Feb 13, 2024 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
- Join the team at ByWater for this 30-minute webinar showcasing upcoming features in Koha and Aspen. The team will be highlighting these features at the upcoming Public Library Association conference in April. The PLA conference will be held April 3-5 in Columbus, Ohio! This three-day event will feature over 100 thoughtfully curated education sessions that focus on shaping the future of public libraries.
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An Exploration into Koha
Mar 28, 2024 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
- In this 45-minute webinar, we will demonstrate the functionality of Koha from both the patron and staff perspectives. We will cover how staff can intuitively navigate through the models on the staff client and how your patrons can get the most out of the Koha OPAC!
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Open Source is for Everyone
Apr 30, 2024 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada
- In this 30-minute webinar, we will talk about the advantages of using an open-source product for your library. At ByWater Solutions, we deeply value collaboration and the spirit of the people behind open source. When so much of the world is defined by borders, paywalls, and keeping people out, we value that open source is universally available. We will continually work for what we believe is right when it comes to access to software and information. We believe in working together to build free, high-quality products that are accessible to all.
Watch the recorded webinar here!
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Implementing 3rd Party Products with Koha
May 22, 2024 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
- In this 30-minute webinar, we will explore the many different 3rd party products that work seamlessly with Koha. Koha can interface with 3rd party products and these products are vendor agnostic, meaning that there is no limit to who you can work with for interfacing with third-party products.
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Top Features in Koha
Jun 20, 2024 03:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
- In this 30-minute webinar, we will demonstrate some of Koha's top features
Register in advance for this webinar.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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For More Information
Jessica Zairo
Director of Library Sales & Outreach
ByWater Solutions
bywatersolutions.com
Phone:(888)900-8944
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