ByWater Solutions at the 2024 Florida Library Association Annual Conference

by Jessie Zairo on Mar 14, 2024

ByWater Solutions, an open source community contributor and America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that team members will be at the Florida Library Association Annual Conference. The conference will take place at the Hilton Doubletree Universal in Orlando, Florida from May 14-17.

Stop by booth 214 in the Exhibit hall on Wednesday and Thursday and say hello! We will be available to answer questions, demonstrate products and take part in discussions regarding the future of Open Source solutions for Libraries.

Join us at the FLA Fun Run / Walk

Join your fellow conference-goers Friday morning (7 a.m.) for a one-mile Fun Walk/Run from the Conference hotel, along the Kirkman Road Pedestrian Bridge, to Universal CityWalk Orlando and back. No registration required.

Partners Presenting at FLA Annual Conference

Thursday, May 16, 2024

Cooks & Books: A Delicious Community Partnership (10:30am-11:30am)

• Marion County Public Library System, Heather Webb and David Freudenburg

About Florida Library Association

The Florida Library Association is a statewide organization that promotes excellence in Florida libraries by advocating strongly for libraries and providing high quality professional and leadership development for a diverse community of library staff, volunteers, and supporters.

Learn more at https://www.flalib.org/.

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, FOLIO 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 Discovery

Aspen is a full-featured Discovery System that integrates with e-content and other 3rd 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, improves relevancy and ease of use, provides native reading recommendations, displays all formats of titles within one result (FRBR) and much more. Aspen was created to give users an improved experience over other Discovery systems with less of an impact on library budgets.

For more information about Aspen please visit: https://bywatersolutions.com/projects/aspen-discovery

About Metabase

Metabase is the easy, open-source way for everyone in your company to ask questions and learn from data. The Metabase platform connects to databases and brings data to life through visualizations with an intuitive interface making data exploration easy to explore.

For more information about Metabase please visit: https://bywatersolutions.com/products/metabase

About FOLIO

The FOLIO project aims to facilitate a sustainable, community-driven collaboration around the creation of a modern technology ecosystem that empowers libraries through open source applications to manage library resources and expand library value.

FOLIO is hosted by the Open Library Foundation, an independent not-for-profit organization designed to ensure the availability, accessibility and sustainability of open source and open access projects for and by libraries. For more information please visit: https://www.folio.org.

About Libki

Libki is a cross-platform Open Source computer reservation & time management system and print management powered by Google Cloud Print. It also features single sign-on integration with the Koha ILS, which is also FOSS.

Libki is ideally suited for use in locations where a controlled computing environment is paramount such as public access systems, libraries, school computer laboratories and more! Visit https://libki.org.

For More Information

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