ByWater Solutions at Pennsylvania Library Association 2022 Annual Conference

by Elise Aiello on Aug 15, 2022

ByWater Solutions, an open-source community contributor and America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that the team will be heading to the Pennsylvania Library Association Conference 2022 from October 17-18 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

We will be available to answer questions, demonstrate products, and take part in discussions regarding the future of Open Source solutions for Libraries.

Read more about the 2022 PaLA Conference at: https://www.palibraries.org/page/2022ConferencePrelim

About the Pennsylvania Library Association

Founded in 1901, the Pennsylvania Library Association (PaLA) is the state's oldest professional library organization serving libraries, library employees, library trustees, and Friends of the Library groups.

PaLA represents more than 1,200 personal, institutional, and commercial members affiliated with public, academic, special, and school libraries throughout the Commonwealth. The association represents the profession in Harrisburg with our state legislature and provides opportunities for professional growth, leadership development, and continuing education for librarians.

PaLA operates with a small staff and a wide range of volunteer members who serve on our board, on committees, in local chapters, as part of divisions and round tables. Our Organizational Chart (PDF) shows how the staff and volunteers carry out the mission and goals of PaLA.

Read more at: https://www.palibraries.org/page/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 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 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.

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 and print management system. It also features single sign-on integration with the Koha ILS.

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.

About CORAL

CORAL is an electronic resources management system consisting of interoperable modules designed around the core components of managing electronic resources for libraries and other organizations.

CORAL is available as a free, open source program which includes five modules for Organizations, Resources, Licensing, Usage Statistics and Management. Read more at: http://coral-erm.org/.

For More Information

Jessica Zairo
Director of Library Sales & Outrach
ByWater Solutions
bywatersolutions.com
Phone:(888)900-8944