ByWater Solutions at the 2024 Joint Utah and Mountain Plains Conference

by Jessie Zairo on Feb 21, 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 joint Utah Library Association and Mountain Plains Library Association Conference in Salt Lake City Utah. The joint conference will be held from May 8-10 at the Salt Palace Convention Center.

Stop by booth #109 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.

We are excited to see several ByWater Solutions Partners Presenting at Utah Library Association and Mountain Plains Library Association Conference.

About Utah Library Association

The Utah Library Association (ULA) cultivates professional development, connection, and inclusivity to promote strong Utah libraries. The goals of ULA include:

• Promote library services and librarianship in all types of libraries in the state of Utah.
• Provide opportunities for professional involvement of all persons engaged in any phase of librarianship within the state.
• Assist in setting standards and principles for libraries in the state.
• Provide continuing education programs for Utah librarians and library employees.

Read more at https://ula.org/organization/.

About the Mountain Plains Library Association

The Mountain Plains Library Association (MPLA) is a twelve state association of librarians, library paraprofessionals and friends of libraries. Its purpose is to promote the development of librarians and libraries by providing significant educational and networking opportunities.

Read more at https://www.mpla.us/.

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 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