Carrollton Public Library is Live on Koha and Aspen Discovery with ByWater Support

by Elise Aiello on Apr 8, 2025

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced that the Carrollton Public Library in Texas is now live on the Koha ILS and Aspen Discovery with ByWater Support. ByWater Solutions completed the migration of over 100,600 bibliographic records providing the library with customized implementation and training for their open source solutions.

The customized Aspen Discovery can be viewed here:

Tom Rice, Library Systems Supervisor at the Carrollton Public Library, recently commented on the migration:

We went live with Koha on March 31^st. We are excited to bring Aspen’s many innovative features our patrons have asked for to streamline the experience of checking out physical and digital materials. We’ve already heard great patron feedback about the visual improvements in Aspen, as well as linking accounts in Aspen and having a digital barcode easily accessible in their Aspen account. The ByWater support team was also really helpful with the integration of our hardware and software applications, and we look forward to growing with Koha and Aspen.”

About the Carrollton Public Library

Mission Statement

Provide balanced, trustworthy, independent learning and recreational opportunities dedicated to sustaining a high quality of life for the community.

Read more here: https://www.cityofcarrollton.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 the first-rate implementation and support services with library systems of all sizes for the Koha, Aspen Discovery, Metabase, and Libki.

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. Aspen Discovery also includes a companion APP, Aspen LiDA, that gives your patrons an intuitive, user-friendly way to manage their own library experience. 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