Cooperative Information Network (CIN) is Live on Aspen Discovery with ByWater Support

by Elise Aiello on Dec 6, 2024

ByWater Solutions, an open-source community contributor and America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that the Cooperative Information Network (CIN), a consortium of public, school, and special libraries in Eastern Washington and Idaho, is now live on Aspen Discovery with ByWater Support. ByWater Solutions completed the implementation providing the library with customized implementation for over 25 libraries and training for their open-source solutions. CIN is an existing ByWater Solutions Koha partner.

The customized Aspen Discovery can be viewed here:

https://cinlibraries.org/

Christopher Brannon, IT Coordinator at the Coeur d'Alene Public Library, recently commented on the implementation:

The Aspen team did a fantastic, over-the-top job preparing things on the backend, as well as training all the right people. They know their stuff and they execute it well. We could see so much improvement the moment training started, and the staff and documentation were both extremely helpful with the questions along the way. Top-notch support, and top-notch documentation make this an extremely user-friendly product, and our libraries and patrons have been pleased with the improvements."

About CIN

CIN is a system of more than 25 public, school, and special libraries in the Eastern Washington and Idaho area.

Read more about the CIN here: https://cinlibraries.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 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 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