Denver Botanic Gardens' Helen Fowler Library is Live on Koha with ByWater Support

by Jessie Zairo on Dec 4, 2023

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced that the Denver Botanic Gardens, Helen Fowler Library in Colorado is now live on Koha ILS with ByWater Support. ByWater Solutions completed the migration of over 30,000 titles from EOS.Web ILS.

The customized OPAC can be viewed here: https://dbg.bywatersolutions.com/.

Erin Bird, Associate Director of Communications, recently commented on the implementation.

Denver Botanic Gardens’ Helen Fowler Library recently implemented ByWater Solutions’ Koha online catalog. Nearly 2,000 user accounts and a 30,000-object collection of adult and children’s fiction, nonfiction, poetry, magazines, games and more have migrated to the new system."

About the Helen Fowler Library

The Helen Fowler Library began in 1947 when its namesake donated her personal collection of 500 titles related to horticulture. Originally part of the Colorado Forestry and Horticulture Association, the library has been managed by Denver Botanic Gardens for more than 60 years. The library, located within the Gardens’ Freyer – Newman Center, holds a significant collection of botanical and horticultural materials about the Rocky Mountain region and similar regions around the world. The library supports research at the Gardens as well as community interests. The library also has a large collection of adult and children’s fiction, poetry, rare books, botanical-themed archival collections including postage stamps and vintage seed and nursery catalogs. Nonfiction topics range from memoirs and cookbooks to environmental justice. Visitors are encouraged to peruse the shelves, research within the Helen Fowler Library and ask questions of library staff and volunteers during open hours. Denver Botanic Gardens members may check out materials for offsite use, all others are welcome to reference materials while at the library.

About Denver Botanic Gardens

Green inside and out, Denver Botanic Gardens was founded in 1951 and is considered one of the top botanical gardens in the United States and a pioneer in water conservation. Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the Gardens has a robust living plant collection, natural history collection and art collection along with temporary art exhibitions. The Gardens is a dynamic, 24-acre urban oasis in the heart of the city, offering unforgettable opportunities to flourish with unique garden experiences for the whole family – as well as world-class exhibitions, education and plant conservation research programs. Additional sites extend this experience throughout the Front Range: Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Farms is a 700-acre native plant refuge with an active farm in Jefferson County; Mount Goliath is a high-altitude trail and interpretive site on the Mount Evans Scenic Byway. The Gardens also manages programming at Plains Conservation Center in Aurora. For more information, visit us online at www.botanicgardens.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 ILS, Aspen Discovery, Metabase, 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.

For More Information

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