El Dorado County Library is Live on Koha and Aspen Discovery with ByWater Support

by Elise Aiello on Sep 4, 2024

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced that the El Dorado County Library in California is now live on the Koha ILS with Aspen Discovery and ByWater Support. ByWater Solutions completed the migration of over 191,700 bibliographic records and 329,200 item records providing the library with customized implementation and training for their open source solutions.

The customized Aspen Discovery can be viewed here: https://edcl.aspendiscovery.or.... The El Dorado County Library also utilized Aspen for some customization work including a Help Center for users.

Bryce Lovell, Director of Library Services at the El Dorado County Library, commented on the implementation:

“Open-source software offers our library the flexibility to best serve our patrons as technology continues to evolve. With Koha and Aspen, even as a small and rural library system, we are now positioned to collaborate, build, and innovate with libraries across the world. Our software now mirrors the spirit of public libraries –open, accessible, equitable.

He then went on to say,

Our ByWater experience was stellar. The migration was flawless. The ByWater team impressed us with their technical skill, customer service, communication, support, and on-site training."

About El Dorado County Library

Located in the Sierra Nevada in Northern California, the El Dorado County Library offers free and easy access to ideas, books, and technology to promote literacy and lifelong learning. The first public library in El Dorado County was a small Placerville City Library established in 1906 on the upper floor of Confidence Hall. Then in 1947 a group of citizens began the work of establishing a County Free Library. This early Friends of the Library group raised funds and bought the old A.S. Fox house. Since then El Dorado County Library has grown to six branches throughout the County, as well as two outreach vehicles.

Find out more about us at https://eldoradolibrary.org/ab...

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 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.

For More Information

Elise Aiello
Partner Engagement Specialist
ByWater Solutions
bywatersolutions.com
Phone:(888)900-8944