Enfield Public Library Goes Live on Koha with ByWater Support

by Kalleen Marquise on Dec 21, 2020

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that the Enfield Public Library in New Hampshire is now live on Koha!

ByWater completed the transition of the library's 27,000 plus holdings from Follett and is providing ongoing support services to the library. The library's customized Koha OPAC can be viewed at enfieldnh.bywatersolutions.com.

Enica Davis, Data Migrations Lead, ByWater Solutions, recently commented on the migration.

We are so excited that Enfield Public Library is now live on Koha! The staff at Enfield were fantastic to work with and we're happy they are a ByWater Solutions partner."

About Enfield Public Library

The mission of the Enfield Public Library is to be a focal point of the Enfield community by providing all residents and community members with a variety of resources and activities that educate, enrich, and entertain. The library strives to provide a welcoming environment that inspires lifelong learning and community engagement.

Read more at https://www.enfield.nh.us/enfield-public-library

Town Librarian, Melissa Hutson, recently commented on the migration:

As a really small library where staff wear many hats including doing most of our IT support, I never felt like I was handling the migration alone thanks to ByWater support. Koha will streamline staff tasks and it also offers many features our patrons have been requesting for a while, such as being able to login to their accounts to place holds and renew items, that weren’t easily managed in our old system. In the last week, patron feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, we are so pleased that our community knows we are still trying serve them as best we can in these strange times.”

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, 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.

For More Information

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