Moraine Valley Community College Live on Koha with ByWater Support

by Elise Aiello on May 30, 2023

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced that the Moraine Valley Community College Library is now live on Koha ILS with ByWater Support. ByWater Solutions completed the migration of over 292,000 bib records and over 305,000 item records.

The customized OPAC can be viewed here: https://moraine.bywatersolutio...

Marie M. Martino, Systems and Catalog Services Librarian at Moraine Valley Community College recently commented on the migration:

Our library is super-excited to have migrated to an open source solution for libraries, and, we are very appreciative of the exceptional service and support provided by ByWater Solutions during this process. We couldn’t ask for a more responsive and friendly team! Our library looks forward to participating in the Koha community, as well as continuing to work with ByWater into the future."

About Moraine Valley Community College

The Moraine Valley Library enhances the college curriculum and enriches the lives of our students by providing access to research tools, information resources, and online programming.

Learn more here: https://lib.morainevalley.edu/...

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

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