Ossipee Library joins Northern New Hampshire Library Cooperative and goes Live on Koha and Aspen Discovery with ByWater Support

by Elise Aiello on Dec 2, 2024

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced that the Ossipee Library in New Hampshire is now live on the Koha ILS with Aspen Discovery and ByWater Support. ByWater Solutions completed the migration of over 22,300 bibliographic records providing the library with customized implementation and training for their open source solutions.

The customized Aspen Discovery can be viewed here: https://ossipee.aspendiscovery...

Jenny Spofford, Director of the Ossipee Library, recently commented on the migration:

"We are excited to join NNHLC and connect with other local libraries. This membership allows us to offer our patrons a wealth of resources that were previously unavailable, fostering a love of reading, learning, and community engagement."

About Ossipee Library

Originally named the Frank S. Lord Memorial Library, Ossipee Library was established as a publicly funded library in 1939. Our mission at Ossipee Public Library is to serve as a dynamic and inclusive resource center, fostering a love for learning, promoting literacy, and connecting communities. We are committed to providing equitable access to a vast and diverse collection of materials, both physical and digital, to empower individuals of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities.

Read more about the Ossipee Library at https://ossipeelibrary.org/abo...

About Northern New Hampshire Library Cooperative

The purpose of the Cooperative shall be to improve library services of member libraries through shared catalog access, wider distribution of materials with less duplication, increased convenience for patrons to borrow and return library materials, sharing up-to-date technical expertise and staff training, increased purchasing power, and implementation of other actions members may agree upon. To facilitate expanded service, the Cooperative will acquire and maintain computer software for an Integrated Library System (ILS).

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 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