Panhandle Public Library Cooperative goes live on Aspen Discovery with ByWater Solutions Support

by Jessie Zairo on Jan 17, 2024

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that they are providing support and hosting services for the Panhandle Public Library Cooperative System (PPLCS) in Florida. PPLCS is an existing open source ByWater Partner with Koha as their ILS.

The Panhandle Public Library Cooperative catalog can be viewed at: http://panhandle.aspendiscovery.org/

Panhandle Public Library Cooperative System supports public libraries in Calhoun, Holmes, and Jackson counties in Florida! Customized catalogs can be viewed through the links below.

Calhoun County Public Library - ccplfl.aspendiscovery.org
Holmes County Public Library - myhcpl.aspendiscovery.org
Jackson County Public Library - jcplfl.aspendiscovery.org

Mary Balint, Administrator at PPCLS, recently commented:

I am so excited that the Panhandle Public Library Cooperative System has implemented Aspen as their new catalog! It is so visually appealing and user-friendly, and the benefit of having our physical items display side-by-side with our digital collection is so convenient- no more toggling back and forth between the catalog, Libby, and Hoopla to find the title I want.

Our Aspen Implementation Specialist made everything so easy, and there are endless ways to customize the look and functionality. I can’t think of a better way to highlight all the resources my library has to offer, and we couldn’t be more pleased with our new Aspen catalog!

About Panhandle Public Library Cooperative System

The Panhandle Public Library Cooperative System (PPLCS), a Florida Special District serving libraries in Calhoun, Holmes, and Jackson counties. PPLCS serves over 80,136 residents with a combined collection of approximately 200,000 items in its multi-county libraries.

Learn more at https://pplcs.net/about-us/.

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 first rate implementation and support services with library systems of all sizes for the Koha ILS, Aspen Discovery, Folio LSP, 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 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

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