Fort Scott Community College and Eureka Public Library join SEKLS and are live on Koha with ByWater Solutions support

by Elise Aiello on Aug 15, 2024

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced that the Fort Scott Community College and the Eureka Public Library in Kansas have joined the Southeast Kansas Library System (SEKLS) with Koha support from ByWater Solutions.

ByWater Solutions completed the migration of over 22,400 bibliographic records and 23,000 item records for the Eureka Public library, and over 7,000 bibliographic records and 8,000 item records for the Fort Scott Community College library.

Sharon Moreland, System Director at SEKLS, Commented:

"Our ultimate goal is to have every public and academic library in the Southeast Kansas Library System region involved in SEKnFind. The addition of Eureka to the west and Fort Scott Community College to the east helps move us closer to this goal. We are excited to welcome them into the shared catalog and hope their community and student body find it to be beneficial."

About SEKLS

The System provides grants, consulting, and other services to public, school, and academic libraries in fourteen of the fifteen counties of Southeast Kansas.

Learn more about SEKLS here: https://www.sekls.org/about-se...

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