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ByWater Solutions Announces Support of Aspen Discovery for the Peterborough Town Library
by Elise Aiello on Aug 16, 2024
ByWater Solutions announced that they are providing support and hosting services for the Aspen Open Source Discovery system for the Peterborough Town Library in New Hampshire. The Peterborough Town Library is an existing ByWater partner using Koha. Some highlights of their customization include:
The library's custom catalog can be viewed at https://peterborough.aspendisc...
Corinne Chronopoulos, Library Director at the Peterborough Town Library, recently commented on the implementation:
Upgrading our catalog to Aspen was a smart investment for our library. We are excited to provide our patrons with an integrated browsing experience that includes all our digital content. The catalog is now visually appealing and easy to use. Our patrons have loved new features and are discovering more of what we have available.”
About the Peterborough Town Library
Peterborough has been home to several types of libraries, beginning with the Peterborough Social Library, founded sometime in the 1790s. This small collection of books was well used by members, until the volumes were worn out, discarded, or sold in 1830. In 1827, the Rev. Abiel Abbot arrived in Peterborough as the new minister of the newly built Unitarian Church. Abbot took an immediate interest in educational opportunities for the people. He formed a Juvenile Library, a ministerial library, and a shares-based library with annual dues of 0 cents. Elsewhere in town, the Union and Phoenix Cotton Factories hosted libraries for the mill workers. All of these libraries were well appreciated by those who had the privilege to access the collections. Abbot, however, perceived a need for a library open to all and not based on who you knew, how old you were, where you worked, or whether you could afford to access it.
Read more: https://peterboroughtownlibrary.org/history-and-renovation-9330/location/peterborough
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, 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 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
Elise Aiello
Partner Engagement Specialist
ByWater Solutions
bywatersolutions.com
Phone:(888)900-8944
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