Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library is Live on Koha with ByWater Support

by Elise Aiello on Sep 9, 2024

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced that the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library in Massachusetts is now live on Koha ILS with ByWater Support. ByWater Solutions completed the migration of over 39,400 item records and 23,900 bibliographic records.

The customized OPAC can be viewed here:

https://libcatalog.gcc.edu/

Jeff Croteau, Director of Library & Archives at the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, commented on the migration:

“The migration process with the ByWater Solutions team was a great experience for us. We are very happy with how our data was handled and we are thrilled to be using Koha, which offers our patrons great search options through a well-designed interface.”

About the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Established in 1975 in Lexington, Massachusetts, by the Scottish Rite Freemasons of the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library tells the story of Freemasonry and fraternalism in the context of American history. The Van Gorden-Williams Library & Archives is one of the premiere research libraries in the United States for the study of Freemasonry and fraternalism. Its other major collecting area is American history.

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, 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 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