The Chautauqua Cattaraugus Library System Goes Live on ByWater Solutions Koha Support

by Jessie Zairo on Feb 21, 2019

ByWater Solutions, an open source community contributor and America’s forefront provider of Koha support, announced today that the Chautauqua Cattaraugus Library System, in New York is now live on Koha with ByWater Solutions! ByWater completed the transition of the library’s 470,000 plus holdings from Symphony ILS and is providing ongoing support services to the library. The library’s customized Koha OPAC can be viewed at: https://catalog.cclsny.org/.

Nate Curulla, CRO for ByWater Solutions recently commented on the migration for the Chautauqua Cattaraugus Library System:

We are very excited to have the chance to partner with the Chautauqua Cattaraugus Library System’s team of passionate librarians for their implementation of Koha! We are excited to help empower the team with the Open Source ILS technology.

About Chautauqua Cattaraugus Library System

The Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System is a cooperative Public Library System serving 36 member libraries in a two-county area of 2,415 square miles. It is a rural area; most of its 215,222 people live in scattered hamlets and small villages. The member libraries serve populations ranging up to 31,146 but the majority serve populations of less than 4,000. All chartered public libraries in the System’s service area are members of the System.

Read more at: http://www.cclsny.org/ccls-profile/

Mission Statement
The mission of the Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System is to foster, strengthen, and improve public library services within its two-county service area.

About ByWater Solutions

ByWater Solutions is a full service, high quality Koha support and implementation company dedicated to providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their ILS than a traditional proprietary solution can offer. ByWater Solutions has a proven track record in first rate Koha implementation and support with library systems of all sizes.

Our highly ranked, comprehensive support is what sets our company apart from any other vendor in the industry. Partnering with ByWater Solutions for Koha support not only lowers the cost of implementing and maintaining an ILS, 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/