Town Hall: Amping Up Discovery With Open Source Software

by Jessie Zairo on Mar 31, 2020

Hear from libraries using open source discovery to empower their patrons to discover new titles easily within the OPAC. Bob Bennhoff from CLiC, Colorado Library Consortium, Sam Passey from the Basin Libraries Consortium, and Mark Noble & Jessie Zairo, ByWater Solutions, will discuss how they got the discovery layer up and running, including the integration of third-party tools such as Novelist Select, Syndetics, Open Archives, Kanopy, and RB Digital.

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When: Apr 15, 2020, 1:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Topic: Town Hall: Amping Up Discovery With Open Source Software

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Computers in Libraries

This was originally scheduled to be a presentation at the 2020 Computers in Libraries Conference in Arlington Virginia.

A105. Amping Up Discovery With Open Source Software

Tuesday, March 31: 3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Hear from libraries using open source discovery to empower their patrons to discover new titles easily within the OPAC. CLiC, Colorado Library Consortium, deployed PIKA from Marmot Library Network, and the Basin Libraries Consortium launched Aspen Discovery from Turning Leaf Technologies, an offshoot of PIKA, this year. The presentation includes discussion from the staff at both libraries, Aspen’s developer, and a Koha support specialist on how they got the discovery layer up and running, including the integration of third-party tools such as Novelist Select, Syndetics, Open Archives, Kanopy, and RB Digital.

Speakers:

Sam Passey, Library Director, Uintah County Library and Uintah Basin Library Consortium

Bob Bennhoff, Colorado Library Consortium

Mark Noble, Turning Leaf Technologies

Jessie Zairo, Educator, ByWater Solutions, LLC