University of North Texas - Dallas Goes Live on Koha with ByWater Solutions

by Jessie Zairo on Jun 25, 2019

ByWater Solutions, an open source community contributor and America’s forefront provider of Koha support, announced today that University of North Texas - Dallas Academic and Law Library is now live on Koha! ByWater completed the transition of the library’s 186,000 plus holdings from Sierra ILS and is providing ongoing support services to the library. The library’s customized Koha OPAC can be viewed at: https://untdallas.bywatersolutions.com.

About the Academic Library

Beyond a traditional library, the UNT Dallas students have access to an extensive collection of electronic resources with over 31,000 electronic journals and databases, over 46,700 electronic books, and the ability to order books and journal articles from libraries across the United States through our interlibrary loan program.

The library has a beautiful, comfortable reading room for studying and two group study rooms for collaborating. The study rooms are state of the art with large monitors and tables with power and data connections. Wi-Fi is available throughout the library.

Read more at: https://www.untdallas.edu/library/about

About the Law Library

The College of Law’s Law Library is primarily for the use of College of Law students, faculty, and staff. Students, faculty, and staff from other UNT System institutions and members of the Bar are allowed access to the Law Library. To receive access to the Law Library, please provide proof of identity, as well as proof of connection to the UNT System or Bar, at the Security Desk on the first floor upon entering the building. Visitors will be provided directions or an escort and a visitor’s name badge as appropriate.

Read more at: https://libguides.lawschool.untdallas.edu/About

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/.

For more information

Jessica Zairo
Marketing & Outreach Coordinator
ByWater Solutions
bywatersolutions.com
Phone:(888)900-8944