Westlake Porter Public Library is Live on Koha and Aspen Discovery with ByWater Support

by Jessie Zairo on Dec 11, 2023

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced that the Westlake Porter Public Library in Ohio is now live on the Koha ILS with Aspen Discovery and ByWater Support.

ByWater Solutions completed the migration of over 155,000 bibliographic records from the Symphony ILS with SirsiDynix providing the library with customized implementation and training for their open source solutions.

The customized Aspen Discovery can be viewed here: https://westlake.aspendiscovery.org/.

Andrew Mangels, Director, Westlake Porter Public Library, recently commented on the migration:

We are incredibly excited to be a part of the open-source ILS movement. Working with ByWater to make this happen has been a fantastic experience that has just reinforced the idea that we made the right decision for our patrons and staff."

About Westlake Porter Public Library

Westlake Porter Public Library is an independent public library serving the residents of the city of Westlake, western Cuyahoga County and eastern Lorain County. Anyone who lives, works, owns property, or goes to school in Ohio can register for a free library card.

Read more at https://www.westlakelibrary.org/about.

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, Aspen Discovery, Metabase, and Libki.

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.

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