Wheaton Public Library is Live on Aspen Discovery with ByWater Support

by Elise Aiello on Feb 3, 2025

ByWater Solutions, an open-source community contributor and America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that the Wheaton Public Library in Illinois is now live on Aspen Discovery with ByWater Support. ByWater Solutions completed the implementation providing the library with customized implementation and training for their open-source solutions.

The customized Aspen Discovery can be viewed here

Dawn Kovacs, Deputy Director, Head of Circulation and Technical Services at the Wheaton Public Library, recently commented on the implementation:

The ByWater team did a great job getting our Aspen site ready and our staff trained in a short amount of time. It was less than two months from our kickoff meeting to our go-live date and we were ready! ByWater staff quickly responded to any questions I had and their online help center answered the rest. Library staff and patrons like the new catalog and find it easy to use. We’re very happy we made the switch to Aspen, with ByWater as our guide."

About the Wheaton Public Library

Wheaton Public Library is a welcoming destination that connects the community to literacy, information, ideas and experiences. Grow with us!

Read more about the Wheaton Public Library here.

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 Aspen Discovery

Aspen is a full-featured Discovery System that integrates with e-content and other 3rd 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 improves relevancy and ease of use, provides native reading recommendations, displays all formats of titles within one result (FRBR), and much more.

Aspen was created to give users an improved experience over other Discovery systems with less of an impact on library budgets. Aspen Discovery also includes a companion APP, Aspen LiDA, that gives your patrons an intuitive, user-friendly way to manage their own library experience. 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