ByWater Solutions, America's forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced that the Akron-Summit County Public Library in Ohio is now live on the Koha ILS and Aspen Discovery with ByWater Support. ByWater Solutions completed the migration of over 470,000 bibliographic records and 1,210,075 item records providing the library with customized implementation and training for their open source solutions.
Michelle Alleman, Executive Director at the Akron-Summit County Public Library, recently commented on the implementation:
Akron-Summit County Public Library is incredibly pleased to complete our move both to an open‑source ILS and to a modern Discovery Layer. At a time when public libraries across Ohio are facing budget reductions, this transition represents a major financial savings that allows us to protect core services for our community. The ByWater migration team was outstanding to work with—responsive, knowledgeable, and thorough in training our staff. Most importantly, our staff are genuinely excited to be using a more intuitive, user‑friendly platform, and our customers are already responding positively to the modern, streamlined Discovery Layer. This upgrade strengthens our ability to serve the public with the high‑quality experience they expect and deserve."
About the Akron-Summit County Public Library
The Akron-Summit County Public Library is recognized locally as an essential community asset and nationally as one of the finest public libraries in the United States due to its excellent customer service, collaborative community involvement, and high level of customer and employee satisfaction.
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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 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.