ByWater Solutions, an open-source community contributor and America's forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that the Walla Walla Public Library in Washington is now live on Aspen Discovery with ByWater Support. Walla Walla Public Library is an existing Koha partner with ByWater. ByWater Solutions completed the implementation providing the library with customized implementation and training for their open-source solutions.
Alexis Rodegerdts, Support Services Librarian at the Walla Walla Public Library, commented on the implementation:
Walla Walla Public Library has used Koha with ByWater's consistent support for over 10 years. We are on the cusp of moving into a much smaller, temporary space for a year during an extensive building renovation. While typical library access will be impacted during this time, we wanted to offer the community the best possible interaction with the collection online. We love the fresh look Aspen provides, including the easier ability to browse appealing cover displays. Even better, the format grouping allows broader exposure to our Palace and Kanopy collections, and helps patrons more quickly find available formats. This will go a long way toward keeping the community connected to library resources during the renovation."
About the Walla Walla Public Library
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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 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.