ByWater Solutions, America's forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced that the Charleston Library Society in South Carolina is now live on the Koha ILS and Aspen Discovery with ByWater Support. ByWater Solutions completed the migration of over 72,900 bibliographic records and 78,000 item records providing the library with customized implementation and training for their open source solutions.
Lisa Hayes, Director of Collections at the Charleston Library Society recently commented on the implementation:
We have been so pleased with the process of migrating from our legacy system to Koha and Aspen. The ByWater team laid out the entire process in a clear and thoughtful manner and then took us through all of the steps, with excellent training. They made us feel like we were their only client and seemed to be exceedingly familiar with the quirks of our unique collections. The follow-through at the end has also been fabulous, leaving us with a feeling of continual support. Not only are we saving a large sum each year and enjoying a modern system, but the customer service has been exceptional. The end result is something we are proud to share with our membership."
About the Charleston Library Society
The Charleston Library Society is a cultural institution for life-long learning, serving its members, the Lowcountry community and scholars through access to its rich collection of books, historic manuscripts and archival material and programs promoting discussion and understanding of the ideas they contain.
The collections of the Library Society stretch from the 15th century to the modern-day and include materials from around the world. The Society paved the way for the founding of the College of Charleston in 1770 and provided the core collection of natural history artifacts for the founding of the Charleston Museum (the first in America) in 1773.
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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.