ByWater Solutions, an open-source community contributor and America's forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that the Marshall B. Ketchum University Memorial Library in California is now live on the Koha ILS with ByWater Support. ByWater Solutions completed the migration providing the library with customized implementation and training for their open source solutions.
Rebecca Russell, Director of Library Services at Marshall B. Ketchum Memorial Library, recently commented on the implementation:
"The library team at the MBKU Memorial Library is grateful to ByWater Solutions and their Koha implementation team for their outstanding support during the transition process. We especially appreciated the implementation team's ability to meet our tight scheduling requirements and to provide us with an organizational framework that ensured a smooth transition. MBKU's staff and students appreciate the easy-to-use interface, and the capability we now have to customize the product as needed."
About the Marshall B. Ketchum Memorial Library
The mission of the Marshall B. Ketchum Memorial Library is to support the research, instructional, and informational goals of MBKU students, faculty, and residents in their pursuit of life-long learning. The library creates and fosters an enriching learning environment by providing essential services, facilities, and information resources to support the Optometry, Pharmacy, Physician Assistant, and Doctor of Medical Science programs.
Learn more about programs at Marshall B. Ketchum University here: https://www.ketchum.edu/
Learn more about the MBKU Memorial Library here: https://mbkulibrary.ketchum.edu/
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.