DUBLIN, Ohio, 14 January 2021—OCLC’s CapiraMobile and CapiraCurbside—mobile library services that offer flexibility, choice, and convenience for libraries and their users—have been recognized with LibraryWorks’ 2021 Modern Library Awards.
CapiraMobile, a platinum Modern Library Award (MLA) winner for the second consecutive year, makes it possible for users to interact with their library through their mobile phones, making collections, events, and programs available anywhere, anytime.
ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced that Sacramento County Public Law Library is now live on Koha! The catalog can be viewed here: https://catalog.saclaw.org/.
ByWater completed the transition of the library’s almost 24,000 holdings from SirsiDynix Horizon and continues to provide support services for Koha.
ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that they are providing support for the Aspen Discovery Open Source system for Santa Fe Public Library in New Mexico!
The Koha Community, home of the world's first free and open-source library system, announced last month that the Koha 20.11 release is available. This major release includes 9 new features, 354 enhancements, 412 bugfixes. Full release notes are available at https://koha-community.org/koha-20-11-released/.
Aspen Discovery announced this week that the 20.18.00 release is available. This release includes 1 new functionality and 13 other updates to the Aspen Discovery system.
Mark Noble, Aspen Discovery Developer, recently commented on the release, "We're excited to wrap up our 2020 release schedule by bringing our libraries improved statistics and reporting so they can see how Aspen helps to drive usage of their collections in the coming year."
Introducing: Open Source Live! A quarterly conversation about libraries and open source.
Join us for the first session, Thursday, January 21st at 11am EST, as we hear from public, academic, and special libraries. Library staff will discuss challenges in 2020, pivots they’ve had to make, how they’ve utilized open source products, and discuss what’s on the horizon for 2021.
Speakers include Lisette Scheer from Latah County Library District, Keely Ward from Holland and Knight, and Jessica Orozco from St. Thomas University.
ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that the DeSoto Public Library in Texas is now live on Koha!
ByWater completed the transition of the library's 71,000 plus records from Polaris and is providing ongoing support services to the library. The library's customized Koha OPAC can be viewed at https://desototx.bywatersolutions.com.
ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that the Enfield Public Library in New Hampshire is now live on Koha!
ByWater completed the transition of the library's 27,000 plus holdings from Follett and is providing ongoing support services to the library. The library's customized Koha OPAC can be viewed at enfieldnh.bywatersolutions.com.
ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that Santa Clara County Law Library is now live on Koha! ByWater completed the transition of the libraries 55,000 plus holdings from OCLC and is providing ongoing support services for Koha.
"I've truly enjoyed the training that Kelly has done. She's kept things very interesting and fun. It makes me glad that I moved to KOHA and I am glad ByWater Solutions is who's handling the transition."
Duluth, Ga., December 17, 2020: Equinox is pleased to welcome the Port Colborne Public Library to Evergreen with their successful migration to the Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (LiNC) in Canada.
The Port Colborne Public Library’s move will support 7,195 patrons and encompass a total of 45,516 bibliographic records. Services provided by Equinox included project management, training, and Evergreen software configuration. Data extraction and bibliographic deduplication were also completed as part of their migration encompassing item, patron, and transaction records.