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ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that they will be a sponsor at the 2021 Tenn-Share Datafest Conference, Prepare to Pivot. The event will be held virtually on October 27th-28th. This is the second virtual DataFest and Fall Conference. Tenn-Share wants to celebrate their successes and share how the community can continue to build their shared knowledge and shared innovations together.

Each month, ByWater Solutions selects one library to be awarded $500. These funds are meant to support libraries and their communities and fill gaps in funding to further library goals.

We are excited to announce our October 2021 winner of the ByWater Community Giveback, the Corona Public Library in Corona, California. https://catalog.corona.bywatersolutions.com/

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that they are providing support and hosting services for the Aspen Open Source Discovery system for Henry Carter Hull in Clinton, CT. The Henry Carter Hull Public Library has been a Koha and ByWater partner since 2013. We are excited to expand our partnership!

You can view Henry Carter Hulls's Aspen Discovery interface by visiting: https://catalog.hchlibrary.org/

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced that Marion County Library System in Florida is now live on Koha!

The catalog can be viewed here: https://librarycat.marionfl.org/

ByWater completed the transition of the library’s over 270,000 bibs from Horizon and continues to provide support services for Koha.

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced that the Okaloosa County Public Library Cooperative in Florida is now live on Aspen Discovery and Koha with ByWater Support.

The customized OPAC for the library can be seen here: readokaloosa.org

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that they are providing support and hosting services for the Aspen Open Source Discovery system for the Vermont Organization of Koha Automated Libraries (VOKAL: https://www.gmlc.org/index.php/vokal); a project of the Green Mountain Library Consortium

Join us for Open Source Live! A quarterly conversation about libraries and open source.

The next Open Source Live will take place on Wednesday, November 17th at 1pm ET.

This month we will be speaking with Kyle Hall, one of our ByWater Solutions Developers. Kyle's extensive work on the Libki Kiosk Management System (https://bywatersolutions.com/projects/libki) has brought about some exciting enhancements to the areas of print and payment management.

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that they have partnered with FE Technologies to provide support and integration with RFID to enhance the library user experience with Koha ILS.

This integration provides services from FE Technologies that were designed to enhance, automate and modernize library circulation functions, providing self-service to users, efficient staff management, a high level of security to protect your valuable collection, and a fast inventory solution.

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, the MetroShare Consortium in Texas is now live on Aspen Discovery and Koha with ByWater Support.

The customized OPACs for the libraries in MetroShare are available here:

“With Aspen 21.10 libraries now have the power to dedicate sections of their website to specific patron types. We’re excited to see libraries build staff intranets, volunteer sites, and more!”

This release was primarily focused in three areas:
- Polishing Polaris to add additional functionality and conveniences for our Polaris partners
- Allowing library staff to restrict web builder content to specific patron types
- Continuing work on eCommerce integrations