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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 very excited to announce our first winner of the ByWater Community Giveback, the Silver Lake Public Library Foundation in Silver Lake, Kansas. Find out more here: https://www.silverlakelibrary.org/

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:

We are pleased to announce our newest session of The Library is Open Podcast! This session features an interview with Justin Hoenke. Justin is the Team Leader: Libraries & Community Spaces at Wellington City Council in New Zealand. Justin and Jessie talk about libraries, communities and most importantly kindness.

Listen Now!
https://redcircle.com/shows/the-library-is-open

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced today that they will be a sponsor at the 2021 SEFLIN Virtual Conference Libraries the Intersection of Technology & Innovation - Advocating for Dignity in a Digital World. The event will be held virtually on Friday, September 17th from 10:00am - 4:00pm EST.

"With this release we're thrilled to help our libraries develop a community translation system that all Aspen libraries can participate in to better serve patrons where English is not their primary language." - Mark Noble

Surprise! We released 21.11 a week early to bring even more enhancements to our Aspen Discovery libraries. This release is focused primarily on these areas:

Extensive user studies and testing in the open-source community lead to the development of the Aspen Discovery app — designed for library users by library users. The Aspen Discovery app provides personalized access to all the rich content available from your library right in the palm of your hands.

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 Spanish Fork Library in Spanish Fork, Utah. Aspen was added to Spanish Fork's already existing Koha ILS that ByWater Solutions has supported since 2012! We are so happy to expand our partnership with Spanish Fork and their outstanding staff.

You can view Spanish Fork's Aspen interface by visiting: https://catalog.spanishfork.org/

“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

ByWater Solutions, America’s forefront provider of Open Source library technology support, announced that VOKAL (Vermont Organization of Koha Automated Libraries) has added Fletcher Free Library and Lincoln Library to its consortium. They will be using Koha for their ILS.

At this year's koha-us annual conference in McKinney, Texas, you can get hands-on experience in the Open Source Observatory. You've heard libraries are using open-source software, now is your chance to explore it.

Interested in attending the 2021 koha-US Annual Conference? You still have time to register through the link above. Full schedule or presentations can be viewed at https://koha-us.org/conference2021/.