2025 New Hampshire Summit

by Jessie Zairo on Jan 7, 2025

Interested in learning more about Koha and Aspen Discovery? Then join us at the New Hampshire Summit on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 10:00 am-3:00 pm for this FREE event. The Summit will be held at Mill Falls in Meredith, NH.

ByWater Solutions and members of the Koha and Aspen Communities in New Hampshire, Vermont, and other regions, will discuss how open-source solutions can benefit your library.

Topics will include

• advantages of Koha and Aspen
• customer and staff functionality
• technical services, collection development, 3rd party integrations
• how collaborative developments work in the Koha and Aspen communities

The Summit will be held on Wednesday before the New Hampshire Library Association Annual Conference. Visit the Conference homepage for more information about the NHLA 2025 Spring Conference.

Event Details

Location: Mill Falls, 281 Daniel Webster Highway, ​​​​ Meredith, NH 03253

Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm

Registration for the Free Event

Agenda

Library partners throughout New Hampshire, Vermont, and the surrounding Northeast will discuss open source, Koha, Aspen, and more!

Below is a tentative agenda, if you are interested in presenting, please email outreach@bywatersolutions.com.

9:30 am Breakfast and Networking

10:00 am Welcome and Introductions

10:15 pm Presentation

11:00 am Break

11:15 am Presentation

12:00 pm Lunch (Catered by ByWater Solutions)

1:00 pm Presentation

1:30 pm Presentation

2:00 pm Koha and Aspen Open Source Community and Collaboration

2:30 pm Q&A / Trivia

3:00 pm Closing

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 first-rate implementation and support services with library systems of all sizes for the Koha ILS, Aspen Discovery, Metabase, and Libki PC Management.

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

Aspen is a full-featured Discovery System that integrates with eContent and other third-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. It also improves relevancy and ease of use, provides native reading recommendations, displays all formats of titles within one result (record grouping), and much more. With included features like web builder and mobile app (Aspen LiDA), Aspen was created to give users an improved experience over other Discovery systems, with less impact on library budgets.

For more information about Aspen please visit https://bywatersolutions.com/projects/aspen-discovery.

For More Information

Jessica Zairo
Director of Library Sales & Outreach
ByWater Solutions
bywatersolutions.com
Phone:(888)900-8944