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10/20/2011
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Green Mountain College’s Griswold Library Goes Live on Koha with ByWater Solutions

ByWater Solutions, an open source community supporter and official Koha support company, announced today that the Green Mountain College’s Griswold Library, of Poultney, VT. is now live on their installation of the Koha integrated library system.

The Library’s Koha installation went live in late August, and ByWater Solutions will be
providing ongoing support and hosting services for them.

The Griswold Library houses a collection of over 118,000 books, videos, and electronic resources, along with over 30 databases and 30,000 print and electronic journals

Cail Clark, Cataloging Library Specialist at the Griswold Library, commented on their decision to switch to Koha with ByWater:

” We felt, as many libraries do, that we were paying too much and getting too little from our former ILS vendor.  That being said, changing something as fundamental to all facets of library operation as one’s ILS is a monumental task, requiring extensive forethought, a realistic plan for execution of each step, and excellent communication in all stages of the process.  In addition, it requires savvy data manipulation and a deep knowledge of ILS vendors and systems, what is possible, and how it can be manifested.”
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