SWAN Library Services, which serves 100 public libraries in the Chicagoland area, is now hosting Aspen Discovery and Aspen LiDA with Grove for Libraries.
With Grove’s founders having over 25 years of collective experience developing and hosting with the Aspen codebase, they are the best positioned to provide both a stable and performant environment for Aspen, as well as continue the innovative development that SWAN and libraries like SWAN know is necessary to ensure patrons have the best experience possible using their library.
“SWAN intends to sponsor software development with Aspen and it made more sense for our organization to have hosting of our Aspen environment within the Grove hosting and development process. The iterative development process for us internally is important.” Aaron Skog, SWAN Executive Director.
“We are impressed with Grove’s expertise in Aspen support and development as well as their project management and communication throughout our migration process. Following our migration to Grove, our catalog and app are showing wonderful speed and response times,” Tara Wood, SWAN User Experience Manager.
“Grove is excited to work more closely with SWAN. Their deep knowledge of libraries and strong understanding of the larger technology landscape will greatly benefit all libraries using Aspen. Working together will definitely drive Aspen forward.” Jordan Fields, Grove Co-founder
See the SWAN consortial catalog at https://catalog.swanlibraries.net/ or find a specific library at https://swanlibraries.net/member-libraries/
About SWAN Library Services
SWAN Library Services is dedicated to bringing 100 libraries in the Chicagoland areas for the purposes of resource sharing and collaboration. They connect a 1.9 million service population with their community library. To this end, SWAN built a shared online public catalog with nearly 8 million items available to library users. This is a unique collection of materials, e-content, and library events. SWAN's strength is founded on providing a common platform of services and promoting collaboration among libraries. Over the past 5 years, the membership of SWAN has grown by 25 libraries.
Read more at https://swanlibraries.net/news
About Grove for Libraries
Grove for Libraries offers development, hosting, support, and more for Aspen Discovery, Aspen LiDA, and other projects related to Aspen. Grove employees also contribute time and expertise to all Aspen Community meetings as well as dedicated Office Hours to help grow and support all libraries and organizations using Aspen. Learn more at https://www.groveforlibraries.com/
