Please visit http://ils-test01/polaris to see our new Public Access Catalog!
Colleen Brazil, Mike Longley and the ILS PAC Committee (Chris Sorenson, Nate Cushman, Mark Barnett) have tailored Polaris’s out-of-the-box interface. What you see reflects input from Sno-Isle staff as well as reactions from members of the public who participated in usability tests a few weeks ago. You’ll also see a link to enable you to provide feedback.
The catalog will continue to change through the month of February. By March 1, we expect to have a pretty stable version so we can start training staff and the public using what they’ll see when we go live at the end of March. But we will continue to improve the PAC as good ideas come along. Suggestions might not be acted upon immediately but they will continue to be evaluated and implemented when the time is right.*
Log in with your own account. Feel free to choose a new name and password, set lists on and off, place requests, etc. This will not impact CARL or the real Polaris catalog that goes live at the end of the month. Please remember: the data you’ll be viewing is from last November when we created our test database. If it says you have an overdue item you know you returned, don’t worry, this is just static data, okay to change and play around with.
You may notice problems with individual bibliographic or item records. For example, the record for an Overdrive ebook might show the icon for a regular book. This sort of thing will be easy to correct once we are on Polaris so those types of errors will remain in the test catalog.
Have fun !
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