Work Progresses on Public Catalog Interface

Our ILS Public Access Catalog Committee (Nate, Mark, Chris, Mike and Colleen) are in the thick of customizing our new catalog interface. On Friday Feb. 4 and on Tuesday, Feb. 15, we will be doing some usability testing with customers to see which things are working well for them and which ones need work. Around [...]

PAC Sub-Committee Making Progress

The test Polaris OPAC has been installed and the PAC sub-committee has been busy testing configurations. Previously when we were making decisions it was on a “best guess basis”, but now we can actually see that if we do this it looks like that, and if we set up the system to search in this [...]

Update from ILS Public Catalog subcommittee

We are currently working on the configuration of the catalog search screens. We want to keep it simple, while providing access to the most sophisticated search options Polaris offers. We have been using the Dallas Public Library as a model for ideas on the ‘look’ of the catalog screens, but we are looking at many [...]

Customer Reviews in Our New PAC

The ILS Task Force Public Web Catalog Sub-Committee (Nate Cushman, Chris Sorenson, Mike Longley, Colleen Brazil) meets  frequently to set up the configuration of our Polaris Web Catalog that will launch next spring. We will report periodically in this blog to keep you posted on our developments. One exciting feature that will appear in our new catalog will be customer-created reviews. [...]