Ames Public Library has been a Polaris customer since 2014. APL has a collection of over 231,000 volumes and circulates over 1.4 million items annually.
Ames Public Library is located in their newly renovated building in Ames, Iowa (downtown, not too far from Iowa State University). They also operate a very busy bookmobile.
Like many Polaris libraries, the Ames catalog features a few content carousels based on booklists compiled manually by library staff. Ames has done something unique. They’ve put a mechanism in place which creates a booklist automatically. The list (and therefore the content carousel) updates dynamically as items are added to and removed from a specific shelf location (“staff picks”).
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Tags: Google Maps, Kid's Catalog, NoveList Select, Overdrive eBook Integration, Public