Champaign is an example of a library who chooses to situate their dashboard sidebar on the right side of the main content versus the left side. As a result, the cover art for search results are prominent as the left most bit of content for the user.
Clinton-Macomb has created a very nice custom theme for their PowerPAC that matches their home page. Additionally, they’ve done a few things we haven’t seen at other libraries. In the PowerPAC header they’ve added prompts where patrons can enter their login information to sign on to their account.
Both resource sharing and autonomy are very important to the member libraries of CCS. This balance of attributes is very evident when you visit the Polaris PowerPAC pages for each library. Member libraries do a certain level of customization on their own while CCS consortium staff are quick to provide consulting and administration services.
Coquitlam has done some very basic but attractive customizations: they’ve applied a nice banner image and modified some aspects of the over all color scheme consist with the library home page.
Coquitlam is notable for the number of languages supported: English, Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese, Chinese, Spanish and French.
DPL has long been one of our favorite examples of a library who has created a consistent and attractive look and feel for both their website and PowerPAC.