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.
Denver Public Library has done one of the finest jobs of “skinning” their PowerPAC which we’ve seen. Both their website and PowerPAC have the same very attractive visual styling.
Finger Lakes Library System is a consortium of five county library systems in upstate New York. Its a classic example of independent libraries sharing a single instance of Polaris.