Brampton has done some very basic customizations and added quite a few nice dashboards in the left panel of their PowerPAC. Interestingly, BL offers both Overdrive and Cloud Library ebooks. The Overdrive interface uses the legacy non-integrated approach while the Cloud Library uses the full Polaris eBook integration.
As a multi-site system, Bridges has done a very nice job of personalizing the PowerPAC for the individual member libraries. If you visit their PowerPAC, be sure and switch between a few of the library locations. Notice how nicely each library site has been customized.
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.