“The Polaris PAC just plain works. It delivers outstanding searching capabilities, which is exactly what our patrons expect.”
- Graham B. Cooke, Assistant Director, Louisville Free Public Library
ILS System
PAC
Make your PAC more intuitive than ever
Designed for libraries of every size, Polaris PowerPACTM seamlessly integrates PAC and portal functionality. Customers who wish to integrate PAC functionality with the main portal can choose between four style sheets. Libraries that prefer to put their own face on the system can customize it in any way they like. Setting the standard for ease of use, Polaris PowerPACTM makes everything from advanced search capabilities to child-friendly research available to patrons anytime, anywhere.
Other benefits:
- Employ "Did you mean" feature to help with misspellings
- Offer patrons RSS feeds
- Develop title lists with multiple export options
- Generate compressed serials holdings statements
- Provide access to remote databases and other library catalogs
- Enable automatic email notification
- Easily toggle to large text interface
- Present search results ranked by relevance or popularity(sorted by patron/staff preference)
- Offer remote patron authentication for remote access to third-party databases
- Give patrons the ability to build reading histories (at their discretion)
- Allow patrons to renew materials and make payments online
- Place holds on ordered items before they arrive
- Easily select language display text
- Can display enriched content selections in-line from The Content Café (Baker and Taylor), NoveList, Syndetics, Chilifresh and LibraryThing for Libraries
- Ability to log in with username or barcode
