Migration Bulletin - 19 iPac

The SELCO iPAC is finished and in place as of today (8/29). Based on a lot of hard work and great ideas from the iPAC Implementation Team and SELCO staff, we are confident that your patrons will love this new method for accessing content, both within and outside of your library.

Each library has it's own profile in the iPAC, which displays the name of that library and shows it's items first in the search results list. To use your profile, you will simply need to link to the URL listed for your library at the end of this document. Use this link on your web page, as the home page of any dedicated public PAC PCs, or anywhere else you wish to enable access to the iPAC.

It is critical that you do not make the iPAC available to the general public (including the Internet) before 7:00 AM on 9/2. If you do, any borrower requests placed in the iPAC will not be saved. This is because the processes governing requests will not be running until 9/2. You may set up the link on a PC that will not be used over the weekend without causing any problems.

In order to head off potential confusion, here are some questions that we expect will come up as you begin using the iPAC:

Q: Can I put my library's logo on my iPac?

A: Yes!! And you can link your library's web page from iPac too. Feel free to mail these changes to Craig and he will implement them in the next few weeks, as time allows.


Q: Why is my library's name so small in the default logo?

A: This is a limitation of iPac that we cannot change. Substituting your logo (incorporating your name in the graphic is the best way around this problem. After the initial swell of work, SELCO may create simple text-only logos for your library to fill this need.


Q: I don't like the fact that the patron can see his/her position in the hold queue. Is there anything you can do about it?
A: No! This is another limitation of iPAC that we cannot change. We understand that this is likely to be a problem and will make it a Software Enhancement Request for Dynix.


Q: I need to change the homepage on my PAC stations to the iPAC, but it isn't working/I get strange error messages. What gives?

A: Depending on the version of Windows, the security policy, and which browser you are using, it is possible you might have problems setting up iPAC as your home page. SELCO is working to figure out the best way to handle this situation and will keep you posted on the details.