Set up rotating book jackets

If you subscribe to an enriched data service, you can display book jacket images drawn from the enriched data source, randomly selected from the titles in the best-seller lists provided for dashboards. See Setting Public Access Profiles and Parameters. A different image is displayed each time the portal page is accessed or refreshed. When a patron selects the image, a search is launched in the catalog for the title. If the title is not found in the catalog, the patron can click an email link to the library to request that the title be purchased. To set up rotating book jackets (system, library, or branch level):

1. Set up the subscription to the enriched data service. For more information about enriched data, see Setting Public Access Profiles and Parameters.
2. In the Administration Explorer tree view, open the Profiles folder for the organization, and select the PAC tab in the details view.
3. Double-click Enriched data.
4. Enable cover images from your enriched data provider.
5. In the Administration Explorer tree view, open the Profiles folder for the organization, and select the PowerPAC tab in the details view.
6. Double-click Rotating best seller jacket on portal page, and select Yes.
7. Select File, Save.

Related Information

• Email server and address for purchase request - When a search on the book jacket returns no results in the library catalog, the patron can request that the library purchase the title. Any email from PAC, including the purchase request, requires you to specify the SMTP server in Polaris Administration. Double-click the PAC profile Email notification: Server running SMTP service, and type the domain name of the email SMTP server. The purchase request goes to the email address specified for Ask Us email. See Set up and start Ask Us.
• Rotating book jackets and content carousels - A content carousel is a rotating graphical representation of a library-specified list of materials in the local library catalog. The PowerPAC user can click any title in the carousel to launch a search for the title. While it is possible to enable both rotating book jackets and content carousels on the portal page, the result will likely confuse the user since the features may appear somewhat similar but serve different purposes. Innovative recommends that you enable one or the other of these features, but not both. If you do enable both, the content carousel appears below the rotating book jacket image. See Content Carousels on the PowerPAC Portal Page.