The ultimate library portal: Polaris Powerpac

I'm working on a presentation for Web Technology Day sponsored by the State Library. My presentation hilights the Polaris Powerpac and all of the in-house customizations and forged integration of the pac and third-party vendors. The presentation is really coming together and reveals the vision of how the portal should work. Many times we say--why doesn't it do it like this...or, it should work this way...well, Maricopa has made that happen. They have forged relationships between vendors where none existed. They've created partnerships between Polaris and other vendors in order to accomplish their goals. This, in turn, benefits all of Polaris' customers by making innovations available to them that were previously unavailable. Equally important these types of partnerships strengthen the industry. I'm looking forward to the presentation where Phoenix will also showcase their home-grown (with TLC) portal. Here's a link to Web Technology Day as well as other local AZ training opps! I would love to have a better grasp of how the Polaris Powerpac differs from Sirsi's and the other ILS vendor products. I see that web mastering has definately taken on a new level of knoweldge and skills in the portal environment...that is, if you want to customize. More on this another day...