Another option instead of overriding Blacklight's kaminari theme would be to create our own.  This  can be accomplished by overriding `app/views/catalog/_paginate_compact.html.erb` and then passing our own theme (e.g. `:searchworks_pagination` or something like that).  We would also need to generate our theme files and add them.

This is good work, and I don't think we should go and re-write this all (and generating a new theme may end up ballooning into a lot of work). I just wanted to point out an alternate approach that we could have taken (and may take in the future if necessary).  Apologies for not thinking about this earlier when we were looking at your changes.

To see more about Kaminari themes for the future check out https://github.com/amatsuda/kaminari#customizing-the-pagination-helper