Kids OPAC makes it fun for young readers to search a library's collection! Children can choose from four themes by toggling among them.
Overview
The new Kids OPAC has four different choices of backgrounds, the happy birds, the sneaky ninjas, a lovely princess and her castle, and all kinds of friendly and scary fish.
How to use it
Kids OPAC works with your existing M5 OPAC and includes the features you are already familiar with, in a format that will attract young library users and make their searches fun.
As in the regular OPAC, students can search by Lexile, Fuontas & Pinnell or Accelerated Reader to find materials at their individual reading level.
The results list shows title, author and call number. Children can also see whether the items are available or not from the large green or red dot. They can create a list of their favorite items. And they can look at more information about each item.
This details view includes the usual hyperlinks, so they can follow the authors or subjects and see what else they find.
Again, this is connected to your usual OPAC, and clicking on Home brings you back to the standard OPAC home page.
