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(Full record/display for Reptiles/Amphibians)

- With Grade 4 - 7 students in mind, we decided to keep the full record page simple yet rich in needed information - We chose to include a book cover (or "Title Peek") to interest visual learners and give them a visual reference point for the resource. - Under the book cover we included the call number in a bold blue box to draw attention to it. We put it directly under the picture as we felt the picture would most likely be one of the first things the user would look at - In the middle of the top of the full record display is the title, author and illustrator information. This is bold, easy to read but not so large it takes away from the icons on either side of it providing essential information for the user - On the right side of the title, author and illustrator information, is an icon that identifies the type of resource. In the reptile and amphibian example, it is a small icon of a book alerting the user to the fact that it will be a book resource. Beside this, an even smaller lettering identifys that it is a children's book. We chose to add this because it differentiates between a teacher's resource and a children's book for our two user groups. We chose not to put the reading level or interest level there as to not deter student readers from exploring that resource because it is "too young" or "too easy" for them. - The availability is located directly under this information and clearly in its own "box" as to allow all users to identify its availability before spending time locating it in the library. - Below this is a brief summary of the book content. The reading level of this summary fits our audience of Grade 4-7 students so that students who are looking for very specific information can read this summary and before exploring the resource itself may determine if it is suitable. -Chose the heading "Further Exploration" instead of subject headings or other information because it sounds more interesting and intriguing - the visual images are definitely more appealing to younger students than simply listing these possible subject searches using text only -"Curriculum-Related Information" was selected primarily because it is useful to teachers (and possibly parents if students have access from home computers) who will be using this OPAC. In other OPACs, this is called other or additional information, but we felt it needed a more specific heading that would appeal to teachers (and parents). Many students will not look beyond the "Further Exploration" icons, but teachers (and parents) will. -"Additional Information" was chosen to encompass the ISBD section of the record. Most OPACs call this publication information and users generally use it for the publication date and reading level, but it is not usually used by students (unless they are told to check). It is still available and important, but not as important to students and teachers as the sections that precede it.
 * Explain reason for choosing the particular labels or captions and the reason for rejecting others.**

- The title, author, and illustrator come first because they identify the record - it is also important at this point for the student to recognize which type of resources it is (book, DVD, etc) so this is right at the top too -book image and call number are also visually appealing to students and need to be at the top of the page to help students make a connection to the physical resource (many kids choose books simply because of the appeal of the cover) -Summary is given high priority on the page because in many cases, it will help determine whether the student/teacher continues to look at the record in order to determine whether he/she is going to physically find and borrow the resource. It tells them if this resource will meet their needs or appeal to their interests -"Further Exploration" is next in line because this is what students will turn to next - it provides further insight and information for them and does it in an appealing way using fun icons - don't want them to have to scroll down to access it -Chose to display the "Curriculum Related Information" next because this is what teachers (and parents) will also want to see. It comes above the additional information because we want teachers to be able to see the curriculum links, reading level and interest level without needing to scroll down. We feel this information will be accessed more often than additional information, especially by teachers. Students will rarely ever access (scroll down) to see the additional information - other than the publication date, it is irrelevant to them. 
 * Reasons for settling on a particular order of the fields and/or data elements making up the display.**

**A list of the fields and/or data elements/subfields that would be hotlinked along with an indication of to what they would be linked.**
- Curriculum links are hotlinked directly to the BC Ministry of Education curriculum documents so a teacher can see during their search how exactly the resource will fit into the curriculum they are teaching. Grade 4-7 students may not use this feature unless they are taught to. - All 5 "Future Exploration" icons are hotlinked to provide teachers and students with links to related information by author(s), illustrator(s), subject(s) and series (Our World). Grade 4-7 students would use these future explorations links when looking for information related to a resource they have found for recreational reading (purely interest) as well as for projects, assignments or other school-related tasks. - For the purpose of this assignment, only Peter Wright is linked so the instructor can see how an author search would work. - The search path located in the blue bar near the top of the page records the pages you have viewed to get to your current page. Each step in the path is hotlinked to allow users to go back with ease to the pages they saw previously. If a student views the reptiles and amphibians record and it does not look like the resource he is looking for, he can click on the "search results" words and be taken back to explore other resources that appeared in that title search. - "Home" link takes you back to the library's main page, while catalogue takes you to the original search page, and results to the title results page (another path tracker)