Latest news
SCIS Survey 2025: Win a $500 Voucher for Your Library
Tue, 06 May 2025
We're embarking on a significant review and updates of SCIS and we're asking for your feedback about our services in a quick 10-minute survey before 11:59PM, Thursday 23 May. As a thank you for participating, you can choose to enter the draw to win one of three $500 book vouchers for your school library by providing your details at the end of the survey.
Book your free Term 2 webinars today
Mon, 07 Apr 2025
SCIS product training webinars are free to attend. In Term 2, we'll run sessions covering collection development, National Reconciliation Week (NRW) 2025, and a live Q & A session. All sessions are recorded and registrants will be links to recordings in post-session emails.
Connections Issue 132
Fri, 21 Feb 2025
Explore the latest issue of Connections for news covering AI in school libraries, supporting Australian literature, and inspiring students to become strong readers. Plus, explore a spotlight on New Zealand’s Ellerslie School library, and discover new free phonics lesson packs for F-2, SCIS updates, and more.
SCIS services are important in ensuring efficiency and quality in our cataloguing processes. SCIS provides an authority set that is school-catalogue appropriate and meets our curricula needs. The Dewey classification is thorough and systematic. I unreservedly recommend SCIS to library professionals.
Robert George
Head of Libraries
The Alice Smith School, Malaysia
SCIS is great. It’s really, really helped my cataloguing. It has such a high hit rate, especially as SCIS has got so many English schools now. I would say the hit rate is about 98%. The ability to enter a book that SCIS doesn’t have a catalogue record for, and to ask for it to be done for you is just great. I love that.
Caroline Roche
Librarian
Eltham College, UK
SCIS is an essential pillar within the school library community. Through the provision of accurate and comprehensive catalogue records, as well as their strong role in advocacy and professional learning, SCIS plays an active and vital role. I recommend their high-quality and timely services to any school library.
Kay Oddone
Teacher Librarian
Queensland, Australia
Library management systems
SCIS works with providers of library management systems to ensure the most efficient delivery of SCIS products and services. Subject to agreement, library system vendors are offered complimentary access to SCIS products for the purposes of development, testing and demonstration.
University and TAFE educators
SCIS supports university and TAFE educators in training and developing future librarians with essential cataloguing skills. Subject to agreement, lecturers of librarianship courses are offered complimentary access to SCIS for their students to use as part of their studies.
Publishers and content providers
SCIS works closely with a number of publishers, distributors and suppliers. By arranging for new, high demand titles to be catalogued in the SCIS database, publishers have an additional avenue for reaching their market and customers have a consistent resource management solution.