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School library spotlight special: Supporting the Cambodian Children’s Fund

By Article by the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 131, Term 4, 2024

t the Cambodian Children's Fund, we knew we wanted to help. We approached SCIS because the seamless integration between SCIS Data and Oliver v5 makes cataloguing easy, ensuring the Cambodian Children’s Fund library can manage its resources efficiently and give students access to the best possible to

SCIS is more

By Anthony Shaw

Issue 131, Term 4, 2024

atalogues. As you know, SCIS has been working to enhance SCIS Data to cultivate respect, through culturally appropriate subject headings, descriptive cataloguing and presentation of data. To continue the important work that our cataloguers do we asked all school libraries in Aotearoa New Zealand to

School library spotlight: Campbelltown Performing Arts High School

By Cathy Costello

Issue 101, Term 2 2017

ook’ promotion, I used SCIS subject headings, reviews and tags. What would you like to see SCIS do more of? I would encourage the continuation of cataloguing credible and reliable websites aligned to Australian Curriculum content. Please keep them coming as we cannot get enough of them. I have a

Working with pupil library assistants in primary schools

By Lucy Chambers

Issue 107, Term 4 2018

fidence to deal with this effectively, knowing where to get adult help if necessary. I run a library skills training session weekly. Topics include cataloguing and classification, and bibliographic data for ordering books. So that they could gain experience ordering, the PLAs completed an order fr

School library spotlight: Ocean Reef Senior High School

By Sarah Betteridge

Issue 109, Term 2 2019

book recommendations, which we will soon share with Saint Wilfred’s via Padlet. What is your favourite thing about SCIS? We use SCIS for all our cataloguing and are very happy with how easy it is to use and the regular system updates. We really appreciate the support that SCIS provides, and the

On-Line Services for School Libraries

By Lance Deveson, Beverly Pianta

Issue 2, Term 2 1992

atabases which I have found useful are: SCIS The SCIS database is one that is familiar to many teacher librarians. As well as being used for cataloguing purposes, on- line searching of the database can also provide an invaluable tool for selection and collection-building. It allows a search

School library spotlight: Yarra Valley Grammar

By Dr Mark Merry, Miriam Meehan

Issue 112, Term 1 2020

SCIS? We love how SCIS saves us time. We can download records for our catalogue in no time flat! It’s so much better than the old days of original cataloguing of everything! SCIS helps us to stay current. This is so important in a world where our users can access information instantaneously and 2

Creating a collection with SCIS

By Claire McLennan

Issue 135, Term 4, 2025

sive database allows teacher librarians to easily find and select materials that meet the specific needs of their school. Additionally, SCIS offers cataloguing and classification services that save library staff time and ensure consistency, making it easier to manage and share resources effectivel