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Yours Troolie, Kate Temple
By Article by the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 137, Term 2, 2026
ool library setting, Temple observes that there is a range of professionals who are gatekeepers. Parents are the first and most important voices, but teacher librarians often understand the landscape better than most – they know what books are out there, why they’re out there, what’s doing a good jo
Cataloguing News: New, Amended, Replaced Subject Headings 1998
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 24, Term 1 1998
EDUCATION See also DOCUMENTATION; REPORT WRITING x Achievement portfolios; Student portfolios; Work samples XX DOCUMENTATION; STUDENT EVALUATION; TEACHER EVALUATION; REPORT WRITING REPORT WRITING** (Addition) See also PORTFOLIOS IN EDUCATION XX PORTFOLIOS IN EDUCATION SECOND COMING** (Addi
School library spotlight: Yarra Valley Grammar
By Dr Mark Merry, Miriam Meehan
Issue 112, Term 1 2020
ents are studying. We intend to enter into partnerships with universities, research groups, and consultants where they will come in and work with our teachers and students in joint research projects. We opened the building at the beginning of Term 2 this year. Already, we have one project underway
To inspire or to instruct
By Ta'afuli Andrew Fiu
Issue 91, Term 4 2014
During May and June this year, I travelled Australia as part of the Positive Schools Initiative to speak and network with teachers and educators. Doing so provided an insightful introduction to what teachers are thinking and drew thousands to Fremantle, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney. The convent
Website and app reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 100, Term 1 2017
100 and not out The 100th issue of Connections is a milestone for SCIS, its parent company Education Services Australia, and teacher librarians. My involvement with Connections dates back to 1997 when Lance Deveson, the SCIS manager at the time, asked me to be the editor. I had been involved
Librarians in the digital age: experts in e-health
By Susan Marshall
Issue 101, Term 2 2017
with others. This exhilarating, instantaneous, results-driven phenomenon has resulted in both benefits and challenges for the digital novice, be that teacher or student. Of central importance to librarians is teaching the skill of evaluating online websites. In a world of ‘fake news’, misleading in
Internetting Corner
By Nigel Paull
Issue 32, Term 1 2000
s or simply browsing the well organised sub sections. SCIS 990138 BBC Schools Online http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/schools/ Aimed at students, teachers and parents this encompassing UK site includes primary and secondary curriculum material, news and resources. At the time of review, Michael
Cataloguing News
By Cherryl Schauder
Issue 32, Term 1 2000
gnalled for ongoing and further review. Over time the list will benefit enormously from ever-increasing dialogue between the cataloguing agencies and Teacher Librarians. This two-way communication process is steadily being enhanced by information technologies both in schools and in the SCIS agencies
Internetting Corner
By Nigel Paull
Issue 33, Term 2 2000
s/-anne/culture_of _peace. html> The year 2000 has been selected by the United Nations as the International Year for the Culture of Peace. To assist Teacher Librarians locate resources, the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL) has created this website, with links to a variety of
Internetting Corner
By Nigel Paull
Issue 34, Term 3 2000
Australian Science Teachers Association http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/asta/ Published by the Australian Science Teachers Association (ASTA) this website includes links, services, publications, projects and forthcoming activities for science teachers in primary schools, high schools and tertiary ins
Letters to the Editor
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 18, Term 3 1996
de regular orders for machine readable records via RECON. Then, early in 1996, along came this new-fangled system called VOYAGER! I was not a happy teacher /librarian, faced with having to learn to use a new search system, especially on top of all the other changes I was confronted with at the tim
Selections of an Automated System
By Rosemary Abbott
Issue 7, Term 3 1993
to review many manual procedures with a view to replacing them with automated ones. It can no longer be considered appropriate that those trained as teacher-librarians can spend their time on 'housekeeping' functions. Automation of school libraries is now seen as not so much a matter of whether o
International Association for School Libraries Conference Report
By Jenny Ryan
Issue 35, Term 4 2000
n when listening to the lack of support offered to those in other countries. At least we have electricity and toilets in most of our schools! We have Teacher Librarian education programs of the highest standard, school libraries in almost all of our schools, and a commitment by most education system
lnternetting Corner
By Nigel Paull
Issue 35, Term 4 2000
r biomes will find extensive links to information regarding the tundra, taiga, deciduous and broad leaf forests, tropical savannas and desert scrubs. Teachers could incorporate material from the modules into their own teaching units. SCIS 1018159 Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex htlp:
Authority File Maintenance - An Ongoing Task
By Carolyn Brown and Jane Withers
Issue 36, Term 1 2001
ve to a new library system we decided that our data should be as 'clean' as possible for the data conversion process. But we realised that, like most Teacher Librarians, we had been so busy adding data we had not taken the time to check it thoroughly. Before we began this process we met as a team
Outsourcing: time for a new look?
By Sarah Menzies
Issue 111, Term 4 2019
rays a crisis, with many libraries starved of funding. An Australian Council for Educational Research report shows the large decline in the number of teacher librarians in primary schools. SLANZA’s 2018 survey of New Zealand school libraries revealed that one-third had budgets cut in the previous
Language, literature and literacy during COVID-19 and beyond
By Annette Wagner
Issue 114, Term 3 2020
s moved to the digital space, changing the perception of online learning tools. Annette Wagner, Creative Director of Story Box Library, discusses how teachers have embraced digital learning practices and online tools, including storytelling tools. During isolation, educators have used digital too
Supporting Australian book creators
By Sally Rippin
Issue 115, Term 4 2020
e, ready to start Year 8, I had already been to seven different schools and lived in as many cities. No matter where we were living, our mother – a teacher – always ensured we had a constant supply of reading material. Some of these books we would lug about with us from place to place, but books a
Six ways to focus on wellbeing in your school
By Nicole Richardson
Issue 118, TERM 3 2021
hard-hit areas like Victoria that have faced lengthy lockdowns and fluctuating restrictions, have taken a strain on the mental health of students and teachers alike. Wellbeing takes many shapes and forms, but the pandemic has drawn our attention to building resilience in the face of adversity. Lyn
SCIS is more
By Anthony Shaw
Issue 133, Term 2, 2025
king forward to seeing how the different focus she brings positively impacts our customers and how we support them. Emma is a former primary school teacher from Sheffield in the north of England who, for the past six years, has been working in teacher support at Twinkl Education. She brings a weal