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Tales of friendship: Jack's Best Day Ever

By Gabrielle Bassett

Issue 126, Term 3 2023

oo noisy). That way readers can just enjoy it as a fun story, or they can choose to ask why Jack is doing certain things.  What role do you think school libraries play in making school a safer place for neurodiverse children? School libraries are the heart of any school. They provide a safe,

Finding the right genrefication balance in your library

By Jessica Finden

Issue 130, Term 3, 2024

Genrefication in school libraries improves access to collections. In this article, Jessica Finden explores its pros and cons, sharing Carmel College’s approach to organising their resources. One of the core roles of a school library and the teacher librarian (TL) is to establish and provide easy ac

CC News

By Schools Catalogue Information Service

Issue 24, Term 1 1998

-sleeved Collingwood jumper, a beanie and a pair of appalling football shorts, it is hard to remember that he is a significant national figure in the school libraries network. But he is. He is the only one of us who is genuinely regarded as a guru by his peers. I sometimes, in moments of weakness, a

Celebrating the school library officer

By Madeleine Galbraith

Issue 103, Term 4 2017

(Hobbs 2016). In fact, the cheer came from Western Australia’s school library officers. These inspiring people can tell amazing stories of running school libraries through their dedication, enthusiasm, resourcefulness, and connectedness. Love of their libraries and students is evident in everythi

School library spotlight: Christian College Geelong

By Article by the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 133, Term 2, 2025

learning that happens across every subject at every year level. What are some of the best lessons that you’ve learned across your career working in school libraries? Oh, gee. I come from a time before we had computers, so I’ve learned you have to be patient when technology doesn’t work the way i

Supporting Australian book creators

By Nicole Richardson, James Moloney

Issue 98, Term 3 2016

s there for us, which is why we are so grateful to the library staff who take the time to facilitate the survey. What we want most is to be read, and school libraries mean that more children and teenagers have access to our books than ever before. The down side is that one copy in a library, which

Supporting Australian book creators

By Nicole Richardson, Simmone Howell

Issue 96, Term 1 2016

ice (SCIS), on behalf of the department, asks 600 schools across the country each year to retrieve a book count of particular titles that are held in school libraries. A minimum of 300 schools are needed to participate in the survey. The data collected is then used to generate payment for eligible b

SCISWeb is a Winner

By Fay Gardiner

Issue 27, Term 4 1998

with machines (dating back only to the beginning of 1997) which came without appropriate drives, and companies which are divorced from any concept of school libraries as desperately busy places maintained by people who work in a constantly time-voracious state. The revelation that I could use our Ma

News from Curriculum Corporation

By Lance Deveson

Issue 22, Term 3 1997

wser which will allow you to download SCIS cataloguing records online. We believe that these two products provide the highest level of service that school libraries could want, and will be the basis for SCIS into the next millennium. As part of a strategic review process that we have undertaken

The Information superhighway – implications for education

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 11, Term 4 1994

Bruce spoke about the use of new technologies in schools and in particular the possibilities of the Internet for schools. He also commented that many school libraries that he had visited were at the vanguard of these exciting new developments. There were numerous sessions devoted to accessing the

Have You Read This?

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 11, Term 4 1994

The international network by Laurel A Clyde and Margaret Butterworth. It contains interesting information concerning internet gophers suitable for school libraries and some school internet statistics, p 208-210. Reviews of CD-ROM encyclopedias in Information at your fingertips by John Hilvert

News from the Information Program - SCIS On-Line in 1995

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 11, Term 4 1994

ools. Connections subscribers will have noticed that in the last edition, Maria Keys enclosed a one-page survey of telecommunication equipment in school libraries. The response was overwhelming ( over 500 replies) and this has again reinforced the thinking of the Information Program that schools

SCIS is more

By Ben Chadwick

Issue 103, Term 4 2017

exciting times, indeed. Over the past three years SCIS has changed from being the service that provides MARC records to Australian and New Zealand school libraries to being an international provider of gold-standard bibliographic data for the K–12 education sector. Importantly, SCIS is not a face

SCIS as a resource selection aid

By Nicole Richardson

Issue 104, Term 1 2018

d approximately 4,500 catalogue records to the database each month. The resources come from a range of sources, including publishers, booksellers and school libraries. We are always on the lookout for publishers with whom to partner. We even find inspiration for the SCIS catalogue on social media. H

Cover images and SCIS

By Renate Beilharz

Issue 109, Term 2 2019

Cover images have now become a part of most public interfaces to library catalogues, and school libraries use them to promote resources and reading. ESA has been offering cover images to schools as part of their subscription since 2008. This article explains how school library staff can use these w

SCIS is more

By Caroline Hartley

Issue 114, Term 3 2020

e-learning, publishing and educational services across K–12 and higher education. I’m thrilled to join Education Services Australia and work with our school libraries. The Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS) wishes to acknowledge the Kulin Nation, Traditional Custodians of the land on whi

Reviews

By Nigel Paull

Issue 26, Term 3 1998

Collection Management Issues Providing more with less: collection management for Australian school libraries is the aptly named title of a recently published book, edited by Ken Dillon and James Henri of Charles Sturt University. This comprehensive work tackles the problem school libraries ar

LIFT: From little things ...

By Madeleine Galbraith and the LIFT team

Issue 108, Term 1 2019

ns for the excellence awards came in from all over the state. LIFT is just one example of the many groups getting creative in their efforts to help school libraries survive and thrive. It is more than a network, it is a community. To date, we have organised 24 workshops in three years, and plan ma

School library spotlight: Mercy College, Coburg

By Anne Girolami

Issue 118, TERM 3 2021

ing students and staff use the library and seeking their feedback on how to improve the services or programs, as well as keeping abreast of trends in school libraries, is important to enable the Library Team to deliver effectively. Are there any current issues or challenges facing your library? Ho

The future is bright

By Authored by Future You and SCIS

Issue 121, Term 2 2022

STEM skills like never before. How can schools foster a greater understanding of the possibilities of working in STEM for girls, and what role can school libraries play in that education? As part of a two-part special on primary schools and STEM, Connections spoke with astrophysicist and author P