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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

ELR interview with Kim Brunoro

By Education Services Australia

Issue 123, Term 4 2022

y Survey provides up-to-date library data that ensures Australian creators and publishers can receive compensation for the free use of their books in school libraries. Why is it important for school library staff to participate in ELR if they’re invited? School library staff are in an important p

Love and Autism

By Kay Kerr

Issue 125, Term 2 2023

to not just neurodiversity, but diversity in general? I’ve actually just started my Master of Children’s Librarianship and I’m the biggest fan of school libraries. I can still vividly picture my primary school library. It was incredible. It had this sunken reading den that the librarians and the

The DANZ Childrens Book Award

By Kate Foster

Issue 126, Term 3 2023

‘ASLA is thrilled to be a supporting partner of the DANZ Awards. We’re particularly excited as this will not only be an award but also a resource for school libraries to choose books with positive representation.’ The judging process aims to highlight books offering the very best and most accurate

SCIS is more

By Anthony Shaw

Issue 131, Term 4, 2024

y 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 provide their thoughts about the value of Ngā Upoko Tukutuku subject headings in catalogue records. In Con

1,000 reasons to support Australian book creators

By Jackie French

Issue 97, Term 2 2016

Publicity Manager | HarperCollins Publishers Australia Email: [email protected] [1] Estimated through an annual, national survey of school libraries. Eligible creators will receive an annual payment if their estimated book count is 50 books or more, and the payment is $100 or more.

SCIS is more

By Ben Chadwick

Issue 97, Term 2 2016

Brisbane and Perth in June. Resource management in schools Our New Zealand workshops gave me the chance to see some of the innovation going on in school libraries. At SCIS, we’ve become really interested in how you manage your school resources, whether they are in the cloud, on the network, in t