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Reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 30, Term 3 1999
Australian Training Reform -Revised Edition: Implications for Schools Publisher: Curriculum Corporation, Jack Keating 1998 ISBN: 1 86366 428 9 RRP: $24.95 SCIS order number: 944782 Designed to provide a broad description of the changes affecting vocational education and training particularly
Books Aren't Dead!
By Staff Methodist Ladies College
Issue 30, Term 3 1999
Is technology in schools just a bandwagon? Does it actually improve student performance? Great teaching and encouraging critical thought are needed. These are themes proposed by Jamie McKenzie at the conference 'Leading the Way -Forming an Information Literate School Community' hosted at Methodis
What's New?
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 30, Term 3 1999
SCIS Subject Headings Book 4th edition SCIS Subject Headings List is the updated edition of the print publication that includes new subject headings and amendments to existing headings. It is available only from Curriculum Corporation and is in paperback format. This is an essential tool for a
The Listserv for Australian Teacher Librarians
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 30, Term 3 1999
OZTL_NET stands for OZ(Aus)tralian Teacher Librarians' NET-work. This electronic forum is designed to meet the professional information needs of Australian TLs. The conversation on OZTL_NET deals with topics of interest to the Australian TL community, including the latest issues and developments th
Online Encyclopaedias
By Nigel Paull
Issue 30, Term 3 1999
With the advent of the CD-ROM encyclopaedia, users were awed by the graphics, fast searching capabilities, hypertext links to related articles and ease of operation. As prices tumbled CD-ROM encyclopaedias became commonplace in stand-alone computers or school networks and users could afford to upda
Venturing Out on the NSW Board of Studies Website
By Louise Bidenko
Issue 30, Term 3 1999
The Board of Studies The Board of Studies is responsible for curriculum development in NSW. Like many organisations, it uses the Internet to meet its own and its clients' needs. Much that has been placed on the Internet to date are documents which also exist in printed form. The Internet provides
Cataloguing News
By Anne Dowling
Issue 30, Term 3 1999
1. Subiect Headings Book There is no list of amendments, additions and deletions to the SCIS Subject Headings List as over the past few months the cataloguing team under the direction of Cherryl Schauder, the SCIS National Cataloguing Manager, have been busily working on the 4th Edition. We are p
Metadata and Marc
By Keith Gove
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
Metadata is data about data. The term has been used recently to refer to data describing Internet sites. The idea of metadata was not created just for the Internet -it has existed for centuries. The familiar library catalogue is metadata, that is, data about data: data about the books and other res
1999 SCIS Conference Report: Planning for 1999-2000
By Kevin Grove
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
On 29-30 March the State SCIS agencies and Curriculum Corporation met in Sydney for a strategic review of the Schools Catalogue Information Service. The Conference deliberations included input from teacher librarians and other educationalists. The Conference felt that issues about the technology
Handy Hints for SCISWeb
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
Identifying the Problem Before calling SCIS Customer Service with a query, try identifying issues which may be relevant to your problem. This will help you to understand whether the problem you are experiencing is a SCIS problem. Develop a checklist of questions as part of your library proced
Videorecordings and SCIS
By Anne Dowling
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
SCIS records for videorecordings follow the rules for cataloguing set out in the Anglo-American cataloguing rules (1988 revision) (AACR). The AACR lists the different locations from which the title of a videorecording can be taken and ranks the locations in order of preference. The order is: th
Introducing Cheryl
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
Cherryl Schauder has recently joined the SCIS team as National Cataloguing and Metadata Coordinator. Her main role involves the application and development of standards for enhancing the quality of the SCIS database. One of Cherryl's first tasks is to coordinate the revision work for the fourth edi
CC News
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
SCIS and Security Schools are reminded that it is their responsibility to ensure that when they download catalogue records from SCIS, the records are used only in their school. Curriculum Corporation recently initiated audit processes which provided us with information about SCIS users and usage
Internetting Corner
By Nigel Paull
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
Aboriginal Education Directorate - Education Department of Western Australia http://www.wn.com.au/abled/ Looking for ideas for implementing National Aboriginal and Torres Strait I slanders· (NATS I) Week in your school this year? I
Reviews
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
Different Dreams Years 7 and 8 (Integrated Units Collection) Level: Upper primary -lower secondary Publisher: Curriculum Corporation ISBN: 1 86366 426 2 RRP: $34.95 SCIS order no: 925727 Intended for the middle school as an extension of the Integrated Units Collection, Different Dreams pr
What's New?
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
ALIA Merit Award Congratulations to Michelle Ellis, Senior Curriculum Advisor. Library and I nformation Literacy, with the NSW Department of Educat i on and Training (Michelle is also the Manager of the New South Wales SC IS
Bollards to you too: ASLA XVI Conference Report
By Nigel Paull, Wendy Smith, Kevin Gove
Issue 28, Term 1 1999
To say that Geelong is a long way from Tamworth is, of course, stating the obvious. It takes a rather large incentive to get me to travel such a distance, particularly in the school holidays.' So said Wendy Smith. Many other participants who made the pilgrimage to the 16th Australian School Library
Welcome to 1999
By Kevin Gove
Issue 28, Term 1 1999
Welcome to the first edition of Connections for this last year of the millennium. What will the next one bring? I am not silly enough to try to predict. But I find an interesting litmus test for social and political issues is to ask: What will people in 2099 think of our era? By what good deeds wou
ASLA XVI Conference
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 28, Term 1 1999
All SCIS staff attended ASLA's 'Bytes, Books and Bollards by the Bay: Information Management for the third millennium' Conference, held in Geelong in January 1999. It was an excellent opportunity for us to represent Curriculum Corporation and also be involved in the various sessions as part of our
CC News
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 28, Term 1 1999
SCIS products available Curriculum Corporation has the following products available for use in libraries. To order please send a cheque with an official school purchase order form. Banksia Wave Modem Curriculum Corporation, in cooperation with All Barcodes Australia, is able to offer custom