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From the Ashes

By Nigel Paull, Ann Johnston

Issue 24, Term 1 1998

s established additional clerical staff were hired to cope with processing and the payment of orders. A significant loss for teachers was that of the reading resource boxes, which contained unique teacher developed material. Getting a workable Reference and Teacher Reference section up and running i

Key Issues About Cataloguing and the Use of SCIS

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 27, Term 4 1998

unsuccessful then other searches such as title can be used. It is important for users to be very familiar with the searching techniques by thoroughly reading the manual. We encourage people to contact us if they are experiencing difficulties as our aim is to ensure that all customers receive the max

Selections of an Automated System

By Rosemary Abbott

Issue 7, Term 3 1993

ire library staff is involved and interested, the process runs more smoothly. Those who had taken adequate time to plan found the selection easier. Reading journal articles, conference papers and other literature is seen as a good starting point; it establishes a basis for more practical investiga

Using Bulletin Boards in a Primary School

By Allan Garbutt

Issue 4, Term 4 1992

their experiences at that time. This electronic mail made its way via FidoNet to COMET and was used by students at Yarra Valley. As you can imagine, reading, discussing and answering this E-Mail generated enormous interest. Other casual use is made of COMET by students writing E-Mail to penpals

Setting Up a CD-ROM Service in a School Library

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 1, Term 1 1992

that the newly acquired CD-ROM station will be the first of several which will be eventually networked. I If the printer is to be located in the main reading areas of the library the noise level may be a factor to consider. Quiet printers and/ or acoustic hoods could provide solutions to this proble

Turning the school library into a thriving community hub

By Anne Devenish

Issue 103, Term 4 2017

wcasing the beautiful library environment and its resources, these lively sessions are an excellent way to engage very young children in the world of reading, and to show them that schools are not scary places to visit. The school’s big-book collection is used extensively. Such a collection is often

The library, the child, the book creator: ELR and its role in the story cycle

By Tania McCartney

Issue 107, Term 4 2018

re nuanced and complex.  Now that I’m biggest of all, books are not only the richness, nuance and complexity that comes with the sheer enjoyment of reading — they are my every day and my livelihood. They are who I am. Anyone (and children know this concept well) can enthusiastically throw themse

Cataloguing standards: what you see is what you get

By Natasha Campbell

Issue 111, Term 4 2019

by schools upon receipt. Our focus is on cataloguing new-release, curriculum-related and educational resources, as well as resources for recreational reading and literacy programs suitable for use in school libraries. The number and regularity of supply of new titles varies from publisher to publi

Website and app reviews

By Nigel Paull

Issue 111, Term 4 2019

demy has teamed up with experts at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and created a free, fun app for young primary students. Content features reading, mathematics, language and problem-solving, and it offers a personalised learning experience. SCIS no. 1935049 Libraries Ready To Code

SCIS is more

By Carmen Eastman

Issue 112, Term 1 2020

Welcome to 2020, and Issue 112 of Connections! We are looking forward to another busy year – look out for upcoming  professional learning sessions and webinars . We love talking with the SCIS community! When we are out and about at conferences, or in SCIS workshops, we are often asked about SCIS

Website and app reviews

By Nigel Paull

Issue 114, Term 3 2020

6 A past winner of Apple’s App of the Year, this brain training app has been created to enhance skills in writing, speaking, everyday maths, and reading. Students are provided with a personalised program based on an introductory analysis. The scientific research underpinning the app’s developme

SCIS is more

By Caroline Hartley

Issue 118, TERM 3 2021

School libraries have been evolving over recent decades from traditional knowledge centres that house print collections and archives and where quiet reading, research and individual study are the norm, into modern and interactive learning hubs based on the library learning commons model. School l

ASLA Australian Teacher Librarian Award 2021

By Kerry Pope

Issue 118, TERM 3 2021

and programs that are at the heart of learning and teaching and that adhere to best practice in library standards. She continually shares her love of reading and literature with her students. Anne works hard with staff to analyse data and identify student needs. She works closely with teachers and s

Education in difficult times

By David de Carvalho

Issue 119, Term 4 2021

be more or less difficult depending on the correctness of their answers. This means better assessment and more precise results. By the time you are reading this, ACARA will have published the summary results. The insights provided by the data will be one measure we can look to when considering the

SCIS is more

By Dr Ben Chadwick

Issue 121, Term 2 2022

Some things are fundamental to providing a library service. Of course, you need a decent collection of resources, but you also need to support students to discover it, explore it and use it to meet their interests and research needs. Now, imagine a student came into your library and asked if you

SCIS is more

By Renate Beilharz

Issue 122, Term 3 2022

rs, and a working paper prepared if appropriate. Any other feedback or suggestions on SCIS services and products are also welcome. I hope you enjoy reading all the fascinating articles in this issue of Connections .

A way home: Emily Brewin’s heartfelt dive into youth and resilience

By Emily Brewin

Issue 129, Term 2 2024

being aware of homelessness being an issue. The experience that incited me to write the book was actually when I was at the City Library in Melbourne reading. There’s a community piano on the second floor and there was a woman who pulled a trolley up to the piano; she was quite elderly. She had very

SCIS is More

By Anthony Shaw

Issue 130, Term 3, 2024

reat place to hang out and happen upon books to read. If only, for that young student, there had been a way to discover new books that didn’t involve reading a faded typed card catalogue. Imagine an integrated library management system that could easily ingest high-quality digital catalogue records,

The professional learning hat

By Barbara Braxton

Issue 97, Term 2 2016

pt to those who focus on traditional teacher librarian professional learning, which is centred on nebulous goals such as increasing students’ love of reading, which is difficult to measure; or improving circulation statistics, which reveal nothing beyond the number of times a resource is checked out

Down the library path

By Bernadette Bennett, Kerry Gittens, Lynette Barker

Issue 92, Term 1 2015

be extended in a K-12 setting. We wanted a model that could encompass the new literacies being discussed – digital, visual, multi-modal. We were reading and discussing current research and ideas – Lee Crocket's work on 21st Century Fluencies, the International Society for Technology in Educatio