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Internetting Corner
By Nigel Paull
Issue 28, Term 1 1999
A Walk Through Time http://physics.nist.gov/Genlnt/Time/time.html Developed by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology, this website highlights the evolution of time measurement from the first calendars based on the moon and stars, through to mechanical clocks and the latest atomi
Reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 28, Term 1 1999
Title: Understanding Australia: The land and its people Level: Upper primary Publisher: Department of Education Victoria RRP: $85.00 ISBN: 1 87597 205 6 SCIS Order Number: 919614 System requirements: Windows and Macintosh compatible. 486DX/33MHz IBM compatible PC, Windows 3.1 or 95
What's New?
By Nigel Paull
Issue 28, Term 1 1999
Schools Catalogue Information Service Standards for Cataloguing and Data Entry Curriculum Corporation has published a new edition of this book, which is used by the cataloguers in the SCIS Cataloguing agencies around Australia to ensure consistency when adding bibliographic records to the SCIS
Cataloguing News: New, Amended, Replaced Subject Headings 1999
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 28, Term 1 1999
ADULT EDUCATION ** (Addition) See also LIFELONG LEARNING XX LIFELONG LEARNING AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY** (Addition) See also SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE XX SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURE** (Addition) See also SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURE -ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS ** (Addition) See also
SCISWeb is a Winner
By Fay Gardiner
Issue 27, Term 4 1998
In October last year, the word filtered through that our SCIS cataloguing records would be available via the Internet in 1998, with a flat annual fee and unlimited access to download records. Setting up a library in a new school, as I am, on a shoestring budget, as most of us are, every dollar coun
EdNA Adopts SCIS Metadata Standard
By Ellen Paxton
Issue 27, Term 4 1998
EdNA ( Education Network Australia) has announced that by October 1998 it will implement SCIS subject headings as p art of its metadata standards. When Teacher Librarians and students access EdNA they will b e a ble to search and retrieve Internet resources using familiar SCIS subject headings. Thi
Key Issues About Cataloguing and the Use of SCIS
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 27, Term 4 1998
Subject headings SCIS is a national database which reflects the most common terms which will be accessed by most students, with over 150,000 SCIS subject headings with cross references. The majority of headings are proposed by Teacher Librarians in schools who are in touch with the terms appearin
CC News
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 27, Term 4 1998
Subscriptions 1999 In 1999 there will be only two products available for obtaining catalogue records: SCISWeb and SCISCO. As stated in the previous Connections there will be no SCIS Online (Via SCISLINK), Microfiche, Rapid Retrospective, ASCIS Recon or catalogue cards. At this stage it appears
Internetting Corner
By Nigel Paull
Issue 27, Term 4 1998
My Virtual Reference Desk -FastFacts 1998 http://www. ref desk.com/fastfact. html As the title implies this site has hundreds of links to help you answer all those curly questions that crop up which have to be answered immediately. Information is available from almanacs, calendars, dictionaries
Reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 27, Term 4 1998
Title: Boys and Literacy Professional Development Units and Teaching Units Publisher: Curriculum Corporation, Carlton Victoria, 1997 RRP: $59.95 ISBN: 1 86366 419 X or Teaching Units only $39.95 ISBN: 1 86366 4211 Description: Professional Development Units and Teaching Units Re
What's New?
By Nigel Paull
Issue 27, Term 4 1998
SCISCD A recent addition to the NSW Department of Education and Training's Web site, Network for Education, is an interactive resource for Teacher Librarians, which offers information and advice concerning SCISWeb and SCISCO. It offers Teacher Librarians the opportunity to better acquaint themsel
Cataloguing News: New, Amended, Replaced Subject Headings 1998
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 27, Term 4 1998
Animal life cycles See LIFE CYCLES (BIOLOGY) ART, MODERN· 20TH CENTURY** (Addition) See also INSTALLATIONS (ART) BIOLOGY * * (Addition) See also LIFE CYCLES (BIOLOGY) Body art See BODY DECORATION BODY-MARKING ** (Replacement) [Replace heading and references) Body-marking See BODY DECO
Five Into One
By Judi Eggers, Bob Heath
Issue 26, Term 3 1998
In 1996 after an extensive review into education in the Eastern Fleurieu region of South Australia, five separate schools combined into a seven campus single school, the Eastern Fleurieu School. The school is centred on Strathalbyn, a town about seventy kilometres from Adelaide. Strathalbyn has an
CC News
By Graham Williams
Issue 26, Term 3 1998
Handy Hints SCISWeb Q: I currently browse the Internet using the 100 MHz Pentium PC in the library with a 33.6K modem but find it quite slow, sometimes painfully so. I am keen to use SCISWeb but wonder if I should upgrade my PC with more memory, a faster processor, a faster modem, or all or so
CC News Continued
By Graham Williams
Issue 26, Term 3 1998
Automating your Library As we indicated in the last ussue of Connections we will not be providing catalogue cards in 1999. We urge Teacher Librarians to commence the process to automate their library's catalogue. Curriculum Corporation does not recommend any particular system for schools to purch
Internetting Corner
By Nigel Paull
Issue 26, Term 3 1998
Libraries Copyright Committee http://www.nla.gov.au/aclis/copyrighV c_right.html Published by the Australian Council of Libraries & Information Services (ACLIS) this site contains links to papers and information dealing with copyright. Web Review -The scent of Information http://webreview.c
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
Cataloguing News: New, Amended, Replaced Subject Headings 1998
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 26, Term 3 1998
ANIMAL BREEDING**(Replacement) (Replace references) Use for works on breeding animals either for commercial purposes or as a hobby. For works limited to the reproductive systems of animals see ANIMALS REPRODUCTION. See also ANIMALS -REPRODUCTION; LIVESTOCK See also breeding of specific animals,
Servicing at a Distance
By Heather Kelsall
Issue 22, Term 3 1997
At a recent visit to the Charleville School of Distance Education, I spent the day with Margaret Rose, the T /L in charge of the library which services the resource-based needs of some 400+ students from pre-school to year 10. Describing it as 'one huge interruption' and 'erratic' does not make it
News from Curriculum Corporation
By Lance Deveson
Issue 22, Term 3 1997
1998 SCIS Subscriptions This issue of Connections brings you advanced notice of two exciting new SCIS products for 1998: a SCIS downloading CD-ROM that will allow you to download SCIS cataloguing records (ie, you will not need to order them from Curriculum Corporation); and, at last, access to th