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Trigger happy or trigger unhappy? Trigger warnings, content notes and your library catalogue records

By Ceinwen Jones

Issue 131, Term 4, 2024

, censoring, advising and warning about resources is most definitely in our field of interest! And we have registered an enduring popular desire from school libraries that we add metadata about content to records for the resources we catalogue. Currently, when we catalogue resources, we add SCIS a

Architecture of genre

By Les Kneebone

Issue 96, Term 1 2016

ional learning event in the last couple of years, there is a good chance you would have encountered the ‘genre’ presentation. Genre is a hot topic in school libraries, and who doesn’t like to hear the good news stories we often hear in these presentations? Children are reading because they want to,

Promoting literature to students

By Bob Docherty

Issue 94, Term 3 2015

ction', built my knowledge of literature, and I grew to realise that children and young adults needed to be told about all those wonderful stories. School libraries do a brilliant job but they are under increasing pressure to reduce staff and costs as electronic sources take precedence. Librarians

The fourth age of libraries

By Sean McMullen

Issue 92, Term 1 2015

eenth Century saw the next stage of the modern library commence. Education for the masses led to public libraries, mechanics institute libraries, and school libraries. Far more people could now read, and they all wanted books. Books began to be produced cheaply, on an industrial scale, and librarian

Leadership is not optional – it's a job requirement

By Hilda Weisburg

Issue 101, Term 2 2017

ferences and programs. There I learned the ‘language’ of our profession, meaning I could speak with authority and conviction about topics relating to school libraries and education. I moved out of my comfort zone. I started saying ‘yes’ when my brain was screaming ‘Are you crazy? You can’t do that

CC News

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 34, Term 3 2000

bsites for library staff. Contributions are encouraged as we would like to provide comprehensive information on our website that is beneficial to all school libraries. 5. Subscriptions 2001 Due to requests from library staff we are making arrangements for SCIS subscriptions for the year 2001 to

Venturing Out on the NSW Board of Studies Website

By Louise Bidenko

Issue 30, Term 3 1999

and reviews of their latest and most pertinent material. Another source, which seemed important to include, was the existing resources available in school libraries and storerooms around the state. With the absence of a syllabus for many years decisions concerned with resourcing HSIE K-6 have been

Reviews

By Nigel Paull

Issue 27, Term 4 1998

have the opportunity to hear Jamie McKenzie during his recent visit to Australia should seek out this thought provoking article. It discusses the way school libraries may develop over the next decade and the accompanying role of Teacher Librarians. McKenzie states that the best case scenario would s

Facing the 21st Century: The First International Conference of Jewish Pedagogic Centers

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 9, Term 2 1994

rary was obviously a popular place for students throughout the school day. Despite its limited resources, this library was philosophically similar to school libraries in Australia, UK and North America. The Pelech school, regarded as having an innovative religious curriculum for girls, was housed

Content is King, but Content Management Rules

By Colin Bell

Issue 35, Term 4 2000

on Services, Margaret Paten said the system allows for the management of a 'hybrid library' (see 'The Great Divide? Physical and Digital Resources in School Libraries', Connections Issue 34, p 1 ), in which resources are varied and increasingly online. She said it operates on several different level

Book launches: connecting schools, students and local authors

By Jenna Hildebrand

Issue 109, Term 2 2019

Reading culture As school library staff, we strive every day to establish libraries and resource centres as places that support our students’ reading and information literacy. In our relentless quest to promote reading for pleasure, one major challenge is the structured class context.  We need

Two sides of children’s literature: gatekeeper and creator

By Karys McEwen

Issue 121, Term 2 2022

y sparked the idea for All the little tricky things, and that my book will be ‘just right’ for at least some of the kids who discover it in their own school libraries, or have it handed to them by their passionate, intuitive school librarians.

School library spotlight: Newtown public school

By Lucy White

Issue 121, Term 2 2022

uable and saves a huge amount of time. What would you like to see SCIS do more of?  I would love to see more School Library Spotlights on primary school libraries.

ELR Interview with Alice Pung

By Article by Education Services Australia

Issue 124, Term 1 2023

part of a process that determines how much compensation authors and publishers receive for revenue lost because their books are available for free in school libraries. How important are ELR payments to Australian authors? I’m so glad you asked that question because a number of years ago I was actua

Reading Australia

By Josephine Johnston

Issue 128, Term 1 2024

read more Australian books. This is where Reading Australia ( readingaustralia.com.au ) can help. We’re an online portal that provides teachers and school libraries with freely available resources for Australian books. We’re delighted to partner with Education Services Australia, the not-for-profi

Addressing reconciliation in a school setting

By Jan Poona

Issue 94, Term 3 2015

299.9215. And that's a win for reconciliation! Teacher librarians, SCIS, and reconciliation Dreaming stories are purchased in their thousands by school libraries and used with school children as part of the curriculum. However, few teacher librarians would do their own cataloguing. Instead, the

Library catalogues and the World Wide Web: it takes two to tango

By Nicole Richardson

Issue 101, Term 2 2017

s, it’s also an ideal selection aid that can eliminate another step in your selection process, and point you in the direction of resources that other school libraries are using. While these services can be supplied by external platforms, library management systems (LMSs) can include features such a

Emily Rodda on treasured stories

By Nicole Richardson

Issue 108, Term 1 2019

his”. It’s all about putting the right book into the hands of the person who is going to love it — and having the knowledge to be able to do that.’ School libraries as saviours ‘Stories should be at the absolute centre of any education,’ Emily says. It is for this reason that she has been dishea

SCIS interviews Teacher Librarian Award winner Megan Daley

By Megan Daley

Issue 126, Term 3 2023

of my teenage years watching her do her teacher librarian degree, and then doing kind of unofficial work experience or volunteering as a child in her school libraries. When I was at uni, I would do her Book Week displays with her and I would download SCIS records for her – SCIS has actually always b

Australian Children’s Laureate 2024–25: Sally Rippin

By Interview article by the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 129, Term 2 2024

xciting that this might prompt an overhaul in our education system and hopefully mean that all children will get the teaching they need. With some school libraries experiencing budget and staffing reductions in 2024, as well as some being dissolved into classroom libraries, do you believe librari