Search results

The Ever-Rising Popularity of Graphic Novels

By Michael Jongen, Helen Kain

Issue 125, Term 2 2023

ive it a more prominent position and display with the library. Such expansions of graphic novel sections are not uncommon. Over the last ten years, school libraries have been focusing much more on their graphic novel collections. They have gained in popularity as schools and libraries have become

SCIS is more

By Caroline Hartley

Issue 119, Term 4 2021

We also welcome Jerrie as our new SCIS Customer Service Team Leader. Jerrie comes to the SCIS team with a wealth of experience working in schools and school libraries, most recently as Library Technician, Language Support and Literacy Intervention Officer and previously as Library Assistant. Jerrie’

AI Leadership Framework: Advancing Australian school library professionals’ AI literacy and leadership competence

Issue 132, Term 1, 2025

AI) in education during the digital era. Advance Knowledge for Executives , 1 (1), 1-9. https://ssrn.com/abstract=4160798 Merga, M. K. (2022). School libraries supporting literacy and wellbeing . Facet Publishing. Oddone, K., Garrison, K., & Gagen-Spriggs, K. (2024). Navigating generative A

Using social media to support school library services

By Helen Stower, Margaret Donaghue

Issue 98, Term 3 2016

. Twitter has also become a great platform to alert teaching staff about news, events, and resources particular to their faculties. Another role of school libraries is to curate information for students. Traditionally, a teacher librarian may have set aside a trolley of books on a research topic o

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

Charting a course for inclusive cataloguing

By Article by the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 134, Term 3, 2025

and striving for an inclusive future is a commitment we make within and beyond Australia’s borders. Our catalogue records are downloaded and used by school libraries around the world, which makes it essential that our actions reflect respect for diverse cultures, viewpoints and histories worldwide.

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