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School library spotlight: One Arm Point Remote Community School
By Mel Rowsell
Issue 115, Term 4 2020
Our rule is to use happy voices in the library and a little noise is OK as long as we’re all enjoying ourselves. What is your favourite thing about SCIS? SCIS does not catalogue the Dreaming in 398 with mythology and folklore – instead SCIS uses the unassigned 298 to class the religion, spiritua
Taking the guesswork out of genre
By Brendan Eichholzer
Issue 91, Term 4 2014
ground, where author arrangement and genre stickers combine to promote exposure to different titles as well as independent access. It is our job at SCIS to ensure we meet the needs of school librarians in creating an easily accessible library catalogue, where every physical item has a distinct and
School library spotlight: The King's School Senior Library
By The King's School Library team
Issue 127, Term 4 2023
em opportunity to pursue their literary interests as a foundation for a lifelong love of reading and knowledge. What is your favourite thing about SCIS? SCIS is used across all three campuses of the King’s School, and we would expect each campus uses it differently, according to need. In the S
Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT): Read all over
By Les Kneebone
Issue 91, Term 4 2014
link between the standards and resource that may support their objectives. ScOT and MARC: Machine-Readable Cataloguing ScOT is no stranger to the SCIS database and has been used within SCIS cataloguing standards for about seven years . However the mechanism for loading, updating and maintaining
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
News from Curriculum Corporation
By Lance Deveson
Issue 17, Term 2 1996
Sending and Receiving Emails via SCISLINK and KEYLINK SCIS Online Subscribers have included with their subscription a complimentary subscription to the KEYLINK electronic mail system of Telstra. When schools are configuring their SCISLINK software, they are asked to key in a MAIL ID i.e. SCIS12
Issue 78 Summary
By Anthea Amos
Issue 78, Term 3 2011
ised subject headings Pam Kadow, Education Services Australia Social media and ICT in schools Abstracts of articles via Curriculum Leadership SCIS is more... Leonie Bourke, Education Services Australia National Digital Learning Resources Network - new presence, new website Rohini Mehta,
Issue 75 Summary
By Editor
Issue 75, Term 4 2010
ine community Kerry Franta, EnhanceTV Scootle: A one-stop shop for digital curriculum resources Michelle Hamill, Education Services Australia SCIS is more... Leonie Bourke, Education Services Australia New digital curriculum resources Rohini Mehta, Education Services Australia New an
Issue 74 Summary
By Editor
Issue 74, Term 3 2010
w (and don't know) about technology Mary Ann Bell, Sam Houston State University Website reviews Nigel Paull, South Grafton Public School, NSW SCIS is more... Leonie Bourke, Education Services Australia New and revised subject headings Pam Kadow, Education Services Australia From litt
Issue 73 Summary
By Editor
Issue 73, Term 2 2010
. Managing your digital footprint Kerrie Smith, Education Services Australia Website reviews Nigel Paull, South Grafton Public School, NSW SCIS is more... A new life for weeded books Rhyllis Bignell, Allenby Gardens Primary School, SA From little things big things grow - Part 1: O
Issue 70 Summary
By Editor
Issue 70, Term 3 2009
a subject specialist library: GTAV Orbis Library Libby Hillman, GTAV Librarian Website reviews Nigel Paull, South Grafton Public School, NSW SCIS is more... New and revised subject headings How school libraries support literacy achievement Ray Doiron, University of Prince Edward Is
Issue 56 Summary
By Editor
Issue 56, Term 1 2006
cation and libraries Thomas K Storey, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Internetting corner Nigel Paull, South Grafton Primary School, NSW SCISWeb handy hints SCIS news New and revised subject headings Real help for designing libraries Linda Langford, The King’s School, NSW
Issue 50 Summary
By Editor
Issue 50, Term 3 2004
l Library, VIC Educational Lending Right 2003–04 School Library Survey Internetting corner Nigel Paull, South Grafton Primary School, NSW SCISWeb handy hints SCIS news New and revised subject headings Museum in a Box® : An Outreach Program of the Australian Museum Glenn Fe
Issue 42 Summary
By Editor
Issue 42, Term 3 2002
in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: Library Automation: Software Functionality Issues Barry Welgus, Northern Micros Pty. Ltd. SCISWeb handy hints The Information Superhighway in the Kimberley Alison Lawrence, Broome Senior High School, and Department of Education, WA
Cataloguing News
By Cherryl Schauder
Issue 32, Term 1 2000
SCIS Subject Headings has a new look! The SCIS cataloguing agencies and the unit at Curriculum Corporation worked around the clock to complete work on SCIS Subject Headings Fourth Edition. This newly revised tool was released in November 1999. Work on a revision such as this is a painstaking ta
What's New?
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 34, Term 3 2000
1. Valuing library collections SCIS sometimes receive requests from Teacher Librarians who are required to place a value on the their collections for insurance purposes. You may wish to read the useful information located at <http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/centoff/cmis/eval/library/avprice/index.htm
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
hey found them.to be informative, reflective, creative, challenging and convincing. Several themes of the Conference were relevant to issues facing SCIS. While some Teacher Librarians may be concerned about their future in the digital age, several sessions stressed the increasing, rather than decr
Architecture of genre
By Les Kneebone
Issue 96, Term 1 2016
usiness and data architecture, you may have the right foundations to specify and invest in new or upgraded applications like software and shelving. SCIS needs to follow this pattern too. SCIS does a lot of work in authorities management so that a common language around fiction genres can be refere
Taking note of nonfiction
By Peter Macinnis
Issue 90, Term 3 2014
ther books I really liked from this year's entries: An Anzac Tale , Ruth Starke and Greg Holfeld, Working Title Press (2013), 978 1 92150 454 9, SCIS no. 1669349. A brilliant graphic novel re-telling the Anzac tales, where the troops are all Australian animals. Every frame has hidden detail in