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CC News
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 24, Term 1 1998
d Collingwood jumper, a beanie and a pair of appalling football shorts, it is hard to remember that he is a significant national figure in the school libraries network. But he is. He is the only one of us who is genuinely regarded as a guru by his peers. I sometimes, in moments of weakness, agree to
What's New?
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 31, Term 4 1999
arians may be interested in the products this business provides. This service offers signs, instructional posters and bibliographic guides for school libraries. The signs are designed and produced by Phyl Williamson, an experienced Teacher Librarian, who understands the need for positive and meaning
SCISWeb Handy Hints
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 34, Term 3 2000
Teacher Librarians. We are always keen to receive notification about relevant information that can be included for the benefit of all staff in school libraries. 4. Quick link When 'surfing' the SCIS site, remember to use the SCIS or 'i' logos found at the top of most pages. These are links back
Introducing Cheryl
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
ools and yet which draws on international best practice and standards. Cherryl has worked as a cataloguer in school, public, university and special libraries. She has had extensive experience in cataloguing education and consulting, having been a lecturer and senior lecturer at the Royal Melbourne
Let SCIS Save you Time and Money
By Schools Catalogue Information Servive (SCIS)
Issue 22, Term 3 1997
s and computer programs. From this database, Curriculum Corporation produces a wide range of information services and products for schools and school libraries throughout Australia and overseas. SCIS reduces the cost and duplication of effort required by T /Ls in cataloguing resources in schools.
Internetting Corner
By Heather Kelsall
Issue 17, Term 2 1996
index.html Australian Library Week 1996 home pages http://ausarts.anu.edu.au/ITA/AusArts ANU Institute of the Arts connecting to art exhibitions, libraries etc http://www.alquds.org Arabic culture and the Palestinian situation http://shuttle.nasa.gov Space shuttle Endeavour information h
New Zealand News
By Judith Schroder
Issue 15, Term 4 1995
ke what you saw you can change it . Everyone agreed that this session was great value! The CHYPS afternoon covered co-operative initiatives between libraries in Wanganui where schools and the public library are linked electronically and share resources. At Upper Hutt the link extends from schools
New Zealand News
By Merilyn Small
Issue 14, Term 3 1995
Two Current Information Networks (CINs) are presently operating through secondary school libraries in Christchurch. In the last Connections issue Rosa-Jane wrote of N .Z. students increasing demand for journal articles through access to Index New Zealand CD ROM (INNZ) . The CINs have been set up
News from the Information Program
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 9, Term 2 1994
Computer Corporation and MARCorp has finalised the conversion of the SCIS data from AUSMARC to USMARC. This is the standard that is being adopted by libraries world wide in 1996 and Curriculum Corporation will adopt this standard once Voyager is implemented . ln 1995 Curriculum Corporation will be
Have You Read This?
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 9, Term 2 1994
insight into this national and international electronic mail and database access network. Barbara Poston-Anderson describes the possible future of libraries in Virtual reality: a learning medium of the future , Scan vol 12, no 4, October 1993, p12-13 . Learning with technology , Scan vol 12
SCIS is more
By Caroline Ramsden
Issue 104, Term 1 2018
selection SCIS Data can be a useful tool for the selection of material. With the inclusion of enriched content from Syndetics and LibraryThing for Libraries in the catalogue, you can easily view additional information including plot summaries, author notes, awards and reviews. Where to find hel
SCIS is more
By Caroline Ramsden
Issue 106, Term 3 2018
As part of a SCIS subscription, libraries can request cataloguing for materials that they have not been able to locate a record for in SCIS Data. For our cataloguers to create the best quality record for you, we recommend that you send the items that you want catalogued to your closest SCIS depot.
SCIS is more
By Caroline Ramsden
Issue 109, Term 2 2019
y new records that you download, which are part of a series, will then be linked with these authority files. Searching SCIS Subject Headings Some libraries catalogue local material using SCIS Subject Headings. In 2018, the SCIS Subject Heading List was added to the SCIS Data website where it c
Supporting Australian book creators
By Ruilin Shi
Issue 109, Term 2 2019
ian Government has run the Educational Lending Right (ELR) scheme, to compensate Australian book creators for having their titles held in educational libraries. Each year, a sample of schools is invited to participate in a survey where a count is taken of the copies of titles held in their library.
Improving reading outcomes for students with dyslexia
By Anna Boyle
Issue 112, Term 1 2020
s to be made available in the dyslexic format, usually within a month of publication. Dyslexic Books works with librarians (in both school and public libraries) to encourage a greater selection of writing to be made available in accessible formats in their library collections. As such, discounts are
Architecture of genre
By Les Kneebone
Issue 96, Term 1 2016
earning 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, and it
The DANZ Childrens Book Award
By Kate Foster
Issue 126, Term 3 2023
s thrilled to be a supporting partner of the DANZ Awards. We’re particularly excited as this will not only be an award but also a resource for school libraries to choose books with positive representation.’ The judging process aims to highlight books offering the very best and most accurate repres
SCIS interviews Teacher Librarian Award winner Megan Daley
By Megan Daley
Issue 126, Term 3 2023
eenage 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 been a p
Trigger happy or trigger unhappy? Trigger warnings, content notes and your library catalogue records
By Ceinwen Jones
Issue 131, Term 4, 2024
ring, 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 and ScOT
SCIS is more
By Dr Ben Chadwick
Issue 94, Term 3 2015
our IT infrastructure does not interfere with your enjoyment. Especially for you SCIS's Special Orders page was created to support 21st century libraries by providing a single location to find collections of digital subscription products and freely available online resources. Why don't you dro