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What's New

By Heather Kelsall

Issue 16, Term 1 1996

The Internet: Communicating with people around the world This video explains in simple terms what the Internet is and how it operates, and provides a clear introduction to this important information source for both teachers and students. It illustrates how three Australian schools are 6 using the

News from the Information Program

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 16, Term 1 1996

AGRICULTURE** (Replacement) [Replace See also AQUICULTURE] See also AQUACULTURE ANIMAL LOCOMOTION** (Replacement and addition) [Delete See also HUMAN MECHANICS] x Human locomotion Animal mechanics See BIOMECHANICS Aquaculture** (Replacement) [Replace heading and reference] AQUACULTURE

Have You Read This?

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 16, Term 1 1996

Best PC Buys T/Ls are often reliant on the computer dealer to provide us with the right hardware to meet our needs. The March edition of Australian PC User   has published a list of the best PC buys with specifications, prices and a useful comparison chart titled 'PCs for all the family' vol

Internetting Corner

By Heather Kelsall

Issue 16, Term 1 1996

  The Anglican Church Grammar School, Brisbane, have instigated a WWW Mentor Group to encourage other staff members to utilise this information source. Their role is to investigate WWW sites and share them with their faculty specific to particular work units, and to assist the faculty head in de

Letters to the Editor

By Heather Kelsall

Issue 16, Term 1 1996

A quick question regarding student Internet access policies. I would rather, as a Librarian/Information Manager, provide some policy direction before one of the other school departments. Dies anybody have a definite policy on Internet activity in place that you're willing to share? Dr Arthur Wize

ASLA XIV... From the Delegates Perspective

By Pru Mitchell

Issue 15, Term 4 1995

Freemantle provided a delightful setting with fantastic restaurants, coffee shops and historical venues. Each day's Keynote Address was held in the recently decorated Town Hall and the following workshops/papers at either the Esplanade Hotel or St. Patrick's Primary School. Dr. Carmen Lawrence (M

What's New

By Schools Cataloguing Information Services (SCIS)

Issue 15, Term 4 1995

Issues in the news Issues was originally produced for VCE students who are required to follow a social issue in the press over a period of time. Published by The Age it contains over 1500 news and feature stories from 1995, divided into 60 topics or issues. It becomes a national educational too

Supporting Legal Study requests with ease

By Jan Barnett

Issue 15, Term 4 1995

Affording major law references and having access to legal cases is not always an easy task for school libraries. Use can sometimes be made of libraries at private law firms in the extended school community however, whilst this form of inter-library loan or inter-library photocopy is effective it is

Have You Read This

By Heather Kelsall

Issue 15, Term 4 1995

Not only do T /Ls have successful conferences in Perth and Masterton: the Library Technicians conference in Darwin Techs at the top is still getting rave reviews! Kaye Bartlett, Convenor provides the formal report and Katherine Raper gives the delegates' perspective in Incite. Vol.16. Issue 9

Internetting Corner

By Heather Kelsall

Issue 15, Term 4 1995

http://www.amrta.org/-amrta Natural medicine, complementary health care and alternative therapies. http://www.ualberta.ca/dept/slis/ cais/ Collection of Papers from the proceedings of the annual conference of the Canadian Association for Wormation Science. http://www.aa.gov.au Australi

New Zealand News

By Judith Schroder

Issue 15, Term 4 1995

This was my first NZLIA Conference and 350 librarians en masse! The plenary sessions all had excellent speakers and started with Moana Jackson talking about Intellectual Property Rights and the difference between written and spoken word. Charles Landry provided the catch phrase for the Confer

News from the Information Program - New, amended, replaced subject headings 1995

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 15, Term 4 1995

Biomechanics ** (Replacement) (Replace Biomechanics See Human Engineering) BIO MECHANICS Scope note and reference structure to be decided. CD ROM ** (Replacement) [Replace x Compact disc (Read-only memory); Discs XX COMPACT DISCS; COMPUTER STORAGE DEVICES] See CD-ROM CD-ROM x Compact disc

Letters to the Editor

By Heather Kelsall

Issue 15, Term 4 1995

Dear Heather I've been wanting to ask you a follow up question to your editorial regarding 'educating your staff'. I would be extremely interested in knowing the type of results you had with the laptop... and teachers using it overnight for Internet experience. We at Sacred Heart Primary School

Brisbane Cath. Ed. Skills teachers with ‘C.L.I.C.ed’

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 14, Term 3 1995

Since the beginning of 1994 Brisbane Catholic Education have conducted Computer Key Teacher training courses to enable the presentation of a Computer Literacy Inservice Course to school personnel. On present numbers, by the end of 1995 this course will have trained more than 200 Key Teachers from 1

CLIC-ED on at OLR

By Chris Skrzeczunski

Issue 14, Term 3 1995

As part of the CUC Key Teacher team from Our Lady of the Rosary Primary School (OLR), Kenmore I was involved in the CUC Course in Term 1 of 1994. Following our inaugural CUC-ing, we CUC-ed a staff of 30 over 1994 and an additional 10 in 1995 as new staff members arrived. This indeed demonstrates

Have You Read This?

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 14, Term 3 1995

The I RATV Seminar Series No.46 looks at three aspects of Internet use under the title Using Internet in schools: perspectives, possibilities and issues . Lindy Nevile reflects on learning issues with the Internet in Internet and the World Wide Web: learning in a new environment (p:3) while

What's New?

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 14, Term 3 1995

Computers and Schools This recently released book looks at the educational impact that a set of 25 mobile computers has when introduced into ten very different schools in Victoria. Dr. Lawrie Shears, former Director-General of Education in Victoria, directed the project which initiated from his o

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

Letters to the Editor

By Heather Kelsall

Issue 14, Term 3 1995

I am responding to your request in Connections for what is happening with the Internet in schools. Kilvington is a girls' school from pre-prep to year 12. I am the teacher-librarian in the secondary school library, and the Internet is networked in this library. Schoolsnet is our service provide

News from Curriculum Corporation

By Lance Deveson

Issue 14, Term 3 1995

New Phone and Fax Numbers A final reminder that Telstra has changed the telephone numbers for Curriculum Corporation. The old number will operate until October 30 1995. The new numbers to contact Curriculum Corporation are as follows: PHONE: 03 96390699 FAX: 03 96391616 HELPLINE: 1800