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School library spotlight: Academy of Mary Immaculate
By Anne Chowne
Issue 111, Term 4 2019
What is your job title, and what does your role entail? I am a qualified teacher librarian with over 30 years’ experience, employed at a years 7–12 Catholic girls' secondary school in inner-city Melbourne. My role is to implement the library’s strategic plan, update policy and procedures, oversee
Website and app reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 111, Term 4 2019
lating to Terry Denton and Jill Griffiths. SCIS no. 1934964 AR Makr apps.apple.com/au/app/ar-makr/id1434081130 AR Makr is a great place for teachers and students to delve into augmented reality. The app’s toolbox allows students to sketch, scan and snap objects and then change them from a
What is a future ready librarian?
By Mark Ray
Issue 113, Term 2 2020
s began in the Obama White House, the challenges of meeting the needs of future learners is, and always has been, universal. Strategic focus As a teacher librarian for 20 years and then as a district leader overseeing libraries for another seven years, I have always believed in aligning library
Website and app reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 114, Term 3 2020
dentwellbeinghub.edu.au/educators/covid-19 Developed by Education Services Australia this site provides a variety of resources for K–12 students, teachers and parents to support social and emotional wellbeing in learning communities during the COVID-19 outbreak and beyond. SCIS no: 1964946
The future of Australian educational publishing
By Lee Walker
Issue 116, Term 1 2021
ian educators and students have faced extraordinary challenges as schools closed, reopened, and then closed again in response to COVID-19. Overnight, teachers had to radically change how they delivered their teaching, and I have great admiration for the intelligence, creativity and resilience they s
The Ever-Rising Popularity of Graphic Novels
By Michael Jongen, Helen Kain
Issue 125, Term 2 2023
2014 Karen Gray wrote an article for Connections , demonstrating how graphic novels can be successfully used across the curriculum and arguing that teacher librarians need to advocate for their value. She illustrated how visual literacy has become an important part of the English Curriculum and ho
SCIS is more
By Anthony Shaw
Issue 127, Term 4 2023
es aligned to core areas of the Australian Curriculum. School library staff can access these resources and recommend appropriate resources to enhance teacher and student outcomes. Explore Scootle for more fantastic free resources for schools – you’re bound to find quality teaching resources. T
The Great Aussie Book Count 2021-22
By Michelle Harvey
Issue 121, Term 2 2022
LR surveys in previous years. From the feedback received, we learnt that 26% of those running the ELR Survey identified as library officers, 18% as teacher librarians and 16% as library technicians. Others included librarians, school administrative staff, heads of library services and IT staff: so
Increase your digital resources for free with the SCIS Collections
By Renate Beilharz
Issue 129, Term 2 2024
ions magazine includes a regular segment called ‘Websites and app reviews’, in which free educational apps and websites are recommended to schools by teacher librarian Nigel Paull. Each term there is a new list, and current or past lists can be downloaded through our collections page. e-Books Th
Using social media to support school library services
By Helen Stower, Margaret Donaghue
Issue 98, Term 3 2016
ositioned ourselves as learners. We realised we had to participate in social media to understand how it worked, and how it might benefit students and teachers (Valenza 2014). At that time, our vision was to connect our learners with the skills, tools, and information they needed to live and work i
Tinkering, making and building in the school library
By Jackie Child
Issue 102, Term 3 2017
ike the Fuzz Family who land on Smeeborg and need help navigating the technomazes. Coding is being referred to as the 21st-century literacy and, as teacher librarians, literacy is our passion and expertise. At St Aidan’s we have been running a Robotics and Coding Club within our makerspace for the
What’s New
By Dianne Lewis
Issue 8, Term 4 1993
s programmes, to enable students to develop skills necessary to access information in its broadest sense. The first of the four related domains is teachers and teaching , which incorporates the notion of teacher-6 librarian as facilitator of access to information for curriculum purposes by teache
School libraries enhancing student wellbeing
By Jackie Child
Issue 105, Term 2 2018
encouraged. By providing regular library lessons and being open during, before and after school, we give students access to an incredible space where teacher librarians and other school library professionals are at their aid. Teacher librarians and classroom teachers prepare lessons for students in
School library spotlight: Ocean Reef Senior High School
By Sarah Betteridge
Issue 109, Term 2 2019
What is your job title and what does your role entail? I am a qualified teacher librarian, employed as the school librarian at Ocean Reef Senior High School, which is a years 7–12 government co-educational school, with approximately 1,200 students. My role includes supervising the day-to-day ru
Fathers reading week: a case study for the Great School Libraries campaign
By Lucy Chambers, BAHons; DipLib; MSc; MCLIP
Issue 115, Term 4 2020
vents were: Film night. Seventy children attended. Playground display. Around 30 families and many fathers attended. Fathers sharing stories. Teachers were very pleased with attendance at the fathers’ drop-in storytelling, particularly in EY. Fathers with no spoken English shared stories in
Australian Children’s Laureate 2024–25: Sally Rippin
By Interview article by the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 129, Term 2 2024
with things in the world. But he wasn’t able to pass Year 12 because he wasn’t able to write an essay on Shakespeare. In what ways do you believe teachers can be equipped to better support neurodivergent students, particularly when it comes to reading and engaging with stories? A message that
A world of online distraction
By Resource Centre Manager
Issue 91, Term 4 2014
on by discouraging students from using their own memories.' There was also fear when textbooks began to be published in the 1800s. Many believed that teachers would no longer be needed, that the texts would contain all of the information that students needed to learn (Laster, 2013). Finding a Bala
How Monmia Primary School refurbished its library
By Article by the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 136, Term 1, 2026
library” without cringing. It was a 25 year old room that had never really had any care. There was a small cluster of children’s books at one end, teacher resources at the other, and the whole space felt dark, gloomy and uninviting. It was essentially a dumping ground for books rather than a libr
On-Line Services for School Libraries
By Lance Deveson, Beverly Pianta
Issue 2, Term 2 1992
On-line - What is it? An on-line service will allow you, your teachers and students to connect via personal computer and telephone line to the world. For moderate charges you can access newspaper databases and download full-text articles, or access bibliographic databases. What are the hardware
Teaching Australian Cinema with Rabbit-Proof Fence
By Dr Stephen Gaunson
Issue 92, Term 1 2015
The biggest issue with teaching Australian films is the inherent problem that many students (and teachers) approach them as being boring, dull, or bad. Rather than engage with the films, most view the experience as a civic duty that one must simply 'endure'. While there are no excuses for bad Austr