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Issue 37 Summary
By Editor
Issue 37, Term 2 2001
Please note this issue of Connections is only available in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: Building a knowledge-sharing culture Dr Ross Todd, University of Technology, NSW SCISWeb handy hints CC news Subject and name headings, reference structure and the SCIS author
Welcome to your newsletter ...
By David Francis
Issue 1, Term 1 1992
Welcome to Connect. The information technologies field is bristling with a changing array of hardware and software given the multiplicity of products available, it is important to get succinct, accurate and applicable information to our users. We believe that users of established and newly develope
In This Issue
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 1, Term 1 1992
In this first edition of Connect, we address issues relating to the implementation of CD-ROM technology in school libraries, based on the practical experience of a teacher-librarian. In future issues other technologies, such as on-line searching and bulletin boards, will be discussed in terms of
Get to Know Your Editor
By Dianne Lewis
Issue 1, Term 1 1992
DIANNE LEWIS is the teacher-librarian in charge of the secondary school library of Mount Scopus College in Burwood, Victoria. She is an avid reader and promoter of adolescent fiction and has developed a whole school approach to teaching information skills. She has been interested in the applicati
Dial Up
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 1, Term 1 1992
When using any Dial-Up service the user should do their thinking before going on-line. In relation to the SCIS database, if you are going to do some SEARCHING of resources to locate the SCIS Order Number, using the ISBN's as the search term (a quick way), sort the books with the ISBN's showing an
Setting Up a CD-ROM Service in a School Library
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 1, Term 1 1992
Why Set It Up? Curriculum changes over the past few years have resulted in a greater emphasis on resource-based independent learning, particularly on the use of periodicals as sources of current information. CD-ROM enables students and teachers to more easily and effectively search for informatio
Search
By Dianne Lewis
Issue 1, Term 1 1992
CURRICULUM CORPORATION is well aware of the demands placed on libraries, school libraries and libraries in tertiary institutions to access current curriculum information at the lowest possible cost and often without access to on-line databases or microfiche. Educators need current information and
Abbreviated Cataloguing Microfiche
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 1, Term 1 1992
Features Index by title (The first title in each frame is indexed). Each record contains: author, title, publication details, DDC 20 and ADDC 12 Call Numbers, ISBN and SCIS Order Number. January Cumulation only 70 sheets versus almost 200 in the Full Cataloguing Microfiche. HOW DO I USE
Reimagining the library landscape: an approach to school library design
By Anne Whisken
Issue 103, Term 4 2017
Our new library at Carey Baptist Grammar School, which covers three half-levels at the base of a new Centre for Learning and Innovation, was completed a year ago. Since then, we have arranged our collections to suit the spaces, redesigned our service models, and developed the processes to help our
A note from the editor
By Nicole Richardson
Issue 103, Term 4 2017
Welcome to Connections 103! There have been lots of exciting changes at SCIS recently: after several standards changes to help make your life easier, we have just launched our new, modern, innovative and user-friendly platform, SCIS Data. And as part of our promise to bring you a more beautiful
Turning the school library into a thriving community hub
By Anne Devenish
Issue 103, Term 4 2017
Location, location, location! How does this position a school library to engage successfully with the wider community? Perhaps the catchcry should be ‘Ambience, ambience, ambience’. Of course, there is much more to attracting interest and audiences in the event-rich Melbourne scene, but beautiful s
ELR, or the super fund you have when you don’t have a super fund
By Nadia Wheatley
Issue 103, Term 4 2017
After talking to hundreds of groups of students and teachers over some 40 years, I have come to feel that there are really only two questions that people want to ask an author. The first is: ‘Where do you get your ideas?’ The second is: ‘How much money do you earn?’ Teachers are too polite to ask t
Ten ways to advocate for your role as a teacher librarian
By Jenny Kemp
Issue 103, Term 4 2017
One of the challenges faced by teacher librarians is that it isn’t always easy for the rest of the school to understand why we are important. In my experience, comments like ‘Surely everything’s online these days?’ and ‘What?! You went to university to get a library qualification? Isn’t it just abo
SCIS is more
By Ben Chadwick
Issue 103, Term 4 2017
This is my last ‘SCIS is more’ as SCIS Manager. By the time you read this, I will be in a new and exciting role at ESA as Manager of Research and Information Services. We welcome Caroline Ramsden to the role of SCIS Manager. Caroline arrives at SCIS with extensive experience in library informatio
Celebrating the school library officer
By Madeleine Galbraith
Issue 103, Term 4 2017
If you were listening carefully when Leigh Hobbs began his term as the Australian Children’s Laureate, you might have heard a collective cheer coming from a westerly direction. It arose when he announced that the aim of his tenure was ‘to champion creative opportunities for children, and to highlig
The School Magazine
By The School Magazine team
Issue 103, Term 4 2017
In 1916, in the middle of World War I, the New South Wales Department of Education, in a bold move, published the first edition of a free literary magazine for public school children: The School Magazine . To put this into context: when the first edition of The School Magazine made its way to
The challenge of implementing change
By Angela Platt
Issue 103, Term 4 2017
During my spare time in my school library, I was recently perusing various blogs, Pinterest, Twitter, etc – looking for any new library-related ideas, examples of best practice and developments which I should know about. One such blog that piqued my interest on this occasion was ‘ Day in the life ’
Know your rights and responsibilities: teaching digital citizenship
By Susan Marshall
Issue 103, Term 4 2017
None of us could imagine a world without the internet. It has become an ever-increasing element of our daily life — and it is often the school library staff’s role to support students and classroom staff to maximise the benefits of engaging with the online world for learning, creating, playing and
Website and app reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 103, Term 4 2017
Australian Council on Children and the Media childrenandmedia.org.au ACCM is a national community body ‘committed to promoting better choices and providing stronger voices in children’s media’. The website provides: specifics of the organisation; searchable reviews of child-centred apps and m
Making Sense
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 21, Term 2 1997
His paper is titled Sense: the Final Frontier . Meaning, or sense, is at the heart of literacy, English teaching and all structurings of knowledge and thus provides an obvious focus for the conference's language day, however, it is one of the least understood and therefore most unsettling topics i