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Issue 38 Summary
By Editor
Issue 38, Term 3 2001
it, Schools Online Curriculum Content Initiative Secretariat SCISWeb handy hints ASLA XVII: Forging Future Directions (1–4 October 2001) Educational Lending Right (ELR) School Library Survey Leonie Bourke, SCIS CC News SCIS and the SOCCI Project: Developing a Schools Online Thes
A thank you to libraries and ELR
By Mem Fox, Nicole Richardson
Issue 102, Term 3 2017
p and inspiration, what’s the point, really? I exaggerate, I know, but honestly: long may librarians live and thrive. On that note, may I thank the Educational Lending Right for the overwhelming support it has shown to me and to all the other Australian authors of books for children. We are deeply
Supporting Australian book creators
By Nicole Richardson
Issue 101, Term 2 2017
Many of you will by now be familiar with the Educational Lending Right (ELR), a cultural program funded by the Australian Government. ELR provides annual payments to eligible members of the writing and publishing industry. The Department of Communications and the Arts invites eligible publishers an
Supporting Australian book creators
By Nicole Richardson
Issue 104, Term 1 2018
In Term 4 of 2017, SCIS invited 750 Australian schools to participate in the Educational Lending Right (ELR) School Library Survey. We received 364 responses to the survey, surpassing the required minimum of 300. We are grateful to all school library, teaching and administrative staff who recognise
CC News
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 36, Term 1 2001
n Australia. SCIS undertook the survey of school library holdings on behalf of the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts' Educational Lending Right project. We launched a new product, the SCIS Authority Files, which has been received with much enthusiasm by school librari
ELR, or the super fund you have when you don’t have a super fund
By Nadia Wheatley
Issue 103, Term 4 2017
educational libraries. This is because I was a member and sometime chair of the committee that successfully lobbied the government to introduce the Educational Lending Right scheme in the mid-1990s. Composed of representatives from the Australian Society of Authors and the Australian Book Publishe
Supporting Australian book creators
By Aaron Blabey
Issue 108, Term 1 2019
fill them is a privilege almost too great to process, and that libraries return the favour by providing a lifeline to authors through completing the Educational Lending Right School Library Survey is a situation almost too good to be true. Yet it is true, and I for one would like to say ‘thank you’
Supporting Australian book creators
By Nicole Richardson, Frances Watts
Issue 100, Term 1 2017
In Term 4 2016, SCIS invited 750 schools in Australia to participate in the Educational Lending Right (ELR) School Library Survey, which we manage on behalf of the Department of Communications and the Arts. We had a fantastic response to the survey, with over 360 participating schools. We’d like to
SCIS is more
By Caroline Ramsden
Issue 107, Term 4 2018
5 onwards. SCIS cataloguers are working to include older records in future authority releases. ELR Every year, the Australian Government runs the Educational Lending Right (ELR) survey of school libraries. SCIS manages this on behalf of the government. The survey counts the number of copies of l
Supporting Australian book creators
By Laura Armstrong
Issue 93, Term 2 2015
Every year in September/October, 600 Australian schools are invited to provide book count data for the Educational Lending Right (ELR) school library survey. The data collected is used to estimate the number of copies of Australian books held in Australian school libraries. These estimates are then
SCIS is more
By Dr Ben Chadwick
Issue 99, Term 4 2016
2016, we will require anyone accessing SCISWeb to acknowledge their understanding of the renewed agreement before using SCIS products and services. Educational Lending Right (ELR) survey Speaking of the ELR survey, it is currently in full motion. Many of you have previously participated in this
Supporting Australian book creators
By Nicole Richardson, Morris Gleitzman
Issue 99, Term 4 2016
d thirty-eight readers per copy’, he’d mutter, ‘and just the one royalty payment.’ That’s when I would explain to him about a wonderful thing called Educational Lending Right (ELR): a generous but just annual stipend* from the public purse, to help that one royalty payment stretch a bit further. To
1,000 reasons to support Australian book creators
By Jackie French
Issue 97, Term 2 2016
best books are those where one copy may be read by 1,000 children, for 75 cents or less. Or, at least, this would be the case if it weren’t for the Educational Lending Right (ELR), the children’s authors’ life-saver. With ELR, eligible creators are paid by the Australian federal government for eac
SCIS is more
By Dr Ben Chadwick
Issue 95, Term 4 2015
r series will be back on Thursdays between 29 October and 12 November. Visit our Professional Learning page for details. Term 4 always welcomes the Educational Lending Right (ELR) school library survey, which SCIS manages on behalf of the Ministry for the Arts, Attorney General's Department. 600 o
Supporting Australian book creators
By Laura Armstrong
Issue 94, Term 3 2015
What Educational Lending Right (ELR) means to me… Hazel Edwards As a long-term author with a considerable backlist, PLR and ELR payments confirm that my work is being read by multiple readers for each individual library copy. Culturally this means my stories are shared, and the ideas discussed
Supporting Australian book creators
By Laura Armstrong, Gus Gordon
Issue 92, Term 1 2015
2014-15 ELR school library survey is finished We have had a fantastic response to the Educational Lending Right (ELR) 2014-15 school library survey. In October 2014, we invited 600 schools to participate in the survey. 325 schools generously provided book-data reports from their library managemen
The library, the child, the book creator: ELR and its role in the story cycle
By Tania McCartney
Issue 107, Term 4 2018
s one of the few ELR programs in the world. I always knew we were a bright country. Let’s keep shining. Image credit Photo by Martin Ollman The Educational Lending Right (ELR) scheme is an Australian Government cultural program that makes payments to eligible Australian creators and publishers
Cataloguing standards: what you see is what you get
By Natasha Campbell
Issue 111, Term 4 2019
er publishers sent two to five times a year. SCIS also catalogues titles from publishers wishing to have their titles registered for inclusion in the Educational Lending Right (ELR) scheme. The only cost to the provider is postage. SCIS is interested in supporting those publishers and distributors
Alternate worlds – Paul Collins reflects on his writing and publishing career
By Paul Collins
Issue 118, TERM 3 2021
ishing. At least half of the books I wrote were for this sector. Although the pay wasn’t great, I knew that we have Public Lending Right (PLR) and Educational Lending Right (ELR). These are initiatives of the Australian Government and delivered through the Office for the Arts. It’s how informatio