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Australian Children’s Laureate 2024–25: Sally Rippin
By Interview article by the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 129, Term 2 2024
Congratulations on your appointment as the Australian Children’s Laureate 2024–2025. Your theme as Laureate is ‘All kids can be readers’. Can you share what this theme means to you? What I’ll bring to my term as Laureate is the idea that reading isn’t something we’re all born with the capacity
Insights from the Discovering a Good Read Survey
By Article by the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 130, Term 3, 2024
Reading for pleasure opens a world of benefits, from nurturing empathy to enhancing academic performance (Rutherford et al., 2024). However, for many Australian teens, reading books often takes a backseat to social media when it comes to their preferred way to wind down.The Discovering a Good Rea
How to spot a plagiarised work
By Laura Iseman
Issue 133, Term 2, 2025
The advent of self-publishing has enabled many aspiring authors to realise their dream of seeing their work in print. Authors writing for niche markets, whose work lacks the popular appeal to attract a large publisher, can find their audience. Unfortunately, this ease of publication and the relat
3rd Edition of the SCIS Subject Headings List
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 8, Term 4 1993
INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND HEADINGS As part of the ongoing process of upgrading the SCIS SUBJECT HEADINGS list, Curriculum Corporation, in co-operation with the publishing company, D.W.Thorpe, are to publish a 3rd edition of the SCIS Subject Headings list. Currently the revision of the List is being
Key Issues About Cataloguing and the Use of SCIS
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 27, Term 4 1998
Subject headings SCIS is a national database which reflects the most common terms which will be accessed by most students, with over 150,000 SCIS subject headings with cross references. The majority of headings are proposed by Teacher Librarians in schools who are in touch with the terms appearin
Let SCIS Save you Time and Money
By Schools Catalogue Information Servive (SCIS)
Issue 22, Term 3 1997
f time that a T /L spends cataloguing resources for the school library? Have you considered the amount of money that could be saved if your T /L used SCIS instead? The Schools Cataloguing Information Service (SCIS) database contains approximately 600,000 bibliographic records of educational books,
News from the Information Program - SCIS On-Line in 1995
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 11, Term 4 1994
On-line access to the SCIS database is to be encouraged as the Information Program implements the new Voyager software and a new communications network. The Board of Curriculum Corporation has accepted the Strategy plan of the Information Program that sees on-line access to the SCIS and other dat
Reviews of SCIS Subject Headings Fourth Edition
By Barbara Braxton, Barbara Shardlow, Rod Barker
Issue 33, Term 2 2000
why, just weeks after completing my cataloguing course at Library School, ruining my eyes and my brain trying to figure out the complexities of the SCIS Subject Headings Third Edition , cross-referencing it with lists of additions and amendments downloaded from the Internet and the SCIS Standards
1999 SCIS Conference Report: Planning for 1999-2000
By Kevin Grove
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
On 29-30 March the State SCIS agencies and Curriculum Corporation met in Sydney for a strategic review of the Schools Catalogue Information Service. The Conference deliberations included input from teacher librarians and other educationalists. The Conference felt that issues about the technology
How does the information get onto the SCIS database?
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 2, Term 2 1992
Have you ever wondered how the records magically materialise onto the SCIS database? There are actually nine cataloguing agencies throughout Australia inputting data. Agencies currently exist in South Australia, Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales, ACT, Victoria, Tasm
The Great Aussie Book Count 2021-22
By Michelle Harvey
Issue 121, Term 2 2022
the most commonly available titles in school libraries – that were included in the 2021 book count survey – are: Macbeth by Laura Deriu et al (SCIS no. 1291862) Once by Morris Gleitzman (SCIS no. 1226878) Water by Mark Stafford (SCIS no. 1283458) Blueback by Tim Winton (SCIS no. 1
School library spotlight: Northcote High School
By Richard Smallcombe
Issue 126, Term 3 2023
e have now because we are in a smaller space, getting out of each other’s way because it’s a bit more crowded. What is your favourite thing about SCIS? I think the best thing about SCIS is that it’s so easy to get the records. We’ve integrated our library management system with SCIS, so it m
EAL/D in school libraries
By Nicki Moore, Martin Gray
Issue 121, Term 2 2022
resemblances to Nikki’s are, in fact, reasonably common. The table below summarises some findings from the survey. A full report can be read on the SCIS blog. Statement Percentage of respondents who agreed The EAL/D teacher bases themselves in the library as an office. 14 (12.3%)
School Library Spotlight: Xavier College, Burke Hall
By Fiona O'Rourke
Issue 119, Term 4 2021
brary session once a cycle where they log their reading, engage in 1:1 conversations with the teacher librarian and choose books they want to read. SCIS is invaluable. It is a cost-effective and time-saving alternative to cataloguing your collection while lending authority and uniformity to your
School libraries then and now - in the digital environment
By Lance Deveson
Issue 120, Term 1 2022
ues to online access, and Connections was available only on paper! Technology, leadership and change With the access to computers and the move by SCIS to provide an automated delivery system, school libraries jumped at the new technology. In many cases, they led in the use of new technology in t
Unlock the power of SCIS Authority Files with Accessit LMS: Watch the webinar today!
By Education Services Australia
Issue 127, Term 4 2023
Unlock the Power of SCIS Authority Files with Accessit LMS: Watch the webinar today! For SCIS and Accessit customers, we have an exciting opportunity to delve into learning about SCIS Authority Files within Accessit Library Management System (LMS). We recently conducted a webinar for customers co
Voyager: Curriculum Corporation’s new software platform for the SCIS Database
By Lance Deveson
Issue 7, Term 3 1993
Australia. Curriculum Corporation will be the first site in Australia for the new software and MARCorp will tailor their system to the needs of the SCIS service. Voyager is a complete library package having all of the following features: on-line public access catalogue (OPAC), cataloguing, circu
Using SCIS Subiect Headings Book with students: a school's view
By David Morris
Issue 32, Term 1 2000
We have a school library serving grades 7 to 12. We keep a spare copy of SCIS Subject Headings on the workstation where most of our library's OPACs are located. We find that students who have been shown its use, especially in the older grades, will use the publication as a thesaurus of search terms
Have you not been able to find some recent resources on the SCIS Database?
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 5, Term 1 1993
The March Update (see calendar below for the date it should be at your school) will include an additional 7000 new titles added to the SCIS database through the efforts of the Western Australian Agency. The resource you were searching for but unable to locate may be included in the March Updates fo
SCIS support for the ASLA XVII: Forging future directions conference
By Bruce Wilson
Issue 35, Term 4 2000
nd resource discovery become central to the improvement of education. 'We are particularly pleased that Dr Ross Todd has agreed to deliver the 2001 SCIS Oration. This conference keynote presentation has been a major event in previous years, and the speakers have been major national and internation