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Website and app reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 109, Term 2 2019
ustry’. Categories include resources for primary; secondary; and tertiary, TAFE, and vocational. This website is a useful resource selection tool for school library staff and teachers. SCIS no. 1909720 Farm and livestock management software www.agriwebb.com AgriWebb is an Australian software
SCIS is more
By Dr Ben Chadwick
Issue 113, Term 2 2020
n is unfolding and events are shifting day by day. The school library community is facing many challenges, but despite this we hear daily examples of school library staff sharing suggestions, information and encouragement to their colleagues, and striving to deliver value to teachers, students and f
ASLA Australian Teacher Librarian Award 2021
By Kerry Pope
Issue 118, TERM 3 2021
t offers in having a centrally based cataloguing service has enabled many schools the opportunity to access catalogue records. This frees up time for school library staff to undertake other tasks that need to be performed in the school library. I have been a proud supporter of SCIS right from the be
SCIS is more
By Renate Beilharz
Issue 122, Term 3 2022
tative Committee (SSC) was inaugurated in August 2021 and exists to help ensure that SCIS draws from a range of perspectives when updating standards. School library staff from around Australia and New Zealand were selected to join the SSC, ensuring a range of school types are represented. The curren
SCIS is more
By Anthony Shaw
Issue 123, Term 4 2022
ss, resourcing issues associated with both the pandemic and skills shortages, and changing delivery models. I’m sure these all sound very familiar to school library staff who face these same challenges and more. My work with public libraries focused on data analytics, streamlining workflows and p
Leading whole school literacy from the library
By Dr Margaret Merga
Issue 124, Term 1 2023
, 2019b) and they have skills in meeting the needs of diverse literacy learners (Merga, 2019a). There is a growing body of research linking qualified school library staff and positive effects for student literacy performance (as reviewed in Lance & Kachel, 2018). Cross-curricular. Teacher libra
SCIS is More
By Anthony Shaw
Issue 130, Term 3, 2024
School Library Association South Australia (SLASA) and CBCA SA conference, Captivate-Connect- Curate. It was great to catch up with so many dedicated school library staff and hear about how they’re helping to support better outcomes for students. The conference program was packed with wonderful pr
SCIS is more
By Anthony Shaw
Issue 133, Term 2, 2025
dback and more than 10% of you responded. One clear message was that the survey was too long, so we’ve shortened the 2025 version. We appreciate that school library staff are time poor and would rather spend their time supporting students and teachers than completing surveys. The 2025 SCIS custome
Collector, curator or collaborator?
By Jennie Bales
Issue 100, Term 1 2017
rces, and expertise — all of which are fundamental to being a successful and effective school library practitioner. To be a powerhouse of expertise, school library staff need constant and regular exposure to new ideas embracing educational and technological developments, sources, and resources. An
SCIS interviews Teacher Librarian Award winner Megan Daley
By Megan Daley
Issue 126, Term 3 2023
school administrators and the wider community. Those of us who work in the industry intimately understand the value and the importance of the work of school library staff. But for those outside of our circles, I think we do need to collect data – as much as numbers and data aren’t my thing. I thin
Learning online: MOOCs for library staff
By Martin Gray
Issue 90, Term 3 2014
ent or the chess clubs in schools, who meet and improve each other's skills through playing. Pros and Cons Both these courses would be useful for school library staff and teachers, whether library qualified or not. The mapping course is a good introduction to self-paced learning courses, being s
School library spotlight: Melbourne High School
By Pam Saunders
Issue 99, Term 4 2016
In this issue of Connections , we introduce a new regular feature, ‘School library spotlight’. This article gives us an opportunity to interview school library staff, so we can share with our readers what is happening within school libraries in Australia and New Zealand. Do you have any quest
Navigating the information landscape through collaboration
By Elizabeth Hutchinson
Issue 101, Term 2 2017
creating independent learners within a school. As more schools embed digital literacy and want innovative teaching within their curriculum, trained school library staff become even more important. The school library not only enables students to learn how to search a database and find quality resou
School libraries support digital technologies
By Martin Richards
Issue 102, Term 3 2017
they might adapt their programs and look for ways to accommodate relevant technologies in meaningful ways. Developing students’ ICT capabilities School library staff teach students how to learn. Consider a student coming into the library to conduct research using a range of digital sources. No
Morris Gleitzman on the uniquely contributive role of school libraries
By Morris Gleitzman
Issue 109, Term 2 2019
y time as Australian Children’s Laureate, I have continued to visit many schools — something I have been doing for about 30 years. I speak to lots of school library staff, because of my long-held interest in the health of school libraries. Over the last 18 months, this has been particularly so becau
Book launches: connecting schools, students and local authors
By Jenna Hildebrand
Issue 109, Term 2 2019
Reading culture As school library staff, we strive every day to establish libraries and resource centres as places that support our students’ reading and information literacy. In our relentless quest to promote reading for pleasure, one major challenge is the structured class context. We need
Supporting Australian book creators
By Daniel Hughes
Issue 114, Term 3 2020
elease them into the world. It is something tangible and very meaningful for authors. Do you have a final message for the thousands of hardworking school library staff who work with students and books every day? Authors like me, by and large, sit at home and write books that we hope the young
ELR Interview with Alice Pung
By Article by Education Services Australia
Issue 124, Term 1 2023
appen if you had students individually … they don’t have the malice to do that but when they’re in a group it’s a different matter. Every year, school library staff are invited to participate in the Educational Lending Right School Library Survey, or ELR. The survey is part of a process that d
Transforming School Libraries: A Conversation with Lee Crockett
By Lee Crockett
Issue 128, Term 1 2024
that children, while only 15% of our population, are 100% of our future. On the role of library staff Central to our conversation is the role of school library staff. Crockett stresses that the traditional view of library staff as ‘curators of books’ is limiting for the future of library positi
SCIS is more
By Anthony Shaw
Issue 131, Term 4, 2024
for a school library spotlight featuring Huey in a future edition of Connections. The SLANZA Conference was a wonderful opportunity to connect with school library staff from across Aotearoa New Zealand. It’s great to be immersed in the culture and passion of our colleagues who work tirelessly to s