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Issue 52 Summary

By Editor

Issue 52, Term 1 2005

Addressing the information needs of the school education community Tony Sullivan, Curriculum Corporation Standards of professional excellence for teacher librarians Anne Girolami, ALIA–ASLA Policy Advisory Group Knowledge management Clifford H Wade, The Knox School Internetting corner N

Issue 51 Summary

By Editor

Issue 51, Term 4 2004

d subject headings History and All That – Classifying in the 900s Ray Cotsell, SCIS Educational Lending Right The ABS: School, Classroom, Teacher and Student Friendly Nick Peter, Australian Bureau of Statistics ASLA’s Online Success Karen Bonanno, ASLA Online Selecting an ILMS fo

Issue 46 Summary

By Editor

Issue 46, Term 3 2003

Bridie Mackay, Educational Lending Right School Library Survey Growing Books John Heffernan, Author Cataloguing News Leonie Bourke, SCIS Teacher Librarianship at Charles Sturt University Internetting corner Nigel Paull, South Grafton Primary School, NSW Le@rning Federation Metad

Issue 40 Summary

By Editor

Issue 40, Term 1 2002

Grafton Primary School, NSW The School Intranet: Making Schools Even More Resourceful Bridie Mackay, SCIS Making Connections: The Role of the Teacher Librarian in the Information Age Dr John Roulston, Association of Independent Schools of Queensland Cataloguing and Database News

Connections for the Future

By Kevin Grove

Issue 25, Term 2 1998

identified the important role information professionals will play in creating a learning society. Curriculum Corporation sees its role as supporting Teacher Librarians (schools' information professionals) by providing information services such as SCIS. Connections is an extension of that support. P

Reviews

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 29, Term 2 1999

the assessment guides on the right-hand side of each page. Covering a diverse range of topics and featuring clear layout, this title is a practical, teacher-friendly reference. Highly recommended. Themes/topics: advertising, ecology, crime and punishment, Australian heroes, developments in scie

Jewish Resources On-Line at Makor

By Ros Collins

Issue 6, Term 2 1993

regular basis. Therefore we must charge a membership fee which, in the case of schools, is $50.00 per year. This subscription covers the needs of ALL teachers in the school. For example, an English teacher may require help with a novel which has a Jewish theme, such as My Name is Asher Leu or The Fi

From the Executive Director

By David Francis

Issue 3, Term 3 1992

program management delivery that can only act on support of improving satisfaction of system, school librarian and teacher needs. We are confident of the future. We believe we will be taking the best choices, as we will be

SCIS support for the ASLA XVII: Forging future directions conference

By Bruce Wilson

Issue 35, Term 4 2000

'Curriculum Corporation is delighted to be once again a significant sponsor of the ASLA conference. This bi-annual event is a highlight on the Teacher Librarian and information studies calendars, and the Corporation sees itself as closely linked to these areas, which have an increasingly important

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

School libraries then and now - in the digital environment

By Lance Deveson

Issue 120, Term 1 2022

ng digital environment. How time flies when you’re having fun! Thirty years ago when Connections was created, most schools had at least one trained teacher librarian, and these dedicated staff introduced valuable literature to their students, taught information skills, catalogued their own collect

Celebrating Book Week

Issue 132, Term 1, 2025

Teacher librarians have been forever stumped by the question: How do we get our male students to read? After 6 years at a comprehensive boys school of 950 students, I figured that getting back to basics is probably the way to go. Jabbar and Warraich (2022) conducted a systematic review that indicat

The importance of multicultural literature

By Marianne Grasso

Issue 96, Term 1 2016

ian primary schools are more culturally diverse now than ever before. By including multicultural literature in the school library fiction collection, teacher librarians ensure they provide their students with texts that represent the culturally diverse classrooms and home environments in this countr

CC News

By Schools Catalogue Information Service

Issue 30, Term 3 1999

enable them to have the bulk of their cataloguing done quickly and easily hence saving an enormous amount of time. It is a far more effective use of Teacher Librarian's time to download the SCIS records and make some modifications where necessary than to merely use SCIS as a guide to one's own orig

Videorecordings and SCIS

By Anne Dowling

Issue 29, Term 2 1999

de 'Language' is 499 LAN. Creating both a record for the series and records for each episode is one way of catering for the different ways in which teacher librarians record and store these programs. The decision has been based on feedback from teacher librarians, who agreed that one record for th

Reviews

By Nigel Paull

Issue 27, Term 4 1998

complex interweaving of gender, masculinity, culture, schooling and literacy. The 'Professional Development Units' are designed for pre and inservice teacher use with full details and guidelines, overhead transparency proformas, discussion guides and question sheets. The 'Teaching Units' present K-1

Have You Read This?

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 18, Term 3 1996

questions if this will improve student learning. She suggests that all is reliant on what happens after the installation and highlights the value of teacher training in computer literacy in her article 'School networking: Where can it take us?'. Learning and Leading with Technology . Vol.23 No. 8

What's New

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 13, Term 2 1995

ok actually contains four reports on various aspects of library automation: the National Survey results, Crucial factors in online enquiry, MARC for Teacher-librarians and Providing access to fiction in school libraries. For many T /Ls the issue of library automation is still on the agenda. So

Primary School application of CD-ROM

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 2, Term 2 1992

Andrew Perry, well-known as the editor of Access, is the teacher- librarian at Vermont Primary School in Victoria. The school was named this year as an Apple Technology Site. To support the curriculum initiatives taking place at the school, a computerised information network (lnfonet) has been de

What's New?

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 36, Term 1 2001

n Auckland, New Zealand. In 2001 the IASL conference will be held in the South Pacific region for the first time. This is a wonderful opportunity for Teacher Librarians from Australia and New Zealand to participate in an international forum and hear about developments in school libraries around the