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School library spotlight: Newtown public school

By Lucy White

Issue 121, Term 2 2022

What is your job title, and what does your role entail? I am the teacher librarian at Newtown Public School in Sydney’s inner west. It’s actually the school I attended as a child, and I was so delighted to start working here back in 2018! We are a school of 371 students from K–6. We have 15 cl

Website and app reviews

Issue 132, Term 1, 2025

les, videos, and interactive resources are grouped by age and relate to schooling, behaviour, health, learning stages, media safety, and working with teachers. SCIS no: 5519473 Teaching Resources for Learning in Nature www.doc.govt.nz/get-involved/conservation-education/ The NZ DOC h

Leigh Hobbs on school libraries and storytelling

By Leigh Hobbs

Issue 100, Term 1 2017

st sat in on a session and proudly held aloft his drawing. I’ve never felt so warmly appreciated. It is a wonderful school with marvellous, dedicated teachers. How can we help to promote a positive reading culture in younger people? Adults can foster a positive reading culture in children, first

Barramundi and Chips at Christo's

By Kylie Hanson, Ashley Freeman, Ken Dillon

Issue 23, Term 4 1997

ning and Culture', with a four-day program focusing on society and culture, language, literature, technology and the future. Although the number of teacher librarians and teacher librarianship papers may have been less than usual at national ASLA conferences, the joint arrangement meant there was

From the Ashes

By Nigel Paull, Ann Johnston

Issue 24, Term 1 1998

chool staff devised a plan to cope with the disaster. Ann was released for a year to work on coordinating and replacing the collection while a casual Teacher Librarian was employed to take classes in individual classrooms. Deputy Principal Maurice Johnston worked closely with Ann handling the admini

Key Issues About Cataloguing and the Use of SCIS

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 27, Term 4 1998

erms 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 appearing in the curriculum and the terms used by their students. SCIS agencies, located

Enhancing the flexibility of library services

By Claire Elliott

Issue 106, Term 3 2018

At the beginning of 2016, all students were asked to identify one thing that the library could improve. At the end of that year, a survey was sent to teachers to gain their feedback on the library and the services offered. Both sets of responses formed the baseline for future changes. So many book

Developing low-budget literacy programs in schools

By Sue Bursztynski

Issue 109, Term 2 2019

r. One of the programs that Ardoch delivers is Writer in Residence. Late in the year, I spent five one-hour sessions with Year 4 students and their teacher to produce a book of their work. I was lucky enough to have assistance from a fellow Ardoch volunteer, a primary school art teacher. As my e

Reviews

By Nigel Paull

Issue 26, Term 3 1998

probability, is falling in real terms. With clients increasingly using digital sources of information and off site services, the authors state that Teacher Librarians have moved beyond developing a captive collection within the library. With this in mind, the process of managing these diverse reso

SCIS and NEXUS Online

By Pru Mitchell

Issue 8, Term 4 1993

, bulletin board or e-mail works Small group searches during class time in library-available when research topic is appropriate to online search. Teacher Librarian/Teacher search online prior to class-to provide background information for teacher, or to increase the range of resources for class

School library spotlight: Galston High School

By Jade Arnold

Issue 107, Term 4 2018

What is your job title, and what does your role entail? My official job title is teacher librarian. My role within the library is multifaceted. As the manager of the library, I am responsible for acquisitions, resource management, and research services, and I manage two school administrative and

Interview with Gabrielle Wang, Australian Children's Laureate

By Gabrielle Wang

Issue 122, Term 3 2022

eat of a school. That’s the central point   of all schools and a beautiful meeting place. Have you encountered particularly memorable ways in which teachers and school librarians have engaged students with literature? There’s this one memory of when my daughter was in Year 6. She had one of thos

Down the library path

By Bernadette Bennett, Kerry Gittens, Lynette Barker

Issue 92, Term 1 2015

Three teacher librarians from the Hunter region report on the planning to create an Information Skills Strategy and programme guide for the region based on the NSW DET Information Skills Process. When you are working with like-minded people sometimes the planets align and between you, clarity c

Catalguing News

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 33, Term 2 2000

1. New Subject Heading Proposal We encourage Teacher Librarians to use the New Subject Heading Proposal form to assist the SCIS team in ensuring that headings are kept up to date and relevant. A sample of a completed New Subject Heading Proposal form can be found on our website at <http://www.c

Have you read this?

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 8, Term 4 1993

mine world affairs. The rise of CD-ROM bibliographic databases, such as Austguide has created enormous problems relating to document delivery for teacher-librarians. Connections has published articles describing ways in which teacher-librarians have used networks to overcome this problem. Perhap

SCISWeb Handy Hints

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 36, Term 1 2001

resource by title. Note the SCIS number of the correct item and process your order in SCISWeb. Scan Scan is the premier professional journal for Teacher Librarians and teachers in primary and secondary schools. Scan specialises in promoting collaborative teaching and learning and the effective

SCIS as a resource selection aid

By Nicole Richardson

Issue 104, Term 1 2018

When a teacher approaches you about finding resources for their upcoming unit, where is the first place you look? Perhaps you perform a quick Google search to see if it can direct you to any relevant resources. Maybe you check a publisher’s website. Yet, if we encourage students to use the library

Educational Lending Right (ELR) School Library Survey 2019–20

By Daniel Hughes

Issue 113, Term 2 2020

r cent noted that they had learnt about ELR in previous editions of Connections. Thirty-two per cent of survey respondents identified themselves as teacher librarians, 26 per cent were library officers, and 19 per cent were library technicians. Only ten per cent of respondents identified themselve

SCIS is more

By Anthony Shaw

Issue 124, Term 1 2023

ence in April. Speaking of the ASLA conference, we’re thrilled to be attending this year’s conference, and also to be sponsoring the ASLA Australian Teacher Librarian Award . The award recognises an Australia teacher librarian who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession of school lib

SCIS is more

By Anthony Shaw

Issue 126, Term 3 2023

provided us with helpful feedback that will inform future developments of SCIS. At the 2023 ASLA Biennial Conference, we were proud to sponsor the Teacher Librarian award. Congratulations to winner Megan Daley for her outstanding contributions to the library community, which were recognised at th