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News from Curriculum Corporation
By Lance Deveson
Issue 22, Term 3 1997
1998 SCIS Subscriptions This issue of Connections brings you advanced notice of two exciting new SCIS products for 1998: a SCIS downloading CD-ROM that will allow you to download SCIS cataloguing records (ie, you will not need to order them from Curriculum Corporation); and, at last, access to th
News from Curriculum Corporation
By Lance Deveson
Issue 19, Term 4 1996
1997 SCIS Subscriptions All schools should have now received the bulk mailing from Curriculum Corporation in the form of a package of information addressed to the Principal, inside of which there was a separate envelope addressed to the Teacher-Librarian. This envelope contained the 1997 SCIS Sub
SCISWeb Handy Hints
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 36, Term 1 2001
1. Creating lists of websites catalogued on the SCIS database SCIS has catalogued over 1,200 websites on the SCIS database. A number of SCIS users have asked us how they may identify these websites and use a list as a selection tool for their own library catalogues. The following instruction
Handy Hints
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 32, Term 1 2000
Cataloguing pictures and prints Did you know that SCIS catalogues pictures and prints? As these items do not have an ISBN Teacher Librarians need to locate the SCIS record number in the SCIS OPAC before they create or upload an order. When applying limits for pictures and prints in the SCIS OPAC,
Improving Retrievability in School Libraries
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 35, Term 4 2000
SCIS is launching a new product, SCIS Authority Files, that will enhance retrievability in school catalogues. All Teacher Librarians know that searching in a library catalogue is not as simple a task as it may appear at first glance. While the modern automated catalogue supplies the user with a
Issue 38 Summary
By Editor
Issue 38, Term 3 2001
the issue include: So What’s This About Online Curriculum Content? Jillian Dellit, 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 Bou
CC News
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 25, Term 2 1998
Curriculum Corporation and SCIS: where did we come from and why are we here? The SCIS Unit at Curriculum Corporation often receives calls querying the financial basis on which it operates. The Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS) is managed by Curriculum Corporation which is an independen
National Catholic Education Commission
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 2, Term 2 1992
ce October 1990 the National Catholic Education Commission has employed a cataloguer to catalogue religious education (RE) materials for entry to the SCIS database. In the first year of operation, 1,000 records were added to the SCIS database. Any Catholic school or institution within Australia is
Issue 37 Summary
By Editor
Issue 37, Term 2 2001
y available in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: Building a knowledge-sharing culture Dr Ross Todd, University of Technology, NSW SCISWeb handy hints CC news Subject and name headings, reference structure and the SCIS authority files Anne Dowling, SCIS Providing oppo
Issue 59 Summary
By Editor
Issue 59, Term 4 2006
Generating change through professional development Dr Linda Selby and Elizabeth Probert, Auckland College of Education, NZ New subject terms in SCIS OPAC Rachel Salmond, SCIS Internetting corner Nigel Paull, South Grafton Public School, NSW SCISWeb handy hints New and revised su
Issue 40 Summary
By Editor
Issue 40, Term 1 2002
tions: Towards a Preferred Future June Wall, Australian School Library Association (ASLA) Welcome to 2002 Keith Gove, Curriculum Corporation SCISWeb handy hints Link Checking Graeme Williams, Curriculum Corporation Learning for the Future: Worth the Involvement Leonie Dyason, Mo
Issue 39 Summary
By Editor
Issue 39, Term 4 2001
issue include: Pathways to the Future: Knowledge Construction and Evidence-based Practice Dr Ross Todd, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA SCISWeb handy hints ASLA Launch Learning for the Future (Second Edition) Pauline Tremlett, ASLA A Professional Resource: Learning for
Welcome to 1999
By Kevin Gove
Issue 28, Term 1 1999
ra? By what good deeds would we wish to be judged? I fear that some recent developments in Australian society will not be regarded very highly. For SCIS, though, it is already the beginning of a new age. Last year was a transition year. We introduced the two new SCIS products, SCISWeb and SCISCO,
CC News
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 35, Term 4 2000
1. SCIS Authority Files subscriptions 2000 and 2001 Curriculum Corporation has released a new CD-ROM product called SCIS Authority Files. Order forms for this new product were sent to all schools recently. The SCIS Authority Files CD published in 2000 contains the entire contents of the SCIS da
Website and app reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 100, Term 1 2017
100 and not out The 100th issue of Connections is a milestone for SCIS, its parent company Education Services Australia, and teacher librarians. My involvement with Connections dates back to 1997 when Lance Deveson, the SCIS manager at the time, asked me to be the editor. I had been involved
CC News
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 33, Term 2 2000
formation Services at the Education Department of Western Australia. Bev has been responsible for managing the trial of cataloguing websites onto the SCIS database and has recently written a report which will appear in Cataloguing/Database News at <http://www.curriculum.edu.au/scis/ database.him>.
CC News
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 36, Term 1 2001
heir differences: 'the only constant is change'. Perhaps one other constant is the growth of 'the dot' - that is, 'dot corn' business and e-commerce. SCIS became 'dotted' (in the sense of online delivery) several years ago but, as I explain further below, we are yet to fully embrace schools' needs f
What's New?
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 36, Term 1 2001
1. New release The revised edition of the SCIS Standards for Cataloguing and Data Entry will be available in 2001. The SCIS Standards are applied by SCIS cataloguing agencies to ensure the consistency and quality of SCIS catalogue records. These standards are based on international cataloguing
Website and app reviews
Issue 132, Term 1, 2025
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 has formulated
Website and app reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 133, Term 2, 2025
With this issue of Connections, we mark a quiet but meaningful milestone: the final website and app reviews article by Nigel Paull. No need to worry! SCIS will continue to bring you website and app reviews in future editions. Nigel first wrote for Connections on becoming its editor in 1998, a time