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SCIS: News for subscribers

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 139, Term 4, 2026

l landscapes and trying new food along the way. Megan lives on Bunurong Country with her partner and their two cheeky senior cats. Azadeh Shamee | Cataloguing and Administration Officer Azadeh has had more than 15 years’ experience within the education industry across a wide range of roles; a

You’re not alone: professional support for school library staff

By Jessica Finden

Issue 139, Term 4, 2026

also feel isolating – particularly when you are running the library on your own. Many library staff manage everything from collection development and cataloguing to reader advisory, displays and events, often with limited time and support. For those new to the role, or for staff without formal libra

SCIS is more

By Ben Chadwick

Issue 101, Term 2 2017

ulum, including the capacity for our community of users to contribute to that richness fit better with subscriber’s workflows, including use of our cataloguing services and easier integration of our digital content into your collection. For further announcements, please make sure your email ad

CC News

By Schools Catalogue Information Service

Issue 24, Term 1 1998

cy also need special thanks for their efforts in ensuring that data is entered onto the SCIS database in a timely manner, and in accordance with SCIS cataloguing standards. Thank you all. My new position at the Corporate Resource Agency will enable me to further my interest in the next big push wi

EdNA Adopts SCIS Metadata Standard

By Ellen Paxton

Issue 27, Term 4 1998

schools. What is metadata? Metadata is the buzz word used by publishers and administrators of Internet based resources for what is essentially 'cataloguing'. A metadata record is a type of catalogue record, it provides information about the contents of resources on the Internet, similar to how

Tasmania - The Australian Benchmark

By Belinda Flowers

Issue 17, Term 2 1996

with free training and support and do not have any of the system maintenance tasks normally associated with an automated library system. Minimum cataloguing effort is required by the schools with public libraries, schools and TAFE using the same bibliographic records. 2. TasNET is a network

News from the Information Program Continued

By Barbara Burr

Issue 10, Term 3 1994

material it is quite likely that they have not been catalogued yet, and therefore are not on the database. For further assistance contact your state cataloguing agency, present in most states and part of the state's education system.

My ASCISRECON Experience

By Angie Barillaro

Issue 5, Term 1 1993

I were still at CRC I would use the program for all my new stock. After all. a teacher -librarian is most appreciated when she is team-teaching, not cataloguing in the backroom!

Staff Profile

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 3, Term 3 1992

has also teaching qualifications and taught in government secondary schools in Victoria for 14 years. She is a member of ALIA (Tech). Ellen Paxton: Cataloguing Coordinator Ellen comes to the Curriculum Corporation from a secondary school where she was Teacher Librarian in charge of a large autom

SCISWEB Handy Hints

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 35, Term 4 2000

roups or library software system support if they have any queries about importing catalogue records of websites into their library system. The SCIS cataloguing agency in Western Australia has compiled a list of all the websites that have been catalogued. This list is located at <http://www.eddept.

Library Automation in Australia

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 21, Term 2 1997

native OPAC 'front-ends' to the more traditional text-based or command-line interfaces. In Section Three, Penelope Maddick describes the role of SCIS cataloguing agencies and provides some revealing statistics about SCIS records and formats. Ellen Paxton demystifies MARC for teacher librarians and e

SCIS is more

By Caroline Ramsden

Issue 107, Term 4 2018

quite often the series title for works within a series will appear differently on individual works. You can read more about the complexity of series cataloguing in Connections . The SCIS cataloguers have been working hard to manage the many challenges that these inconsistencies present. We hav

School library spotlight: The King's School Senior Library

By The King's School Library team

Issue 127, Term 4 2023

ate, organise and manage the library collection, encompassing books, digital resources, journals, periodicals and multimedia materials. Beyond merely cataloguing materials, the librarian strives to create an inclusive and welcoming space for all patrons, fostering a love for learning and promoting i

SCIS on the road: where to find us in Term 2

By Article by the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 133, Term 2, 2025

brarian Professional Learning Community (TLPLC) 2025 – Canberra, ACT 16 May | Shine Dome, Canberra trybooking.com/events/landing/1323866 SCIS Cataloguing Team Lead, Ceinwen Jones, will be at the 2025 TLPLC Conference. Ceinwen will give a short presentation on our non-fiction digital collecti

How are you using SCIS?

By Ben Chadwick

Issue 102, Term 3 2017

We collect quite a few statistics at SCIS. Besides enabling us to remain accountable within our broader organisation, our statistics inform our cataloguing practices, and help us seek out new services or make improvements to our current operations. For example, our search logs may show us that ther

CC News

By Schools Catalogue Information Service

Issue 32, Term 1 2000

S increased, and we anticipate that they will increase again in 2000, with nearly 8,000 schools expected to subscribe to SCIS. In 1999 over 4 million cataloguing records were downloaded from SCISWeb and SCISCO, saving Australian schools in the order of $30M of Teacher Librarian time. Indications are

SCIS and NEXUS Online

By Pru Mitchell

Issue 8, Term 4 1993

er, this method of payment is worthwhile in the case of NEXUS, but not for SCIS. SCIS As a bibliographic database, SCIS is used predominantly for cataloguing information. The advantages of online over microfiche use of SCIS are well recognised: significant time saved in searching, increased acce

School library spotlight: Toowoomba State High School

By Lorraine Petersen

Issue 113, Term 2 2020

s. Our school’s main library area is maintained by a couple of teacher aides who spend their non-class time seeing to the acquisition, circulation, cataloguing, and shelving of our school’s 13,000 fiction and non-fiction library books, and the circulation of hire laptops. There are six learning ar

Library catalogues and the World Wide Web: it takes two to tango

By Nicole Richardson

Issue 101, Term 2 2017

, Information and critical literacy on the web, Connections , 96, 1–3 Petrucciani A 2015, Quality of library catalogs and value of good catalogs, Cataloguing and Classification Quarterly , 53(3–4), 303–11 Pecoski J, Spiteri LF & Tarulli L 2014, OPACS, users, and readers’ advisory: exploring th

Online Encyclopaedias

By Nigel Paull

Issue 30, Term 3 1999

ith adding other websites, there are implications for SCIS, school libraries and library automation system vendors. SCIS is already planning to trial cataloguing Internet sites. Schools who are interested in using online encyclopaedias should avail themselves of the free trials being offered by pu