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Library love letters

By Article by the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 136, Term 1, 2026

lso feels cosy. – Juniper, 13 I like looking at the comics and me and my friends like finding the weirdest, strangest, stupidest books possible and reading them and making up new words for them. – Frieda, 9 At the library I enjoy looking through the graphic novels, searching for interesting myst

Guerrilla book fair: getting staff involved in your school library

By Lucas Maxwell

Issue 100, Term 1 2017

My first meetings were with the English department, primarily so I could introduce myself. In those meetings I was able to throw around a few ideas: reading logs, research lessons, competitions — all things that would require no extra work on their part. In addition, I also attend meetings with su

Reimagining the library landscape: an approach to school library design

By Anne Whisken

Issue 103, Term 4 2017

cular learning of the school. Its purpose also includes three particular goals: information literacy education, development of study skills, and wide reading promotion. From a library design and facilities management point of view, a secondary school library faces a particular user challenge — that

Ten ways to transform your library into a flexible learning space

By Liza Moss

Issue 107, Term 4 2018

I purchased lounge furniture on a two-for-one deal in comfortable cord of red, blue and green to coordinate with the library colours. A new area for reading was created and has become popular for small groups of teachers and senior students as well. Any furniture that was not needed was offered to

Professional Development

By Sue McKnight

Issue 16, Term 1 1996

nt relevant to school libraries. In fact, of the 1000+ delegates at the joint NZLIA/ ALIA Conference 1994, only thirteen teacher-librarians attended. Reading the Future, to be held in Melbourne later this year aims to be different. The ALIA '96 Conference Committee hopes to entice many teacher-l

Resources

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 35, Term 4 2000

ie McKenzie EdD $38.10 ISBN: 0967 407 826 SCIS order no: 1000658 Beyond Technology emphasises that a central purpose of schools is to improve the reading, writing and thinking of their students and advises against being distracted by a focus on the wires, cables, laptops and desktops associated

School libraries: miracles and madness

By Jackie French

Issue 104, Term 1 2018

o thinks books are boring that their teacher librarian, their teacher, or I (as a last resort) can find them a book they love so much they can’t stop reading it — and that they will immediately want another book. Somewhere, past the small mob of boys at the front, the teacher librarian is grinning.

Supporting Australian book creators

By Ruilin Shi (with thanks to Jeannie Baker)

Issue 111, Term 4 2019

ng her to a path of book creation. As a young child, Jeannie well remembers ‘the sense of comfort and excitement of listening to her mother’s voice reading a story from a library book before falling asleep’. Her father worked hard to make ends meet. They did not have the money to spare on buying b

Increase your digital resources for free with the SCIS Collections

By Renate Beilharz

Issue 129, Term 2 2024

is a curated selection of some of the 70,000 free ebooks provided by Project Gutenberg online, most of which are classic titles outside copyright Reading Australia These collections include work units created by teachers for teachers. The different work units introduce classrooms to a select

Putting the ALIA Code of Ethics into practice in school libraries

By Jacqui Lucas

Issue 134, Term 3, 2025

r actively sought out resources to support a specific student’s interest or identity? Or discussed copyright issues with a colleague? Do you champion reading for enjoyment? Perhaps you’ve taken action to ensure that student and staff information is protected on your library management system or crea

The end of an era

By Michelle Harvey

Issue 93, Term 2 2015

2004, our list had increased to include distribution partners for a range of national and international publishers such as: Stenhouse, International Reading Association, Australian Children's Television Foundation, Hawker Brownlow Education, and Pembroke Publishers, to name a few. We were also able

It’s time: let’s improve schools' perceptions of teacher librarians

By Bev Novak

Issue 99, Term 4 2016

in the classroom, teachers act as role models on how best to utilise the skills of teacher librarians. The core ‘business’ of teacher librarians is reading and literacy. Locating the right book at the right time for an individual child or teacher is a skill that should be highly valued and utilise

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

By Nicole Richardson

Issue 101, Term 2 2017

rvices can be supplied by external platforms, library management systems (LMSs) can include features such as user-generated reviews, user tagging and reading lists, making the catalogue a rich, single location. User-generated content Welcoming the collaborative nature of Web 2.0 into the catalog

Internetting Corner

By Heather Kelsall

Issue 23, Term 4 1997

f Sydney has developed this site against tobacco. http://www.geocities.com/-spanoudilpoems More than 3000 poems written by 434 poets: well worth reading! http://www.poems.com An online anthology with at least one new poem added daily. http:www.scifi.com/sfw/ Reviews of new and classic

Have You Read This?

By Heather Kelsall

Issue 20, Term 1 1997

r 1996, No.59. Insite Vol.18 Issue 2, February 1997 features informative reports from State and Federal parliamentary libraries and is worth reading from cover to cover! Nick Bannenburg , Queensland Parliamentary Librarian maintains that with the ever-increasing involvement of government i

Internetting Corner

By Heather Kelsall

Issue 19, Term 4 1996

This business headlines service from Yahoo is a direct feed from Reuters. http://sunsite.unc.edu/ipa/index.html Poetry on-line, with three poets reading from their own work: Milosz, Heaney & Levine. http://ucunix.uc.edu/- edavis.kids-list/crafts.html A collection of practical craft activitie

News from the Information Program Continued

By Barbara Burr

Issue 10, Term 3 1994

ach the limits of frustration, try these three possibilities which may account for a number of those 'missing' items. 1. Frame Index (or grids) Reading from the frame or grid index at the bottom right hand side of each sheet it may seem that, alphabetically, the item is not there. However, thi

What's New

By Heather Kelsall

Issue 21, Term 2 1997

ead sentence beside the date. To produce the full article clients simply click on the headline. As newspaper text is generally recognised as having a reading age of 12+, this database is useful for providing information suitable for all levels of secondary students and covers most areas of the curri

Ten easy tips to be a library rockstar

By Gwyneth Jones

Issue 109, Term 2 2019

dventure! 5. Be mission-driven Consider writing a mission statement. Think about what matters to you. Is your library program focused on lifelong reading and literacy, creativity, constructivist learning, the maker movement? Is it future-ready, brain-centred, participatory, transparent, positive

Windows and mirrors: Visibility and representation in Australian LGBTQIA+ YA fiction

By Nell Day

Issue 113, Term 2 2020

bled mum … two mums, … a donor, … a transgender grandmother, and yet ... there are so many people who are not in the picture books that most kids are reading. And I know from personal experience that when you don’t see yourself in books, it’s damaging … It’s not just about what people are saying … i