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Looking back: school library catalogues and the online revolution
By Lance Deveson
Issue 100, Term 1 2017
s helped to create. Funded by the Commonwealth Schools Commission, Down and Young’s research explored and analysed the concept of a national schools’ cataloguing service, which would later become the model for the Australian Schools Catalogue Information Services (ASCIS) pilot project. But I get ahe
Welcome to 1999
By Kevin Gove
Issue 28, Term 1 1999
amining ways of enriching both the scope and depth of SCIS records. A national project is underway to examine the costs and benefits of creating SCIS cataloguing records for selected Internet sites. We will also explore the costs and benefits of including additional details (such as reviews or table
SCIS and its continued success
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 17, Term 2 1996
While their prime function is to input cataloguing data, Agency personnel are also involved in the development of SCIS products. Each school has the right of access to Voyager via the digital communication network Sprintnet for the cost of a local phone call through their State agency. Ea
Issue 49 Summary
By Editor
Issue 49, Term 2 2004
extbook Collection Kristen Thornton, Deakin University, VIC Planning for a New School Library Kaye Carvosso, Bunbury Cathedral Grammar School Cataloguing Websites – Some Frequently Asked Questions Mavis Heffernan, SCIS New and revised subject headings SCIS Genre Headings Leonie Bour
Issue 48 Summary
By Editor
Issue 48, Term 1 2004
Corporation Internetting corner Nigel Paull, South Grafton Primary School, NSW Cunningham Library Introduces New Services Louise Reynolds Cataloguing Computer Software: Some Frequently Asked Questions Mavis Heffernan, SCIS SLANZA’S Powerful Conference Andrea Thomson, National Librar
Issue 38 Summary
By Editor
Issue 38, Term 3 2001
ia Mavis Heffernan, Statewide School Library Support Centre, VIC School Libraries, Literacy Week and the Let’s Read Expo Mary Ellen Ray, DEET Cataloguing News
What's New?
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 33, Term 2 2000
y have now been catalogued, however, if there is no record for a particular video when searching the SCIS database, please forward the item to a SCIS cataloguing agency. It is usual to search SCIS OPAC for these titles, however, there is a spreadsheet on our website with the titles and SCIS number
Handy Hints for SCISWeb
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
DDC13 or DDC21. Can't Find Your Item On SCIS? If you do not get a 'hit' when ordering a catalogue record for a resource you may wish to contact a cataloguing agency to make arrangements for the item to be catalogued. Before doing so, confirm details by using a title or author search in WEBOPAC.
CC News
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
ticular case. Hopefully, there is a simple explanation of apparent over-use, and further action will not be necessary. SCIS Subiect Headings SCIS cataloguing staff are continuing to update the subject headings list in preparation for publication of the fourth edition of sets Subject Headings and
What's New?
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
ALIA Merit Award Congratulations to Michelle Ellis, Senior Curriculum Advisor. Library and I nformation Literacy, with the NSW Department of Educat i on and Training (Michelle is also the Manager of the New South Wales SC IS
School library spotlight: One Arm Point Remote Community School
By Mel Rowsell
Issue 115, Term 4 2020
the library consisted of a few half-assembled shelves and a lot of uncared-for books. Initially my job was to organise the space; find and acquire a cataloguing system; select, deselect and acquire resources for the collection; and catalogue, label and shelve the collection in the newly formed spac
Addressing reconciliation in a school setting
By Jan Poona
Issue 94, Term 3 2015
a teacher librarian in a government primary school for many years. In this time, not only have I taught students but I have made decisions regarding cataloguing and shelving books in the school library as well. I also have a close friend, Christine, who is an Aboriginal Elder and social worker, and
1999 SCIS Conference Report: Planning for 1999-2000
By Kevin Grove
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
, customer service, and cost effectiveness; and discussed a number of enhancements to the service and several service management issues. A trial of cataloguing Internet websites was endorsed. The trial will begin soon, for a duration of two school terms. Each agency will catalogue a number of webs
News from the Information Program
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 9, Term 2 1994
culum Corporation has completed are vision of the SCIS SUBJECT HEADINGS LIST . The revision of the book has been undertaken by the Western Australian Cataloguing Agency with assistance from all the SCIS cataloguing agencies. The revision includes many new headings and in particular 500 New Zealand h
SCIS is more
By Caroline Ramsden
Issue 104, Term 1 2018
e introduced the new-look SCIS website. Here are a few highlights to remind you of the ways in which the site can help you in your day-to-day work. Cataloguing services SCIS Data makes access to cataloguing services much easier. When you request ISBNs to download, any unmatched records are liste
SCIS is more
By Caroline Hartley
Issue 116, Term 1 2021
priorities for 2021 include ensuring that we provide a consistent and reliable service to our users, maintain the high level of quality of SCIS Data cataloguing records, and retain our high customer hit rate, which has hovered consistently around the 92–95% mark. A high hit rate means that we likel
Reviews of SCIS Subject Headings Fourth Edition
By Barbara Braxton, Barbara Shardlow, Rod Barker
Issue 33, Term 2 2000
Librarian My previous life must have been quite spectacular, because I seem to be paying for it now! Otherwise, why, just weeks after completing my cataloguing course at Library School, ruining my eyes and my brain trying to figure out the complexities of the SCIS Subject Headings Third Edition ,
CC News
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 25, Term 2 1998
funding. Curriculum Corporation, and the SCIS Unit within it, is required to operate on a cost recovery basis. The state agencies that undertake the cataloguing on behalf of SCIS receive some payment from SCIS for doing so. SCIS is a cooperative venture of all States and Territories, the Commonwe
SCIS is more
By Ben Chadwick
Issue 97, Term 2 2016
Welcome to Connections 97. It is a pleasure to introduce a new face in the SCIS team. In March we welcomed Doreen Sullivan to our cataloguing team in Melbourne. Doreen came to us with a long career in cataloguing, including work at RMIT and DA Direct. I’d like to thank our editor Nicole Richa
SCIS is more
By Ben Chadwick
Issue 100, Term 1 2017
aide. Mary and Chris have been working with us for many years and their retirement is a loss not only for SCIS, but for the Australia and New Zealand cataloguing community, to which both have contributed substantially over the years. We wish you well, super-cataloguers. We’ll continue our very fruit