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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

Issue 49 Summary

By Editor

Issue 49, Term 2 2004

nly available in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: Professional Standards for Australian Teacher Librarians Di Ballantyne, ASLA SCISWeb handy hints Sharing the Future – ALIA and ASLA Working Together Anne Girolami, ALIA–ASLA Policy Advisory Group ALIA/ASLA Statement on

Issue 48 Summary

By Editor

Issue 48, Term 1 2004

e of Libraries in the Online Environment Dr Derek Drinkwater, Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Committee. SCISWeb handy hints The Book Bunker Jenny Katauskas, Book Bunker Books of the Future Ben Haywood, via The Age SCIS news Release of

'A valuable national asset...'

By Tricia Nathan

Issue 32, Term 1 2000

In launching the SC!S Subject Headings Fourth Edition Keith Gove, Manager of Information Services at Curriculum Corporation, described the SCIS Subject Headings as 'a valuable national asset' and 'a unique contribution to the use of Australasian terms, language and cultural ideas in schools'. The