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SCIS is more

By Carmen Eastman

Issue 112, Term 1 2020

Welcome to 2020, and Issue 112 of Connections! We are looking forward to another busy year – look out for upcoming  professional learning sessions and webinars . We love talking with the SCIS community! When we are out and about at conferences, or in SCIS workshops, we are often asked about SCIS

Website and app reviews

By Nigel Paull

Issue 114, Term 3 2020

6 A past winner of Apple’s App of the Year, this brain training app has been created to enhance skills in writing, speaking, everyday maths, and reading. Students are provided with a personalised program based on an introductory analysis. The scientific research underpinning the app’s developme

SCIS is more

By Caroline Hartley

Issue 118, TERM 3 2021

School libraries have been evolving over recent decades from traditional knowledge centres that house print collections and archives and where quiet reading, research and individual study are the norm, into modern and interactive learning hubs based on the library learning commons model. School l

ASLA Australian Teacher Librarian Award 2021

By Kerry Pope

Issue 118, TERM 3 2021

and programs that are at the heart of learning and teaching and that adhere to best practice in library standards. She continually shares her love of reading and literature with her students. Anne works hard with staff to analyse data and identify student needs. She works closely with teachers and s

Education in difficult times

By David de Carvalho

Issue 119, Term 4 2021

be more or less difficult depending on the correctness of their answers. This means better assessment and more precise results. By the time you are reading this, ACARA will have published the summary results. The insights provided by the data will be one measure we can look to when considering the

SCIS is more

By Dr Ben Chadwick

Issue 121, Term 2 2022

Some things are fundamental to providing a library service. Of course, you need a decent collection of resources, but you also need to support students to discover it, explore it and use it to meet their interests and research needs. Now, imagine a student came into your library and asked if you

SCIS is more

By Renate Beilharz

Issue 122, Term 3 2022

rs, and a working paper prepared if appropriate. Any other feedback or suggestions on SCIS services and products are also welcome. I hope you enjoy reading all the fascinating articles in this issue of Connections .

The professional learning hat

By Barbara Braxton

Issue 97, Term 2 2016

pt to those who focus on traditional teacher librarian professional learning, which is centred on nebulous goals such as increasing students’ love of reading, which is difficult to measure; or improving circulation statistics, which reveal nothing beyond the number of times a resource is checked out

Down the library path

By Bernadette Bennett, Kerry Gittens, Lynette Barker

Issue 92, Term 1 2015

be extended in a K-12 setting. We wanted a model that could encompass the new literacies being discussed – digital, visual, multi-modal. We were reading and discussing current research and ideas – Lee Crocket's work on 21st Century Fluencies, the International Society for Technology in Educatio

Genrefying the fiction collection

By Susan Davenport

Issue 102, Term 3 2017

‘What sort of books do you like reading?’ and ‘What do you do outside school?’ are two questions that I regularly find myself asking students looking for something to read. Usually the answer is a variation on ‘I dunno’, ‘Anything!’ or ‘Stuff’. Early in 2016, several things were on our radar rega

Students need great school libraries

By Nicole Richardson

Issue 109, Term 2 2019

Holly Godfree. ‘School libraries contribute in a really practical and significant way toward those things.’ Countless studies reveal that exposure to reading from a young age can positively and significantly impact the development of students’ literacy skills, and create emotionally intelligent, emp

Even better than the real thing? Virtual and augmented reality in the school library

By Dr Kay Oddone

Issue 110, Term 3 2019

life is like for children trapped in a war zone. Add a further layer to literature Be inspired by the beautiful War of Words , which features a reading of Siegfried Sassoon’s poem 'The kiss'. This app demonstrates how VR might engage students in poetry and literature through immersing them in

Supporting Australian book creators

By Anna Fienberg

Issue 116, Term 1 2021

o distract them from their hard work though, so I resist, after much dithering. The reason I’m writing so frankly to you is that I’ve just finished reading Elena Ferrante’s new novel, The Lying Lives of Adults , and she persuaded me to be absolutely truthful. It was her writing style as much as h

The need for diverse book collections

By Helen Caple, Ping Tian

Issue 122, Term 3 2022

ET 2020, p. 14) . One of the ways in which children can see their cultures, identities, abilities and strengths acknowledged and valued is through reading. That is, in the literature  that they engage with both inside the classroom and at home. For the young reader, this literature usually comes

Libraries, languages and free resources

By Jill Wilson

Issue 98, Term 3 2016

tudents about idioms used in Japan. Students undertaking this challenge go through some ‘training’ — a set of appropriate online resources — before reading and interacting with the short graphic novel story. They can collect snippets of cultural information, referred to as ‘treasures’, along the w

Information and critical literacy on the web

By Kay Oddone

Issue 96, Term 1 2016

  When researching or browsing the web, it is easy to follow one link after another, ending up somewhere completely different to where you started. Reading the URL is the best way to answer the question ‘where am I?’ It is a good idea to get in the habit of looking at the URL regularly to check th

Taking note of nonfiction

By Peter Macinnis

Issue 90, Term 3 2014

ions and the weirdness of adults. That's a good rule for books for younger people! A really good information book offers information to help further reading. This includes good captions on illustrations, as well as information on where the illustrations come from. For myself, good books sound nice

The future role of the teacher librarian

By Dr James E Herring

Issue 100, Term 1 2017

There may still be printed books in future school libraries, and, at least in the foreseeable future, there will be — perhaps mainly for recreational reading. Educational resources may increasingly be virtual and cloud-based, and they will no longer be bought and owned by the school, but will be acc

Navigating the information landscape through collaboration

By Elizabeth Hutchinson

Issue 101, Term 2 2017

s used to describe schools whose library is at the centre of learning. But just having a school library does not make students suddenly want to start reading or researching. School libraries need to be looked after and maintained to ensure that good quality resources are available, and the school li

Reviews

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 29, Term 2 1999

ses an organisation can have for an intranet and some of the pitfalls to avoid in setting one up. Reviewed by Nigel Paull, Editor Connections 'Reading sport' in Viewpoint6(4), Summer 1998, 6-11 Here is a collection of reviews for the ardent. and the not so ardent, sports fan. The contents