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Haven't subscribed to SCIS in 2025? Learn why you should.
Fri, 17 Jan 2025
Discover how SCIS supports school libraries with high-quality cataloguing services that save time, ensure consistency, and connect your collection to the Australian Curriculum. Learn why thousands of schools rely on SCIS to enhance their library’s impact and streamline resource management.
In 2024 we celebrated our 40th Anniversary
Fri, 17 Jan 2025
Explore the milestones, achievements, and stories that have shaped SCIS over the past 40 years. From our early beginnings to supporting modern school libraries, our timeline celebrates the evolution of cataloguing and its role in education.
Attend our free, essential introductory SCIS session in February 2025
Fri, 17 Jan 2025
Introductory webinar: Welcome to SCIS
Tuesday February 18, 2PM AEDT
Understand how SCIS supports your school library. Discover time-saving cataloguing tools and explore other practical features in this essential introductory session.
SCIS services are important in ensuring efficiency and quality in our cataloguing processes. SCIS provides an authority set that is school-catalogue appropriate and meets our curricula needs. The Dewey classification is thorough and systematic. I unreservedly recommend SCIS to library professionals.
Robert George
Head of Libraries
The Alice Smith School, Malaysia
SCIS is great. It’s really, really helped my cataloguing. It has such a high hit rate, especially as SCIS has got so many English schools now. I would say the hit rate is about 98%. The ability to enter a book that SCIS doesn’t have a catalogue record for, and to ask for it to be done for you is just great. I love that.
Caroline Roche
Librarian
Eltham College, UK
SCIS is an essential pillar within the school library community. Through the provision of accurate and comprehensive catalogue records, as well as their strong role in advocacy and professional learning, SCIS plays an active and vital role. I recommend their high-quality and timely services to any school library.
Kay Oddone
Teacher Librarian
Queensland, Australia
Library management systems
SCIS works with providers of library management systems to ensure the most efficient delivery of SCIS products and services. Subject to agreement, library system vendors are offered complimentary access to SCIS products for the purposes of development, testing and demonstration.
University and TAFE educators
SCIS supports university and TAFE educators in training and developing future librarians with essential cataloguing skills. Subject to agreement, lecturers of librarianship courses are offered complimentary access to SCIS for their students to use as part of their studies.
Publishers and content providers
SCIS works closely with a number of publishers, distributors and suppliers. By arranging for new, high demand titles to be catalogued in the SCIS database, publishers have an additional avenue for reaching their market and customers have a consistent resource management solution.