Issue 24

Achievement portfolios
See PORTFOLIOS IN EDUCATION

BALLET** (Replace)
[Replace See also MOVEMENT NOTATION]
See also CHOREOGRAPHY

BURNS AND SCALDS** (Addition)
x Sunburn

Choreography** [Replace] CHOREOGRAPHY
x Choreology; Dance notation; Movement notation
XX BALLET; DANCING

Choreology
See CHOREOGRAPHY

Dance notation
See CHOREOGRAPHY

DANCING** (Replace)
[Replace See also MOVEMENT NOTATION]
See also CHOREOGRAPHY

DOCUMENTATION** (Addition)
See also PORTFOLIOS IN EDUCATION
XX PORTFOLIOS IN EDUCATION

FUTURE** (Addition)
x Millennium; Third millennium

Millennium See FUTURE; SECOND COMING

MOVEMENT NOTATION** (Replace)
[Replace heading and references]
Movement notation
See CHOREOGRAPHY

PORTFOLIOS IN EDUCATION
See also DOCUMENTATION; REPORT WRITING
x Achievement portfolios; Student portfolios; Work samples
XX DOCUMENTATION; STUDENT EVALUATION; TEACHER EVALUATION; REPORT WRITING

REPORT WRITING** (Addition)
See also PORTFOLIOS IN EDUCATION
XX PORTFOLIOS IN EDUCATION

SECOND COMING** (Addition)
x Millennium

STUDENT EVALUATION** (Addition)
See also PORTFOLIOS IN EDUCATION

Student portfolios
See PORTFOLIOS IN EDUCATION

Sunburn
See BURNS AND SCALDS

TEACHER EVALUATION** (Addition)
See also PORTFOLIOS IN EDUCATION

Third millennium
See FUTURE

Work samples
See PORTFOLIOS IN EDUCATION

Genre headings

In response to requests from Teacher Librarians throughout Australia SCIS has developed a list of genre headings. The list will grow as new terms are needed. Students and teachers will be able to locate resources in these genres by using the genre heading as a subject heading. All fiction resources given a heading for the genre will also, if appropriate, be allocated a heading for the subject content of the text. For example, a resource in the genre science fiction about space travel will have the headings Science Fiction and Space Travel -Fiction. The addition of these headings will increase the flexibility of retrieval of fiction resources.

ADVENTURE STORIES
Use for works of fiction characterised by a mixture of drama, action and suspense.
x Adventure and Adventurers -Fiction; Stories
XX FICTION

ANIMAL STORIES
Use for works of fiction in which the main action is about animals
x Animals -Fiction

AUSTRALIAN STORIES
Use for works of fiction set in Australia
x Australia -Fiction

CHOOSE YOUR OWN STORIES
Use for works of fiction that present the reader with choices at the end of each chapter or piece of action.

CRIME STORIES
Use for works of fiction in which a murder or crime is committed and solved.
See also MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE STORIES
x Crime -Fiction; Detective Stories
XX MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE STORIES

FAMILY SAGAS
Use for works of fiction about several generations of a family. In family sagas there is a common thread connecting the generations and the story may be told in several books.
See also FAMILY -FICTION
XX FAMILY -FICTION

FANTASY**(Replacement/Addition)
[Replace references] Use for works of fiction set in a world where the laws of science do not apply and in which magic, strange and mythical beings and creatures can exist. For works about Fantasy as a literature form see the heading FANTASY -HISTORY AND CRITICISM.
See also LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS -FICTION; SCIENCE FICTION; SPACE -FICTION; TIME TRAVEL -FICTION
x Fantastic fiction
XX LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS -FICTION; SCIENCE FICTION; SPACE -FICTION; TIME TRAVEL -FICTION

HISTORICAL FICTION**(Replacement)
[Replace scope note and references] Use for works of fiction based upon real historical events and characters.
For works about Historical Fiction as a literary form see the heading HISTORICAL FICTION -HISTORY AND CRITICISM.
x History -Fiction; Fiction, Historical; Historical Novel
XX HISTORY

HORROR STORIES
Use for works of fiction that aim to scare the reader.
See also MONSTERS -FICTION; MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE STORIES; SUPERNATURAL STORIES
x Frightening stories; Scary stories; Shocking stories; Stories, Horror; Terror stories
XX MONSTERS -FICTION; MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE STORIES; SUPERNATURAL STORIES.

HUMOROUS STORIES
Use for works of fiction that aim to make the reader laugh.
x Funny stories; Stories, Funny; Stories, Humorous
XX WIT AND HUMOUR

LOVE STORIES
Use for works of fiction that tell the story of a romantic relationship.
For works about Love Stories as a literary form see the heading LOVE STORIES -HISTORY AND CRITICISM.
x Dating (Social Customs) -Fiction; Love -Fiction; Romantic fiction; Romance

MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE STORIES
Use for works in which the main character has a problem or a mystery in their lives to solve.
See also CRIME STORIES; HORROR STORIES
x Mystery stories; Suspense stories
XX CRIME STORIES; HORROR STORIES

NEW ZEALAND STORIES
Use for works of fiction set in New Zealand
x New Zealand -Fiction

SCHOOL STORIES
Use for works of fiction that have their main action set in a school
x Schools -Fiction; School students -Fiction; Boarding schools -Fiction

SCIENCE FICTION**(Replacement)
[Replace scope note and references] Use for works of fiction that draw on scientific knowledge in their plot, setting or theme.
For works about Science fiction as a literary form see the heading SCIENCE FICTION -HISTORY AND CRITICISM
See also FANTASY; LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS -FICTION; SCIENCE FICTION FILMS; SPACE -FICTION; TIME TRAVEL -FICTION
x Fiction, Science
XX FANTASY; LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS -FICTION; SCIENCE FICTION FILMS; SPACE -FICTION; TIME TRAVEL -FICTION

STORIES IN RHYME
Use for simple stories written in rhyme
x Rhymes

SUPERNATURAL STORIES
Use for works of fiction about supernatural beings and events.
See also GHOSTS -FICTION; HORROR STORIES; WITCHES AND WARLOCKS -FICTION
x Supernatural -Fiction
XX GHOSTS -FICTION; HORROR STORIES; WITCHES AND WARLOCKS -FICTION

WESTERNS
Use for works of fiction, whether text or film, set in the West of the United States of America.
x Motion Pictures, Westerns; Westerns (Motion pictures)
XX COWHANDS -FICTION; MOTION PICTURES

WORDLESS STORIES
Use for works of fiction in which the story is told in pictures and there are no words.
See also PICTURE BOOKS
x Books without words; No-text books; Stories without words
XX PICTURE BOOKS

A handout detailing how these Genre headings are integrated with the SCIS Subjects Headings is available from Curriculum Corporation and on the Curriculum Corporation Home page http://www.curriculum.edu.au

Can't Find Your Item on SCIS?

The SCIS database contains over 600,000 bibliographic records and each month this figure grows by approximately 3,000 records. Occasionally there may be times when you discover that SCIS hasn't catalogued your item. What should you do?

Contact your SCIS Cataloguing Agency.

SCIS has Cataloguing Agencies throughout Australia provided by and located within the Ministries of Education. The SCIS Agencies collect a wide variety of resources (monographs; videorecordings; CD ROMs; sound recordings) for cataloguing from a number of sources: publishers; bookshops; booksellers and Ministry of Education departments. Most of the resources, however, are contributed by you, the Teacher Librarian, in schools throughout Australia. In order to keep the database current and relevant for all SCIS users, SCIS relies upon TLs to advise us when recent publications are not on SCIS and share these resources with a SCIS Cataloguing Agency so they can be catalogued onto the database. This cooperation benefits everyone; the TL providing the resources ensures their items are catalogued and other TLs throughout Australia who acquire the same items are able to find their records on SCIS.

Resources received for cataloguing

SCIS is investigating new ideas and methods to help you identify if SCIS has records for your items.

Presently one of the SCIS Agencies, located in the Education Department of Western Australia has established a Resources received for cataloguing list on their Website. http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/centoff/cmis/catalog/received. htm

Accessing this list will let you see at a glance, which resources have arrived in the W.A. Agency, (one of SCIS' largest contributors of catalogue records) and are about to be catalogued. Estimates on when you can expect these records to be available for downloading or ordering are also provided. This information will enable you to more accurately assess which of your resources are not known to SCIS and will need to be accessed by an Agency in order to be catalogued.

The Resources received for cataloguing list is updated daily. Before contacting your SCIS Agency about uncatalogued resources, we encourage you to save some time and search this list to see if the items you are looking for are in the process of being catalogued.

SCIS Cataloguing Agencies

If you know that SCIS hasn't catalogued your resources, contact the SCIS Agency nearest to you for details about how to obtain SCIS cataloguing records for your items.

Western Australia
Curriculum Materials Information Services
Education Department of Western Australia
151 Royal Street
East Perth WA 6004

Bev Blackwell
Ph: 08 9264 4927
Fax: 08 9264 5708
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/centoff/cmis/ home.htm

South Australia
Library and Information Services
Bibliographic Support Services
8 Milner Street
Hindmarsh, SA 5007

Noel Carthew
Ph: 08 8340 4961
Fax: 08 8346 7612
Email: [email protected]

Victoria
Statewide School Library Support Centre
217 -225 Church St
Richmond VIC 3121

Mavis Heffernan
Ph: 03 9428 5800
Fax: 03 9427 1329
Email: [email protected]

Queensland
Open Access Unit
SCIS Cataloguing
PO Box E2
Woolloongabba QLD 4102

Ph: 1800 800 401 or 07 3406 2463
Fax: 07 3406 2465
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://nslib.qed.qld.gov.au/oau-olcl ib/ webinqu.dll?

New South Wales
Dept. of School Ed.
Private Bag 3A
Ryde NSW 2112

Ph: 02 9886 7595
Fax: 02 9886 7413
Email: [email protected]

Tasmania ; ACT; Northern Territory
Contact SCIS at Curriculum Corporation

Ph: 03 9207 9600
Fax: 03 9639 1616
Email: [email protected]

Hit Rate Review

In order to ensure the SCIS database continues to contain cataloguing data which is relevant to school collections, Curriculum Corporation aims to not only maintain but , increase the SCIS 'hit rate' (the ratio of ' materials searched for and then located on the SCIS database) from its present high level.

As reported in the last edition of Connections, SCIS has recently undertaken a review of its collection procedures and policies. The review is focussing on identifying any gaps in the database and developing procedures for improving our resource collection methods, particularly in those States/Territories whose Ministries of Education do not provide a SCIS Agency.

In the next few months we will be seeking a range of information and advice from Teacher Librarians in relation to our Hit Rate Review. We look forward to your cooperation.