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Addressing reconciliation in a school setting

By Jan Poona

Issue 94, Term 3 2015

I have been 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

SCIS interviews ASLA School Library Professional of the Year Award winner - Claire Elliott

By Article by the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 134, Term 3, 2025

ving before we decided to change anything. In reality, that lasted barely six months. During this initial period, we gathered feedback from English teachers, particularly the Head of English and others who were involved with our wide-reading program. What came through was that the program wasn’t n

Libraries, languages and free resources

By Jill Wilson

Issue 98, Term 3 2016

ree online resource with ample materials for learning Chinese, Japanese, and Indonesian, as well as some generic materials suitable for all languages teachers and library staff. What is the Language Learning Space? The remit for the Language Learning Space (LLS) was as follows: build a digital

Reviews

By Nigel Paull

Issue 30, Term 3 1999

rder number: 973194 Described as 'a visual snapshot of the best the Internet has to offer in 1999' this book is aimed at P-12 students, parents and teachers using the Internet in an educational context. Poppy Masselos, a Queensland teacher and educational columnist for The Courier Mail has compile

Reading the Future

By Dianne Hager

Issue 19, Term 4 1996

ge". Evolution and revolution in School Library Practice was addressed by Suzette. She stated: To create the future you have to challenge the past. Teacher librarians must take risks -think big, be creative leaders who know their own strengths and weaknesses and have clearly defined mission statem

School Library Spotlight: St Stephen's School

By Lise Legg

Issue 120, Term 1 2022

oy and use. I am responsible for leading and managing the teams in the libraries. I have an enthusiastic, knowledgeable and experienced team of four teacher librarians, one library technician and four library officers – most working on a part-time basis. I am responsible for budgets, staffing, acqu

Let's talk about literacy

By John Parsons

Issue 95, Term 4 2015

test, I've retained these core skills to this day, so there is no question the basics remain with you through life. It wasn't until Year 2 that one teacher made a real difference. She did it by reading books to me that, had anyone found out, in those days would have probably seen her disbarred: T

What's New?

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 33, Term 2 2000

ership with Curriculum Corporation, providing educational resources for cataloguing onto their database. This provides access to cataloguing data for Teacher Librarians who purchase our programs, as well as valuable information when searching for new resources. VEA will be gradually adding SCIS numb

Letters to the Editor

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 11, Term 4 1994

thport School Dear Ms Lewis, The School Library Associations of SA Committee is made up of the three committees of professional associations for teacher-librarians in South Australia: ALIA Schools section, Resource Centre Teachers Association (an association of the South Australian Institute of

Resources

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 35, Term 4 2000

.80 (1 copy per quarter), institution $74.80 (4 copies per quarter) EQ Australia is a quarterly journal tackling issues of day-to-day importance to teachers and educators. Published by people in education for people in education, EO Australia offers in-depth discussion and broad perspectives acros

AI insights

By Georgia Wignall

Issue 138, Term 3, 2026

A version of this article first appeared in the QSLA Term 2, 2026 newsletter. In the age of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), teacher librarians are uniquely positioned to lead whole-school conversation about information integrity, digital fluency and assessment design that cultiva

SCIS: News for subscribers

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 139, Term 4, 2026

amazing Italian recipes. Emma Rodgers | Customer Service and Sales Team Lead Originally from the UK, Emma began her career as a primary school teacher before moving into customer support within the digital education sector. She joined SCIS in early 2025, where her focus is on delivering excep

CC News

By Schools Catalogue Information Service

Issue 24, Term 1 1998

is. He is the only one of us who is genuinely regarded as a guru by his peers. I sometimes, in moments of weakness, agree to speak to conferences of Teacher Librarians. When I do, they wait impatiently through what I have to say, then all ask questions about Lance. 'How is Lance?' 'He was looking

Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT): Read all over

By Les Kneebone

Issue 91, Term 4 2014

ducation resources. ScOT tagging of the two final learning areas, Languages and Work Studies, is in progress. Australian Professional Standards for Teachers The 'Teacher standards' have recently been migrated onto the PoolParty platform and are hosted at Australian Education Vocabularies ( AEV )

Reviews

By George Przywolnik

Issue 33, Term 2 2000

with such occasional minor problems. Such errors may arise in part from the difficulty of simplifying complex ideas (as the renowned physicist and teacher Richard Sears once wrote, 'Teaching thermal physics is as easy as a song. You think you make it simple when you make it slightly wrong'). The

Books Aren't Dead!

By Staff Methodist Ladies College

Issue 30, Term 3 1999

'Leading the Way -Forming an Information Literate School Community' hosted at Methodist Ladies' College in Melbourne in May and attended by over 250 teachers, librarians and principals. Jamie McKenzie, from the USA, is recognised as a leading educational thinker and, since 1991, has published and e

Online Encyclopaedias

By Nigel Paull

Issue 30, Term 3 1999

tures streaming audio and video, the ability to print sections of an article, articles from daily, weekly and monthly publications, study aids, maps, teacher resources and links to Internet sites that have been selected and monitored by their editorial staff. The innovative Grolier Online contains

SCISWeb is a Winner

By Fay Gardiner

Issue 27, Term 4 1998

he backlog that had accumulated in quite a wondrous way considering I had run out of money about June. How could I forget that the forces that thwart Teacher Librarians' good intentions live and breed in the heady world of books? My problems were associated with machines (dating back only to the beg

News from Curriculum Corporation

By Lance Deveson

Issue 17, Term 2 1996

om INTERNET Addresses via KEVLINK Keylink can send and receive mail from other Users who have Internet Email addresses. To SEND to these schools, teacher /librarians, all you need to do is to know their Internet address and Add that to your SCISLINK Address book, within the FILE menu. For exam

Have you Read This?

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 7, Term 3 1993

s. Some interesting articles have appeared recently on this topic. Using bulletin boards to exchange classroom resources by John Widmer discusses why teachers should be using this electro~ic medium to share information. (Compak, no 3, June 1993, p 72-76.) If you feel inclined to have a go, Telecompu