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New Zealand News
By Merilyn Small
Issue 14, Term 3 1995
Two Current Information Networks (CINs) are presently operating through secondary school libraries in Christchurch. In the last Connections issue Rosa-Jane wrote of N .Z. students increasing demand for journal articles through access to Index New Zealand CD ROM (INNZ) . The CINs have been set up
The Internet Letters
By Dianne Lewis
Issue 10, Term 3 1994
received responses to my article from colleagues in Victoria, Queensland and NSW. If you are interested in being part of a lobby group to ensure that school libraries do not miss the boat, please contact me. Dear Dianne, I write in response to your article on Access to the Internet. As a priva
Staff Profile
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 3, Term 3 1992
son. Nicole graduated in 1991 and has had a variety of jobs before coming to the Corporation including work in Public libraries and voluntary work in School libraries.
Libraries: An American Value
By Lance Deveson
Issue 14, Term 3 1995
pted to visit as many stands as possible that related to library automation and also to discover if there is in America a service similar to SCIS for school libraries. Whilst I came away with the impression that the library systems offered or recommended for school libraries in Australia are world c
Tales of friendship: Jack's Best Day Ever
By Gabrielle Bassett
Issue 126, Term 3 2023
oo noisy). That way readers can just enjoy it as a fun story, or they can choose to ask why Jack is doing certain things. What role do you think school libraries play in making school a safer place for neurodiverse children? School libraries are the heart of any school. They provide a safe,
CC News
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 24, Term 1 1998
-sleeved Collingwood jumper, a beanie and a pair of appalling football shorts, it is hard to remember that he is a significant national figure in the school libraries network. But he is. He is the only one of us who is genuinely regarded as a guru by his peers. I sometimes, in moments of weakness, a
Celebrating the school library officer
By Madeleine Galbraith
Issue 103, Term 4 2017
(Hobbs 2016). In fact, the cheer came from Western Australia’s school library officers. These inspiring people can tell amazing stories of running school libraries through their dedication, enthusiasm, resourcefulness, and connectedness. Love of their libraries and students is evident in everythi
Supporting Australian book creators
By Nicole Richardson, James Moloney
Issue 98, Term 3 2016
s there for us, which is why we are so grateful to the library staff who take the time to facilitate the survey. What we want most is to be read, and school libraries mean that more children and teenagers have access to our books than ever before. The down side is that one copy in a library, which
Supporting Australian book creators
By Nicole Richardson, Simmone Howell
Issue 96, Term 1 2016
ice (SCIS), on behalf of the department, asks 600 schools across the country each year to retrieve a book count of particular titles that are held in school libraries. A minimum of 300 schools are needed to participate in the survey. The data collected is then used to generate payment for eligible b
SCISWeb is a Winner
By Fay Gardiner
Issue 27, Term 4 1998
with machines (dating back only to the beginning of 1997) which came without appropriate drives, and companies which are divorced from any concept of school libraries as desperately busy places maintained by people who work in a constantly time-voracious state. The revelation that I could use our Ma
News from Curriculum Corporation
By Lance Deveson
Issue 22, Term 3 1997
wser which will allow you to download SCIS cataloguing records online. We believe that these two products provide the highest level of service that school libraries could want, and will be the basis for SCIS into the next millennium. As part of a strategic review process that we have undertaken
The Information superhighway – implications for education
By Dianne Lewis
Issue 11, Term 4 1994
Bruce spoke about the use of new technologies in schools and in particular the possibilities of the Internet for schools. He also commented that many school libraries that he had visited were at the vanguard of these exciting new developments. There were numerous sessions devoted to accessing the
Have You Read This?
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 11, Term 4 1994
The international network by Laurel A Clyde and Margaret Butterworth. It contains interesting information concerning internet gophers suitable for school libraries and some school internet statistics, p 208-210. Reviews of CD-ROM encyclopedias in Information at your fingertips by John Hilvert
News from the Information Program - SCIS On-Line in 1995
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 11, Term 4 1994
ools. Connections subscribers will have noticed that in the last edition, Maria Keys enclosed a one-page survey of telecommunication equipment in school libraries. The response was overwhelming ( over 500 replies) and this has again reinforced the thinking of the Information Program that schools
SCIS is more
By Ben Chadwick
Issue 103, Term 4 2017
exciting times, indeed. Over the past three years SCIS has changed from being the service that provides MARC records to Australian and New Zealand school libraries to being an international provider of gold-standard bibliographic data for the K–12 education sector. Importantly, SCIS is not a face
SCIS as a resource selection aid
By Nicole Richardson
Issue 104, Term 1 2018
d approximately 4,500 catalogue records to the database each month. The resources come from a range of sources, including publishers, booksellers and school libraries. We are always on the lookout for publishers with whom to partner. We even find inspiration for the SCIS catalogue on social media. H
Cover images and SCIS
By Renate Beilharz
Issue 109, Term 2 2019
Cover images have now become a part of most public interfaces to library catalogues, and school libraries use them to promote resources and reading. ESA has been offering cover images to schools as part of their subscription since 2008. This article explains how school library staff can use these w
SCIS is more
By Caroline Hartley
Issue 114, Term 3 2020
e-learning, publishing and educational services across K–12 and higher education. I’m thrilled to join Education Services Australia and work with our school libraries. The Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS) wishes to acknowledge the Kulin Nation, Traditional Custodians of the land on whi
Reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 26, Term 3 1998
Collection Management Issues Providing more with less: collection management for Australian school libraries is the aptly named title of a recently published book, edited by Ken Dillon and James Henri of Charles Sturt University. This comprehensive work tackles the problem school libraries ar
LIFT: From little things ...
By Madeleine Galbraith and the LIFT team
Issue 108, Term 1 2019
ns for the excellence awards came in from all over the state. LIFT is just one example of the many groups getting creative in their efforts to help school libraries survive and thrive. It is more than a network, it is a community. To date, we have organised 24 workshops in three years, and plan ma