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Authority File Maintenance - An Ongoing Task

By Carolyn Brown and Jane Withers

Issue 36, Term 1 2001

ken in manageable batches, working with a 20-page printout of subject entries at one time. The entries are checked for spelling, consistency with the SCIS Subject Headings Fourth Edition, common appearance, appropriateness and, in some cases where there is doubt, whether there are actually resources

Dial Up

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 1, Term 1 1992

When using any Dial-Up service the user should do their thinking before going on-line. In relation to the SCIS database, if you are going to do some SEARCHING of resources to locate the SCIS Order Number, using the ISBN's as the search term (a quick way), sort the books with the ISBN's showing an

Issue 88 Summary

By Meelee Soorkia

Issue 88, Term 1 2014

Inanimate Alice : true transmedia Bill Boyd, independent literacy consultant School library collections survey 2013 Clare Kennedy, Student SCIS is more Pru Mitchell, Education Services Australia New and revised subject headings Soula Kipos, Education Services Australia Supporting

Issue 85 Summary

By Anthea Amos

Issue 85, Term 2 2013

d app reviews Nigel Paull, South Grafton Public School, NSW Captions as a literacy and learning tool Allayne Woodford, Media Access Australia SCIS is more... Pru Mitchell, Education Services Australia Resourcing the curriculum: focus on career development myfuture, CareersNZ and the Rea

Issue 82 Summary

By Anthea Amos

Issue 82, Term 3 2012

pportunities and the library catalogue Barbara Combes, Charles Sturt University Website reviews Nigel Paull, South Grafton Public School, NSW SCIS is more... Pam Kadow, Education Services Australia Teaching global citizenship Catherine McNicol, Education Services Australia Ready to I

Issue 64 Summary

By Editor

Issue 64, Term 1 2008

ege, QLD Bringing teachers to the library Isobel Williams, via Access Internetting corner Nigel Paull, South Grafton Public School, NSW SCISWeb handy hints New and revised subject headings SCIS news It’s in the procedures book Mary Alice Anderson, Winona Area Public Schoo

Issue 63 Summary

By Editor

Issue 63, Term 4 2007

ista Mood, Narooma High School ABS brings data to life in the classroom Internetting corner Nigel Paull, South Grafton Public School, NSW SCISWeb handy hints SCIS news New and revised subject headings Secret library business – part 2 Renate Beilharz Copying podcasts in e

Issue 55 Summary

By Editor

Issue 55, Term 4 2005

ograms to support student learning Lyn Hay, Charles Sturt University, NSW Internetting corner Nigel Paull, South Grafton Primary School, NSW SCISWeb handy hints MindMatters Leanne Compton, MindMatters Reading for pleasure and literacy achievement Marion Meiers, ACER SCIS news

Retirement of Ms Marie McCorkell

By Lance Deveson

Issue 8, Term 4 1993

School users of the ASCIS (now SCIS) service will be saddened to learn of the retirement, due to ill health, of Ms Marie McCorkell as Business Manager at Curriculum Corporation. Marie has been with ASCIS and Curriculum Corporation for a period of almost 10 years and made a valuable contribution t

Microfiche Problems

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 7, Term 3 1993

eau is constantly trying new ways to improve the quality of the microfiche, but, in June got it wrong. In an effort to improve the readability of the SCIS Order Number on the fiche, DAT A COM reduced the size of the print that once reproduced made it quite hard to read. However, for the July and fol

In This Issue

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 1, Term 1 1992

ter also provides information about the new ABBREVIATED CATALOGUING MICROFICHE and a review of SEARCH. We also include some tips for effective use of SCIS Dial-Up. In future issues we will include letters to the editor and their replies. If you have any issues that you would like to raise please wri

New Directions for the Information Program

By Lance Deveson

Issue 6, Term 2 1993

The Curriculum Corporation Board decision of April 28 to move the SCIS database to a new software platform, Voyager, and communications platform by the start of the 1994 school year has great implications for the Information Program and the Staff. Information Staff are very enthusiastic about the

Educational Lending Right school library survey

By Daniel Hughes

Issue 120, Term 1 2022

Many thanks to the hundreds of school library staff members who participated in Educational Lending Right (ELR) 2021–22; the SCIS team is very grateful for your ongoing commitment to the creation of Australian books. The school library survey is conducted by Education Services Australia (ESA) on

Search

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 1, Term 1 1992

N. The information requested by a Search user can include items from the Curriculum Corporation databases: Schools Cataloguing Information Service (SCIS), Curriculum Information Network (CIN), Asian Studies, Environmental Education, Australian Studies, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander resourc

News from Curriculum Corporation

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 18, Term 3 1996

The SCIS Customer Service staff have recently been receiving a number of calls from customers with queries of a similar nature. In order to provide a more efficient service to our customers, we would like to address these queries in the points below. Rapid Retrospective (RR) RR is a Softlink

School library spotlight: Campbelltown Performing Arts High School

By Cathy Costello

Issue 101, Term 2 2017

young adult fiction books; included links to e-resources on my Virtual Library website; and uploaded credible websites to our library catalogue using SCIS Special Order Files. Most students simply want a comfortable indoor area away from the elements where they can sit and use their devices. This i

ASLA Australian Teacher Librarian Award 2021

By Kerry Pope

Issue 118, TERM 3 2021

esident, on 13 April at the ASLA/SLASA National Conference. The presentation was made by Caroline Hartley, the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS) manager. SCIS is the proud sponsor of this prestigious award. Anne’s passion for school libraries and teacher librarians has been a driving fo

Library catalogues and the World Wide Web: it takes two to tango

By Nicole Richardson

Issue 101, Term 2 2017

omparison to the wider internet. This article examines ways in which library catalogues can coexist, not compete, with the World Wide Web. Using the SCIS catalogue as an example, it discusses ways libraries can incorporate elements of the World Wide Web within their catalogues. One-stop catalogue

Library Automation in Australia

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 21, Term 2 1997

alternative OPAC 'front-ends' to the more traditional text-based or command-line interfaces. In Section Three, Penelope Maddick describes the role of SCIS cataloguing agencies and provides some revealing statistics about SCIS records and formats. Ellen Paxton demystifies MARC for teacher librarians

ASLA Conference and Awards 2023

By Australian School Library Association

Issue 124, Term 1 2023

he first presentation of the prestigious ASLA Australian Teacher Librarian Award, and we are proud to acknowledge that the award will be sponsored by SCIS. The Teacher Librarian Award recognises and honours an Australian teacher librarian who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession of