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Issue 68 Summary
By Editor
Issue 68, Term 1 2009
library resources and information literacy Via Curriculum and Leadership Journal Website reviews Nigel Paull, South Grafton Primary School SCIS is more ... New and revised subject headings Challenges for teacher librarianship in the 21st century: Part 3 – Status and role Barbara
Issue 62 Summary
By Editor
Issue 62, Term 3 2007
Using books and online resources to promote reading, writing and research Internetting corner Nigel Paull, South Grafton Public School, NSW SCISWeb handy hints SCIS news New and revised subject headings Secret library business Renate Beilharz Blogging – the new electronic
Issue 61 Summary
By Editor
Issue 61, Term 2 2007
lude: Competing in a Google world Catherine Leonard, Softlink NZ Creating a literate school community Marj Kirkland, Aquinas College, QLD SCIS news APEC – Strengthening our Community Kurt Mullane, Asia Education Foundation Internetting corner Nigel Paull, South Grafton Public Sc
Issue 58 Summary
By Editor
Issue 58, Term 3 2006
oogle Science literacy and the school librarian Peter Macinnis, Author Internetting corner Nigel Paull, South Grafton Primary School, NSW SCISWeb handy hints New and revised subject headings SCIS news CSU celebrates the 30th anniversary of its library education programs Drs
Issue 57 Summary
By Editor
Issue 57, Term 2 2006
Merchandising and space management for libraries Kevin Hennah, Consultant Internetting corner Nigel Paull, South Grafton Primary School, NSW SCISWeb handy hints SCIS news CensusAtSchool – a whole school project for 2006 Ian Wong, Australian Bureau of Statistics New and revise
Issue 43 Summary
By Editor
Issue 43, Term 4 2002
Connections is only available in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: OPAC Searching Bruce Moir, National Library of New Zealand SCISWeb handy hints Stick to the Subject! Margaret Quill CC News Teaching and Learning at the State Library of Victoria Gordon White, St
The “Blue” (Subject Authority) Microfiche
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 5, Term 1 1993
1. Firstly the microfiche provides a list of those subject headings which have been created and added to the database since the publication of the ASCIS Subject Headings List 2nd. edition. (1988). 2. The ASCIS Subject Headings List book is obviously not a complete list of all appropriate headi
In this Issue
By Dianne Lewis
Issue 3, Term 3 1992
ming!!) and a questionnaire for you to complete. Do you have a project or idea that you would like to share, or a comment on the newsletter or on the SCIS operation? Please write to The Editor c/-Curriculum Corporation.
What's New
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 12, Term 1 1995
bed divider for easy access. There is a new edition annually, and the cost includes an update mid year. New services to be included in 1995 will be SCIS and NEXUS. $110 (includes update) QUINN Sherrey. Recipe book of online searching . 13th ed. Doncaster: Online Information Resources, 1994
Handy Hints: ASCISRECON
By Nicole England
Issue 7, Term 3 1993
Included here are answers to some of the most commonly asked questions over our Helpline: Q. How long will my ASCISRECON file take to be processed and returned to my school? A The tum around time for ASCISRECON is approximately two weeks from the actual processing date. The processing dates lis
New Subject Headings
By Ellen Paxton
Issue 5, Term 1 1993
Below are a sample of some of the new subject headings which can be found in the latest SUBJECT HEADING AUTHORITY MICROFICHE or if you are using the SCIS Database on-line. Scope notes that will appear in the next edition of the SCIS SUBJECT HEADINGS LIST have been included for clarification. ACI
Educational Lending Right School Library Survey
By Keith Gove
Issue 35, Term 4 2000
ed Curriculum Corporation to conduct the Educational Lending Right School Library Survey in October-November 2000. The project will be managed by the SCIS Unit at Curriculum Corporation. The Educational Lending Right (ELR) School Library Survey project is a program of the Commonwealth Government's
Supporting Australian book creators
By The ELR team
Issue 106, Term 3 2018
d in libraries. In Term 4, Australian schools will be invited to participate in the annual Educational Lending Right (ELR) School Library Survey. SCIS manages this survey on behalf of the Department of Communications and the Arts in order to determine estimated holdings of particular titles in A
School library spotlight: Toowoomba State High School
By Lorraine Petersen
Issue 113, Term 2 2020
ce of the large graphic novel section encourages many students who wouldn’t otherwise read novels to hire books. What is your favourite thing about SCIS? We previously accessed SCIS Data through manual requests and imports from the old SCIS website into our old, server-based LMS’s. At that time,
School library spotlight: Academy of Mary Immaculate
By Anne Chowne
Issue 111, Term 4 2019
and competitions. If students want a quiet space to read, they venture into the fiction library across the hall. What is your favourite thing about SCIS? The best thing about SCIS is not having to do original cataloguing or use microfiche to find the records (now I’m showing my age!), and we can
School library spotlight: One Arm Point Remote Community School
By Mel Rowsell
Issue 115, Term 4 2020
Our rule is to use happy voices in the library and a little noise is OK as long as we’re all enjoying ourselves. What is your favourite thing about SCIS? SCIS does not catalogue the Dreaming in 398 with mythology and folklore – instead SCIS uses the unassigned 298 to class the religion, spiritua
Taking the guesswork out of genre
By Brendan Eichholzer
Issue 91, Term 4 2014
ground, where author arrangement and genre stickers combine to promote exposure to different titles as well as independent access. It is our job at SCIS to ensure we meet the needs of school librarians in creating an easily accessible library catalogue, where every physical item has a distinct and
School library spotlight: The King's School Senior Library
By The King's School Library team
Issue 127, Term 4 2023
em opportunity to pursue their literary interests as a foundation for a lifelong love of reading and knowledge. What is your favourite thing about SCIS? SCIS is used across all three campuses of the King’s School, and we would expect each campus uses it differently, according to need. In the S
Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT): Read all over
By Les Kneebone
Issue 91, Term 4 2014
link between the standards and resource that may support their objectives. ScOT and MARC: Machine-Readable Cataloguing ScOT is no stranger to the SCIS database and has been used within SCIS cataloguing standards for about seven years . However the mechanism for loading, updating and maintaining
SCISWeb is a Winner
By Fay Gardiner
Issue 27, Term 4 1998
In October last year, the word filtered through that our SCIS cataloguing records would be available via the Internet in 1998, with a flat annual fee and unlimited access to download records. Setting up a library in a new school, as I am, on a shoestring budget, as most of us are, every dollar coun