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Addressing reconciliation in a school setting

By Jan Poona

Issue 94, Term 3 2015

299.9215. And that's a win for reconciliation! Teacher librarians, SCIS, and reconciliation Dreaming stories are purchased in their thousands by school libraries and used with school children as part of the curriculum. However, few teacher librarians would do their own cataloguing. Instead, the

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

By Nicole Richardson

Issue 101, Term 2 2017

s, it’s also an ideal selection aid that can eliminate another step in your selection process, and point you in the direction of resources that other school libraries are using. While these services can be supplied by external platforms, library management systems (LMSs) can include features such a

Emily Rodda on treasured stories

By Nicole Richardson

Issue 108, Term 1 2019

his”. It’s all about putting the right book into the hands of the person who is going to love it — and having the knowledge to be able to do that.’ School libraries as saviours ‘Stories should be at the absolute centre of any education,’ Emily says. It is for this reason that she has been dishea

SCIS interviews Teacher Librarian Award winner Megan Daley

By Megan Daley

Issue 126, Term 3 2023

of my teenage years watching her do her teacher librarian degree, and then doing kind of unofficial work experience or volunteering as a child in her school libraries. When I was at uni, I would do her Book Week displays with her and I would download SCIS records for her – SCIS has actually always b

Australian Children’s Laureate 2024–25: Sally Rippin

By Interview article by the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 129, Term 2 2024

xciting that this might prompt an overhaul in our education system and hopefully mean that all children will get the teaching they need. With some school libraries experiencing budget and staffing reductions in 2024, as well as some being dissolved into classroom libraries, do you believe librari

Stories make us: in conversation with Morris Gleitzman

By Nicole Richardson

Issue 105, Term 2 2018

doors to new experiences Morris Gleitzman’s predecessor Leigh Hobbs spent a large portion of his laureateship campaigning for school librarians and school libraries, especially in response to their diminishing roles in some schools. Morris also understands the important role that school library st