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By Nigel Paull

Issue 27, Term 4 1998

have the opportunity to hear Jamie McKenzie during his recent visit to Australia should seek out this thought provoking article. It discusses the way school libraries may develop over the next decade and the accompanying role of Teacher Librarians. McKenzie states that the best case scenario would s

Facing the 21st Century: The First International Conference of Jewish Pedagogic Centers

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 9, Term 2 1994

rary was obviously a popular place for students throughout the school day. Despite its limited resources, this library was philosophically similar to school libraries in Australia, UK and North America. The Pelech school, regarded as having an innovative religious curriculum for girls, was housed

Content is King, but Content Management Rules

By Colin Bell

Issue 35, Term 4 2000

on Services, Margaret Paten said the system allows for the management of a 'hybrid library' (see 'The Great Divide? Physical and Digital Resources in School Libraries', Connections Issue 34, p 1 ), in which resources are varied and increasingly online. She said it operates on several different level

Book launches: connecting schools, students and local authors

By Jenna Hildebrand

Issue 109, Term 2 2019

Reading culture As school library staff, we strive every day to establish libraries and resource centres as places that support our students’ reading and information literacy. In our relentless quest to promote reading for pleasure, one major challenge is the structured class context.  We need

Two sides of children’s literature: gatekeeper and creator

By Karys McEwen

Issue 121, Term 2 2022

y sparked the idea for All the little tricky things, and that my book will be ‘just right’ for at least some of the kids who discover it in their own school libraries, or have it handed to them by their passionate, intuitive school librarians.

School library spotlight: Newtown public school

By Lucy White

Issue 121, Term 2 2022

uable and saves a huge amount of time. What would you like to see SCIS do more of?  I would love to see more School Library Spotlights on primary school libraries.

ELR Interview with Alice Pung

By Article by Education Services Australia

Issue 124, Term 1 2023

part of a process that determines how much compensation authors and publishers receive for revenue lost because their books are available for free in school libraries. How important are ELR payments to Australian authors? I’m so glad you asked that question because a number of years ago I was actua

Reading Australia

By Josephine Johnston

Issue 128, Term 1 2024

read more Australian books. This is where Reading Australia ( readingaustralia.com.au ) can help. We’re an online portal that provides teachers and school libraries with freely available resources for Australian books. We’re delighted to partner with Education Services Australia, the not-for-profi

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

Teacher librarian leadership and generative AI: An opportunity for leading innovation

By Matthew Boggon

Issue 130, Term 3, 2024

ly to Web 2.0, and is therefore worthy of providing statewide support to develop teachers’ AI skillsets. The implications for this AI revolution on school libraries and teacher librarians are extensive. These implications, succinctly discussed by Oddone (2023), confront issues such as the accuracy

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