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Internetting Corner
By Heather Kelsall
Issue 17, Term 2 1996
index.html Australian Library Week 1996 home pages http://ausarts.anu.edu.au/ITA/AusArts ANU Institute of the Arts connecting to art exhibitions, libraries etc http://www.alquds.org Arabic culture and the Palestinian situation http://shuttle.nasa.gov Space shuttle Endeavour information h
New Zealand News
By Judith Schroder
Issue 15, Term 4 1995
ke what you saw you can change it . Everyone agreed that this session was great value! The CHYPS afternoon covered co-operative initiatives between libraries in Wanganui where schools and the public library are linked electronically and share resources. At Upper Hutt the link extends from schools
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
News from the Information Program
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 9, Term 2 1994
Computer Corporation and MARCorp has finalised the conversion of the SCIS data from AUSMARC to USMARC. This is the standard that is being adopted by libraries world wide in 1996 and Curriculum Corporation will adopt this standard once Voyager is implemented . ln 1995 Curriculum Corporation will be
Have You Read This?
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 9, Term 2 1994
insight into this national and international electronic mail and database access network. Barbara Poston-Anderson describes the possible future of libraries in Virtual reality: a learning medium of the future , Scan vol 12, no 4, October 1993, p12-13 . Learning with technology , Scan vol 12
SCIS is more
By Caroline Ramsden
Issue 104, Term 1 2018
selection SCIS Data can be a useful tool for the selection of material. With the inclusion of enriched content from Syndetics and LibraryThing for Libraries in the catalogue, you can easily view additional information including plot summaries, author notes, awards and reviews. Where to find hel
SCIS is more
By Caroline Ramsden
Issue 106, Term 3 2018
As part of a SCIS subscription, libraries can request cataloguing for materials that they have not been able to locate a record for in SCIS Data. For our cataloguers to create the best quality record for you, we recommend that you send the items that you want catalogued to your closest SCIS depot.
SCIS is more
By Caroline Ramsden
Issue 109, Term 2 2019
y new records that you download, which are part of a series, will then be linked with these authority files. Searching SCIS Subject Headings Some libraries catalogue local material using SCIS Subject Headings. In 2018, the SCIS Subject Heading List was added to the SCIS Data website where it c
Supporting Australian book creators
By Ruilin Shi
Issue 109, Term 2 2019
ian Government has run the Educational Lending Right (ELR) scheme, to compensate Australian book creators for having their titles held in educational libraries. Each year, a sample of schools is invited to participate in a survey where a count is taken of the copies of titles held in their library.
Improving reading outcomes for students with dyslexia
By Anna Boyle
Issue 112, Term 1 2020
s to be made available in the dyslexic format, usually within a month of publication. Dyslexic Books works with librarians (in both school and public libraries) to encourage a greater selection of writing to be made available in accessible formats in their library collections. As such, discounts are
Using social media to support school library services
By Helen Stower, Margaret Donaghue
Issue 98, Term 3 2016
er has also become a great platform to alert teaching staff about news, events, and resources particular to their faculties. Another role of school libraries is to curate information for students. Traditionally, a teacher librarian may have set aside a trolley of books on a research topic or creat
Architecture of genre
By Les Kneebone
Issue 96, Term 1 2016
earning event in the last couple of years, there is a good chance you would have encountered the ‘genre’ presentation. Genre is a hot topic in school libraries, and who doesn’t like to hear the good news stories we often hear in these presentations? Children are reading because they want to, and it
The DANZ Childrens Book Award
By Kate Foster
Issue 126, Term 3 2023
s thrilled to be a supporting partner of the DANZ Awards. We’re particularly excited as this will not only be an award but also a resource for school libraries to choose books with positive representation.’ The judging process aims to highlight books offering the very best and most accurate repres
SCIS interviews Teacher Librarian Award winner Megan Daley
By Megan Daley
Issue 126, Term 3 2023
eenage 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 been a p
SCIS is more
By Dr Ben Chadwick
Issue 94, Term 3 2015
our IT infrastructure does not interfere with your enjoyment. Especially for you SCIS's Special Orders page was created to support 21st century libraries by providing a single location to find collections of digital subscription products and freely available online resources. Why don't you dro
SCIS is more
By Ben Chadwick
Issue 102, Term 3 2017
ing series titles , we have commenced cataloguing series authorities. This is a significant step that SCIS is taking within the broader international libraries community because we believe it will provide schools with valuable consistency in the naming and coverage of series across titles, despite t
SCISWeb is a Winner
By Fay Gardiner
Issue 27, Term 4 1998
chines (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 Macintosh
CC News
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 27, Term 4 1998
Corporation deals with thousands of schools across Australia and overseas it is our policy to apply the title 'TEACHER LIBRARIAN' when mailing out to libraries. If any other address details change please contact us. lnformation for Teacher Librarians on the SCIS homepage SCISWeb is one of the te
Five Into One
By Judi Eggers, Bob Heath
Issue 26, Term 3 1998
upgraded and the current data will be downloaded onto the identical hardware and software being supplied to us. The new system will allow all campus libraries to be linked and make resource sharing and communication even easier. Investigations are currently being made into the feasibility of using
News from Curriculum Corporation
By Lance Deveson
Issue 22, Term 3 1997
ich 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 in conj