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Have You Read This?

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 9, Term 2 1994

-32 , with some insightful and ingenuous evaluations of a whole range of products by her grade 2 students. In the same issue, Harlene Rosenberg explains how she set up a CD-ROM network for a large high school. Getting started with CD-ROM Information searcher, vol 6, no 1 1993, p3-6. The grow

Apology

By Lance Deveson

Issue 9, Term 2 1994

However, that was not to be. In December 1993, the Information Program staff began the yearly task of proofing the new 'fiche for 1994. One of the aims of the Information Program is to deliver to schools the cleanest data and this year we discovered there was some 'dirty' data on the database tha

Information Services Questionnaire

By Nicole England

Issue 9, Term 2 1994

Included with the previous issue of CONNECTIONS journal was an 'Information Services Questionnaire'. The aim of the questionnaire was to improve the quality and efficiency of our service to users. As such, the responses are currently being tabulated and the result will define any necessary improvem

In this Issue

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 8, Term 4 1993

In this issue Pru Mitchell writes about some uses for the online databases SCIS and NEXUS, Jennifer Wraight shares her impressions of the recent ASLA conference in Adelaide and Learning for the Future, the new standards document for school libraries is reviewed. By the time you receive this, the

SCIS and NEXUS Online

By Pru Mitchell

Issue 8, Term 4 1993

also fundamental differences between SCIS and NEXUS which make them a useful team in an introductory session on online services, and an ideal first pair of online subscriptions for a school library. SETTING UP The hardware required for both services is the same: a computer, a modem and a phone

Product Changes for 1993

By Lance Deveson

Issue 8, Term 4 1993

In the Winter edition of CONNECTIONS, I indicated Curriculum Corporations intention to drop some Card and ASCISRECON products in 1994. Again I will state that in 1994 the following CARD products WILL NOT be available to order from Curriculum Corporation: Victorian Card Catalogue Options: Simp

3rd Edition of the SCIS Subject Headings List

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 8, Term 4 1993

INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND HEADINGS As part of the ongoing process of upgrading the SCIS SUBJECT HEADINGS list, Curriculum Corporation, in co-operation with the publishing company, D.W.Thorpe, are to publish a 3rd edition of the SCIS Subject Headings list. Currently the revision of the List is being

Impressions of the ASLA XIII and the IASL 22nd Conference: Dreams and Dynamics

By Jennifer Wraight

Issue 8, Term 4 1993

The magnificent venue (St Peter's College) and inspiring keynote speakers are two of the main highlights that remain with me from the ASLA XIII and the IASL 22nd Conference. This is the first opportunity I have had to attend an ASLA conference. I have worked in the educational field for 19 years,

What’s New

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 8, Term 4 1993

approach to the development of the learning environment. Learning for the Future divides the role of the school library into five interrelated domains. Discussion relating to each of the domains, forms a chapter of the book. The core domain which is central to all others is learners and learn

Subscriptions

By Lance Deveson

Issue 8, Term 4 1993

By now schools should have received the SCIS Subscription renewal for 1994.This was posted to ALL schools on the SCIS database in November. If your school has not received the renewal notice please contact Curriculum Corporation. As I stated in the Spring 1993 edition of CONNECTIONS, subscription

Have you read this?

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 8, Term 4 1993

harles Brannon. The Chase article provided a useful comparison of multimedia CD-ROM encyclopedias Grolier's, Compton's and Encarta, while Brannon explained how to create a CD-ROM network using Windows for Workgroups. Other features include a problem solving column which answers queries such as wheth

Using your barcode reader with Recon

By Nicole England

Issue 8, Term 4 1993

een and then disappearing. What has actually happened? RECON has recorded the barcode as being for the first local copy of the book; now it is waiting to accept the local information for the second copy. Notice the '2' under the 'copy' field. What should you do? If you have more copies o

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

Information Services Questionnaire

By Nicole England

Issue 8, Term 4 1993

Included with this issue of CONNECTIONS journal is an "Information Services Questionnaire". The aim of the questionnaire is to improve the quality and efficiency of our service to users, and we would appreciate your input. You will find 3 types of questions on the form: Tick the appropriate b

New SCIS Subject Headings

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 8, Term 4 1993

Below is a list of subject headings which have been approved for entry into the SCIS database. Please feel free to them add them to yow existing catalogue. *NOTE: CHILD CARE CENTRES and PLAY CENTRES are not new headings but have been significantly altered to accommodate the new heading FAMILY DAY

In this Issue

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 7, Term 3 1993

In this issue, Lance Deveson explains how the new Voyager software (announced in the last issue) will improve the use of the SCIS database and Rosemary Abbott shares her research on methods used for successful selection of a library automation system. Connections circulates throughout Australia,

Voyager: Curriculum Corporation’s new software platform for the SCIS Database

By Lance Deveson

Issue 7, Term 3 1993

r leap forward for school libraries in Australia. Curriculum Corporation will be the first site in Australia for the new software and MARCorp will tailor their system to the needs of the SCIS service. Voyager is a complete library package having all of the following features: on-line public acce

Microfiche Problems

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 7, Term 3 1993

The June update of the Full Cataloguing Microfiche created many problems for subscribers to that fiche. DATACOM, Curriculum Corporation's microfiche bureau 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 t

Selections of an Automated System

By Rosemary Abbott

Issue 7, Term 3 1993

numbers of school libraries do automate their operations, the momentum builds for those who have yet to do so. Many commercial products becoming available for use in school libraries assume the presence of computers in those libraries, eg., indexes such as Guidelines on CD-ROM cataloguing done by

Have you Read This?

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 7, Term 3 1993

for DOS-based computers. If you do not have a CD-ROM and are unable to use SAGE either on CD-ROM or on-line, these indexes maybe useful for you. Bob Aikenhead has a useful review of both indexes, including practical applications for his senior Physics and Chemistry students in Two electronic indexe