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Professional Upgrading: What’s available for the working T/L?

By James Henri

Issue 13, Term 2 1995

and professional upgrading. Charles Sturt University was the first academic institution in Australia to offer external courses in librarianship. Teacher Librarianship at CSU: What's happening? There has been more interest in courses for teacher librarianship at CSU over the past few years tha

The new librarian: leaders in the digital age

By Digital Promise staff

Issue 96, Term 1 2016

rous districts, large and small, have cut librarian staffing to part-time or eliminated positions entirely. These cuts can impact both students and teachers. Although libraries remain open, they lack trained educators to support students, despite a technological landscape that makes information li

What's New?

By Nigel Paull

Issue 27, Term 4 1998

SWeb and SCISCD A recent addition to the NSW Department of Education and Training's Web site, Network for Education, is an interactive resource for Teacher Librarians, which offers information and advice concerning SCISWeb and SCISCO. It offers Teacher Librarians the opportunity to better acquaint

The importance of school libraries in the Google Age

By Kay Oddone

Issue 98, Term 3 2016

e have Google, do we still require libraries and librarians? This question is particularly being pressed in schools, where smartphones mean that both teachers and students carry a wealth of information in their pocket, and school budgets are increasingly stretched between a wide range of competing d

What's New?

By Schools Catalogue Information Service

Issue 30, Term 3 1999

s and amendments to existing headings. It is available only from Curriculum Corporation and is in paperback format. This is an essential tool for all Teacher Librarians to ensure consistent and accurate subject headings in the library catalogue. Further product details are available on our brochure

Have You Read This?

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 10, Term 3 1994

The active media center by Fred D'lgnazio in The Computing Teacher, March 1994, p. 37-40, wrote about multi-media in schools, focussing on the role of the school library. "School libraries and media centers are changing from warehouses to launch pads. And the count down has already started." (

CC News Continued

By Graham Williams

Issue 26, Term 3 1998

Automating your Library As we indicated in the last ussue of Connections we will not be providing catalogue cards in 1999. We urge Teacher Librarians to commence the process to automate their library's catalogue. Curriculum Corporation does not recommend any particular system for schools to purch

The Information superhighway – implications for education

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 11, Term 4 1994

holidays. Most of the participants were computer education professionals from schools as well as some from the tertiary sector. There were very few teacher-librarians and yet the theme of the conference was very much of interest to us. The keynote speaker on day one, was Bruce Dixon, former teac

All together now: recognising the work of all school library staff

By Karys McEwen

Issue 107, Term 4 2018

into battle for each other. Among the most important factors to consider is how school library staffing is changing. Up until a few years ago, the teacher librarian role was more prevalent in school libraries. Nowadays, there are primary and secondary libraries that are run by librarians or libra

'A valuable national asset...'

By Tricia Nathan

Issue 32, Term 1 2000

ultural ideas in schools'. The book was launched on 29 November 1999 in the Library of Academy of Mary Immaculate School in Melbourne. The school's Teacher Librarians value the importance of SCIS in the management of their library procedures and were pleased to have the launch in their library. Ov

Bollards to you too: ASLA XVI Conference Report

By Nigel Paull, Wendy Smith, Kevin Gove

Issue 28, Term 1 1999

at the historic Deakin University Woolstore's campus, were of the same mind. For Wendy, the incentive was the invitation to present a paper. Over 500 Teacher-Librarians from all Australian states and territories, New Zealand, Singapore, Canada and the USA found other good reasons to make the pilgrim

SCIS is more

By Caroline Hartley

Issue 118, TERM 3 2021

e’; they can be themselves; they feel safe and have the opportunity to think and learn. (Hughes et al. 2019) Future-focused school libraries led by teacher librarians support the educational vision and philosophy of their schools and contribute to student learning in unique and specialised ways. T

Leading whole school literacy from the library

By Dr Margaret Merga

Issue 124, Term 1 2023

ry professionals taking a leadership role in creating their WSLP for a number of reasons, five of which I touch on here.  Qualified.  While many teachers and leaders in school communities might not realise that Australian teacher librarians are qualified educators (Merga, 2019a), they are dual-

CC News Continued

By Schools Catalogue Information Service

Issue 25, Term 2 1998

the implementation of training. This is a review of a recently developed product which would be valuable to any school embarking on an assessment of teacher IT capabilities. Title: Learning Technologies, Teacher Capabilities, Author: Department of Education, Victoria. RRP: $24.95 SCIS Order

The professional learning hat

By Barbara Braxton

Issue 97, Term 2 2016

The core of our mandate as teacher librarians is to enable our students to become lifelong learners. By teaching students, staff and other members of the school community about the information literacy process , we provide them with a scaffold that they can use in any area. This allows them to f

Scootle Community

By Daniel Hughes

Issue 94, Term 3 2015

t doesn't show unsolicited posts from singles networks; it doesn't even have videos with cats riding vacuum cleaners. It is a network for hardworking teachers who are looking for solutions to everyday challenges and want to share their good ideas. It is Scootle Community and you can find it here .

Looking back: school library catalogues and the online revolution

By Lance Deveson

Issue 100, Term 1 2017

m the current Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS) team at Education Services Australia (ESA) to reflect on and write about the early days of teacher librarianship, SCIS and Connections . As the SCIS manager in the early 1990s, my staff and I came up with the idea to produce a newsletter fo

Issue 49 Summary

By Editor

Issue 49, Term 2 2004

Please note this issue of Connections is only available in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: Professional Standards for Australian Teacher Librarians Di Ballantyne, ASLA SCISWeb handy hints Sharing the Future – ALIA and ASLA Working Together Anne Girolami, ALIA–ASLA Pol

ASLA XVI Conference

By Schools Catalogue Information Service

Issue 28, Term 1 1999

sually only speak to on the telephone. The feedback received will be invaluable in assisting us to continue to deliver an outstanding service for all Teacher Librarians across Australia. SCIS provided sponsorship for a keynote speaker, Professor Denise Bradley, the Vice Chancellor and President fr

Issue 88 Summary

By Meelee Soorkia

Issue 88, Term 1 2014

ons is only available in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: Literacy loves storytelling Dr. Pam Macintyre, University of Melbourne Teacher associations support Australian Curriculum Gabrielle England, Education Services Australia Miss Scarlet, in the library, with the smart p