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Website and app reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 107, Term 4 2018
ng. To preserve the cultural and historical significance of these languages, UNESCO has declared 2019 the International Year of Indigenous Languages. School library staff will find a variety of material on this website to resource the topic for the 2019 school year. SCIS no. 1886905 Lorax Project
Cover images and SCIS
By Renate Beilharz
Issue 109, Term 2 2019
m to promote resources and reading. ESA has been offering cover images to schools as part of their subscription since 2008. This article explains how school library staff can use these without breaching SCIS Terms of Use. Cover images Text-only catalogue displays have become a thing of the past.
Educational Lending Right (ELR) School Library Survey 2019–20
By Daniel Hughes
Issue 113, Term 2 2020
s a matter of minutes, not very long at all. It took less than five minutes. Too easy. ESA is very grateful for the enthusiastic cooperation of school library staff who took part in ELR 2019–20. ESA offers a $150 voucher to one respondent whose name is drawn at random from a list of all those
ELR: big win for Aussie authors
By Amanda Shay
Issue 126, Term 3 2023
r payments from lending rights are the difference between being able to afford to write and not being able to. Or if you look at it another way, when school library staff are adding Australian books, in physical, ebook and audio book formats, to their collection, they are supporting the next lot of
Non-fiction: the elephant in the library
By Rebecca Tobler
Issue 107, Term 4 2018
ools and fields illuminated a growing sentiment — that we didn’t need non-fiction at all! I was understandably floored by this turn of events. Most school library staff will not disagree with the notion that we are ‘fighting a losing battle’, but have we already lost, and simply not noticed yet?
Love and Autism
By Kay Kerr
Issue 125, Term 2 2023
periences. As our society continues to have conversations about diversifying the voices and perspectives in our storytelling, what role do you see school library staff playing in educating young people when it comes to not just neurodiversity, but diversity in general? I’ve actually just start
Authority File Maintenance - An Ongoing Task
By Carolyn Brown and Jane Withers
Issue 36, Term 1 2001
ions where we were uncertain. Maintenance of authority files is an ongoing, ultimately rewarding task. We would advise Teacher Librarians and other school library staff to undertake the process in small manageable 'chunks' and to use the power of the library system to make changes and corrections
Website and app reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 109, Term 2 2019
ustry’. Categories include resources for primary; secondary; and tertiary, TAFE, and vocational. This website is a useful resource selection tool for school library staff and teachers. SCIS no. 1909720 Farm and livestock management software www.agriwebb.com AgriWebb is an Australian software
SCIS is more
By Dr Ben Chadwick
Issue 113, Term 2 2020
n is unfolding and events are shifting day by day. The school library community is facing many challenges, but despite this we hear daily examples of school library staff sharing suggestions, information and encouragement to their colleagues, and striving to deliver value to teachers, students and f
ASLA Australian Teacher Librarian Award 2021
By Kerry Pope
Issue 118, TERM 3 2021
t offers in having a centrally based cataloguing service has enabled many schools the opportunity to access catalogue records. This frees up time for school library staff to undertake other tasks that need to be performed in the school library. I have been a proud supporter of SCIS right from the be
SCIS is more
By Renate Beilharz
Issue 122, Term 3 2022
tative Committee (SSC) was inaugurated in August 2021 and exists to help ensure that SCIS draws from a range of perspectives when updating standards. School library staff from around Australia and New Zealand were selected to join the SSC, ensuring a range of school types are represented. The curren
SCIS is more
By Anthony Shaw
Issue 123, Term 4 2022
ss, resourcing issues associated with both the pandemic and skills shortages, and changing delivery models. I’m sure these all sound very familiar to school library staff who face these same challenges and more. My work with public libraries focused on data analytics, streamlining workflows and p
Leading whole school literacy from the library
By Dr Margaret Merga
Issue 124, Term 1 2023
, 2019b) and they have skills in meeting the needs of diverse literacy learners (Merga, 2019a). There is a growing body of research linking qualified school library staff and positive effects for student literacy performance (as reviewed in Lance & Kachel, 2018). Cross-curricular. Teacher libra
SCIS is More
By Anthony Shaw
Issue 130, Term 3, 2024
School Library Association South Australia (SLASA) and CBCA SA conference, Captivate-Connect- Curate. It was great to catch up with so many dedicated school library staff and hear about how they’re helping to support better outcomes for students. The conference program was packed with wonderful pr
Collector, curator or collaborator?
By Jennie Bales
Issue 100, Term 1 2017
rces, and expertise — all of which are fundamental to being a successful and effective school library practitioner. To be a powerhouse of expertise, school library staff need constant and regular exposure to new ideas embracing educational and technological developments, sources, and resources. An
SCIS interviews Teacher Librarian Award winner Megan Daley
By Megan Daley
Issue 126, Term 3 2023
school administrators and the wider community. Those of us who work in the industry intimately understand the value and the importance of the work of school library staff. But for those outside of our circles, I think we do need to collect data – as much as numbers and data aren’t my thing. I thin
Learning online: MOOCs for library staff
By Martin Gray
Issue 90, Term 3 2014
ent or the chess clubs in schools, who meet and improve each other's skills through playing. Pros and Cons Both these courses would be useful for school library staff and teachers, whether library qualified or not. The mapping course is a good introduction to self-paced learning courses, being s
School library spotlight: Melbourne High School
By Pam Saunders
Issue 99, Term 4 2016
In this issue of Connections , we introduce a new regular feature, ‘School library spotlight’. This article gives us an opportunity to interview school library staff, so we can share with our readers what is happening within school libraries in Australia and New Zealand. Do you have any quest
Navigating the information landscape through collaboration
By Elizabeth Hutchinson
Issue 101, Term 2 2017
creating independent learners within a school. As more schools embed digital literacy and want innovative teaching within their curriculum, trained school library staff become even more important. The school library not only enables students to learn how to search a database and find quality resou
School libraries support digital technologies
By Martin Richards
Issue 102, Term 3 2017
they might adapt their programs and look for ways to accommodate relevant technologies in meaningful ways. Developing students’ ICT capabilities School library staff teach students how to learn. Consider a student coming into the library to conduct research using a range of digital sources. No