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Get to Know Your Editor

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 1, Term 1 1992

DIANNE LEWIS is the teacher-librarian in charge of the secondary school library of Mount Scopus College in Burwood, Victoria. She is an avid reader and promoter of adolescent fiction and has developed a whole school approach to teaching information skills. She has been interested in the applicati

School libraries then and now - in the digital environment

By Lance Deveson

Issue 120, Term 1 2022

ng digital environment. How time flies when you’re having fun! Thirty years ago when Connections was created, most schools had at least one trained teacher librarian, and these dedicated staff introduced valuable literature to their students, taught information skills, catalogued their own collect

The importance of multicultural literature

By Marianne Grasso

Issue 96, Term 1 2016

ian primary schools are more culturally diverse now than ever before. By including multicultural literature in the school library fiction collection, teacher librarians ensure they provide their students with texts that represent the culturally diverse classrooms and home environments in this countr

CC News

By Schools Catalogue Information Service

Issue 30, Term 3 1999

enable them to have the bulk of their cataloguing done quickly and easily hence saving an enormous amount of time. It is a far more effective use of Teacher Librarian's time to download the SCIS records and make some modifications where necessary than to merely use SCIS as a guide to one's own orig

Videorecordings and SCIS

By Anne Dowling

Issue 29, Term 2 1999

de 'Language' is 499 LAN. Creating both a record for the series and records for each episode is one way of catering for the different ways in which teacher librarians record and store these programs. The decision has been based on feedback from teacher librarians, who agreed that one record for th

Reviews

By Nigel Paull

Issue 27, Term 4 1998

complex interweaving of gender, masculinity, culture, schooling and literacy. The 'Professional Development Units' are designed for pre and inservice teacher use with full details and guidelines, overhead transparency proformas, discussion guides and question sheets. The 'Teaching Units' present K-1

Have You Read This?

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 18, Term 3 1996

questions if this will improve student learning. She suggests that all is reliant on what happens after the installation and highlights the value of teacher training in computer literacy in her article 'School networking: Where can it take us?'. Learning and Leading with Technology . Vol.23 No. 8

What's New

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 13, Term 2 1995

ok actually contains four reports on various aspects of library automation: the National Survey results, Crucial factors in online enquiry, MARC for Teacher-librarians and Providing access to fiction in school libraries. For many T /Ls the issue of library automation is still on the agenda. So

Primary School application of CD-ROM

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 2, Term 2 1992

Andrew Perry, well-known as the editor of Access, is the teacher- librarian at Vermont Primary School in Victoria. The school was named this year as an Apple Technology Site. To support the curriculum initiatives taking place at the school, a computerised information network (lnfonet) has been de

What's New?

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 36, Term 1 2001

n Auckland, New Zealand. In 2001 the IASL conference will be held in the South Pacific region for the first time. This is a wonderful opportunity for Teacher Librarians from Australia and New Zealand to participate in an international forum and hear about developments in school libraries around the

School library spotlight: Newtown public school

By Lucy White

Issue 121, Term 2 2022

What is your job title, and what does your role entail? I am the teacher librarian at Newtown Public School in Sydney’s inner west. It’s actually the school I attended as a child, and I was so delighted to start working here back in 2018! We are a school of 371 students from K–6. We have 15 cl

Leigh Hobbs on school libraries and storytelling

By Leigh Hobbs

Issue 100, Term 1 2017

st sat in on a session and proudly held aloft his drawing. I’ve never felt so warmly appreciated. It is a wonderful school with marvellous, dedicated teachers. How can we help to promote a positive reading culture in younger people? Adults can foster a positive reading culture in children, first

Barramundi and Chips at Christo's

By Kylie Hanson, Ashley Freeman, Ken Dillon

Issue 23, Term 4 1997

ning and Culture', with a four-day program focusing on society and culture, language, literature, technology and the future. Although the number of teacher librarians and teacher librarianship papers may have been less than usual at national ASLA conferences, the joint arrangement meant there was

From the Ashes

By Nigel Paull, Ann Johnston

Issue 24, Term 1 1998

chool staff devised a plan to cope with the disaster. Ann was released for a year to work on coordinating and replacing the collection while a casual Teacher Librarian was employed to take classes in individual classrooms. Deputy Principal Maurice Johnston worked closely with Ann handling the admini

Key Issues About Cataloguing and the Use of SCIS

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 27, Term 4 1998

erms which will be accessed by most students, with over 150,000 SCIS subject headings with cross references. The majority of headings are proposed by Teacher Librarians in schools who are in touch with the terms appearing in the curriculum and the terms used by their students. SCIS agencies, located

Enhancing the flexibility of library services

By Claire Elliott

Issue 106, Term 3 2018

At the beginning of 2016, all students were asked to identify one thing that the library could improve. At the end of that year, a survey was sent to teachers to gain their feedback on the library and the services offered. Both sets of responses formed the baseline for future changes. So many book

Developing low-budget literacy programs in schools

By Sue Bursztynski

Issue 109, Term 2 2019

r. One of the programs that Ardoch delivers is Writer in Residence. Late in the year, I spent five one-hour sessions with Year 4 students and their teacher to produce a book of their work. I was lucky enough to have assistance from a fellow Ardoch volunteer, a primary school art teacher. As my e

Reviews

By Nigel Paull

Issue 26, Term 3 1998

probability, is falling in real terms. With clients increasingly using digital sources of information and off site services, the authors state that Teacher Librarians have moved beyond developing a captive collection within the library. With this in mind, the process of managing these diverse reso

SCIS and NEXUS Online

By Pru Mitchell

Issue 8, Term 4 1993

, bulletin board or e-mail works Small group searches during class time in library-available when research topic is appropriate to online search. Teacher Librarian/Teacher search online prior to class-to provide background information for teacher, or to increase the range of resources for class

School library spotlight: Galston High School

By Jade Arnold

Issue 107, Term 4 2018

What is your job title, and what does your role entail? My official job title is teacher librarian. My role within the library is multifaceted. As the manager of the library, I am responsible for acquisitions, resource management, and research services, and I manage two school administrative and