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SCIS is more

By Ben Chadwick

Issue 98, Term 3 2016

ncludes a teacher librarian. Implementing this kind of work has its challenges for SCIS. One of them cuts to the heart of the philosophy of library cataloguing: a principle of descriptive cataloguing is to avoid making judgments about how, by whom, or in what contexts a resource should be used. We

SCIS is more

By Ben Chadwick

Issue 97, Term 2 2016

Welcome to Connections 97. It is a pleasure to introduce a new face in the SCIS team. In March we welcomed Doreen Sullivan to our cataloguing team in Melbourne. Doreen came to us with a long career in cataloguing, including work at RMIT and DA Direct. I’d like to thank our editor Nicole Richa

SCIS is more

By Ben Chadwick

Issue 100, Term 1 2017

aide. Mary and Chris have been working with us for many years and their retirement is a loss not only for SCIS, but for the Australia and New Zealand cataloguing community, to which both have contributed substantially over the years. We wish you well, super-cataloguers. We’ll continue our very fruit

ASLA XIV... From the Delegates Perspective

By Pru Mitchell

Issue 15, Term 4 1995

parked some reflection on what we are doing in our automated catalogues, and where we might be headed. Few T /Ls have an opportunity to specialise in cataloguing, neither are we privy to cataloguing debates taking place in the wider librarianship profession. I appreciated the opportunity to hear a c

SCIS is more

By Ben Chadwick

Issue 102, Term 3 2017

rch and improved search options, including faceting by fiction and non-fiction, genre, and key learning areas a user-friendly system for requesting cataloguing, sending items to your nearest SCIS cataloguer, and tracking their progress. In preparation for this system, and after consultation wi

Metadata and Marc

By Keith Gove

Issue 29, Term 2 1999

at is, data about data: data about the books and other resources in a library. There is a library catalogue metadata standard, MARC (Machine Readable Cataloguing), which is used by most libraries in the world. It was developed to allow libraries to share their cataloguing data. Recent internationa

News from Curriculum Corporation

By Lance Deveson

Issue 19, Term 4 1996

of Curriculum Corporation) are now sending all Machine Readable Records on high density disks. Thank you for your co-operation in this matter. SCIS Cataloguing Microfiche The SCIS Customer Service staff have recently received some concerned calls from customers believing that the SCIS Cataloguin

SCIS is more

By Anthony Shaw

Issue 125, Term 2 2023

ources to catalogue. SCIS has cataloguers around Australia and in New Zealand, who work creating high quality catalogue records that reflect the SCIS Cataloguing Standards, so that school library staff can simply download the catalogue records with a click of the mouse.  SCIS works closely with ou

Handy Hints for SCISWEB

By Schools Catalogue Information Service

Issue 31, Term 4 1999

database before schools perform a search and download a file. There are two broad reasons for low hit rates: Sometimes schools have access before the Cataloguing Agencies, and/or some schools' resources are relatively 'obscure' hence items not catalogued by SCIS. In these cases drawing it to the att

Handy Hints

By Schools Catalogue Information Service

Issue 32, Term 1 2000

Cataloguing pictures and prints Did you know that SCIS catalogues pictures and prints? As these items do not have an ISBN Teacher Librarians need to locate the SCIS record number in the SCIS OPAC before they create or upload an order. When applying limits for pictures and prints in the SCIS OPAC,

What's New?

By Schools Catalogue Information Service

Issue 32, Term 1 2000

o be located on the one tape or tapes or for each episode to be located on different tapes. The records for each episode and the series have complete cataloguing details.

News from the Information Program: New, amended, replaced subject headings 1995

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 14, Term 3 1995

Below is a list of new and amended subject headings created at recent meetings of the national SCIS cataloguing agencies. Existing headings which have been altered as a result of decisions made by the agencies are identified by **. The nature of the change is indicated in brackets ie: (Replacemen

What's New

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 13, Term 2 1995

ommon systems in use. It was concerned with integrated systems where at least three of the usual five functions are combined into a single database - cataloguing, OPAC and circulation. The systems were all cross analysed highlighting modules available, 3 operating systems and the number of installat

New Directions for the Information Program

By Lance Deveson

Issue 6, Term 2 1993

that will impact on schools purchasing products in 1994. 1. To bring Victorian Primary Schools in accordance with an agreed national standard of cataloguing, the Victorian Catalogue Card options WILL NOT be offered as an option when ordering Catalogue cards in 1994. 2. Curriculum Corporatio

CC News

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 35, Term 4 2000

000 will expire on 28 February 2001 to coincide with the delivery of the first edition in 2001. 5. Catalogue records for television programs CMIS Cataloguing, Education Department of Western Australia, is now cataloguing some television programs immediately after they have been televised. They a

A note from the editor

By Nicole Richardson

Issue 103, Term 4 2017

ons . We have been busy digitising old issues of Connections , which provide an interesting reflection on the significant changes in school library cataloguing practices and trends over the past 25 years. We are proud of the role Connections plays in the school library community, and are grate

SCIS is more

By Ben Chadwick

Issue 96, Term 1 2016

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader However you choose to interpret this passage, one thing is clear to me: C.S. Lewis is referring to the importance of cataloguing rules. It is through the consistent application of rules that SCIS is able to make some amazing properties of educational resources visibl

Internet Resource Management-The Role and Development of Metadata

By Kyle Hassan

Issue 34, Term 3 2000

nse to these problems, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) (1999) remarks that a significant part of the web is missing. It lacks the type of labels, cataloguing data or descriptive information that would allow web pages to be properly searched and processed by a computer. Also absent are features s

Bollards to you too: ASLA XVI Conference Report

By Nigel Paull, Wendy Smith, Kevin Gove

Issue 28, Term 1 1999

f information available on the World Wide Web. Several sessions raised the question of whether or not to catalogue Internet sites. On the one hand, cataloguing provides control over the digital resources, as with physical resources, allowing sophisticated search strategies. But on the other hand,

Letters to the Editor

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 11, Term 4 1994

standard sub-division lists at the front of the book for easier access. Notwithstanding these problems, the subject headings list is an invaluable cataloguing tool. Ilga Pearce To the editor, Connections, Congratulations on another interest-ing issue (No 10). The article on the Southport Sc