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School library spotlight: One Arm Point Remote Community School

By Mel Rowsell

Issue 115, Term 4 2020

the library consisted of a few half-assembled shelves and a lot of uncared-for books. Initially my job was to organise the space; find and acquire a cataloguing system; select, deselect and acquire resources for the collection; and catalogue, label and shelve the collection in the newly formed spac

Addressing reconciliation in a school setting

By Jan Poona

Issue 94, Term 3 2015

a teacher librarian in a government primary school for many years. In this time, not only have I taught students but I have made decisions regarding cataloguing and shelving books in the school library as well. I also have a close friend, Christine, who is an Aboriginal Elder and social worker, and

1999 SCIS Conference Report: Planning for 1999-2000

By Kevin Grove

Issue 29, Term 2 1999

, customer service, and cost effectiveness; and discussed a number of enhancements to the service and several service management issues. A trial of cataloguing Internet websites was endorsed. The trial will begin soon, for a duration of two school terms. Each agency will catalogue a number of webs

News from the Information Program

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 9, Term 2 1994

culum Corporation has completed are vision of the SCIS SUBJECT HEADINGS LIST . The revision of the book has been undertaken by the Western Australian Cataloguing Agency with assistance from all the SCIS cataloguing agencies. The revision includes many new headings and in particular 500 New Zealand h

SCIS is more

By Caroline Ramsden

Issue 104, Term 1 2018

e introduced the new-look SCIS website. Here are a few highlights to remind you of the ways in which the site can help you in your day-to-day work. Cataloguing services SCIS Data makes access to cataloguing services much easier. When you request ISBNs to download, any unmatched records are liste

SCIS is more

By Caroline Hartley

Issue 116, Term 1 2021

priorities for 2021 include ensuring that we provide a consistent and reliable service to our users, maintain the high level of quality of SCIS Data cataloguing records, and retain our high customer hit rate, which has hovered consistently around the 92–95% mark. A high hit rate means that we likel

Reviews of SCIS Subject Headings Fourth Edition

By Barbara Braxton, Barbara Shardlow, Rod Barker

Issue 33, Term 2 2000

Librarian My previous life must have been quite spectacular, because I seem to be paying for it now! Otherwise, why, just weeks after completing my cataloguing course at Library School, ruining my eyes and my brain trying to figure out the complexities of the SCIS Subject Headings Third Edition ,

CC News

By Schools Catalogue Information Service

Issue 25, Term 2 1998

funding. Curriculum Corporation, and the SCIS Unit within it, is required to operate on a cost recovery basis. The state agencies that undertake the cataloguing on behalf of SCIS receive some payment from SCIS for doing so. SCIS is a cooperative venture of all States and Territories, the Commonwe

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