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Dystopian literature: more than just the end of the world to teens

By Jessica Finden

Issue 123, Term 4 2022

It’s not the end of the world… Can you remember what it was like to be a teenager? The constant worry – about your identity,  whether or not you fit in with your friends, your family, and your overall place in the world. The catch phrase, ‘it’s not the end of the world’ is regularly bandied ab

The Teacher Librarian and ChatGPT

By Stephanie Strachan

Issue 126, Term 3 2023

At the end of last term, an exasperated member of staff pleaded with me: how can we stop students cheating in assessments using ChatGPT and similar AI tools? Sadly, I was not able to offer any quick fix. In fact, from what I can gather, these new technologies have turned the world of academic wri

School library spotlight: The King's School Senior Library

By The King's School Library team

Issue 127, Term 4 2023

Tell us about your school, your library team and their roles. The King’s School is an independent Anglican day and boarding school for boys, founded in 1831. Our school community is truly multicultural and represents the diverse nature of contemporary Australian society.  As a library team, our

21st-century literacy with graphic novels

By Iurgi Urrutia

Issue 115, Term 4 2020

Reading is reading We read books, newspapers, magazines, billboards, signs, notices, bills, websites, blogs, social media posts et cetera. When we read all those things, consciously or unconsciously we’re developing and using multiple literacy skills. Thanks to the internet and social media, we’r

How an old book created a commitment to better represent First Nations Australians

By Kerry Klimm, Dale Robertson

Issue 117, Term 2 2021

A mother’s anger: Kerry Klimm When my 8-year-old showed me his library book, I knew immediately from the cover it wasn’t going to be positive. I flicked through the pages and was disturbed at what I saw. It took me back to my childhood – growing up in the ‘80s learning about ‘The Aborigines’, def

In this Issue

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 8, Term 4 1993

NEXUS, Jennifer Wraight shares her impressions of the recent ASLA conference in Adelaide and Learning for the Future, the new standards document for school libraries is reviewed. By the time you receive this, the holidays will be upon us. Compliments of the season and enjoy a well-earned break.

New Zealand News

By Rosa-Jane French

Issue 16, Term 1 1996

conditions (an ongoing source of dissatisfaction), as well as questions, which we hoped would show the level of technology now operating in secondary school libraries. Using data from previous surveys we were able to make the following observations. In 1988 and 1989 survey questions about computer

Issue 60 Summary

By Editor

Issue 60, Term 1 2007

the life of a student in 2010 Carol Daunt, LearnTel Pty Ltd If only ... Heather Fisher, New England Girls' School, NSW Canadian research into school libraries and student achievement Excerpt from School Libraries and Student Achievement in Ontario report Internetting corner Nigel Pa

ELR: big win for Aussie authors

By Amanda Shay

Issue 126, Term 3 2023

Have you ever thought about how lucky Australian school children are to have to access Australian-made content in their school libraries? One copy of an Australian-made book may have been purchased for your school library and can now be borrowed hundreds of times. Yet, the author was only paid

Have You Read This?

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 10, Term 3 1994

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." (p. 37) "Educators who are in

Supporting Australian book creators

By Laura Armstrong, Toni Jordan

Issue 95, Term 4 2015

ELR's cornerstone Australian school libraries are the cornerstone of the Educational Lending Rights (ELR), and in the coming weeks 600 schools will receive invitations, either by mail or email, requesting their participation in this year's survey. School library staff play a critical part in the

In This Issue

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 2, Term 2 1992

In this issue of Connections we continue to explore the technological themes raised in the first issue. Articles include on-line services for school libraries and an exploration of an innovative use of networked CD-ROMs by Andrew Perry at Vermont Primary School. Other articles include: all you ever

In This Issue

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 1, Term 1 1992

In this first edition of Connect, we address issues relating to the implementation of CD-ROM technology in school libraries, based on the practical experience of a teacher-librarian. In future issues other technologies, such as on-line searching and bulletin boards, will be discussed in terms of

What's New

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 13, Term 2 1995

f 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. Some will be searching for a replacement system with per

Educational Lending Right School Library Survey

By Keith Gove

Issue 35, Term 4 2000

LR scheme is to make payments to Australian creators and publishers on the basis that income is lost from the availability of their books for loan in school libraries. The scheme complements the existing Public Lending Right (PLR) and supports the enrichment of Australian culture by encouraging the

The Great Aussie Book Count 2023–24

By Amanda Shay

Issue 127, Term 4 2023

When authors and publishers are compensated for the free use of their content in our school libraries, they are able to produce new content for all. Together with the Australian Government’s Office for the Arts, Education Services Australia (ESA) is currently working with school libraries acros

SCIS is more

By Dr Ben Chadwick

Issue 99, Term 4 2016

s, and publishers. If you are invited to participate this year, please take the opportunity to support book creators. International Association for School Libraries Rachel Elliott (Director, Metadata and Library Services at ESA) and I were fortunate enough to attend the International Association

SLANZA! School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa

By Penny Moore PhD

Issue 34, Term 3 2000

otearoa. As Christopher Blake, chief executive of the National Library of New Zealand, said in his speech, the idea is not new, but 'It's high time school libraries were represented by a unified national body'. Jill Stotler, president of the Auckland School Library Association and first presiden

What Do Teacher Librarians Need to Know about Cataloguing?

By Ashley Freeman

Issue 34, Term 3 2000

eracy, and promoting a love and appreciation of I iterature. Because of the constantly expanding use of information and communication technologies in school libraries, many Teacher Librarians have also gained technical and educational responsibilities in this field within their school. Additionally

SCIS is more

By Caroline Hartley

Issue 118, TERM 3 2021

In reflecting on the past 12 months, I want to acknowledge the power of school libraries and the important role they play as arguably the heart of the school. School libraries have been evolving over recent decades from traditional knowledge centres that house print collections and archives and w