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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
Celebrating Book Week
Issue 132, Term 1, 2025
Teacher librarians have been forever stumped by the question: How do we get our male students to read? After 6 years at a comprehensive boys school of 950 students, I figured that getting back to basics is probably the way to go. Jabbar and Warraich (2022) conducted a systematic review that indicat
The last word
By Article by the Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 137, Term 2, 2026
The State Library of NSW’s toolkit for Indigenous spaces in library places State Library of NSW (2025) Reading Australia’s list of fantastic teacher resources for books published by Magabala Books Copyright Agency (2026) How a New Zealand library replaced Dewey classification with th
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
Website and app reviews
Issue 132, Term 1, 2025
les, videos, and interactive resources are grouped by age and relate to schooling, behaviour, health, learning stages, media safety, and working with teachers. SCIS no: 5519473 Teaching Resources for Learning in Nature www.doc.govt.nz/get-involved/conservation-education/ The NZ DOC h
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