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SCIS asks: ScOT and subject access
In the subject access session of the SCIS consultation on 4 December 2012, Les Kneebone Project Manager of the Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT) presented an exciting overview of recent developments in...
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Cataloguing team leader
This week SCIS sadly farewells Pamela Kadow who has ably led the SCIS cataloguing team since 2010. Cataloguing services are at the core of SCIS and we are very well served by our distributed team of...
View ArticleHighlights of Connections 84
You can now read the latest issue of Connections at the SCIS website. GR8 Debate digital culture is killing reading The GR8 debate was organized in celebration of the National Year of Reading and...
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Highlights of Connections 85
You can now read the latest issue of Connections at the SCIS website. Digital Citizenship Judith Way discusses why she saw the need for a digital citizenship blog which reached out to all sectors of...
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Connections 86
You can now read the latest issue of Connections at the SCIS website. Games and Learning Hamish Curry constructs an argument and shares his passion for games-based learning within the curriculum. He...
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Western Australia SCIS agency
On 16 September 2013, Education Services Australia received advice from the Director-General of the Western Australian Department of Education that the Department will be closing the in-house...
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Connections 87
You can now read the latest issue of Connections at the SCIS website. This issue features the following articles of interest to school library staff. Early Harvest: A literary journal made by children...
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Connections 88
Connections issue 88 Heading into holidays? Now you have some time, catch up on some professional reading. In case you missed it – the term 1 issue of Connections is published online at the SCIS...
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Connections 89
The term 2 issue of Connections is published online at the SCIS website and features the following articles of interest to school library staff. Eric and one of his beloved elephants. Original artwork...
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Connections 90
The latest issue of the SCIS journal, Connections, has been sent to all schools, and is available online. Highlights of Connections 90 include:- Taking Note of Nonfiction Peter Macinnis, who presented...
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Highlights of Connections 91
The latest issue of the SCIS newsletter Connections has been distributed to all Australian schools, and is also now available online. Here are some of the highlights. Purple Heart by Andrew Fiu To...
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Highlights of Connections 92
Copyright for educators Jessica Smith, National Copyright Officer for the National Copyright Unit. Here she advises on copyright issues and copyright licences for the Education sector and provides...
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Highlights of Connections 93
Here are the highlights from the latest issue of Connections, which is now available online. © Commonwealth of Australia Cybersmart Digital Citizenship Kellie Britnell, Senior Education Advisor for the...
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Highlights of Connections 94
Here are the highlights from the latest issue of Connections, which is now available online. © 2015 Story Dogs Lending an ear for literacy Leah Sheldon and Janine Sigley share how their not-for-profit...
View ArticleSCIS cataloguing standards update: Dewey or don’t we?
There has been some discussion at SCIS about how schools treat picture books that rhyme. It has been SCIS practice to classify stories in rhyme picture books as poetry, with each book allocated a Dewey...
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Highlights of Connections 99
Here are the highlights from the latest issue of Connections, which is now available online. To download a PDF of the latest issue, please select this link. It’s time: let’s improve schools’...
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A Preference For Genre
Traditionally, library fiction collections have been organised by author surnames, though many libraries are now ‘genrefying’ their collections, following a model reminiscent of bookstores. This may be...
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Highlights of Connections 100
Here are the highlights from the 100th issue of Connections, which is now available online. To download a PDF of the latest issue, please select this link. Looking back: school library catalogues and...
View ArticleWhat’s happening in your school library?
We recently mailed out Connections 97 to schools in Australia. In this issue, we included an article by Chris Harte about St Aidan’s Anglican Girls’ School which has received great feedback. The...
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Here are the highlights from the latest issue of Connections, which is now available online. The importance of school libraries in the Google Age We continue to hear about the lack of trained library...
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