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1999 SCIS Conference Report: Planning for 1999-2000
By Kevin Grove
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
lved, and that it is now appropriate to look at maximising the usefulness and value for money of the service. The Conference focused on three themes: quality, customer service, and cost effectiveness; and discussed a number of enhancements to the service and several service management issues. A tr
Handy Hints for SCISWeb
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
Identifying the Problem Before calling SCIS Customer Service with a query, try identifying issues which may be relevant to your problem. This will help you to understand whether the problem you are experiencing is a SCIS problem. Develop a checklist of questions as part of your library proced
Videorecordings and SCIS
By Anne Dowling
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
SCIS records for videorecordings follow the rules for cataloguing set out in the Anglo-American cataloguing rules (1988 revision) (AACR). The AACR lists the different locations from which the title of a videorecording can be taken and ranks the locations in order of preference. The order is: th
Introducing Cheryl
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
the SCIS team as National Cataloguing and Metadata Coordinator. Her main role involves the application and development of standards for enhancing the quality of the SCIS database. One of Cherryl's first tasks is to coordinate the revision work for the fourth edition of SCIS Subject Headings, which w
CC News
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
SCIS and Security Schools are reminded that it is their responsibility to ensure that when they download catalogue records from SCIS, the records are used only in their school. Curriculum Corporation recently initiated audit processes which provided us with information about SCIS users and usage
Internetting Corner
By Nigel Paull
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
activities. recipes. research topics , puules and display suggestions. Bookmark the site for updates and for searchiRQ the links it contains. Alexander Graham Bell - The Inventor http://www.fitzgeraldstudio.com/htm 1/bel I/ invent
Reviews
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
n the field of technology is always fraught with danger. Indeed, most schools would have some software or hardware that didn't fulfil its promise and quickly became obsolete. In this article the author doesn't make wild predictions but rather looks at emerging trends that are taking place with PCs.
What's New?
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 29, Term 2 1999
ALIA Merit Award Congratulations to Michelle Ellis, Senior Curriculum Advisor. Library and I nformation Literacy, with the NSW Department of Educat i on and Training (Michelle is also the Manager of the New South Wales SC IS
Issue 28 Summary
By Editor
Issue 28, Term 1 1999
Please note this issue of Connections is only available in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: Bollards to you too: ASLA XVI Conference report Nigel Paull, Wendy Smith and Keith Gove Welcome to 1999 Keith Gove, Curriculum Corporation CC News Internetting Corner Nigel Pau
Bollards to you too: ASLA XVI Conference Report
By Nigel Paull, Wendy Smith, Kevin Gove
Issue 28, Term 1 1999
e speaker, Mai Lee, offered Teacher Librarians a strategy for preventing their decline into 'endangered species' status. Other speakers echoed the unique position Teacher Librarians have as the initiators of change within their schools. Pam Berger introduced us to Socrates, a student of the year 2
Welcome to 1999
By Kevin Gove
Issue 28, Term 1 1999
Welcome to the first edition of Connections for this last year of the millennium. What will the next one bring? I am not silly enough to try to predict. But I find an interesting litmus test for social and political issues is to ask: What will people in 2099 think of our era? By what good deeds wou
ASLA XVI Conference
By Schools Catalogue Information Service
Issue 28, Term 1 1999
excellent opportunity for professional development for Teacher Librarians. We hope to see many more attending the next ASLA conference, to be held in Queensland in 2001.
CC News
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 28, Term 1 1999
SCIS products available Curriculum Corporation has the following products available for use in libraries. To order please send a cheque with an official school purchase order form. Banksia Wave Modem Curriculum Corporation, in cooperation with All Barcodes Australia, is able to offer custom
Internetting Corner
By Nigel Paull
Issue 28, Term 1 1999
exhibits_events/online/ satellite/ This amazing site explains what satellites are, what they do and how they communicate, complemented by animated sequences. An interactive program allows users to build three different types of satellites. Telstra Corporation: Education Development Unit http:/
Reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 28, Term 1 1999
ple Level: Upper primary Publisher: Department of Education Victoria RRP: $85.00 ISBN: 1 87597 205 6 SCIS Order Number: 919614 System requirements: Windows and Macintosh compatible. 486DX/33MHz IBM compatible PC, Windows 3.1 or 95, 8MB RAM, 256-colour monitor, CD ROM drive. Colour Mac
What's New?
By Nigel Paull
Issue 28, Term 1 1999
h Service for Children's Literature The Children's Literature Collection at the State Library of Victoria offers a free research service for all inquiries about historic and contemporary children's books. Using the full resources of the State Library of Victoria they are able to consult indexes o
Cataloguing News: New, Amended, Replaced Subject Headings 1999
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 28, Term 1 1999
ADULT EDUCATION ** (Addition) See also LIFELONG LEARNING XX LIFELONG LEARNING AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY** (Addition) See also SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE XX SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURE** (Addition) See also SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURE -ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS ** (Addition) See also
Issue 27 Summary
By Editor
Issue 27, Term 4 1998
Please note this issue of Connections is only available in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: SCISweb is a Winner Fay Gardiner, Glenmore Park Primary,NSW EdNA Adopts SCIS Metadata Standard Ellen Paxton, SCIS Key Issues about Cataloguing and the use of SCIS CC News In
SCISWeb is a Winner
By Fay Gardiner
Issue 27, Term 4 1998
e orders. For some silly reason, I'd expected to get started pretty much in the first week or so of the year on the backlog that had accumulated in quite a wondrous way considering I had run out of money about June. How could I forget that the forces that thwart Teacher Librarians' good intentions
EdNA Adopts SCIS Metadata Standard
By Ellen Paxton
Issue 27, Term 4 1998
familiar SCIS subject headings. This is a significant achievement for SCIS and participating Teacher Librarians, as it acknowledges the expertise and quality of SCIS subject headings and recognises that SCIS is THE standard searching language of Teacher Librarians and students t hroughout Australi