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New Zealand News
By Merilyn Small
Issue 14, Term 3 1995
Ns have been set up as a response to this growing need for more timely delivery of this information to students, and to reduce the number of INNZ requests to the National Library's Document Supply Service in Wellington. The first CIN was established between six local high schools as a pilot sche
Letters to the Editor
By Heather Kelsall
Issue 14, Term 3 1995
I am responding to your request in Connections for what is happening with the Internet in schools. Kilvington is a girls' school from pre-prep to year 12. I am the teacher-librarian in the secondary school library, and the Internet is networked in this library. Schoolsnet is our service provide
News from Curriculum Corporation
By Lance Deveson
Issue 14, Term 3 1995
fect schools dialling into the existing Dobis system and the new Voyager system, however Online Users will be notified separately when they will be required to change the phone number in the SCISLINK software. Users should contact Information Program staff if they are experiencing difficulty in acce
Libraries: An American Value
By Lance Deveson
Issue 14, Term 3 1995
er day commencing daily at 8.30 am. The logistics of just choosing the sessions to attend, as well as boarding the correct bus to get to the venue, required military precision and resulted in long days at the Conference. Many of the sessions were recorded to enable delegates to "attend" as many sess
Internetting Corner
By Heather Kelsall
Issue 14, Term 3 1995
i have announced the introduction of a listserv for Australian T /L's. OZTL_NET will provide an effective management tool for practising T /L's, uniquely designed to meet the professional information needs of us all. Topics of interest will include the latest issues and developments relating to an
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
Issue 13 Summary
By Editor
Issue 13, Term 2 1995
Professional Upgrading: What’s available for the working T/L? James Henri A Masters – What’s the Point? Jan Barnett, Saint Laurence’s College, QLD What’s new News from Curriculum Corporation Lance Deveson Internetting Corner Heather Kelsall New Zealand News Rosa-Jane French, S
Professional Upgrading: What’s available for the working T/L?
By James Henri
Issue 13, Term 2 1995
as a non award course and may be used by students as the third year in a BEd. A Teacher Librarianship method within the Grad Dip Ed (Secondary) for qualified librarians to gain teaching qualifications. A Teacher Librarianship strand within the Master of Applied Science (Information Studies) degr
A Masters - What's The Point?
By Jan Barnett
Issue 13, Term 2 1995
arianship; gaining a sense of achievement; having empathy with all students; improving my time management skills; having a current recognised qualification; being able to study when I wanted to, by using a distance education course. The problems (not insurmountable): the vagaries
Have You Read This?
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 13, Term 2 1995
) providing a clear description of the process, details of several programs to use and some addresses to subscribe to. Some educators have become quite excited about the use of multimedia computers and CD ROMs within the classroom. Jon Madian evaluates their educational value in Multimedia -Why
News from Curriculum Corporation
By Lance Deveson
Issue 13, Term 2 1995
fect schools dialling into the existing Dobis system and the new Voyager system, however Online Users will be notified separately when they will be required to change the phone number in the SCISLINK software. Users should contact Information Program staff if they are experiencing difficulty in acce
What's New
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 13, Term 2 1995
e survey. The book 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 o
Internetting Corner
By Heather Kelsall
Issue 13, Term 2 1995
ss, profiles of members, Hansard ... etc. http://www.bvis.uic.edu/museum/ The Field Museum, Chicago: on-line dinosaurs FOR MORE: e-mail your request to [email protected] Recommended reading on the Net: PHELPS Katherine. Surf's up: Internet Australian style. Port Melbourne: Mandarin/R
Letters to the Editor
By Heather Kelsall
Issue 13, Term 2 1995
y 1150 students. Since my appointment to the Co-Ordinators position, I have seen my role as T /L in charge of a large well-resourced library change quite markedly. No longer do students need only access print and non-print resources within their own school. Now, with the changing curriculum and th
New Zealand News
By Rosa-Jane French
Issue 13, Term 2 1995
greater success in finding material than in the past. This means that school library journal collections are getting more use, and there are more requests being made to local networks by fax and to the National Library. School Library Network, a voluntary organisation which corresponds with just
Issue 12 Summary
By Editor
Issue 12, Term 1 1995
ea of schools... Heather Kelsall Product review Information Online and on Disc 1995: Conference Report Scott Robinson, The Southport School, QLD What’s New News from the Information Program
In this Issue
By Heather Kelsall
Issue 12, Term 1 1995
This first Issue from Queensland does have a northern bias -no apologise! Focusing on the practical aspects of the Internet highlights two service providers who have responded to schools: there's sure to be others around Australia. 1995 schedules for SCIS Microfiche and ASCISRECON are included, a r
The Gold Coast campus of Griffith University and Ipswich City Council both answer the plea of schools...
By Heather Kelsall
Issue 12, Term 1 1995
1; a modem of at least 14,400 baud; and a Fax Grade telephone line -which all have managed to do within the first few weeks of Term l. The software required to access the Internet is supplied free by Griffith University and installed by their technician. The Commerce Department at Palm Beach Curru
Product review
By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)
Issue 12, Term 1 1995
ications software that will enable easier access to the SCIS database via Voyager. Curriculum Corporation has listened to its Users who have been requesting that the access to SCIS had to be as easy as possible. Users have responded to requests in our surveys, informing the Information Program tha
Information Online and on Disc 1995: Conference Report
By Scott Robinson
Issue 12, Term 1 1995
Experience' and this portrayed itself in the strong multimedia, online service providers and Internet presence. The conference's ability to attract quality keynote and session speakers has certainly not diminished. Day One began with a keynote address by Mr. Patrick Tierney, President and Chief Ex