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What's New

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 12, Term 1 1995

ctions and summary of search commands the most useful -particularly the log off is prominently displayed. How often do we need to get off a service quickly and can't remember the steps! It does not replace the often lengthy manuals provided by each online database, what it does do is summarise all

Have You Read This?

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 12, Term 1 1995

lian Personal Computer . Feb.1995 features seven articles on various aspects of the 'Net. Choosing the right service provider for your school can be quite difficult, I nternet access: the front door. p:88 reviews 20 which might well provide some direction. Incite has a regular two page featu

News from the Information Program

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 12, Term 1 1995

April Updates for SA and WA schools will be posted on 1/5/95. June Updates for SA and WA schools will be posted on 30/6/95. Sep Updates for QLD schools will be posted on 29/9/95. ASCISRECON Processing dates for 1995 APRIL: 7 and 21 MAY: 5 and 19 JUNE: 2 and 16 JULY: 7and 21

Issue 11 Summary

By Editor

Issue 11, Term 4 1994

Please note this issue of Connections is only available in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: In this issue Dianne Lewis Voyager Has Landed Lance Deveson The Information superhighway – implications for education Dianne Lewis Letters to the Editor What’s new Katrina

In this Issue

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 11, Term 4 1994

Voyager has landed! Glimpses of the new SCIS on-line interface, a review of the Herald-Sun on CD-ROM and a report on the recent Computer Education Group of Victoria conference with special reference to school library technology issues. This will be the final issue under my editorship. The new edi

Voyager Has Landed

By Lance Deveson

Issue 11, Term 4 1994

C. The ASCII OP AC is the access point for schools to search the SCIS database and order product online from the database. Curriculum Corporation required that MARCorp enhance the ASCII OP AC to allow ordering of records from the database at point of search and incorporate the display of the curri

The Information superhighway – implications for education

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 11, Term 4 1994

cautionary note. The Internet is a wonderful play ground which provides endless access to information but in many cases information can be found more quickly from traditional information sources. Internet access raises issues for schools such as document delivery, censorship and management issues. A

Letters to the Editor

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 11, Term 4 1994

y, but I am very disappointed with the binding and presentation. Why publish a book which will be used daily over many years, in paperback, on poor quality paper and bound so that the right hand page entries are so close to the centre margin that the book must be forced flat to read them? It would

What's New

By Katrina Kolt

Issue 11, Term 4 1994

CD-ROM is a valuable product for school libraries. It provides full text searching of the Herald Sun and Sunday Herald Sun, and is updated quarterly. At a time when the provision of current information is imperative, this CD-ROM certainly overcomes the problems associated with storage of

Have You Read This?

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 11, Term 4 1994

October 1994, p26-37 will be an extremely useful tool. Have you ever wondered about Informit, the publishers of AUST-GUIDE CD-ROMs (among others)? Questions & answers by Sandra Oxley provides interesting back-ground on issues such as network licensing, standards and copyright. New librarian , O

News from the Information Program - SCIS On-Line in 1995

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 11, Term 4 1994

rriculum Corporation has been negotiating with Telecom to, not only establish a suitable communications network for access to the database, based on equity of access from anywhere in Australia but also to assist with the development of a communications software for schools. Connections subscribe

SCIS Update - Additions to SCIS Subject Headings

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 11, Term 4 1994

f the disks being catalogued to be recorded in a physical description note. The physical capacity of the disk drive to be recorded in the systems requirement note.

Thank you Dianne

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 11, Term 4 1994

re. New Editor The Winter Edition of Connections featured a lead article written by Heather Kelsall, Information Manager at The Southport School, Queensland. Dianne Lewis when tendering her resignation, recommended Curriculum Corporation approach Heather to edit the newsletter. Heather was c

Issue 10 Summary

By Editor

Issue 10, Term 3 1994

lude: In this issue Dianne Lewis Information Servicing at the Southport School Towards the New Century Heather Kelsall, The Southport School, QLD The Internet Letters News from the Information Program Lance Deveson LM-NET SCIS Update Lance Deveson

In this Issue

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 10, Term 3 1994

Heather Kelsall from The Southport School, outlines the impact of new technologies in her school. The discussion, begun in the last issue, about the Internet continues. There is some further information about it and an article about LM-NET, an electronic discussion group on the Internet, readily

Towards the New Century

By Heather Kelsall,

Issue 10, Term 3 1994

school and the Staff Workroom, on a star Novell network configuration. While this network format proved most costly it provides several advantages required in a secondary environment: control by the Network Manager and class teacher, point- to-point speed and the ability to plug-in/ plug-out withou

The Internet Letters

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 10, Term 3 1994

ore expensive in 1995, and most Australian schools have not even had a taste of it. I received responses to my article from colleagues in Victoria, Queensland and NSW. If you are interested in being part of a lobby group to ensure that school libraries do not miss the boat, please contact me. De

News from the Information Program

By Lance Deveson

Issue 10, Term 3 1994

se items not found on the main cumulation. 3. Record the SCIS order numbers on the appropriate order sheet. The more legible your order form, the quicker Curriculum Corporation can processs your order. If a resource is not listed, set it aside until the next microfiche update arrives or 4 notify

News from the Information Program Continued

By Barbara Burr

Issue 10, Term 3 1994

SEARCHING THE MICROFICHE "I can't find it on the microfiche" is a frequently heard problem from users of the microfiche. Before you reach the limits of frustration, try these three possibilities which may account for a number of those 'missing' items. 1. Frame Index (or grids) Reading from

LM-NET

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 10, Term 3 1994

en Dillon has participated), how to set up CD-ROM networks, policies about charging for computer print-outs and cries for help. One TL who posted a request for information on library automation received 20 replies within a week. Others have posted requests for "novels suitable for unmotivated year 9