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Using your barcode reader with Recon

By Nicole England

Issue 8, Term 4 1993

Accession and Location The cursor will be on the accession number field. Press the [END] key. The system will then move on to the next title. Any queries regarding RECON can be directed to either Curriculum Corporation or Femtree Computer Corporation. Curriculum Corporation: (03) 639-0699 or (0

Retirement of Ms Marie McCorkell

By Lance Deveson

Issue 8, Term 4 1993

School users of the ASCIS (now SCIS) service will be saddened to learn of the retirement, due to ill health, of Ms Marie McCorkell as Business Manager at Curriculum Corporation. Marie has been with ASCIS and Curriculum Corporation for a period of almost 10 years and made a valuable contribution t

Information Services Questionnaire

By Nicole England

Issue 8, Term 4 1993

Included with this issue of CONNECTIONS journal is an "Information Services Questionnaire". The aim of the questionnaire is to improve the quality and efficiency of our service to users, and we would appreciate your input. You will find 3 types of questions on the form: Tick the appropriate b

New SCIS Subject Headings

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 8, Term 4 1993

Below is a list of subject headings which have been approved for entry into the SCIS database. Please feel free to them add them to yow existing catalogue. *NOTE: CHILD CARE CENTRES and PLAY CENTRES are not new headings but have been significantly altered to accommodate the new heading FAMILY DAY

Issue 7 Summary

By Editor

Issue 7, Term 3 1993

Please note this issue of Connections is only available in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: In this issue Dianne Lewis Voyager: Curriculum Corporation’s new software platform for the SCIS Database Lance Deveson Microfiche Problems Selections of an Automated System Ros

In this Issue

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 7, Term 3 1993

In this issue, Lance Deveson explains how the new Voyager software (announced in the last issue) will improve the use of the SCIS database and Rosemary Abbott shares her research on methods used for successful selection of a library automation system. Connections circulates throughout Australia,

Voyager: Curriculum Corporation’s new software platform for the SCIS Database

By Lance Deveson

Issue 7, Term 3 1993

ce. Voyager is a complete library package having all of the following features: on-line public access catalogue (OPAC), cataloguing, circulation, acquisitions, serial control, authority control, Inter-library loan and Gateway-CD-ROM access.Voyager also has two newer innovations: full text retrieva

Microfiche Problems

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 7, Term 3 1993

created many problems for subscribers to that fiche. DATACOM, Curriculum Corporation's microfiche bureau is constantly trying new ways to improve the quality of the microfiche, but, in June got it wrong. In an effort to improve the readability of the SCIS Order Number on the fiche, DAT A COM reduced

Selections of an Automated System

By Rosemary Abbott

Issue 7, Term 3 1993

communications are widening the range of information accessible to those within schools; this is often best done through a resource centre and will require computers to access such services. Another factor of concern to school librarians is that of shrinking staff. If current levels of service are

Have you Read This?

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 7, Term 3 1993

way of future communications, Initial findings from a national survey on K-12 educators' use of telecommunications by Margaret Honey and Andres Henriquez, in Information searcher, vol 5 no 3, p 9-12 gives an overview of uses by teachers and students. ELECTRONIC SCIENCE INDEXES Scientific Americ

What’s New

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 7, Term 3 1993

in, can be accessed via HELP. The default search mode is TOPIC search, although keyword boolean search can be selected. Having typed your search request a split screen is presented. The left hand side shows the outline of the first article while the right hand, two thirds of the screen shows the

Handy Hints: ASCISRECON

By Nicole England

Issue 7, Term 3 1993

Included here are answers to some of the most commonly asked questions over our Helpline: Q. How long will my ASCISRECON file take to be processed and returned to my school? A The tum around time for ASCISRECON is approximately two weeks from the actual processing date. The processing dates lis

SCIS Standards Amendment

By Ellen Paxton

Issue 7, Term 3 1993

At a recent meeting held between members of the SCIS cataloguing agencies it was decided that a special book number ABL would be assigned to materials about Australian Aborigines whose book number would normally be ABO. The change is a response to concerns raised by teachers and members of the Ab

New SCIS Headings

By Ellen Paxton

Issue 7, Term 3 1993

Revised SOVIET UNION REPUBLIC HEADINGS These headings, listed below, have recently been approved by the SCIS cataloguing agencies for publication in the forthcoming third edition of the SCIS Subject Headings List. Please feel free to add them to your existing catalogue. ARMENIA May be subdi

Issue 6 Summary

By Editor

Issue 6, Term 2 1993

Please note this issue of Connections is only available in PDF format. Articles in this issue include: In this issue Dianne Lewis Another ASCISRECON Experience! Corinne O’Reilly Toorak College, Mt. Eliza New Directions for the Information Program Lance Deveson ASCISRECON New

In this Issue

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 6, Term 2 1993

Curriculum Corporation makes an exciting announcement which concerns the delivery of service to us all. Makor library describes its unique service to the educational sector and describes how it can be accessed on-line. Another user of ASCISRECON shares her experience of the product. The pros and co

Another ASCISRECON Experience!

By Corinne O'Reilly

Issue 6, Term 2 1993

approached the task from a different angle to Angie. Our book stock had been catalogued by a number of different librarians over the years and consequently some of the books were entered under "unusual" call numbers. Although aware of the negative feedback from some librarians over ASCIS' own disc

New Directions for the Information Program

By Lance Deveson

Issue 6, Term 2 1993

atalogues. Library software packages have the capabilities to print out book catalogues when SCIS records are transferred to the system and lack of requests for microfiche catalogues does not warrant them continuing on to the new system. The supply of machine readable records through the ASCISRECO

ASCISRECON

By Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Issue 6, Term 2 1993

record is 15 cents per record, and the minimum order is 100 records. Records can be supplied on either 5.25" or 3.5" disks in IBM format. Schools requiring more information about ASCISRECON should contact Curriculum Corporation and an information brochure on the program will be sent out. ASCISRE

New Product Reviews

By Dianne Lewis

Issue 6, Term 2 1993

dated.) ABS data ranges from 1990-1992. The shareware software which was on the previous disk is no longer available, presumably as a response to the questionnaire sent out by Informit towards the end of 1992. Guidelines and Pinpointer, like the rest of the Informit family of disks operating on KA