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School libraries and e-learning: where synergy equals opportunity
By Anita McMillan
Issue 104, Term 1 2018
E-learning is gaining momentum in schools, and opportunities abound for school library professionals to support and even lead in this area. School library staff are highly regarded for their information, critical and digital literacy skills, and well known for their early adoption of new technolo
Supporting Australian book creators
By The ELR team
Issue 106, Term 3 2018
book holdings. SCIS works closely with library system vendors to ensure that the survey runs efficiently, with minimum effort and time required from school library staff. How are schools invited? Schools are randomly selected as a representative sample of all Australian schools, across all stat
EAL/D in school libraries
By Nicki Moore, Martin Gray
Issue 121, Term 2 2022
ew South Wales Department of Education to conduct a recent survey exploring the extent to which EAL/D programs and their students may be supported by school library staff. In the past, figures on the commonality of such collaborations have been hard to come by. This initial survey, which began in Ne
Supporting Australian book creators
By Laura Armstrong, Toni Jordan
Issue 95, Term 4 2015
s (ELR), and in the coming weeks 600 schools will receive invitations, either by mail or email, requesting their participation in this year's survey. School library staff play a critical part in the data collection process – without their assistance to extract the book count data from their library
Know your rights and responsibilities: teaching digital citizenship
By Susan Marshall
Issue 103, Term 4 2017
None of us could imagine a world without the internet. It has become an ever-increasing element of our daily life — and it is often the school library staff’s role to support students and classroom staff to maximise the benefits of engaging with the online world for learning, creating, playing and
Website and app reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 104, Term 1 2018
y 250 freely available e-resources, including websites, indexes, databases, e-journals, subject guides and full-text journals on a variety of topics. School library staff would benefit from becoming familiar with this content. SCIS no. 1842227 PETAA teaching resources www.petaa.edu.au/imis_pr
Website and app reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 107, Term 4 2018
ng. To preserve the cultural and historical significance of these languages, UNESCO has declared 2019 the International Year of Indigenous Languages. School library staff will find a variety of material on this website to resource the topic for the 2019 school year. SCIS no. 1886905 Lorax Project
Cover images and SCIS
By Renate Beilharz
Issue 109, Term 2 2019
m to promote resources and reading. ESA has been offering cover images to schools as part of their subscription since 2008. This article explains how school library staff can use these without breaching SCIS Terms of Use. Cover images Text-only catalogue displays have become a thing of the past.
Educational Lending Right (ELR) School Library Survey 2019–20
By Daniel Hughes
Issue 113, Term 2 2020
s a matter of minutes, not very long at all. It took less than five minutes. Too easy. ESA is very grateful for the enthusiastic cooperation of school library staff who took part in ELR 2019–20. ESA offers a $150 voucher to one respondent whose name is drawn at random from a list of all those
ELR: big win for Aussie authors
By Amanda Shay
Issue 126, Term 3 2023
r payments from lending rights are the difference between being able to afford to write and not being able to. Or if you look at it another way, when school library staff are adding Australian books, in physical, ebook and audio book formats, to their collection, they are supporting the next lot of
Non-fiction: the elephant in the library
By Rebecca Tobler
Issue 107, Term 4 2018
ools and fields illuminated a growing sentiment — that we didn’t need non-fiction at all! I was understandably floored by this turn of events. Most school library staff will not disagree with the notion that we are ‘fighting a losing battle’, but have we already lost, and simply not noticed yet?
Love and Autism
By Kay Kerr
Issue 125, Term 2 2023
periences. As our society continues to have conversations about diversifying the voices and perspectives in our storytelling, what role do you see school library staff playing in educating young people when it comes to not just neurodiversity, but diversity in general? I’ve actually just start
Authority File Maintenance - An Ongoing Task
By Carolyn Brown and Jane Withers
Issue 36, Term 1 2001
ions where we were uncertain. Maintenance of authority files is an ongoing, ultimately rewarding task. We would advise Teacher Librarians and other school library staff to undertake the process in small manageable 'chunks' and to use the power of the library system to make changes and corrections
Website and app reviews
By Nigel Paull
Issue 109, Term 2 2019
ustry’. Categories include resources for primary; secondary; and tertiary, TAFE, and vocational. This website is a useful resource selection tool for school library staff and teachers. SCIS no. 1909720 Farm and livestock management software www.agriwebb.com AgriWebb is an Australian software
SCIS is more
By Dr Ben Chadwick
Issue 113, Term 2 2020
n is unfolding and events are shifting day by day. The school library community is facing many challenges, but despite this we hear daily examples of school library staff sharing suggestions, information and encouragement to their colleagues, and striving to deliver value to teachers, students and f
ASLA Australian Teacher Librarian Award 2021
By Kerry Pope
Issue 118, TERM 3 2021
t offers in having a centrally based cataloguing service has enabled many schools the opportunity to access catalogue records. This frees up time for school library staff to undertake other tasks that need to be performed in the school library. I have been a proud supporter of SCIS right from the be
SCIS is more
By Renate Beilharz
Issue 122, Term 3 2022
tative Committee (SSC) was inaugurated in August 2021 and exists to help ensure that SCIS draws from a range of perspectives when updating standards. School library staff from around Australia and New Zealand were selected to join the SSC, ensuring a range of school types are represented. The curren
SCIS is more
By Anthony Shaw
Issue 123, Term 4 2022
ss, resourcing issues associated with both the pandemic and skills shortages, and changing delivery models. I’m sure these all sound very familiar to school library staff who face these same challenges and more. My work with public libraries focused on data analytics, streamlining workflows and p
Leading whole school literacy from the library
By Dr Margaret Merga
Issue 124, Term 1 2023
, 2019b) and they have skills in meeting the needs of diverse literacy learners (Merga, 2019a). There is a growing body of research linking qualified school library staff and positive effects for student literacy performance (as reviewed in Lance & Kachel, 2018). Cross-curricular. Teacher libra
Collector, curator or collaborator?
By Jennie Bales
Issue 100, Term 1 2017
rces, and expertise — all of which are fundamental to being a successful and effective school library practitioner. To be a powerhouse of expertise, school library staff need constant and regular exposure to new ideas embracing educational and technological developments, sources, and resources. An