A new version of the SCIS Standards for Cataloguing and Data Entry, including guidelines for cataloguing e-books, was published on the SCIS website in December 2010. The SCIS Information Services Standards Committee (ISSC) spent some time grappling with the issue of multiple e-book formats and providers before making a number of policy decisions. The following [...]
Monthly Archive for July, 2011
The School Library Association of New Zealand Aotearoa SLANZA 2011 conference kicked off on Sunday afternoon 17 July at St Cuthbert’s College in Auckland and SCIS is pleased to be part of this exciting three day conference. Tricia Nathan and Pru Mitchell from the SCIS team are at Stand 3 on Level 1 of the [...]
From July 2011 SCIS is pleased to announce the addition of enhanced content services to SCIS OPAC from Syndetic Solutions and LibraryThing for Libraries via a new subscription with Thorpe-Bowker. What is enhanced content? The bibliographic records in SCIS OPAC are enhanced to display additional detail about resources; information such as plot summaries, author notes, [...]
Through the subscription service Syndetics, SCIS offers additional descriptive and evaluative information for its catalogue records where available. Features include: author notes awards books in a series fiction and biography profiles summaries and annotations. Syndetics reviews Syndetics delivers edited reviews from authoritative reviewing sources including: Bookseller & Publisher reviews New York Times reviews School Library [...]
SCIS is now a member of LibraryThing for Libraries, an enhancement service that delivers information created and shared by members of the LibraryThing social networking service into library catalogues. Community generated content from LibraryThing for Libraries includes a range of features that provide additional descriptive information about resources in the SCIS catalogue. Recommendations point to [...]
