SCIS conducted its annual consultation workshop in Melbourne on Thursday 14 November 2013 from 9.30-3.30pm. The consultation engaged SCIS and its partners in discussion about future priorities in our support of school libraries.
Twitter hashtag for the day: #scisasks
Programme
9.30am Welcome and consultation goals: Victoria Johnson, General Manager Education Services Australia
9.40am The view from the school library: Di Ruffles, Melbourne Grammar School
10.00am SCIS update: [from slide 9] Pru Mitchell, Manager SCIS
- What are SCIS users asking for? How can SCIS and library system providers best serve school libraries?
10.30am Key issue: The future of identity for integration and personalisation
Nick Lothian, Developer ESA
- Key question: How can ESA and library systems work together to support integrated search and access across school-selected resources?
11.00am Morning Tea
11.30am Future of the catalogue: Panel
- Information Resource Description and the Future of the Library Catalogue: Philip Hider, Head of the School of Information Studies Charles Sturt University
- The future of discovery architecture: Alan Manifold, State Library of Victoria
12.20pm Discussion and questions
- How should SCIS source, create or enhance catalogue data to meet future needs?
12.45pm Lunch
1.30pm Future of vocabularies Ben Chadwick, Metadata Analyst/SCIS System Administrator ESA
- Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT) report
- Linked data developments
- Australian Curriculum alignment opportunities
- Discussion and questions
2.10pm Resourcing of the curriculum project reports
- Ebooks project report and Australian Curriculum Connect Discovery/Scootle project: Colleen Foley, School libraries NSW Department of Education and Communities
- SCIS Subject Headings data cleansing and ScOT retrospective load project: David Feighan
2.50pm Final table discussion and recommendations
- Discussion and questions
Outcome: Recommendations on priority areas for SCIS services
3.30pm Close
If you cannot attend the Consultation you are invited to contribute via the SCIS Asks Survey