You can now read the latest issue of Connections at the SCIS website. Digital Citizenship Judith Way discusses why she saw the need for a digital citizenship blog which reached out to all sectors of her school community. She felt that many students and parents, even if adept at using digital technology and social media, were often unaware of [...]
Tag Archive for 'Cataloguing'
This week SCIS sadly farewells Pamela Kadow who has ably led the SCIS cataloguing team since 2010. Cataloguing services are at the core of SCIS and we are very well served by our distributed team of experienced and expert cataloguers currently located in Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane, Dunedin, Melbourne, Nelson, Perth and Sydney. Do you know a [...]
In the subject access session of the SCIS consultation on 4 December 2012, Les Kneebone Project Manager of the Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT) presented an exciting overview of recent developments in the ScOT thesaurus. Key features that position ScOT for the future include: its ongoing development with input from cataloguers, curriculum developers, subject matter experts [...]
On Tuesday 4 December 2012 SCIS conducted a consultation workshop with SCIS partners discussing future priorities in our support for school libraries. Judy O’Connell, Course Director (Teacher Librarianship) at Charles Sturt University started the day with a set of challenges that covered collections, search, cataloguing, curriculum, interoperability and access. Her presentation Strategic directions for school libraries reinforced the context [...]
SCIS is conducting a consultation workshop in Melbourne on Tuesday 4 December 2012 from 9.00-1.00pm. The consultation aims to engage SCIS and its partners in discussion about future priorities in our support of school libraries. Twitter hashtag for the day: #scisasks 9.00am Welcome, SCIS update and consultation goals 9.15am Strategic directions How will education libraries [...]
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 [...]
On 18 November 2010, on advice from the Queensland Department of Education and Training’s Library Services, SCIS sent out an email to Queensland schools to inform them that the Department will be discontinuing in-house SCIS cataloguing services as of 10 December 2010. The in-house cataloguing service has for many years catalogued resources sent in by [...]
During July and August 2010 SCIS cataloguers took advantage of the free trial period to preview Resource Description and Access (RDA), the new standard which is intended to replace the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2). SCIS will make initial preparations for the implementation of RDA by activating new MARC fields in our Voyager library management system when [...]
For those of you interested in following the progress of the new RDA (Resource Description and Access) standard, the following update was recently posted on the RDA discussion list by Deirdre Kiorgaard, the representative of the Australian Committee on Cataloguing to the Joint Steering Committee for the development of RDA: “The RDA toolkit will be [...]
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