Thank you!

More than 1300 SCIS subscribers responded to our recent SCIS user survey, which was conducted as part of the strategic review of SCIS being carried out by library consulting company Libraries Alive.

The review will help us make decisions about the future direction of SCIS, but it’s also about evaluating how well we are meeting your needs now, so it was wonderful to get so many amazingly positive responses from our users about our services.

The review should be completed by the end of this month, and we will be reporting in detail on the outcomes in the term 4 issue of Connections; in the meantime a summary of the responses to the survey is available here.

Website ordering tool in SCIS

SCISWeb has a new feature!

For quite some time SCIS has made a list of all websites added to SCIS each month available in Special Order Files for all SCISWeb subscribers. Websites added to SCIS are evaluated for their educational content, and with the new SCIS websites  tool they can be much more easily previewed and ordered as either a monthly download file, or by selecting a date range of your choice.

Check out our demo below to see how easy it is to download SCIS Website records with the new websites ordering tool.

SCIS Website Special Orders from scis on Vimeo.

Libraries Alive! and the SCIS survey

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What our users think about our service is always important to us, but now more than ever we need your feedback! Library consulting company Libraries Alive! has recently been hired by Education Services Australia to conduct a review of SCIS to help us to identify the best ways we can continue to support school libraries with cataloguing services in the future.

As part of the review we are conducting a survey of our customers to find out what the people who matter most think about us. So, if you are a customer of SCIS, and have not already received our email notification, please find the time to complete our short online survey.

The survey is completely anonymous and shouldn’t take any longer than 5 mins to complete. We know how busy you are and how many demands there are on your time, but we hope to get as many responses as possible by 18 June 2010.

SCIS is now part of Education Services Australia

ESA logoAs of the 1st of March, SCIS became part of a new company!

Curriculum Corporation, which has been the parent company of SCIS since 1989, has recently merged with Education.au to become a new company, Education Services Australia. Like Curriculum Corporation, the newly formed Education Services Australia is a not-for-profit company, owned by all Australian Ministers of Education.

In practical terms, the change will have little effect on SCIS, and we will continue to offer the same level of service as we always have, but we’re very excited that the merger between our parent company, Curriculum Corporation and Education.au will give us an opportunity to collaborate more closely with our colleagues at education.au, who have done some  amazing work pioneering digital resources for educators, including the professional networking site edna, and the career services site myfuture.