Schools Catalogue Information Service
Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS) creates and distributes
Data and Standards
As well as doing original cataloguing, SCIS maintains the SCIS Subject Headings List (SCISSHL), an alternative to the Library of Congress Subject Headings suited to use in K-12 education contexts, and the SCIS Standards for Cataloguing And Data Entry (SSCDE). SSCDE reflects international standards including Resource Description and Access and International Standard Bibliographic Description with adaptations to suit the K-12 education sector.[1][2]
SCIS catalogues bibliographic and audio-visual resources, both physical and digital, including trade fiction and non-fiction and educational materials. SCIS metadata includes full and abridged
Background
SCIS is a business unit of Education Services Australia (ESA). ESA is a not-for-profit
Use
As of 2019[update], 93 per cent of Australian schools and 49 per cent of New Zealand schools are subscribed, with a total of 107 international schools are also subscribed, across 22 countries.[11][12]
References
- ^ O'Connell, Judy (2013). "RDA for school libraries: The next generation in cataloguing". Access. 27 (4): 4.
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- ^ Chadwick, Benjamin (2017). "SCIS is more". Connections. 102: 14.
- ^ Hider, Philip; Freeman, Ashley (2009). "A Comparison of ScOT and SCISSH as Subject Retrieval Aids in School Library Catalogues". Access. 23 (4): 14.
- ^ Murphy, M (2007). "Library Technician Courses-Recognition". Incite. 28 (7): 8.
- ^ Chadwick, Benjamin (2016). "When MARC consumed ScOT: a tale of linked educational metadata". VALA2016 - Proceedings.
- ^ Standing Committee on Education and Employment. "Inquiry into school libraries and teacher librarians in Australian schools". Australian Government. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
- ^ National Library Of Australia. "Our History". Libraries Australia. National Library Of Australia. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
- ^ Deveson, Lance (2017). "Looking back: school library catalogues and the online revolution". Connections. 100: 1–3.
- ISBN 9781440834738.
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- ^ "Annual reports". Education Services Australia. Retrieved 17 July 2020.