ERIC ED422021: School Library Automation in Australia: Issues and Results of the National Surveys. 2nd Edition. Topics in Australian Teacher Librarianship, No. 1.

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Dillon, Ken, Ed.
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Australia: Issues and Results
School Library Automation in
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Edition. Topics in Australian
of the National Surveys. 2nd
Teacher Librarianship, No. 1.
Charles Sturt Univ.-Riverina.
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ABSTRACT
This publication about school library automation in
Australia contains 18 chapters divided into seven sections. The chapters in
the first section presents survey results: "School Library Automation in
Australia: Results of the First, Second and Third National Surveys" (Ken
Dillon); and "School Library Automation in New Zealand: Results of a National.
Survey" (Cynthia Petersen). The next section deals with OPACs (online public
access catalogs) in school libraries: "Responsive Information Environments:
Effective and Affective User Education Strategies for School Libraries"
(Kylie Hanson); and "Dolphins are Never Pink: Icon Use in Interfaces for
Catalogs Used by Children" (Judy Clayton). SCIS (Schools' Catalogue and
Information Services) is the topic of the third section: "The Role of SCIS
Cataloguing Agencies: The NCEC" (Penelope Maddick); and "MARC for Teacher
The fourth section addresses
Librarians: An Introduction" (Ellen Paxton) .
issues in school library automation: "Factors Influencing the Selection of
Automated Library Systems in Victorian Independent School" (Rosemary Abbott);
"Selecting a Second Generation Library Automation System: A Checklist" (Jean
Indermaur and Pru Mitchell); "Hidden Treasures: Creative Interrogation of
Your Library Database" (John Lee); "Providing Access to Fiction in School
Libraries: A Time for Change" (Ashley Freeman); and "New Schools, New
Automating New School Libraries in Queensland"
Libraries, New Challenges
Section five discusses
(Pat Brosnan, Fran Robinson and Bruce McDonald) .
alternatives to integrated library automation systems: "AGAMA: A Simple,
Low-Cost Automation System for Small Libraries, or, a Fair Go For All" (Gail
Dous and Mary West); and "The Code Catalogue: The Teaching and Learning
Alternative to Automation" (Alan Ford). Cases studies of multimedia and other
future possibilities are presented in the next section: "Automating Two
Schools with BookMark" (Fiona Harper); "Imagine All the Possibilities"
(Arthur Winzenried); "Managing with Microfusion: A Case Study" (Chris
Skrzeczynski); and "Rolling Hills Meets Alice" (Glenys Williamson). The final
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section contains "School Library Automation: A Select Bibliography" (Ken
Dillon) .
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SCHOOL LIBRARY AUTOMATION
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SCHOOL LIBRARY AUTOMATION IN AUSTRALIA
ISSUES AND RESULTS OF THE NATIONAL SURVEYS
Edited by Ken Dillon
Topics in Australian
Teacher Librarianship, No. 1
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Contents
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
vii
INTRODUCTION TO FIRST EDITION
INTRODUCTION TO SECOND EDITION
1. THE SURVEYS
School Library Automation in Australia: Results of the First, Second and Third
1
National Surveys
Ken Dillon, Charles Sturt University, NSW
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School Library Automation in New Zealand: Results of a National Survey
Cynthia Petersen, National Library of New Zealand
2. OPACs IN SCHOOL LIBRARIES
37
Responsive Information Environments: Effective and Affective User Education
trategies for School Libraries
Kylie Hanson, Charles Sturt University, NSW
67
Dolphins are Never Pink: Icon Use in Interfaces for Catalogues used by Children
Judy Clayden, Edith Cowan University, WA
3. SCIS
The Role of SCIS Cataloguing Agencies: The NCEC
85
Penelope Maddick, National Catholic Education Commission, VIC
MARC for Teacher Librarians: An Introduction
91
Ellen Paxton, Curriculum Corporation, VIC
4. ISSUES IN SCHOOL LIBRARY AUTOMATION
Factors Influencing the Selection of Automated Library Systems in Victorian
115
Independent Schools
Rosemary Abbott, Loreto Mandeville Hall, VIC
Selecting a Second Generation Library Automation System: A Checldist
127
Jean Indermaur, Beaufort College, WA and Pm Mitchell, La Salle College, WA
Hidden Treasures: Creative Interrogation of Your Library Database
145
John Lee, Catholic Education Office, NSW
Providing Access to Fiction in School Libraries: A Time for Change
171
Ashley Freeman, Charles Sturt University, NSW
New Schools, New Libraries, New Challenges
Automating New School
187
Libraries in Queensland
Pat Brosnan, Fran Robinson and Bruce McDonald, Open Access Support
Centre,
QLD
5. ALTERNATIVES TO INTEGRATED LIBRARY AUTOMATION SYSTEMS
AGAIVIA: A Simple, Low-Cost Automation System for Small Libraries,
or,
195
A Fair Go For All
Gail Dous and Mary West, Northern Territory Department of Education
The Code Catalogue: The Teaching and Learning Alternative
to Automation
203
Alan Ford, Lib Code Library Systems, QLD
6. MULTIMEDIA AND OTHER FUTURES
- CASE STUDIES
Automating Two Schools with Book Mark
213
Fiona Harper, Moana Primary School, SA
Imagine all the Possibilities...
217
Arthur Winzenried, Lilydale Adventist Academy, VIC
Managing with Microfusion: A Case Study
221
Chris Skrzeczynski, Our Lady of the Rosary School, QLD
Rolling Hills Meets Alice
229
Glenys Williamson, Rolling Hills Primary School, VIC
7. BIBLIOGRAPHY
School Library Automation: A Select Bibliography
233
Ken Dillon, Charles Sturt University, NSW
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List of Contributors
Rosemary Abbott
Rosemary has nineteen years experience in post primary school libraries. The first nine
of these were spent in Victorian state schools and included time as an English classroom
For the last ten years Rosemary has held the position Head of Information
teacher.
Services in the Library at Loreto Mandeville Hall, a P-12 Catholic girls' school in
Melbourne where she is a member of the school's Curriculum, Technology and LAN
Steering Committees.
Rosemary is currently Chairperson of the Libraries Committee of the Association of
Independent Schools of Victoria. This Committee is responsible for the coordination of
professional development activities for independent school librarians. Rosemary has run
workshops on library automation at AISV conferences. In 1993, Rosemary completed
her thesis on school library automation as part of a Master of Business (Information
Technology) at RMIT
Pat Brosnan
Pat is currently on leave from the TAFE sector to work on the 'Opening Collections in
New Schools Project' for the Open Access Support Centre, Queensland Department of
Education. She has been employed since 1971 as a librarian, teacher librarian, tertiary
tutor and classroom teacher in a number of institutions in Australia and New Zealand.
Judy Clayden
Judy has been coordinator of library technology courses and lecturer in cataloguing in the
Department of Library and Information Science at Edith Cowan University in Perth
since 1989. Her professional library experience has been mainly in the technical services
areas of monograph and serials acquisitions and cataloguing. Her other professional
interests include indexing, records and archives management and the history of
librarianship.
Ken Dillon
Ken Dillon lectures in teacher librarianship in the School of Information Studies at
Charles Sturt University. He was formerly a teacher and teacher librarian in both
government and non-government central and secondary schools in New South Wales. In
addition to numerous journal articles, he has written and/or edited a number of books for
teacher librarians including Brought to Book: Censorship and School Libraries in Australia
(DW Thorpe/ALIA Press, 1993), School LibraryAutomation in Australia 1st ed. (Centre
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for Information Studies, 1995) and Providing More With Less: Collection Management for
Australian School Libraries (Centre for Information Studies,
1997). Ken is
co-
administrator of OZTL_NET, an electronic discussion group for Australian teacher
librarians. His current teaching and research interests include information literacy,
information technologies in schools, collection development, school library automation,
the information needs of teachers and censorship.
Gail Dous
Gail is Consultant, Education Libraries at the Northern Territory Library.
Born in
Canada, Gail taught mostly science at secondary level for many years. She has taught in
Canada, New Zealand, Australia and for two years as a CUSO volunteer in Zambia,
Africa.
Subsequent to a time as a teacher librarian in Australian schools, Gail
was
appointed Library Consultant for the Northern Territory Department of Education,
based at the NT Library. At the time of writing, Gail was entering her eighth
year of
consultancy and feels that there is now an increasing emphasis on the position of schools
in remote Aboriginal communities.
Man Ford
Alan is Director of Lib Code Library Systems. After working in banking and surveying
and studying externally, he graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts and
a Diploma of
Education. The completion of a teacher librarianship
course in 1973 led to a 15 year
career first as a teacher librarian and then as Regional Library Consultant for the Darling
Downs Region in Queensland. Increasing frustration with the inefficiencies of students'
information retrieval techniques led to a search for better methods and Graduate
Diplomas in Librarianship and Computer Education. In 1989, he left the Queensland
Department of Education to become even more involved with school libraries
throughout Queensland as the Director of Alan Ford School Library and Computer
Consultancy P/L, now trading as LibCode Library Systems.
Ashley Freeman
Formerly a teacher, teacher librarian and primary school principal with the NSW
Department of School Education, Ashley lectures in teacher librarianship in the School
of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University where his major teaching
areas include
children's literature and resource management. He is currently undertaking
a PhD in
educational history and is Assistant Editor of Reading Time. Ashley has also written The
Cataloguing Handbook for Australian School Libraries (Centre for Information
Studies,
1997). His current research interests include subject
access to fiction, history of rural
education in NSW and Australian children's literature.
Kylie Hanson
Kylie has seventeen years experience in NSW
government secondary schools, most
recently as teacher librarian at Glen Innes High School in the New England
area of the