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Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS)

Introduction

The Schools Catalogue Information Service (SCIS) is the national information retrieval and cataloguing service for schools in Australia and New Zealand and international schools. SCIS is owned by the nation's education authorities and managed by the Curriculum Corporation. The NSW state wide subscription to SCISWeb has given teacher-librarians in NSW government schools the opportunity to use quality records to build their library catalogues.

The introduction of ISBN 13 has involved some changes to the SCIS processes.  NSW government schools are advised to accept the default SCISWEB profile. More information.

SCIS Service

Experienced professional cataloguers within the NSW SCIS Agency, located in the Curriculum K-12 Directorate at Ryde, catalogue resources onto the SCIS database in accordance with SCIS and international cataloguing standards.

Resources that cannot be found on SCISWeb can be sent to the NSW Agency for cataloguing care of the following address. Please consult the link that follows for detailed instructions.

SCIS Cataloguing Team
Curriculum K-12 Directorate
NSW Department of Education and Training
Private Bag 3
RYDE NSW 2112
Instructions for Submitting Cataloguing to SCIS

Help and Advice

For advice or support on SCIS cataloguing issues please telephone Judy Engall on (02) 98867503.

Support for SCISWeb issues including passwords should be referred to Curriculum Corporation on 1800-337405.

Hardware and software problems, including trouble-shooting and operational aspects of OASIS Library, should be addressed to IT Help Services on 1800-338483.

The FAQs section of this site has answers to various questions on SCIS and OASIS. Please click the relevant link for further information.

ScisWeb Manual - Curriculum Corporation provides documentation as PDFs covering various aspects of SCISWeb. Please click on the relevant topic to link to these.
SCISWeb Introduction
Connecting to SCISWeb
SCISWeb Cataloguing Workflow
SCISWeb Ordering
SCISWeb Access problems
SCISWeb Frequently asked questions

The Professional learning section of this site has information on:
·  ordering SCIS records for resources, including ordering records for websites
·  using the SCIS OPAC
·  the flowchart on downloading records from SCIS to OASIS Library (intranet only)

The Dewey numbers used by SCIS for classifying literature are listed in Classification of literature

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