The Importance of Understanding Information Resource Description

Importance of Cataloging

Most schools (such as my own NSW Department of Education primary school), use SCIS for their catalogue record data. It is important to recognise that although teacher librarians (generally) don’t create this metadata utilised in library systems (such as Oliver), they need to have a comprehensive understanding of information resource description. Rowe (2022, Module 1) […]

An Introduction to the Information Environment

The initial readings from Module 2.1 of the ETL401: Introduction to Teacher Librarianship subject provide an interesting foundation of learning to begin my Masters journey. The first reflective task is to consider what we have learnt so far from this particular module. As such, the following is a summary of O’Connell et al.’s teachings of […]