Education Services Australia

Tuesday 4 December 2012

SCIS Consultation

Welcome

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of this Land, the people

of the Kulin Nation. We also pay respect to the Elders

both past and present.

Victoria Johnson, General Manager Program Delivery Education Services Australia

victoria.johnson@esa.edu.au

Spiral, Rena Voronoff, 2007Photo by Michael Jongen

Agenda9.00 am Welcome

9.10am SCIS update and consultation goals

9.15am Strategic directions for school libraries

9.45am Resource Description and Access11.00 am Morning tea break

11.30 am Subject access looking forward

12.15pm Integrating digital collections

12.50 pm Summing up

1.00 pm Close

Education Services Australia• a national, not-for-profit company owned by all

Australian ministers with responsibility for education

• established in 2010 through the merger of Curriculum Corporation and education.au

• established to support the delivery of national priorities and initiatives in the schools, training and Higher Education

• Ministers’ priorities outlined in the Letter of Expectation and Company Objects

• reports to Ministers through the Standing Council on School Education and Early Childhood (SCSEEC).

www.esa.edu.au

Education Services Australia• develops innovative technology systems

• provides curriculum, assessment and professional, support; career and information services

• manages national and client projects

• facilitates sharing and distribution of knowledge, resources and services to support e-learning

• supports the national infrastructure to ensure access to quality-assured systems and content and interoperability

• creates and publishes curriculum and assessment materials and ICT-based solutions, products and services.

esa.edu.au/about-us/strategic_plan

Projects and Services 2012-13• SCSEEC funded national services – eg myfuture, the

National Digital Learning Resources Network

• National architecture projects – eg for ACARA, AITSL, ACECQA , ASQA and SCSEEC

• VET sector projects – eg for the Flexible Learning Advisory Group (FLAG)

• DEEWR-funded projects – eg Supporting the Australian Curriculum Online, myskills, ICTF Innovation Fund

• Jurisdiction funded projects – eg NotSchool ‑

• Ongoing ESA services – eg SCIS and ScOT

• Other clients – eg Australian Tax Office

esa.edu.au/projects/introduction

National School Architecture

ESA Digital learning resources

Teacher support resources National technology systems

National projects & services Client

projects &services

AITSLQuality Teaching Leadership National Professional Standards

ACARA Curriculum Assessment

Reporting

Supporting the Australian Curriculum Online (SACOL)

$41.2 million project announced by Minister Garrett in September 2011 to support teachers to implement the Australian Curriculum:

• procuring digital student resources and teacher support materials

• supporting flexible language learning for Chinese Mandarin

• enhancing and future-proofing the national infrastructure

esa.edu.au/projects/australian-curriculum-connect

SCIS update

Pru Mitchell, SCIS Managerpru.mitchell@esa.edu.au

• Products Education-specific MARC records for resources in Australian & New Zealand schools, incl SCIS Subject Headings List subject vocabulary

• ServicesCustomer support, Connections journal, social media channels

Professional learningesa.edu.au/scis

State of SCIS

• 8 million SCIS records downloaded p.a.plus 1,000+ users accessing via Z39.50

• 1.5 million bibliographic records• 10,000+ records for educational websites • 7,000+ records for e-books

• 525,000 authority records• 230,000 records with ScOT termsAdded at a rate of 48,000 items p.a

1 July 2012 statistics

SCIS Database

ESA SCISCataloguer

QLD

ESA SCISCataloguers

New Zealand

NSWDept of

Education and Training

WADept of

Education

ALS (SA)

ESA SCIS office

Vic

How do records get into SCIS?SCIS cataloguing team

Consultation goals

• Making maximum use of time/expertise of key partners/representatives

• Collecting discussion and issues electronically

• Providing basis of wider consultation 2013

esa.edu.au/scis

Contributing

Wireless

Google form: bitly.com/scisasks

[www.surveymonkey.com/s/scisasks]

Blog: scis.edublogs.org

Twitter: #scisasks @schoolscatinfo

Facebook.com/schoolscatinfo

esa.edu.au/scis

Strategic directions

How will education libraries best serve their communities in 2015

Judy O’Connell

Course Director (Teacher Librarianship) School of Information Studies Faculty of Education Charles Sturt University

juoconnell@csu.edu.au

csu.edu.au/

Discussion

1. How will SCIS best serve schools in 2015?

2. How will technology service providers best serve schools in 2015?

3. How will content providers best serve schools in 2015?

bitly.com/scisasks

RDA: Resource Description and Access

Renate Beilharz, Teacher Library and Information Studies, Box Hill Institute

r.beilharz@boxhill.edu.au

ISSC RDA recommendations

Pam Kadow, SCIS Cataloguing Team Leader Education Services AustraliaPamela.kadow@esa.edu.au

• Christine Hyne, NSW Department of Education

• Bev Blackwell & Tina Hoyland, WA Dept of Education

• Mary Gough & Ann Duncan, ESA cataloguers

New MARC21 fields

264 Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice

SCIS will continue to use 260 for the foreseeable future and may elect to use the 264 field

ie both need to be allowed for

www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd264.html

Types

336 Content Type

http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd336.html

337 Media Typehttp://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd337.html

338 Carrier Typehttp://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd338.html

Descriptors to be taken from the RDA Toolkit list (See page 3)

Characteristics

344 Sound CharacteristicsSCIS may implement as need arises

345 Projection Characteristics of Moving Image SCIS may implement as need arises

346 Video Characteristics SCIS may implement as need arises

347 Digital CharacteristicsSCIS will implement

Grappling with GMD

MARC21 elements no longer used

245 $h [GMD]

Following consultation SCIS proposes to continue to include GMD for a short term (initially 12 months).

Library systems may wish to strip this data

Mapping from GMD to 336, 337, 338 is not feasible

Field lengths

SCIS will implement RDA guideline that bibliographic information to be transcribed as it appears on the item, without abbreviations, etc

250 $a 2nd edition

260 $a Washington, District of Columbia $b300 $a 44 pages : $b colour illustrations.

Library systems with fixed length fields may need to allow for an increased number of characters

Timeline

SCIS intends to stay as closely aligned to Libraries Australia’s implementation dates as possible, ie 31 March 2013.

SCIS will not be changing bibliographic records retrospectively*, so library systems will need to be able to cope with both AACR2 and RDA for the foreseeable future.* Bible and Qur’an uniform titles global change mid 2013

SCIS subject headings

• Rationale

• Reference structures

• Getting the message out about value of authority files

• Updates and usability of authority files

• Future

ScOT in SCIS project

“Schools of the future will most likely move to unified discovery systems which will make a standardised approach to resource subject

description very desirable for schools – keyword searching is rapidly becoming the pre-eminent means of resource retrieval”

ScOT in SCIS project, 2006

Discussion

How can school library systems realise the benefits of ScOT for curriculum alignment, multilingual subject access and search?

Option 1

Transition from use of SCIS subject headings to ScOT terms

Option 2

Manage and display both SCIS subject headings AND ScOT terms in a meaningful way for users

Integrating digital collections

a consistent experience for staff, students, parents and communities

access anytime, anywhere, by those who need the information

an authoritative source for each item of information

a capability for self-serviceMCEETYA 2003

Discussion points

What is the experience for your users in accessing and linking to digital content?

What is the workflow experience for cataloguing and linking digital resources?

What priorities should SCIS consider in cataloguing digital content?