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LMS PRAXIS
Information for library media specialist PRAXIS exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ALA | American Library Association |
| ALA | Promotes the highest quality library and information services and publications to members and nonmembers |
| AECT | Association for Educational Communications and Technology |
| AECT | Specifically provides leadership in the educational technology arena and links professionals holding a common interest in the use and application of educational technology to the learning process |
| AASL | American Association of School Librarians |
| YALSA | Young Adult Library Services Association |
| YALSA | Evaluates and selects books and nonprint materials for young adults (age 12-18) |
| YALSA | Promotes and strengthens library services for young adult readers |
| Tinker v. DesMoines Independent Community | Court case about 1st amendment rights of students finding for John F. Tinker saying "do not shed constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate" |
| Island Trees v. Pico Union Free | Challenged 9 books: 5 returned to shelves, 2 put on restricted shelves, and 2 removed. Result stated that "local school boards cannot remove books because of dislike" |
| Contemporary Learning Theory | Students as active, engaged information users |
| Library Power | $40 million national school improvement initiative by the Dewitt-Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund |
| Library Power | Meant to improve teaching and learning through revitalizing elementary and middle school library media programs |
| Library Power | Provides funding, consultant assistance, and qualitative & quantitative assessment |
| 8 Components of Professional Practice (ALA, AASL) | Knowledgeable teacher, efficient collection builder, proficient information specialist, reflective practitioner & lifelong learner, skilled manager |
| Spatial Learning Style | Visualize, day dream, watch movies, stay away from reality, draw pictures, natural artistic ability |
| Linguistic Learning Style | Loves to read, write, and tell stories; memorizes places, dates, names, trivia, and tells beautiful stories; repeats back everything you have ever told them word for word |
| Logical Learning Style | Mathematically inclined, solving problems, straight-forward learners, building blocks, and puzzles |
| Interpersonal Learning Style | Social butterflies; adapt easily to any type of social situation; have many friends and are excellent leaders; patient and understanding |
| Intrapersonal Learning Style | Work best alone; deep self understanding; independent and original; strong, silent type |
| Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge | Terminology, facts, recalling, define, describe, enumerate, label |
| Bloom's Taxonomy: Comprehension | Grasping meaning, classify, cite, summarize, trace |
| Bloom's Taxonomy: Application | Use of previously learned information in new ways, acts, chart, predict |
| Bloom's Taxonomy: Analysis | Break down into parts and understand structure |
| Bloom's Taxonomy: Synthesis | Apply prior knowledge to new whole, adapt, initiate, model |
| Bloom's Taxonomy: Evaluation | Judging values |
| Web Citations | URL, date last updated, name of person or organization sponsoring the website. |
| Quality Website Characteristics | Accurate, current information; appropriate links that function well; ease of navigation |
| Reluctant Readers | Expose them to newspapers, magazines, and series books |
| Successful Storyteller | Advance preparation, including reading aloud |
| Search Strategies | Boolean, truncation, quotation marks, minus & plus signs |
| Assessments for Information Literacy | Student and teacher conference; journal entry; rubric; NOT true/false or multiple choice |
| Big6 | 1990 by Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz in Syracuse |
| Big6 | 1-Task Definition; 2-Information Seeking Strategies; 3-Location and Access; 4-Use of Information; 5-Synthesis; 6-Evaluation |
| Pathways to Knowledge | 1995 by Follett, Marjorie Pappas, and Ann Tepe |
| Pathways to Knowledge | 1-Appreciation; 2-Presearch to develop overview; 3-Search to identify and select information; 4-Interpretation; 5-Communication and apply information; 6-Evaluation |
| Stripling/Pitts | 1-Choose a topic; 2-Get an overview; 3-Narrow topic; 4-Develop thesis statement; 5-Formulate questions; 6-Plan research; 7-Find/Analyze/Evaluate sources; 8-Evaluate evidence; 9-Organize information; 10-Create final product |
| Kuhthau Information Literacy Model | 1989 by Carol Kuhthau at Rutgers |
| Kuhthau Information Literacy Model | 1-Task Initiation; 2-Topic Selection; 3-Prefocus Exploration; 4-Focus Formulation; 5-Information Collection; 6-Search Closure |
| NICEM | National Information Center for Educational Media |
| ALCTS | Association for Library Collections & Technical Services |
| ALCTS | Dedicated to acquisition, identification, cataloging, classification, and preservation of all kinds of library materials; Develop and coordinate country's library resources |
| Publisher's Weekly | Book reviews and forthcoming books published by Reed Business Information |
| Bildungsroman | Novel in which the author traces the maturation of the hero or Heroine from the subjectivity of childhood and early adolescence through the development of objective self-awareness |
| Kirkus Review | Semimonthly review publication covering books for adults, young adults and children |
| Vertical File | A collection of loose clippings, pictures, illustrations, pamphlets or other materials of an ephemeral nature that are filed in drawers or in a box |
| Descriptive Cataloging | Identifying and describing the physical and bibliographic characteristics of item access points |
| Colophon | Statement at the end of a text of an early manuscript usually giving details of production; expression of gratitude warning of copyright comment |
| Resources to acquire books | SLJ; Kirkus; Booklist; Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books; Horn Book; Publisher's Weekly; NY Times Book Reviews |
| Collection Map | A visual supplement to the card catalog that displays the breadth and depth of the LMC's holdings |
| Hans Christian Anderson Award | Every 2 years; pair of literary awards given biennially to a living author and illustrator whose complete works have made a lasting contribution to children's literature |
| Newbery Award | Given annually to author of the most distinguished children's book published in the US; John Newbery 1713-1767 |
| Caldecott Award | Given annually to the illustrator of the most distinguished children's picture book; Randolph Caldecott |
| Coretta Scott King Award | Author and illustrator of African decent whose books promote an understanding and appreciation of "the American Dream."; 7 member national jury |
| Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal | Author or illustrator whose books made a lasting contribution to children's literature over a period of years; First awarded to Wilder in 1954 |
| Michael L. Printz Award | Literary excellence in young adult literature; school librarian Michael Printz |
| Cobblestone Magazine | American History for ages 9-14 |
| Cricket Magazine | Children's stories, puzzles, crafts, cartoons, and recipes for ages 9-14 |
| Zillians Magazine | Games, stories, money, testing media literacy for ages 3-12; now only online |
| truncation | Dropping of characters and addition of symbols at the end, beginning or within a keyword search; singular and plural forms of words |
| CIPA | Children's Internet Protection Act |
| CIPA | 2000; technology designed to block all users from accessing visual materials that depict obscene or harmful information to minors |
| Fair Use | Conditions under which copying a work does NOT constitute infringement of copyright; public is entitled to use portions of copyrighted materials for purposes of commentary and criticism |
| Infotrak | Commercial database of periodical resources |
| MARC Records | Machine-Readable Cataloging |
| MARC Records | International standard digital format for description of bibliographic items developed by the Library of Congress; dissemination of computerized cataloging from library to library |
| Intellectual Freedom | "Prerequisite to effective and responsible citizenship in a democracy"; learning community's right to access, evaluate and use information freely |
| Book Talks | Brief talk about a particular book to generate interest in the book |
| Book Jobbers | Dealer or agent that supplies items from publishers to book stores and libraries; allows a library to operate more efficiently by consolidating orders |
| Formal Documents | Mission statement; planning materials; policies and procedures manual |
| Encumbered Expenses | Funds already committed for activities occurring within a 6 or 12 month reporting period |
| Media Center Organization | Organizes people, funds, equipment, time and physical resources, and provides the highest level of service to students, teachers, and administrators |
| Mission of Library Media Program | To ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information |
| Booklist | A reviewing source published by the ALA that includes reviews of all types of books and AV materials PLUS books in other languages and computer software |
| Hornbook | Provides articles, interviews, editorials, columns, and lengthy reviews of children's books |
| Community Resource File | Includes speaker's directory, list of local business and government institutions to host field trips, strong media collections in vicinity, description of museums and other cultural institutions |
| Advocacy | On-going process of building partnershiops to that others will act for and with you, tuning passive support into educated action for the library media program |
| Keith Curry Lance | 1993 study, 2000 study; Colorado Student Assessment Program - reading scores increase with increase of SLM characteristics (program development, information technology, collaboration, individual visits to library) |
| NEA | National Education Association |
| AFT | American Federation of Teachers |
| ASCD | Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development |
| NCTE | National Council of Teachers of English |
| 1965 Elem & Sec Education Act Title III | This legislation affected school libraries by encouraging their expansion into media centers. |
| 1981 Education Consolidation and Improvement Act | Chapter II of this bill included regulations and funding in the form of block grants for school library media resources and instructional equipment. |
| 1995 Innovative Educational Program Legislation | This 3-year program provides block grants for innovative uses of technology in schools, including library media centers. |
| Dewey Decimal 000 | Computer science, information & general works |
| Dewey Decimal 100 | Philosophy and psychology |
| Dewey Decimal 200 | Religion |
| Dewey Decimal 300 | Social sciences |
| Dewey Decimal 400 | Language |
| Dewey Decimal 500 | Science |
| Dewey Decimal 600 | Technology |
| Dewey Decimal 700 | Arts and recreation |
| Dewey Decimal 800 | Literature |
| Dewey Decimal 900 | History, geography, and biography |
| OCLC | Online Computer Library Center |
| NCATE | National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education |
| AACR2 | Anglo-American Cataloging Rules Second Edition |
| LCC | Library of Congress Classification |
| DDC | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Mildred L. Batchelder Award | Presented to namesake in 1954; honors an American publisher for a children's book considered to be the most outstanding of those books originally published in a foreign language in a foreign country |
| USB | Univeral Serial Bus |
| .jpg or .jpeg | joint photographic experts group; picture file |
| .gif | graphics interchange format; picture file |
| .bmp | bitmap; picture file |
| .png | portable network graphics; picture file |
| .doc | document file |
| .txt | text file |
| portable document format | |
| .htm or .html | hypertext markup language; web page file |
| LAN | local area network |
| WAN | wide area network |
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