Library Media Specialist Praxis Exam
ALA - answer American Library Association
AASL - answer American Association of School Librarians
YALSA - answer Young Adult Library Services Association
AECT - answer Association for Educational
Communications and Technology
ISTE - answer International Society for Technology in
Education
ALSC - answer Association for Library Service to Children
Elementary and Secondary Education Act in 1965 - answer Encouraged the evolution of
school libraries into library media centers
Jean Piaget - answer Assimilation and Accommodation, Sensorimotor stage, Pre-
operational, Concrete operational, formal operational
Erik Erikson - answerHope: trust vs. mistrust (oral-sensory, Infancy, 0-2 years)
Will: autonomy vs. shame and doubt (muscular-anal, early childhood, 2-4 years)
Purpose: initiative vs. guilt (locomotor-genital, preschool, 4-5 years)
Competence: industry vs. inferiority (latency, school age, 5-12 years)
Fidelity: identity vs. role confusion (adolescence, 13-19 years)
Love: intimacy vs. isolation (early adulthood, 20-39 years)
Care: generativity vs. stagnation (adulthood, 40-64 years)
Wisdom: ego integrity vs. despair (maturity, 65 - death)
Lawrence Kohlberg - answerPreconventional, conventional, postconventional
Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs - answerPhysical-->self actualization
Who is involved in site-based management of a library? - answerPrincipal, teachers,
school support staff, parents, students
Who makes site-based decisions about the library? - answerThe committee, not just
one person.
What is the first step in forming a library plan? - answerGoal/long-range plan
, Once you have a long-range plan, what comes next? - answerSetting short-range
objectives.
Where can I find a budget calculator guide? - answerAASL/AECT
From where does the school library get most of its funding? - answerLocal and state tax
dollars
NCATE - answerNational Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education
What are the jobs of nonprofessional staff? - answerConducting accounting and
bookkeeping procedures, unpacking, processing, and shelving new materials,
Circulating materials and equipment, assisting with materials production, assisting with
inventory
AASL Position Statement on Flexible Scheduling - answerSchools must adopt a
philosophy of full integration of library media into the total educational program
How far from the ground should work surfaces be? (ADA) - answer30 inches
How do libraries accommodate visually impaired people? - answerLarge, clearly visible
signs and possibly a device that reads aloud scanned electronic text
Reconsideration policy - answerA policy that is put in place in a district on how they will
approach a situation where a book is challenged.
What does the Library Bill of Rights say about challenged books? - answerLibraries are
sources of information that should cover all points of view on all topics following the
rules of The First Amendment
What is collection mapping? - answerthe practice of examining the quality and quantity
of the resource collection.
School Library Journal - answera monthly magazine with articles and reviews for school
librarians, media specialists, and public librarians who work with young people
Booklist - answera publication of the American Library Association that provides critical
reviews of books and audiovisual materials for all ages
The Horn Book - answerA collective guide that will list the ratings and reviews of books
from all the main review publications.
MARC - answerMachine Readable Cataloging
AACR2 - answerAnglo-American Cataloging Rules, Second Edition
ALA - answer American Library Association
AASL - answer American Association of School Librarians
YALSA - answer Young Adult Library Services Association
AECT - answer Association for Educational
Communications and Technology
ISTE - answer International Society for Technology in
Education
ALSC - answer Association for Library Service to Children
Elementary and Secondary Education Act in 1965 - answer Encouraged the evolution of
school libraries into library media centers
Jean Piaget - answer Assimilation and Accommodation, Sensorimotor stage, Pre-
operational, Concrete operational, formal operational
Erik Erikson - answerHope: trust vs. mistrust (oral-sensory, Infancy, 0-2 years)
Will: autonomy vs. shame and doubt (muscular-anal, early childhood, 2-4 years)
Purpose: initiative vs. guilt (locomotor-genital, preschool, 4-5 years)
Competence: industry vs. inferiority (latency, school age, 5-12 years)
Fidelity: identity vs. role confusion (adolescence, 13-19 years)
Love: intimacy vs. isolation (early adulthood, 20-39 years)
Care: generativity vs. stagnation (adulthood, 40-64 years)
Wisdom: ego integrity vs. despair (maturity, 65 - death)
Lawrence Kohlberg - answerPreconventional, conventional, postconventional
Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs - answerPhysical-->self actualization
Who is involved in site-based management of a library? - answerPrincipal, teachers,
school support staff, parents, students
Who makes site-based decisions about the library? - answerThe committee, not just
one person.
What is the first step in forming a library plan? - answerGoal/long-range plan
, Once you have a long-range plan, what comes next? - answerSetting short-range
objectives.
Where can I find a budget calculator guide? - answerAASL/AECT
From where does the school library get most of its funding? - answerLocal and state tax
dollars
NCATE - answerNational Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education
What are the jobs of nonprofessional staff? - answerConducting accounting and
bookkeeping procedures, unpacking, processing, and shelving new materials,
Circulating materials and equipment, assisting with materials production, assisting with
inventory
AASL Position Statement on Flexible Scheduling - answerSchools must adopt a
philosophy of full integration of library media into the total educational program
How far from the ground should work surfaces be? (ADA) - answer30 inches
How do libraries accommodate visually impaired people? - answerLarge, clearly visible
signs and possibly a device that reads aloud scanned electronic text
Reconsideration policy - answerA policy that is put in place in a district on how they will
approach a situation where a book is challenged.
What does the Library Bill of Rights say about challenged books? - answerLibraries are
sources of information that should cover all points of view on all topics following the
rules of The First Amendment
What is collection mapping? - answerthe practice of examining the quality and quantity
of the resource collection.
School Library Journal - answera monthly magazine with articles and reviews for school
librarians, media specialists, and public librarians who work with young people
Booklist - answera publication of the American Library Association that provides critical
reviews of books and audiovisual materials for all ages
The Horn Book - answerA collective guide that will list the ratings and reviews of books
from all the main review publications.
MARC - answerMachine Readable Cataloging
AACR2 - answerAnglo-American Cataloging Rules, Second Edition
