Library Media Specialist Praxis Notes • I make no claim that this information is what the test is looking for, or that it is

wholly correct. It’s probably not even readable for anyone but me. I’m just a teacher with no Library Media Specialist coursework under my belt who is giving the test a shot. I consolidated the following information by reading forums about what topics are covered on the exam. I looked it all upon Wednesday, then consolidated it on Thursday. The test is Saturday—not a recommended course of action!

Lib Med Spec. Role: teacher, instructional partner, information specialist, program administrator

COPPA = Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998".

Information PowerInformation PowerInformation PowerInformation Power: AASL book

Flexible Scheduling= an open schedule must be maintained. Classes cannot be scheduled in the library media center to provide teacher release or preparation time. Students and teachers must be able to come to the center throughout the day to use information sources, to read for pleasure, and to meet and work with other students and teachers. Planning between the library media specialist and the classroom teacher, which encourages both scheduled and informal visits, is the catalyst that makes this integrated library program work.

CDA= Communications Decency Act= The first notable attempt by the United States Congress to regulate pornographic material on the Internet. 1996 It attempted to regulate both indecency (when available to children) and obscenity in cyberspace. Second, Section 230 of the Act has been interpreted to say that operators of Internet services are not to be construed as publishers (and thus not legally liable for the words of third parties who use their services). Overturned by Supreme court in ACLU vs. Reno. Various types of information: Internet, encyclopedia, vertical file, almanac, subscription databases, etc. Intra-personal Intelligence learners have the ability to self-reflect and be aware of one's inner state of being. These learners try to understand their inner feelings, dreams, relationships with others, and strengths and weaknesses. Inter-personal Intelligence learners have the ability to relate and understand others. These learners try to see things from other people's point of view in order to understand how they think and feel. They often have an uncanny ability to sense feelings, intentions and motivations. They are great organizers, although they sometimes resort to manipulation. Generally they try to maintain peace in group settings and encourage co-operation.They use both verbal (e.g. speaking) and non-verbal language (e.g. eye contact, body language) to open communication channels with others.

CIP data: the bibliographic record created by the Library of Congress for a book prior to its publication. The info appears on the verso of the book’s title page. It’s an abbreviated version of the MARC. The full MARC contains additional coded info indicating what language the book is written in, when the book was catalogued, etc. School Library Media Activities Monthly = suppts K-12 media specialists as they plan collaborative units with teachers. Helps strengthen lit skils, research process, and promotes integration of tech, and provides vast array of lit. Assessments: journaling, rubrics, checklists Leo Lionni- Fables Who published Information Power? ALA and AECT Lionel Little = Native American author of non fiction Greengrass Pipedreams Code of Ethics was written in 1939 DIALOG = proquest company for expert info What organization started ICONnet?

Dewey Decimal System= attempts to organize all knowledge into ten main classes. The ten main classes are each further subdivided into ten divisions, and each division into ten sections, giving ten main classes, 100 divisions and 1000 sections. DDC's advantage in using decimals for its categories allows it to be both purely numerical and infinitely hierarchical. Works are classified principally by subject, with extensions for subject relationships, place, time or type of material, producing classification numbers of at least three digits but otherwise of indeterminate length with a decimal point before the fourth digit, where present. Books are placed on the shelf in increasing numerical order of the decimal number, e.g. 050, 220, 330, 330.973, 331. When two books have the same classification number the second line of the call number (usually the first letter or letters of the author's last name, the title if there is no identifiable author) is placed in alphabetical order. he DDC has a number for all books, including fiction: American fiction is classified in 813. The system is made up of ten main classes or categories, each divided into ten secondary classes or subcategories, each having ten subdivisions.

• 000 – Computer science, information, and general works • 100 – Philosophy and psychology • 200 – Religion • 300 – Social sciences • 400 – Languages • 500 – Science and Mathematics • 600 – Technology and applied science

• 700 – Arts and recreation • 800 – Literature • 900 – History and geography and biography

What can you learn from Publisher’s Weekly? New releases, reviews, interviews What is a publishing index? (list of books published in a certain year or genre?) After converting to online library database system what are continuing expenses? What are some examples of synthesis activities? Create a new product. Give it a name and plan a marketing campaign., Write a TV show, play, puppet show, role play, song or pantomime about, Compose a rhythm or put new words to a known melody. What magazine do you receive as ALA member? Booklist Hazelwood vs Kuhlmeier:= Supreme Court decision that public school curricular student newspapers that have not been established as forums for student expression are subject to a lower level of First Amendment protection than independent student Basically, Hazelwood District won the case, the justices believing that the censorship did not violate the student's First Amendment rights of free speech. 3 categories of student literacy standard? Info Lit, independent learning, and social responsibility Which Boolean search produces the most results? Or Dewey Prefixes? F fiction, R reference, SC story collection Hatchet/MySide Mountain theme? Survival Authors of taxonomies? Bloom and Loertsher Criteria for awards (Newb, CSKing, Cald, Printz) What would help you determine the currency of a med. Ctr? Copyright dates What does the ALA stand for and support? What is in an MARC record? Title, author, etc. so that it can be read by computers How to start any process= analysis and planning How to make sure the collection is thoroughly used= plan with teachers small group projects that use references

Purpose of ACET? Integrate tech in ed. First step in dealing with challenged material? Selection aides= ESLC, Wilson, SLJ, Booklist, Hornbook, etc. Off air recording guidelines for broadcast TV? Can you record a speech for a teacher? Tellable tale= memorized storytelling performance, beg, mid, climax, end AASL publishes Knowledge Quest & School Library Media Research ALA pubs American Libraries and booklist AECT = American Education in Communications & Technology AACR2 = Anglo–American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed (cataloguing rules) for descriptive cataloguing TCP-IP= common set of internet protocols = rules for computers communicating with each other HTML = hypertext mark up language ZIP = encryption GIF= graphics interchange format TIF = tagged image file AVI = audio video interactive file MPEG= moving pictures expert group ICONnet= tech initiative for home pages Most oft weeded materials = 001 (tech), 500 (sci), 300 (gov) NICEM - national center for educational media Allen Say = Home of the Brave (WWII, Japan) SIRS = research articles, various ages

EBSCO= age approp levels of info COPA= Child online protection act, came before CIPA. Research into filtering methods was incomplete. (passed, but not funded) $50, 000 penalty for showing obscenity was stayed by judge. Challenged by ACLU Fairytale is 6 of these traits: Once upon a time/long ago; castle, forest or town; good char; bad char; animals or royalty; magic; #3 or 7, problem and solution; good wins over evil; happily ever after; fairies. Fairy tales are a sub genre of folk tales. ACET= Advisory committee on Ed Tech Purpose of ACET= recommends and facilitates the development and implementation of educational technology—mechanism for communication and collaboration between post-sec institutions and government Big 6 authors: Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz Vs Island Trees = local school boards do not have the power to withhold library books from students Ashcroft vs. ACLU = patriot act not right for library privacy CS Lewis = fantasy Mildred Taylor = historical fiction Asimov = sci fi Caldecott = since 19C ALSC (American library services for children = division of ALA) award for most distinguished picture book for children Newbery= since 18C, ALSC/ALA award for most disting. Contribution to Am Lit for children Descriptive cataloging = concerned with physical identification of an item: title, edition, isbn, series, and notes on features such as if index or bib I/O error = disk is in A drive LAN = local area network (small: office, home, school dist.) WAN= wide area network (community, region) Fables have common people or animals

Corretta Scott King= 1960s-now distinguishing African American authors and their work Printz= Excellence in YA list Sponsored by Booklist / YALSA MARC = MAchine Readable Cataloguing record Challenged materials should remain in the collection during the review process. Tinker vs. Des Moines= (black armbands) upheld right for students to express themselves where their words are non disruptive and not connected with the school Bethel vs. Fraser = Matthew Fraser gave an ASB speech filled with innuendo. Received disciplinary action. Won on free speech in a US district court, but lost 7-2 at Supreme Court (school’s policy did not violate the 1st Ammendment). This means a limit was placed on styles of expression that are sexually vulgar. Bof E vs Pico= school board attempted to remove Slaughterhouse Five and Soul on Ice. Supreme Court said, “the right to receive ideas is a necessary predicate to the recipient’s meaningful exercise of his own rights of speech, press, and political freedom…students too are beneficiaries of this principle.”---unless “educationally unsuitable or pervasively vulgar” CIPA= Children’s Internet Protection Act, federal law imposing requirements on any school or library that receives funding for net access or E-rate program: must certify that they have an Internet safety policy, educate minors about online safety, enforce a policy to monitor online activities of minors, and address/restrict access to inappropriate matter. Much less stringent, so that it can withstand the courts. Suit by ALA and ACLU pending. Annie on My Mind= 1982 novel by Nancy Garden about the romantic relationship between two 17-year-old New York City girls, Annie and Liza. On December 13, 1993, superintendent Ron Wimmer, of the Olathe School District, ordered the book removed from the high school library. Wimmer said he made his decision in order to "avoid controversy," such as the public book burning.[9]The Olathe School District refused to accept copies of the book, removing a copy that had sat on its shelf for over ten years.[8] In response, the American Civil Liberties Union joined several families and a teacher and sued the school district for removing the book.[10] Two years later in September 1995, the case went to trial. In November 1995, U.S. District Court justice Thomas Van Bebber ruled that while a school district is not obligated to purchase any book, it cannot remove a book from library shelves unless that book is deemed educationally unsuitable. He ruled Annie on My Mind to be educationally suitable, and called its removal an unconstitutional attempt to "prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion. David Loertscher and the Bird Units= Too many of the learning activities in school libraries are low-level cut and paste activities, such as transferring facts from library resources on to worksheets or just cutting information off the Internet to pass in for a report. Little learning results and plagiarism dominates. Such activities are termed "bird units" after the ubiquitous 4th

grade bird reports, but they can be on any topic: explorers, state reports, old famous dead men, or other common K–12 topics and across all disciplines.Library media specialist and teacher teams K–12 are asked to transform "bird units" into higher-level learning experiences and evaluate the results on learning. ALA problem with CDA, COPA, and CIPA= difficult to define obscenity,

impossible to find an accurate filter of obscenity, and the law allows for a grave violation of the first amendment because of its limits on acceptable speech for minors and adult users of libraries. Pathways to Inquiry: Earth Science Inquiry Skill Analyzer and Activity Portal designed for middle school science teachers. This portal will assist teachers in analyzing their own science inquiry skills as well as those of their students via the Analyzer tool. In addition, it will assist teachers in selecting implementing, and evaluating technology-supported earth science inquiry learning activities to develop science inquiry skills, especially in identified weak areas via the Activities tool. Also: I printed and read the following

1. ALA code of ethics 2. list of books which have received awards through the years 3. ALA privacy and confidentiality pages 4. Procedures for the selection of Library Media Materials 5. Taxonomies (Loertsher and Bloom) 6. What is a MARC record and why is it important 7. Library Bill of Rights 8. The Big 6 9. AASL ppt file on Information Power 10. Library of Congress Classifications 11. Information literacy standards 12. Freedom to Read 13. Mission and goals of school library program

I have a whole binder of reading to do. We’ll see how I fare on the test.