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Praxis II Library Media Specialist (5311) Exam Practice Test
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The Praxis II Library Media Specialist (5311) Exam is based on ALA/AASL Standards for Initial Preparation of School Librarians and other guidelines for the field. Aspiring educators must complete this computer-based exam in 2 hours and pay for the Praxis test cost of $130 prior to the test day.  About the exam: The Praxis Library Media Specialist exam is a computer-based exam that contains 120 questions. These questions are selected-response, or multiple-choice questions. Some of these questions may require test takers to select more than one choice from a list, drag and drop answer choices,... Show more
Praxis II Library Media Specialist (5311) Exam Practice Test
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1. The librarian creates a computer “scavenger hunt.” Students work at computers to find items on a list of computer resources. The first student to successfully find all the items and write down the websites where they are located is declared the winner, the “Champion Computer Researcher.” This activity promotes which of the following state goals for library media centers?
2. Which of the following would not be a suitable organization for a librarian to join as part of her commitment to the library profession?
3. A lesson given by the librarian to staff and/or students on creating a slide show presentations should include all of the following EXCEPT:
4. A librarian would use the MARC system when:
5. A librarian wants to have a fundraising book fair. Which of the following should be her first course of action?
6. Which would be the most appropriate way for a librarian to instruct students in Internet research skills?
7. Which of the following is NOT a professional association for librarians?
8. In her media center, a librarian includes some audio CDs of books that are often assigned to students to read for their Language Arts class. She offers the recording along with the printed book to certain students. Which students should be allowed to use these audio books?
9. Which of the following criteria should be used when “weeding” books from a library’s collection?
10. A librarian wants to weed the library’s book collection. How should she go about doing this?
11. A weekly block of library time is assigned to a seventh grade class in a middle school. The librarian could best use this time with students by:
12. A student comes to the library and you observe him wandering confusedly in the library’s section of science books. You interview the student and he tells you that he has been assigned to write a paper on the annual migration of Monarch butterflies from North America to Mexico. Which of the following would you suggest that the student do first?
13. The school librarian has been invited to address a luncheon meeting of the local Kiwanis Club, an organization of business people. In order to do this, she will need to get the principal’s permission. She will also need to arrange for release time, since the luncheon lasts much longer than school lunch period. She will have to prepare her talk, and to design and make copies of a handout about the media center to give the Kiwanis members. Will the media center or the school benefit if the librarian accepts this invitation, or should she politely reject it?
14. Plagiarism of materials is a common unethical practice by students. To help prevent it, a school librarian should do all of the following EXCEPT:
15. A new librarian discovers that her predecessor shelved all the “easy-to-read” books for younger children on the lowest shelves near the floor. What should she do about this, if anything?
16. The library has been granted funding for a paid media clerk to assist the librarian. Hiring and supervising this clerk will be the librarian’s responsibility. What is the first action the librarian should take?
17. A teacher is having his class research the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. He wants his students to perform an Internet search, but as librarian, you know that some of the sites that would help the students have been blocked by the school district’s filter that prevents students from going to inappropriate sites. You arrange for the technology department to remove the block on the sites the history class will use, make a list of those sites, and give the list to the teacher. Which of the following reasons would you cite as justification for what you have done?
18. A student is using a library computer to research information about World War II. Among the websites she locates is one that represents a neo-Nazi group. How can the librarian help the student determine whether information from this website is factual and unbiased?
19. All of the following are good ways that a librarian can raise funds for the library EXCEPT:
20. A teacher approaches the school librarian with a lesson plan in Language Arts that will involve student research use several types of sources, including encyclopedias, biographies, and the Internet. How can the librarian best help the teacher achieve the goals of the lesson plan?
21. When a librarian is arranging the media center, an important consideration in the placement of the computer lab should be:
22. A school librarian is preparing her first monthly report to the principal. She is new to both this school and to her job. In a library media center that follows a flexible schedule, it is important for the librarian’s monthly report to include what other kinds of information besides statistics?
23. Which of the following is the LEAST effective way to involve parents in library programs?
24. When materials are carefully cataloged and processed, the most important result is that:
25. A librarian is approached by a student who wants to do an Internet search for Thomas Jefferson but does not know how. The student has been assigned to read a biography of Jefferson and then write a report on his life, which is due in ten days. What is the librarian’s best course of action in this situation?

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