PRAXIS 5311 LIBRARY MEDIA COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS
2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Flag - ✔✔Slips of paper in various colors placed in books to indicate the destination
of the book (flc,ref), information about the book (Rush, Reserve), or special instructions
(cut pages). They remain in the book until the book reaches its final destination
✔✔General material designation (GMD) - ✔✔A term indicating the broad class of
material to which an item belongs (e.g., sound recording)
✔✔Holding symbol - ✔✔A unique identifying symbol assigned to members of OCLC,
e.g., ISM (Central University Libraries), FKS (DeGolyer Library), etc., to identify member
holdings in the OCLC database.
✔✔Impression - ✔✔All the copies of an edition of a book, etc. printed at one time.
✔✔Integrating Resource - ✔✔A bibliographic resource that is added to or changed by
means of updates that do not remain discrete and are integrated into the whole. This
type of resource can be finite or continuing. Examples: updating loose-leafs and
updating Web sites.
✔✔International Standard Book Number (ISBN) - ✔✔An internationally agreed upon
standard number that identifies a book uniquely.
✔✔Locally Assigned Information - ✔✔Information added to the bibliographic record by
the library cataloging the item. The information pertains only to that library's copy.
Examples: Call numbers, Notes.
✔✔Main Entry - ✔✔The primary means (name or title) by which an item is uniformly
identified and cited.
✔✔Monograph - ✔✔A bibliographic resource that is complete in one part or intended to
be completed within a finite number of parts.
✔✔Original cataloging - ✔✔Creation of a new bibliographic record (usually because one
does not exist in OCLC).
✔✔Other Title Information - ✔✔A title borne by an item other than the title proper or
parallel title or series title(s); also any phrase appearing in conjunction with the title
proper, etc., indicative of the character, contents, etc., of the item or the motives for, or
occasion of, its production or publication. The term includes subtitles, but does not
include variations in the title proper (e.g., spine or cover titles).
✔✔Parallel title - ✔✔The title proper in another language and/or script.
, ✔✔Provisional record - ✔✔A temporary cataloging record, consisting of minimal
identifying information created because no full bibliographic record exists.
✔✔Recto - ✔✔1. The right-hand page of a book, usually bearing an odd page number.
2. The side of a printed sheet intended to be read first.
✔✔Reprint - ✔✔1. A new printing of an item made from the original type image,
commonly by photographic methods. It may reproduce the original exactly (an
impression) or it may contain minor but well-defined variations (an issue). 2. A new
edition with substantially unchanged text.
✔✔Republication - ✔✔A reissue of a previously published edition by another publisher
without change in the text.
✔✔Serial - ✔✔A continuing resource issued in a succession of discrete parts, usually
bearing numbering, that has no predetermined conclusion. Examples of serials include
journals, magazines, electronic journals, continuing directories, annual reports,
newspapers, and monographic series.
✔✔sin loco (s.l.) - ✔✔Without place (i.e., the name of the place of publication,
distribution, etc., is unknown)
✔✔sin nomine (s.n.) - ✔✔Without name (i.e., the name of the publisher, distributor, etc.,
is unknown)
✔✔Standard number - ✔✔The International Standard Number (ISN), (e.g., International
Standard Book Number (ISBN), International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)) or any
other internationally agreed upon standard number that identifies an item uniquely.
✔✔Statement of Responsibility - ✔✔A statement transcribed from the item being
described, relating to persons responsible for the intellectual or artistic content of the
item, to corporate bodies from which the content emanates or to persons or corporate
bodies responsible for the performance of the content of the item.
✔✔Subject analysis - ✔✔The process of identifying the intellectual content of a work in
order to assign a classification number and subject headings.
✔✔Subject cataloging - ✔✔The process of adding subject access points to the
bibliographic record through the use of standardized subject headings that reflect the
intellectual content of the work.
✔✔Subordinate body - ✔✔A corporate body that forms an integral part of a larger body
in relation to which it holds an inferior hierarchical rank.
2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Flag - ✔✔Slips of paper in various colors placed in books to indicate the destination
of the book (flc,ref), information about the book (Rush, Reserve), or special instructions
(cut pages). They remain in the book until the book reaches its final destination
✔✔General material designation (GMD) - ✔✔A term indicating the broad class of
material to which an item belongs (e.g., sound recording)
✔✔Holding symbol - ✔✔A unique identifying symbol assigned to members of OCLC,
e.g., ISM (Central University Libraries), FKS (DeGolyer Library), etc., to identify member
holdings in the OCLC database.
✔✔Impression - ✔✔All the copies of an edition of a book, etc. printed at one time.
✔✔Integrating Resource - ✔✔A bibliographic resource that is added to or changed by
means of updates that do not remain discrete and are integrated into the whole. This
type of resource can be finite or continuing. Examples: updating loose-leafs and
updating Web sites.
✔✔International Standard Book Number (ISBN) - ✔✔An internationally agreed upon
standard number that identifies a book uniquely.
✔✔Locally Assigned Information - ✔✔Information added to the bibliographic record by
the library cataloging the item. The information pertains only to that library's copy.
Examples: Call numbers, Notes.
✔✔Main Entry - ✔✔The primary means (name or title) by which an item is uniformly
identified and cited.
✔✔Monograph - ✔✔A bibliographic resource that is complete in one part or intended to
be completed within a finite number of parts.
✔✔Original cataloging - ✔✔Creation of a new bibliographic record (usually because one
does not exist in OCLC).
✔✔Other Title Information - ✔✔A title borne by an item other than the title proper or
parallel title or series title(s); also any phrase appearing in conjunction with the title
proper, etc., indicative of the character, contents, etc., of the item or the motives for, or
occasion of, its production or publication. The term includes subtitles, but does not
include variations in the title proper (e.g., spine or cover titles).
✔✔Parallel title - ✔✔The title proper in another language and/or script.
, ✔✔Provisional record - ✔✔A temporary cataloging record, consisting of minimal
identifying information created because no full bibliographic record exists.
✔✔Recto - ✔✔1. The right-hand page of a book, usually bearing an odd page number.
2. The side of a printed sheet intended to be read first.
✔✔Reprint - ✔✔1. A new printing of an item made from the original type image,
commonly by photographic methods. It may reproduce the original exactly (an
impression) or it may contain minor but well-defined variations (an issue). 2. A new
edition with substantially unchanged text.
✔✔Republication - ✔✔A reissue of a previously published edition by another publisher
without change in the text.
✔✔Serial - ✔✔A continuing resource issued in a succession of discrete parts, usually
bearing numbering, that has no predetermined conclusion. Examples of serials include
journals, magazines, electronic journals, continuing directories, annual reports,
newspapers, and monographic series.
✔✔sin loco (s.l.) - ✔✔Without place (i.e., the name of the place of publication,
distribution, etc., is unknown)
✔✔sin nomine (s.n.) - ✔✔Without name (i.e., the name of the publisher, distributor, etc.,
is unknown)
✔✔Standard number - ✔✔The International Standard Number (ISN), (e.g., International
Standard Book Number (ISBN), International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)) or any
other internationally agreed upon standard number that identifies an item uniquely.
✔✔Statement of Responsibility - ✔✔A statement transcribed from the item being
described, relating to persons responsible for the intellectual or artistic content of the
item, to corporate bodies from which the content emanates or to persons or corporate
bodies responsible for the performance of the content of the item.
✔✔Subject analysis - ✔✔The process of identifying the intellectual content of a work in
order to assign a classification number and subject headings.
✔✔Subject cataloging - ✔✔The process of adding subject access points to the
bibliographic record through the use of standardized subject headings that reflect the
intellectual content of the work.
✔✔Subordinate body - ✔✔A corporate body that forms an integral part of a larger body
in relation to which it holds an inferior hierarchical rank.
