PRAXIS 5311 MEDIA SPECIALIST EXAM MANUAL
2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔CMC (CURRICULUM MATERIALS CENTERS) - ✔✔Where curriculum materials
collections are physically located to serve the resedarch and teachning needs of faculty
and students college and university programs that prepare P-12 school educations
✔✔If a teacher has made 35 copies of the 1 page of a 7 page article, are the teacher's
action allowable under copyright law? - ✔✔Yes, under the Fair Usage Provision of the
copyright law: The Fair Usage provision states that copying and using selected parts of
copyright works for specific educational purposes is permitted, especially if the copies
are made spontaneously and are used temporarily.
✔✔The federal law enacted in 2000 that requires schools to protect children from
harmful materials on the Internet is known as - ✔✔CIPA, the Children's Internet
Protection Act, requires schools to protect children from harmful material on the
Internet. To comply with the law, schools must install Internet filters and monitoring
software.
✔✔The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) designation for
school library media specialists is: - ✔✔ECYA/Library Media
The library media standards are listed as Early Childhood through Young Adult (ECYA).
NBPTS groups students by ages (Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, Early
Adolescence, Young Adulthood) and lists certifications by subject area. Media
specialists should be able to work with children from ages 3 to 18.
✔✔What is the national organization whose primary focus is to provide leadership by
linking professionals holding a common interest in the use and application of
educational technology to the learning process? - ✔✔AECT - (Association for
Educational Communications and Technology) is the professional organization that
specifically provides leadership in the educational technology arena.
✔✔When sharing resources librarians should know federal rules and regulations. Best
practices include - ✔✔National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyright
Works (CONTU)'S
✔✔National Center for Education Statistics-catagorized LMS as non-instructional staff,
however (AASL) catagorize the job as instructional employees. - ✔✔NCES
✔✔Who has the right to censor the material checked out of the school library media
center by an individual student? - ✔✔arent. The ALA's Free Access to Minors affirms
the "right of all parents and guardians to guide their own children's use of the library and
its resources and services."
, ✔✔3 Professional Association for Librarians are - ✔✔1. Arizona Library Association
2. American Library Association
3. American Association of School Librarians
✔✔AASL and ACRL (Association of College and Research Laboratories - ✔✔Joint Task
force for coordinating the implementation of the New National Guidelines and Standards
✔✔According to ALA guidelines, whenever public libraries from any policies that restrict
the access of users to the libraries, such policies should never be on the basis of user
behaviors or appearances that are simply annoying, irritating, or angering t other
people. - ✔✔ALA standards for restrictive policies regarding users require that they be
objective and reasonable, and relate to actual behaviors, rather than to subjective
negative reactions from others.
✔✔ACRL Instruction Section (IS) Education Committee - ✔✔An organization which the
AASL and ACRL's Joint Task Force advices should identify and expedite opportunities
for instruction librarians to pursue continuing education, and should also work to
develop library instruction courses in graduate school programs.
✔✔ALA Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) - ✔✔This organization starts and
continues communications among ALA groups about issues that are pertinent to library
instruction.
✔✔A librarian writing a Fair Use Policy for the district should not include - ✔✔Guidelines
for student access to the internet, including whether or not students may have email
accounts
✔✔A library media specialist and a fifth-grade teacher are planning a unit on
endangered species. The teacher has expressed a desire to have the students move
beyond a simple recall of facts to higher levels of thinking and understanding. Which of
the following learning activities would be appropriate for the library media specialist to
suggest for this purpose? - ✔✔Having students design and discuss brochures that
discuss why animals become endangered species and possible ways to save the
species. For students to move beyond rote learning or simple recall of facts, they need
to be challenged with problems that require critical thinking and problem solving. When
students plan and create, they use these skills.
✔✔A library media specialist is building consensus with a group of stakeholders who
are considering a proposal to alter the library media center's borrowing policy. In which
order should the steps of consensus building be followed?
A. Calling for concerns and problems on the proposal
B. Presenting the proposal
C. Hearing general feelings on the proposal
D. Acting on the proposal
2026/2027 QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔CMC (CURRICULUM MATERIALS CENTERS) - ✔✔Where curriculum materials
collections are physically located to serve the resedarch and teachning needs of faculty
and students college and university programs that prepare P-12 school educations
✔✔If a teacher has made 35 copies of the 1 page of a 7 page article, are the teacher's
action allowable under copyright law? - ✔✔Yes, under the Fair Usage Provision of the
copyright law: The Fair Usage provision states that copying and using selected parts of
copyright works for specific educational purposes is permitted, especially if the copies
are made spontaneously and are used temporarily.
✔✔The federal law enacted in 2000 that requires schools to protect children from
harmful materials on the Internet is known as - ✔✔CIPA, the Children's Internet
Protection Act, requires schools to protect children from harmful material on the
Internet. To comply with the law, schools must install Internet filters and monitoring
software.
✔✔The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) designation for
school library media specialists is: - ✔✔ECYA/Library Media
The library media standards are listed as Early Childhood through Young Adult (ECYA).
NBPTS groups students by ages (Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, Early
Adolescence, Young Adulthood) and lists certifications by subject area. Media
specialists should be able to work with children from ages 3 to 18.
✔✔What is the national organization whose primary focus is to provide leadership by
linking professionals holding a common interest in the use and application of
educational technology to the learning process? - ✔✔AECT - (Association for
Educational Communications and Technology) is the professional organization that
specifically provides leadership in the educational technology arena.
✔✔When sharing resources librarians should know federal rules and regulations. Best
practices include - ✔✔National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyright
Works (CONTU)'S
✔✔National Center for Education Statistics-catagorized LMS as non-instructional staff,
however (AASL) catagorize the job as instructional employees. - ✔✔NCES
✔✔Who has the right to censor the material checked out of the school library media
center by an individual student? - ✔✔arent. The ALA's Free Access to Minors affirms
the "right of all parents and guardians to guide their own children's use of the library and
its resources and services."
, ✔✔3 Professional Association for Librarians are - ✔✔1. Arizona Library Association
2. American Library Association
3. American Association of School Librarians
✔✔AASL and ACRL (Association of College and Research Laboratories - ✔✔Joint Task
force for coordinating the implementation of the New National Guidelines and Standards
✔✔According to ALA guidelines, whenever public libraries from any policies that restrict
the access of users to the libraries, such policies should never be on the basis of user
behaviors or appearances that are simply annoying, irritating, or angering t other
people. - ✔✔ALA standards for restrictive policies regarding users require that they be
objective and reasonable, and relate to actual behaviors, rather than to subjective
negative reactions from others.
✔✔ACRL Instruction Section (IS) Education Committee - ✔✔An organization which the
AASL and ACRL's Joint Task Force advices should identify and expedite opportunities
for instruction librarians to pursue continuing education, and should also work to
develop library instruction courses in graduate school programs.
✔✔ALA Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) - ✔✔This organization starts and
continues communications among ALA groups about issues that are pertinent to library
instruction.
✔✔A librarian writing a Fair Use Policy for the district should not include - ✔✔Guidelines
for student access to the internet, including whether or not students may have email
accounts
✔✔A library media specialist and a fifth-grade teacher are planning a unit on
endangered species. The teacher has expressed a desire to have the students move
beyond a simple recall of facts to higher levels of thinking and understanding. Which of
the following learning activities would be appropriate for the library media specialist to
suggest for this purpose? - ✔✔Having students design and discuss brochures that
discuss why animals become endangered species and possible ways to save the
species. For students to move beyond rote learning or simple recall of facts, they need
to be challenged with problems that require critical thinking and problem solving. When
students plan and create, they use these skills.
✔✔A library media specialist is building consensus with a group of stakeholders who
are considering a proposal to alter the library media center's borrowing policy. In which
order should the steps of consensus building be followed?
A. Calling for concerns and problems on the proposal
B. Presenting the proposal
C. Hearing general feelings on the proposal
D. Acting on the proposal
