FOUNDATIONS IN LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE TEST
FULLY SOLVED #3
3 roles of American Public Libraries - correct answer educational, recreational, and
informational
Process - correct answer how info is created, disseminated, and used
Traditional cycle of process - correct answer linear
Newer cycle of process - correct answer circular and infinite, any of the infrastructures
can happen at any time
Devices - correct answer used to transmit information, constantly changing
Networks - correct answer major communication channels within society
Media industries - correct answer produce information they provide to users
Institutions - correct answer libraries, schools, and non-formal educational units
Creators - correct answer authors, artists, musicians, etc.
Products - correct answer materials themselves
Distributors - correct answer publishers and vendors, make the product available
Disseminators - correct answer wholesalers, acquire material and disseminate them to
users (library role)
Users - correct answer consumers of information
Non-formal educational units - correct answer less structured, individual needs, learner-
centered, "information education", voluntary, non-school settings
Examples: museums, workshops, nature hikes, etc...
4 major trends in librarianship - correct answer internet is changing everything,
population is becoming increasingly diverse, fiscal environment will remain uncertain,
and expectations of privacy are changing
Encyclopedia of LIS published in this year - correct answer 1968
4 indexes - correct answer Wilson, EBSCO, Academic Search Complete, and Electronic
Journal Center (EJC)
, Professional Journals - correct answer American Libraries (ALA), Library Journal (LJ),
Public libraries (PLA), and YALSA/ALSC, among others
Associations - correct answer American Library Association (ALA), American Society for
Information Science and Technology (ASIST), Special Library Association (SLA),
Medical Library Association (MLA), Association for Library and Information Science
Education (ALISE)
ALA founded in this year - correct answer 1876
OLC - correct answer Ohio Library Council, made up of librarians and trustees,
represent your interests on legislative issues, lobbying, and represents the best-funded
library systems in the country
Value of professional conferences - correct answer professionalism, employers expect
it, conferences, networking, continuing education, publications, money and ego
Before 1850, the librarian was seen as a... - correct answer janitor or custodian, also a
record keeper
View of librarian from 1850-1876 - correct answer librarian as a scholar
The year in librarianship: when ALA was founded, Library Journal was first published,
the Dewey Decimal System was created, and the first library textbook was published -
correct answer 1876
Training for librarians 1870-1900 - correct answer more libraries, more need for library
training (pre-1887 training consisted of apprenticeships)
3 forces that affected library education - correct answer changes in nature of education
(rise of technical schools, factories, and industrialization), also Dewey and his big 4
C. Melville Dewey - correct answer the father of American Librarianship, a reformer,
believed in librarianship as a calling and as a way to uplift the masses
Dewey's Big 4 - correct answer Dewey Decimal Classification System, ALA, American
Library Journal, and library education (School of Library Economy)
Library hand - correct answer specific type of handwriting only used by librarians:
legibility, speed, uniformity, standards of lettering and spacing
Cutler Fairchild - correct answer emphasized more theoretical and cultural aspects of
the profession, not just about the rules, sympathy with popular taste, know a bit of
everything, as well as individuality and knowledge of books
FULLY SOLVED #3
3 roles of American Public Libraries - correct answer educational, recreational, and
informational
Process - correct answer how info is created, disseminated, and used
Traditional cycle of process - correct answer linear
Newer cycle of process - correct answer circular and infinite, any of the infrastructures
can happen at any time
Devices - correct answer used to transmit information, constantly changing
Networks - correct answer major communication channels within society
Media industries - correct answer produce information they provide to users
Institutions - correct answer libraries, schools, and non-formal educational units
Creators - correct answer authors, artists, musicians, etc.
Products - correct answer materials themselves
Distributors - correct answer publishers and vendors, make the product available
Disseminators - correct answer wholesalers, acquire material and disseminate them to
users (library role)
Users - correct answer consumers of information
Non-formal educational units - correct answer less structured, individual needs, learner-
centered, "information education", voluntary, non-school settings
Examples: museums, workshops, nature hikes, etc...
4 major trends in librarianship - correct answer internet is changing everything,
population is becoming increasingly diverse, fiscal environment will remain uncertain,
and expectations of privacy are changing
Encyclopedia of LIS published in this year - correct answer 1968
4 indexes - correct answer Wilson, EBSCO, Academic Search Complete, and Electronic
Journal Center (EJC)
, Professional Journals - correct answer American Libraries (ALA), Library Journal (LJ),
Public libraries (PLA), and YALSA/ALSC, among others
Associations - correct answer American Library Association (ALA), American Society for
Information Science and Technology (ASIST), Special Library Association (SLA),
Medical Library Association (MLA), Association for Library and Information Science
Education (ALISE)
ALA founded in this year - correct answer 1876
OLC - correct answer Ohio Library Council, made up of librarians and trustees,
represent your interests on legislative issues, lobbying, and represents the best-funded
library systems in the country
Value of professional conferences - correct answer professionalism, employers expect
it, conferences, networking, continuing education, publications, money and ego
Before 1850, the librarian was seen as a... - correct answer janitor or custodian, also a
record keeper
View of librarian from 1850-1876 - correct answer librarian as a scholar
The year in librarianship: when ALA was founded, Library Journal was first published,
the Dewey Decimal System was created, and the first library textbook was published -
correct answer 1876
Training for librarians 1870-1900 - correct answer more libraries, more need for library
training (pre-1887 training consisted of apprenticeships)
3 forces that affected library education - correct answer changes in nature of education
(rise of technical schools, factories, and industrialization), also Dewey and his big 4
C. Melville Dewey - correct answer the father of American Librarianship, a reformer,
believed in librarianship as a calling and as a way to uplift the masses
Dewey's Big 4 - correct answer Dewey Decimal Classification System, ALA, American
Library Journal, and library education (School of Library Economy)
Library hand - correct answer specific type of handwriting only used by librarians:
legibility, speed, uniformity, standards of lettering and spacing
Cutler Fairchild - correct answer emphasized more theoretical and cultural aspects of
the profession, not just about the rules, sympathy with popular taste, know a bit of
everything, as well as individuality and knowledge of books
