150 Librarian Preparation Questions

Each year, an elementary school librarian arranges for students to hear a local storyteller. This is most likely intended to develop students'

• visual literacy.

• discussion skills.

• imaginative abilities.

• reasoning skills.

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Which of the following themes is most commonly found in realistic contemporary fiction for middle school students?

What is the theme of the story?

• Survival

• The struggle between good and evil

• Overcoming obstacles

• Coming of age

A school library benefits by participation in a consortium by

• gaining access to a union catalog.

• increasing the availability of items for interlibrary loan.

• increasing access to technical support for library management software.

• sharing the expense of a large purchase.

A librarian knows that a seventh-grade science class will soon begin a unit on forensics. The best way for the librarian to establish a collaborative relationship with the science teacher is to

• work with the teacher to plan lessons that integrate information literacy skills.

• require the teacher to meet after school a few weeks prior to the unit to plan lessons.

• schedule all the instruction related to the forensics unit to occur in the library.

• plan several lessons about forensics and then present them to the teacher.

Which of the following is the best way for a school librarian to inform the principal of the activities going on in the library?

• Supply the principal with the daily circulation records

• Provide a monthly report showing collaborative lessons that have taken place in the library

• Post the library's daily schedule on the school website

• Schedule periodic meetings with the principal to review library needs

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Which of the following practices restricts students' access to information?

• Putting items on overnight loan when demand is high

• Creating separate grade-level collections

• Purchasing the majority of new items at the reading level of the students in the school

• Requiring students to present library cards to check out items

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

Which of the following is the best argument for extending a school library's hours to include hours before and after school?

• Students will be able to choose reading materials without teacher guidance.

• Students will have more items available for checkout.

• Students will have greater Internet access because filters will be turned off.

• Students will be able to access information at their point of need.

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CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.8

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

A school librarian has limited display space in the library classroom. To use the display space most effectively, the librarian should display

• posters featuring celebrities who read for pleasure.

• materials produced by students in library classes.

• flyers promoting activities in the public library.

• the jackets of newly purchased books.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.10

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Mr. Jacobsen, a middle school librarian, discovers that the principal has assigned him to after-school bus duty. The librarian's best response to this duty assignment is to

• accept that all teachers are rotated in and out of duties and it is his turn.

• go to bus duty on afternoons he can leave the library.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3