ILTS Library Information Specialist (220) flashcards

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AASL Shared Foundations

Six foundational ideas in AASL's 2018 National School Library Standards: Inquire, Include, Collaborate, Curate, Explore, and Engage. Each carries four domains - Think, Create, Share, Grow - yielding twenty-four competencies.

AASL learner domains

The four domains paired with every shared foundation: Think for cognitive processing, Create for knowledge construction, Share for communication and collaboration, and Grow for personal and interpersonal development.

Backward design (UbD)

Wiggins and McTighe's three-stage planning model: identify desired results, determine acceptable evidence of learning, then plan learning experiences and instruction. Planning starts from outcomes rather than activities.

Loertscher collaboration taxonomy

A scale of librarian involvement in instruction, running from no involvement and self-contained teaching, through limited resource and reference support, to team planning, co-teaching, and joint curriculum development with teachers.

Stripling Model of Inquiry

Six recursive research phases: Connect, Wonder, Investigate, Construct, Express, Reflect. Students link to prior knowledge, frame questions, gather and synthesize evidence, then share findings and reflect on the process.

Guided Inquiry Design

Kuhlthau, Maniotes, and Caspari's eight-phase framework: Open, Immerse, Explore, Identify, Gather, Create, Share, Evaluate. It ties library research to content curriculum and emphasizes students' third space of understanding.

Flexible scheduling

Library access booked by teachers as needed rather than a fixed weekly class period. It enables co-planning and content-embedded inquiry but requires a shared calendar and continuous outreach.

Universal Design for Learning

A framework removing barriers by providing multiple means of engagement, representation, and action and expression. Librarians apply it to lesson design, signage, and the formats in which resources are offered.

Zero-based budgeting

A method requiring every expense to be justified from zero each budget cycle rather than carried forward automatically. It exposes low-value spending but takes substantial time to build.

Line-item budget

A budget arranged by expenditure category such as books, databases, supplies, and equipment. It is simple to administer and monitor but shows what is purchased, not what outcomes result.

Reconsideration policy

A written procedure with an official request form for handling complaints about library materials. It names reviewers, timelines, and appeal levels, and keeps challenged items available during review.

Library Bill of Rights

ALA's statement that library materials should serve the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people and must not be excluded because of origin, age, background, or views. A privacy article was added in 2019.

FERPA

Federal law protecting education records, including library records that identify individual students. Schools may release directory information only if parents or eligible students have not opted out.

CIPA and E-rate

Libraries and schools accepting E-rate discounts must adopt an internet safety policy, block obscene or harmful images, and teach minors appropriate online behavior, including cyberbullying awareness and social networking safety.

Learning commons

A flexible, technology-rich library space designed for collaboration, making, and inquiry rather than storage. Mobile furniture and separate zones balance noisy group work against silent study.

LSTA funding

Library Services and Technology Act money administered by IMLS and distributed through the state library agency, usually as competitive or formula grants for technology, resource sharing, and literacy initiatives.

CREW weeding method

A continuous review method using the MUSTIE criteria - Misleading, Ugly, Superseded, Trivial, Irrelevant, Elsewhere - combined with per-class age guidelines to keep nonfiction accurate, attractive, and used.

Dewey ten classes

000 generalities and information, 100 philosophy and psychology, 200 religion, 300 social sciences, 400 language, 500 pure science, 600 technology, 700 arts and recreation, 800 literature, 900 history and geography.

MARC 21 core fields

Key tags: 020 ISBN, 100 main entry, 245 title and responsibility, 250 edition, 264 publication, 300 physical description, 520 summary, 650 topical subject, 082 Dewey number, and 856 electronic location.

RDA cataloging standard

Resource Description and Access, which replaced AACR2 in 2013. It records discrete data elements organized around FRBR user tasks - find, identify, select, obtain - and uses authorized access points and relationship designators.

Demand-driven acquisition

An ebook purchasing model where catalog records are loaded but payment follows a set number of uses or short-term loans. Money goes to titles patrons actually open, which can narrow subject depth.

Authority control

Standardizing name, subject, and title headings so all works by one entity collate under a single form, with cross-references from variants. It improves precision and consistency in catalog searching.

Creative Commons licenses

Public licenses (BY, SA, NC, ND) plus the CC0 public-domain dedication that let creators grant reuse rights in advance. They support open educational resource adoption without individual permission requests.

Diversity audit

A systematic comparison of holdings against demographic or published diversity data, identifying gaps by race, culture, gender, disability, and language that then drive purchasing and weeding decisions.

CRAAP test

A source-evaluation checklist scoring Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose. It works best when applied comparatively across several sources rather than to a single page in isolation.

SIFT method

Mike Caulfield's four evaluation moves: Stop, Investigate the source, Find better coverage, and Trace claims to their original context. It is designed for rapid checking of social media information.

Lateral reading

Judging a source by opening other tabs to learn what others say about the publisher or claim, as professional fact-checkers do, instead of evaluating credibility from the page itself.

ISTE Standards for Students

Seven standards: Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovative Designer, Computational Thinker, Creative Communicator, and Global Collaborator. They describe technology use across learning rather than isolated skills.

WCAG POUR principles

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines rest on four principles: Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, Robust. Level AA conformance is the common legal and procurement benchmark for library sites and databases.

Big6 model

Eisenberg and Berkowitz's six-step process: Task Definition, Information Seeking Strategies, Location and Access, Use of Information, Synthesis, and Evaluation. It scaffolds a single research assignment step by step.

Fair use four factors

Section 107 balancing test: purpose and character of the use including transformativeness, nature of the copyrighted work, amount used relative to the whole, and effect on the potential market.

Digital citizenship elements

Ribble's nine elements: digital access, commerce, communication, literacy, etiquette, law, rights and responsibilities, health and wellness, and security. Many school programs add online privacy and civic participation.