LibGuides: Education: Library media

Preparing for OSAT?

The library has access to study materials for the OSAT Library Media Specialist exam (as well as the OGET and OPTE). You can view these materials through the Mometrix database.

Mometrix
Provides study guides and practice tests for teaching, business, and nursing certification exams including OSAT and CPA.

School Library Media databases

Library Media Education

Consider the general Education and related databases too, but we have several databases specific to library science:

LISTA: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts
Abstracts of journal articles, books, research reports. All areas of librarianship including classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Hosted by EBSCO.
ProQuest Central: Library Science
Covers topics in library science, online retrieval, archives, and information technology.

These databases are professional book- and materials-review sources that will help you with selecting appropriate materials:

Choice Reviews Online
The best source for reviewing academic (i.e., college-level) books, electronic media, and internet resources.
Book Collection: Nonfiction - High School Edition
Contains abstracts and searchable full text for more than 2,440 popular high school level nonfiction books including high interest titles on careers, health, ethnicity, disabilities, technology, biographies, music, science, history, civics and more. Hosted by EBSCO.
Book Collection: Nonfiction - Middle School Edition
Contains abstracts and searchable full text for more than 3,100 popular middle school level nonfiction books including high interest titles on careers, health, ethnicity, disabilities, technology, biographies, history, science, women, civics and more. Hosted by EBSCO.
Book Collection: Nonfiction - Elementary School Edition
Contains abstracts and searchable full text for more than 1,290 popular elementary level nonfiction books including high interest titles on animals, weather, holidays, Native Americans, United States, Canada, biographies, civics and more. Hosted by EBSCO.

Books in the Library

Sometimes it is helpful to simply browse or search in the call number range for your specific area, to familiarize yourself with the titles. Consider:

Z4-115.5: Books (General). Writing

Z662-1000.5: Libraries

Z716.2-718.85: Libraries in relation to special topics. Including children's libraries, libraries and students

Z1001-1121: General bibliography

ZA3038-5190: Information resources (General)

ZA3150-3159: Information services. Information centers

ZA3201-3250: Information superhighway

ZA4050-4775: Information in specific formats or media

ZA4050-4480: Electronic information resources

ZA4150-4380: Computer network resources

ZA4450-4460: Databases

ZA4550-4575: Motion pictures. Video recordings

ZA4650-4675: Pictures. Photographs

ZA4750-4775: Sound recordings

ZA5049-5190: Government information

Sequoyah Masterlists

The Sequoyah Book Awards are read and voted on each year by children and teens in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Library Association (OLA) has reading teams that create Masterlists each year for three age groups:

Children's: grades 3-5
Intermediate: grades 6-8
High School: grades 9-12

These masterlists, along with past award winners, can be found on the Sequoyah Book Awards page of the OLA website.