Content
- Review your core courses
- Read recent journal literature (including news columns in Library Journal and American Libraries).
- Pay special attention to:
- new developments in core areas
- technical advances (not just what they are, but how they're likely to affect services)
- ethical and professional issues
- Spread your studying across several weeks
- Don't be compulsive about memorizing facts, but think about what they mean, how they fit together
- Take breaks,exercise, daydream: it will help you integrate the material
- Look at old comp questions
- Outline and write sample answers to them.
Strategies for Taking the Exam
- Take a few minutes to decide which questions you will answer
- Leave about 1 hour for each question
- Save half an hour at the end to reread your answers
Before you start writing, budget 5-10 minutes to:
- Be sure you know exactly what is being asked
- Brainstorm for a minute or two. Think of several ways you could answer the question, then choose one.
- Outline your answer. Organize it so that ideas flow logically, and main points are supported by appropriate facts and arguments
- Be sure to answer THE QUESTION THAT WAS ASKED
- Use what you've learned in courses and in the literature, not experience alone
- Many questions have more than one supportable answer. Choose what you think is the best response, and back it up with the most relevant facts and persuasive arguments you have
- Refer to your outline if you lose your train of thought
- If you don't finish answering a question in the time you budgeted, go on to the next one anyhow; finish or polish your answers after you have written all three. Your outline will show where you were going.
- Outline your answer. Organize it so that ideas flowlogically, and main points are supported by appropriate facts and arguments
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