The L.M. Montgomery Collection at the University of Guelph
Bibliographic record
Abstract
With just over six hundred items, the L.M. Montgomery Collection in the University of Guelph Library special collections has become an essential national repository for Montgomery studies and an important supplement to the Library’s extensive Canadian Scottish collections. These materials all came to the University of Guelph library through negotiations initiated and assisted by Dr. Mary Rubio of Guelph’s English Department, who had sought out Montgomery’s surviving son and literary executor, Dr. Stuart Macdonald (1915–1982), and who recognized the historical and literary value of his private collection of Montgomery’s journals, scrapbooks, reading library, and personal memorabilia. The University of Guelph purchased Montgomery’s personal diaries and scrapbooks from Dr. Macdonald in 1981, and a second large collection of material was purchased from his widow, Ruth Macdonald, following his death in 1982. In 2000, the manuscript of Rilla of Ingleside , thought to have been lost, was donated to the collection by Emily and Murray Woods. Subsequent additions to the collection (letters, postcards, and variant editions of Montgomery’s works) from a number of private donors have continued to make it grow. In 2008, the scholarly context of the collections has been much enriched by Dr. Rubio’s donation of her personal collection of critical and creative materials related to L.M. Montgomery, which were the basis of her recent biography, Lucy Maud Montgomery: The Gift of Wings .
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.117 | 0.028 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".