Challenging Silence, Challenging Censorship: Inclusive Resources and Policy Directives for Addressing Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Trans-Identified and Two-Spirited Realities in School and Public Libraries
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Schrader, Alvin, and Kristopher Wells. Challenging Silence, Challenging Censorship: Inclusive Resources and Policy Directives for Addressing Gay, Lesbian, Trans-Identified and Two-Spirited Realities in School and Public Libraries. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Teachers' Federation, 2007. 96 pp. 15.00 CDN. ISBN 0-88989-360-8. Alvin Schrader and Kristopher Wells' book, Challenging Silence, Challenging Censorship, deals with the issue of including materials dealing with homosexual themes in school and public library collections and the provision of services to bisexual, gay, lesbian, trans-identified, two-spirited (BGLTT); queer; and questioning children and teenagers as a way to increase relevance of school and public libraries for this group. It includes sections on existing issues and potential courses of action. I found the book to be most valuable when describing concrete courses of action to better serve this segment of the population, but found that in some parts it had a tendency to overstep what it needed to convey to its likely audience. Part one discusses the importance of accessible social services to BGLTT youth. It outlines the increased rates of alienation, violence, and social exclusion experienced by BGLTT young people compared to other individuals in that age demographic, especially in schools, and advocates potential courses of action to improve their safety and understanding of their situations by librarian educators. A large portion of this section discusses the lack of library materials and lack of access to existing library materials for this group, most importantly, the lack of adequate subject description to allow interested individuals to find the materials already included in library collections, such as headings like Homosexuality - Fiction as a way to aggregate relevant holdings (p. 19). The second part of the book is comprised of an annotated list of materials to add to library collections and tools to help select appropriate materials. I think this section will be the most useful part of the book for most library staff members. It divides materials by developmental level and use, including elementary/primary picture books, junior and senior high school/young adult readers, educational videos, professional resources, policy development, curriculum development, censorship and educational texts, and Canadian BGLTT education-related web sites. The authors include a prototype Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Tran-identified, and Two-spirited Students' Charter of Rights and Freedoms adapted from Dr. Virginia Uribe, which includes standards they want schools to adopt, and a set of library service and collection strategies to improve services to BGLTT communities. …
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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 | 0.037 | 0.074 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.026 | 0.020 |
| Open science | 0.006 | 0.027 |
| Research integrity | 0.023 | 0.018 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.020 | 0.003 |
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".