The Mobile LAM (Library, Archive & Museum): New Space for Engagement
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Abstract
In response to technological advances, budgetary issues, and changes in the needs of researchers and patrons, two ideas have become part of discussions in LIS literature: collaboration among libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) and user-centered services. This article focuses on the prospect of combining LAMs and user-centered services, along with collaboration, technology, and user-orientation models to create something new--the Mobile LAM. What's a Mobile LAM? The Mobile LAM would pull together resources (written records and material objects; access to digital collections) from libraries, archives, and museums and then bring them to schools, other educational institutions, and places in communities where teens spend time, in an effort to engage teens with the cultural record, their communities, and to support connected learning. This type of collaboration is possible in a variety of ways: collaboration among local and national libraries, archives and museums; librarians and teachers; teens and donors (those donating materials to repositories); libraries and community businesses, and more. A LIS professional on board the Mobile LAM RV would be responsible for coordinating all aspects of managing the Mobile LAM. What does the Mobile LAM look like? Picture an RV bus, customized to create a flexible, connected learning environment, fully equipped to facilitate engagement, using a combination of technology tools, as well as print and digital materials and physical objects. Long tables on either side would hold several laptops for accessing digital collections, for general research, and to support a wide variety of collaborative projects. Laptops and tablets seem ideal for this space since they can easily be tucked away and do not take up much room, allowing visitors plenty of space for group work and for interaction with the available resources. A SmartBoard visible to all on board would allow visitors the ability to view, create, or give presentations. Cabinets above long tables on either side of the RV would safely house and display print materials and physical objects borrowed from LAMs. These items would not necessarily be permanently housed on the RV but could be changed according to the particular needs of the visitors at any given time. The definition of library (or archive, or museum) is changing. Everything from the services that are provided to whether it lives solely in a bricks-and-mortar building, includes an active interactive digital environment, and/or is mobile and travels to where the community most needs the services provided is under review. Collaboration between LAMs can serve as a vehicle through which LIS professionals can ride the waves of change while remaining relevant and continuing to provide quality services to patrons of all ages. Lisa McGiven and Lianne McTavish describe the challenges and opportunities change presents, highlighting interdisciplinary collaboration: As digitization projects move forward, as government funding becomes increasingly competitive, and as individual citizens harness the power of Web 2.0 technologies to engage with cultural organizations in new ways, librarians, archivists, and museologists--whatever they choose to label themselves--must work together toward a common curriculum and common baseline of expert knowledge to gather, manage, and make accessible the vast array of materials in the coming centuries. (1) Collaboration among LAMs is not a new concept. Given and McTavish provide a specific and early example of the blending of books and objects in the Natural History Society of Montreal created in 1827. An extension of the Society, a museum and library, included written records and material objects that were mutually dependent, one illustrating the other. Scholars would use both scientific books and preserved specimens to expand their understanding of the natural world. …
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 it