Academic status for Canadian academic librarians: a brief history
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Academic librarians3 working in Canadian universities have been mostly informed about the concept of academic status by the predominantly American library literature that focuses on faculty status for librarians. !us, when asked, many Canadian academic librarians assume that they have faculty status. However, the overwhelming majority of Canadian academic librarians do not o#cially have faculty status, the single documented exception being the librarians at Laurentian University.4 Technically, faculty status equates to the status held by teaching faculty in terms of rights (entitlement to ranks, promotion, tenure,5 compensation, leaves, and research funds), responsibilities (the same processes of evaluation and comparable standards for promotion and tenure), acceptance of the status by the institution as a whole, and participation in the governance of the institution.6 Academic status, on the other hand, is recognition that the duties performed are integral to the academic mission of the institution but that Academic Status for Canadian Academic Librarians: A Brief History
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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 | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
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