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Academic status for Canadian academic librarians: a brief history

2013· book-chapter· en· W2260797510 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Leona Jacobs

Bibliographic record

VenueOpen ULeth Scholarship (OPUS) (University of Lethbridge) · 2013
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAcademic Freedom and Politics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEntitlement (fair division)Promotion (chess)Academic freedomInstitutionAcademic institutionPolitical scienceCorporate governanceLegal statusAcademic integrityHigher educationCompensation (psychology)Public relationsSociologyMedical educationLibrary sciencePsychologyManagementLawMedicine
DOInot available

Abstract

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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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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.983
Threshold uncertainty score0.980

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0130.024
Science and technology studies0.0170.009
Scholarly communication0.0110.005
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0240.004

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.

Opus teacher head0.088
GPT teacher head0.288
Teacher spread0.200 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2013
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