Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Annual Report 2003-2004
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Abstract
As articulated in its Strategic Plan for 2001-2005, the mission of the Association for Library- Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) is to provide leadership to the library and information communities in developing principles, standards, and best practices for creating, collecting, organizing, delivering, and preserving information resources in all forms. ALCTS strives to provide this leadership through its members by fostering educational, research, and professional service opportunities. Of the many objectives included in the ALCTS Strategic Plan, the division focused on three during 2003-2004: organization: publication; and education. Organization In spring 2003, the ALCTS membership passed a bylaw change enabling the development and use of a new of ALCTS' organizational structure, the Interest Group. The interest group category merges the programmatic and publication capabilities of a committee with the open forum and expanded membership characteristics of a discussion group. At its 2003 annual meeting in Toronto, the ALCTS Board substantively addressed its own composition and its relationships with division-and section-level groups within ALCTS. One of the outcomes of these discussions was the notion of the committee, defined as one whose role is primarily management of the business of the division. It was agreed that such committees included Budget and Finance, Education, Fundraising, International Relations, Leadership Development, Membership, Nominating, Organization and Bylaws, Planning, Program, and Publications. In addition, the board agreed that all other division-level committees were topical in nature and that their work would best be carried forward in the interest group format. Each was, therefore, offered the opportunity to reconstitute itself as an interest group or to disband. To date, three have chosen to reconstitute themselves as interest groups, three are considering the possibility; and one has decided to disband. While, as noted above, the International Relations Committee will continue to function as one of the division's business committees, the ALCTS Board has reconstituted the committee's membership and has revised its charge in order to expand the work of the committee in support of the division's goals in the international arena. Publication Under the dynamic leadership of Publications Committee chair Genevieve S. Owens, ALCTS reinvigorated its publications program virtually from top to bottom. Owens worked with executive director Charles Wilt to craft the division's publishing business plan. Within that framework, then, she systematized the calendar and editorial processes for the division's publications. The period 2003-2004 saw turnover in two of the division's key editorial positions, namely, the editors of the scholarly journal Library Research & Technical Services (LRTS) and the monographic series ALCTS Papers on Technical Services and Collections. …
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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 | 0.012 | 0.023 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.008 | 0.017 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.181 | 0.220 |
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".