Bibliographic record
Abstract
When rights are added to civil and political rights we start to move from treating human beings as things to be bought and sold, to a consideration of their essential humanity and its sustenance and development. The individual's isolation in the market is replaced by a concern to maintain the means for the development of his or her individuality as a human being. Thus, rights of when added to civil liberties and political democracy may present a major challenge to free market capitalism.-Fred TwineIntroductionA guarantee that the individual and the public as a whole have access to as wide and as diverse a selection of knowledge as that which exists, free of charge and ideally without restriction, represents for many the greatest and most essential rights of in western liberal society. For this reason, a dedicated commitment to the principles of intellectual freedom and freedom of expression, along side a resistance to censorship in any form, are often recognized as among the major driving forces behind the modern library discourse. One needs simply to turn to the professional statements of various North American library associations to see how the library and the librarian are conceptualized as the guarantor's of intellectual freedom or a ...state of a∂airs in which each human being has the freedom to think, say, write, and promulgate any idea or belief (Gorman 88). For instance, the Canadian Library Association's Statement on Intellectual Freedom reads in part:Libraries have a basic responsibility for the development and maintenance of intellectual freedom. It is the responsibility of libraries to guarantee and facilitate access to all expressions of knowledge and intellectual activity, including those which some elements of society may consider to be unconventional, unpopular or unacceptable. To this end, libraries shall acquire and make available the widest variety of materials.Despite the importance and significance of the principles represented in this statement, the scholarly and professional library literatures o∂er no or very few indications of the library employee's right to freely express her or his opinion in the library workplace. The public library as a place of work, as most other workplaces in a liberal market economy, is typically based upon a hierarchical organizational structure (Buschman and Rosenzweig 37). Such organizational structures are inherently adverse to the protection of intellectual freedom, since they are based upon the authority and visibility of certain voices over others in the communicative process. Allowing certain voices a privileged position or dominant role in the communication of knowledge represents a crisis of legitimacy for intellectual freedom and for democracy in general. The North American library community is a particularly relevant profession to consider when studying the question of intellectual freedom within the workplace, since it is a profession that regards the defense of intellectual freedom as among its core values.It is important to recognize that the debate surrounding intellectual freedom and freedom of expression in western liberal society is generally framed from within a liberal democratic rights based perspective. In this context, freedom of expression represents a legally and constitutionally protected right for the individual to express an opinion. Although it is not within the scope of this paper to provide an overall critique of the liberal democratic perspective, it can be demonstrated that the protection of intellectual freedom as a 'civil liberty will benefit when it exists along side a dedication to the social rights of citizenship (i.e., a guaranteed and reasonable minimum wage, guaranteed housing, and so on). Conceptualizing intellectual freedom in this manner should help the discussion in two ways. First of all, it will help in developing an understanding of why it is important for library employees, who in many ways must act as advocates for intellectual freedom, to have a guaranteed protection to their own freedom of expression in the workplace. …
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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 | 0.009 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.034 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.039 | 0.019 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.019 |
| Research integrity | 0.008 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.025 | 0.008 |
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".