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Libraries as Trenches: Resistance, Militancy and Politics

2017· article· en· W2588275858 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Edgardo Civallero

Bibliographic record

VenuePartnership The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicHousing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSolidaritySociologyHumanitiesPluralism (philosophy)Resistance (ecology)Modernism (music)MetaphorPolitical sciencePoliticsPhilosophyAestheticsTheologyLawEpistemology

Abstract

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This essay considers how libraries and librarians resist and mobilize by sharpening the mind and strengthening solidarity, withstanding adverse conditions and providing shelter, and allowing for new community paths to be traveled despite the neoliberal insistence that there is no alternative. Militancy and commitment on the part of librarians are both discussed in terms of reading, literacy, identity, learning, training, and a form of leisure linked to culture.Everyday engagement in community-level activities and problem-solving by libraries goes hand-in-hand with supporting values such as justice, equality, solidarity, pluralism, freedom, equity, and respect. Trenches are used as a metaphor for libraries because the resistance work and struggle of librarians create spaces where certain fires are kept burning to inspire people sitting around them, and where resistance, planning, building, and counteracting are all possible. Cet essai prend en compte comment les bibliothèques et les bibliothécaires résistent et se mobilisent en façonnant l’esprit, en renforçant la solidarité, en résistant à des conditions défavorables et en fournissant des abris, et en permettant de prendre de nouveaux sentiers communautaires malgré l’insistance néolibérale qu’il n’y pas de solution de rechange. Le militantisme et l’engagement de la part des bibliothécaires sont tous deux examinés en fonction de la lecture, la littératie, l’identité, l’apprentissage, la formation et une forme de loisir liée à la culture. L’engagement quotidien dans les activités de la communauté et la résolution de problème des bibliothèques vont main dans la main avec le soutien des valeurs tels la justice, l’égalité, la solidarité, le pluralisme, la liberté, l’équité et le respect. La métaphore de la tranchée peut être employée pour les bibliothèques, car leur travail de résistance et les défis qu’ont les bibliothécaires à créer des espaces où la motivation perdure pour inspirer les personnes et où la résistance, la planification, le développement et la réconciliation sont tous possibles.

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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)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.013
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: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.970
Threshold uncertainty score0.105

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.013
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0040.005
Science and technology studies0.0300.069
Scholarly communication0.0440.024
Open science0.0020.025
Research integrity0.0080.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.003

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 head0.079
GPT teacher head0.304
Teacher spread0.225 · 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 designQualitative
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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