Tony Tremblay, ed., New Brunswick at the Crossroads: Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East
Bibliographic record
Abstract
volumes are similar in including discussion of libraries developed by the province's English-speaking community, although their primary concern is with Francophone library development.Séguin fills an important gap in our understanding of Canadian public library development.Anyone interested in Canadian, and specifically Quebec, library history needs to read this informative and well written book.His volume joins the small body of other provincial studies: Lorne Bruce's Free Books for All: The Public Library Movement in Ontario, 1850-1930 (1994) and Places to Grow: Public Libraries and Communities in Ontario, 1930Ontario, -2000Ontario, (2010)), Donald Kerr's A Book in Every Hand: Public Libraries in Saskatchewan (2005), British Columbia Libraries: Historical Profiles... (1986), and The Library Book: a History of Service to British Columbia… (2011).Although the major market for D'obscurantisme et de lumières will undoubtedly be scholarly readers, one can speculate that an even larger market might welcome an abbreviated edition that concentrates upon Séquin's major themes.Corbo's combining of popular and academic history avoids the usual danger of falling between two stools and doing neither well.Whether or not this volume attracts a popular audience, it will certainly attract a scholarly audience.Valuable information is brought together on major and important libraries that is otherwise spread across a range of sources not always conveniently at hand.One wishes that similar volumes, discussing "remarkable" libraries and collections, were available for other provinces and regions of the country.Armed with a bilingual dictionary, unilingual Anglophones will find these two volumes enlightening and informative!
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.010 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.026 | 0.010 |
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".