Bibliographic record
Abstract
In May and June 2002 27 libraries and 3 central support services were visited in Singapore, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, UK, Canada and the US. Outcomes of the visits are described under lifelong learning and community development; program delivery; reference services; user empowerment; materials handling; opening hours; workforce; staff development; staff structures; funding; library design. Notable trends, mostly very positive for public libraries, are identified. Edited version of a paper given at the 7th biennial conference of the WA Local Government Librarians Association March 2003 ********** In 2000 the City of Joondalup in WA commenced a process to develop new strategic directions for its library service. As part of this process the manager of library and information services undertook an overseas study tour to collect information to feed into it. Research identified libraries which were considered to be providing innovative or leading edge solutions in service development. The visits commenced in Singapore on 20 May and concluded in Seattle on 19 June 2002. Twenty seven libraries and 3 central support services were visited in * Singapore * Helsinki, Finland * Aarhus, Denmark * Norrkoping, Sweden * Chelmsford, Croydon and Sutton, England * Toronto, Burnaby, Richmond and Vancouver, Canada * Seattle, US Lifelong learning and community development Strategic level In Singapore the National Library mission is To expand the learning capacity of the nation so as to enhance national competitiveness and promote a gracious society The Singapore government agenda is to invest in lifelong learning to equip people with knowledge in order to stay focused in a competitive environment and develop the economy. This acknowledges that the acquisition of knowledge cannot be confined to learning through formal institutions and environments. Libraries, referred to as street corner universities, have been identified as the major tool to stimulate and satisfy the community thirst for knowledge. Singapore is literally reinventing its libraries through investing in their growth by developing new local, regional, and national libraries under a 5-10 year capital works program as well as expanding program delivery. Singapore libraries take an active role in introducing the community to emerging trends through interactive programs based around branch library themes such as Lifescience @the_courtyards, IT@orchard, and kidsdiscovery@parade. There are also higher level programs, such as the Asian Children's Festival which stimulates an interest in reading, literature and culture. Statistics of 25 million loans compared to 21 million visits demonstrates the trend in Singapore to increasing user visits for other than borrowing. Program delivery Internationally the traditional library focus on literacy programs has been greatly expanded to encompass the lifelong learning process from beginning to end. It is acknowledged that intellectual, coordination and language skill development all influence subsequent literacy skills development. Library staff are outreaching to engage people from birth. The diverse range of initiatives implemented appears only restricted by resourcing and staff creativity. Partnerships with the infant health clinics may include the library providing the clinic nurse with library kits or book gift vouchers to give to new mothers to be redeemed at the library. The subsequent visits to the library provide opportunities to introduce both to library resources and activities. The national Canadian Mother Goose program was established in response to government identification that many children were starting school with inadequate language skills. The program works with parent and child, particularly migrants, to increase oral skills. It then continues to introduce books and literacy. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.120 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".