The Bookbinding of Hortense P. Cantlie for McGill Library: Surfacing a Legacy of Invisible Labor in the Stacks
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT Bookbinding and restoration serves as palimpsest of the human labor required to maintain and curate the library's stacks. The material history of library collections is therefore about more than the book itself; it is a means of revealing the largely invisible histories of the library workers who interact with them. This article examines the binding and restoration work of Hortense P. Cantlie as a case study through which to expose and document the largely invisible networks of human labor in libraries. Beyond bringing to the surface a previously “hidden collection” for study, this reconstruction of Cantlie's work simultaneously reveals the invisible labor of library workers, her impact on the material history of the books she bound, and McGill Library's collections overall. Furthermore, the work presented in this article reveals the invisible labor involved in the process of reconstructing that history.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it