Bibliographic record
Abstract
Probably many librarians like myself enjoy seeing the public library of any city in which they are visiting.Some of the buildings are massive marble edifices that have stood for many years, like the Library of Congress.Some are architecturally bold and nearly unrecognizable as a library, like the Seattle Public Library, which looks like a giant glass cube balanced on one corner.The exterior the Vancouver Public Library (VPL) has a striking and familiar style.It looks like a modern replica of the Roman Coliseum with modern glass windows, different stone, in better shape, and a less checkered past.Four other Atla members and I went to visit the library after the conference luncheon on Saturday, June 15 th .It is located at 350 West Georgia Street and was just a short walk from the hotel.When we saw it we agreed the structure was as impressive as we had been told.Our conference speaker from the library, Alex MacCutchan, Manager of Information, told me the library itself is a rectangular building.It is surrounded by a free-standing circular structure which is accessed by bridges.It is a sight to see, large and eye-catching.This branch of the VPL employs over 700 people.The library's main entrance opens into a soaring glass-ceilinged atrium with colorful awnings inviting you into various eating establishments on the one side.(Food and drink are welcome inside the library.)On the other are the glass walls of the impressive nine-story library.A 21-story office tower is an extension of the east side of the circular wall.After gawking at all this grandeur, the inside of the library itself is of a standard type-circulation and information desks, stacks and stacks of books, and various tables and chairs.Nice, but not extraordinary.However, the library has been working, and continues to work, toward being an open and inviting and inclusive space for all people.The library has relabeled their restrooms as "Trans Welcome" and have created and implemented staff training on the use of gender-neutral language and behavior.Alex explained they have also been sensitive to the Two-Spirit people, a First Nations term for a body that contains the spirit of both male and female.We saw signs (literal and figurative) of this initiative on Donna Wells is Associate Director and Head of Technical Services at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.354 | 0.108 |
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".