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Abstract
Reflections on the Evolution of Bookbird Liz Page (bio) When Chrys asked me to contribute to this special issue of Bookbird, I wondered what I could possibly say that would be of interest to the readers. As I began to think about my time working for IBBY, however, I realized that Bookbird has evolved while remaining a quality journal sharing the internationality of IBBY with its readers. The connection between IBBY and Bookbird, its flagship journal, runs deep. In addition to the academic content, Focus IBBY has been a constant in sharing news from the national sections around the world. This important column keeps the connection between IBBY and its members and simultaneously reinforces Bookbird's identity as the IBBY journal. While obituaries are sadly a part of Focus IBBY, it also means we can celebrate the important figures in IBBY's history and reflect on their legacies to the world of children's literature. Many events have taken place since the first publication of Bookbird, but one of the most significant of these was perhaps the move of the journal's base from Europe to the USA in 1993. With this flight as a catalyst, the journal was redesigned and took on the appearance that has remained to this day. Despite Bookbird, Inc. being registered in Indiana, the editors have moved about: USA (MD), USA (OH)/Austria, Ireland, USA (TX/CT), Canada, Sweden, USA, and currently back to Sweden. While there have been very different editors/editorial teams, they have all worked to maintain the very high standards the readers expect from this unique journal of international children's literature. The history of Bookbird has been well-documented in recent years. In 2017, the Bookbird 60th anniversary issue (vol. 55, no. 4) was published by the then editor Björn Sundmark (Malmö, Sweden). It is a gem of an issue that looks into the history of Bookbird with fascinating insights from past editors. It even includes the very first editorial written by Jella Lepman in 1957! This issue also features the biographies of the 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Award nominees—thus, a double pleasure. The year 2021 saw the publication of an amazing book, Bookbird: A Flight through Time, edited by former editors Valerie Coghlan and Evelyn Freeman. A quote from Andersen Award winner Roger Mello describes it perfectly: "A fabulous book, fundamental, indispensable! A gift and a right for those who understand that characters and books through time are the possibility of creating a new future." This must-have book is available to purchase: see the IBBY website for more details. (www.ibby.org/bookbird) When reading these publications, and indeed all issues of Bookbird, I am impressed not only at the depth, but also the very broad coverage [End Page 66] of the journal. While many of the themes are recurrent, new aspects are constantly explored. As with many parts of IBBY, the internet has made monumental changes in how we gather information, process it, and, perhaps most of all, communicate. When I started working for IBBY in 1997, we were just coming to grips with using email—executive director Leena Maissen and I invested in our first mobile phones for the 2002 IBBY Jubilee Congress because we thought that they might be useful! We worked hard alongside our IT designer in Zurich to set up the IBBY website, which was finally launched at the Bologna Children's Bookfair in 1998. Over the years, the website has gone through several design facelifts to keep up with current technology. A very practical addition to the website is the IBBY archive section, where both past IBBY brochures and back issues of Bookbird can be accessed. This allows everyone to dive into the treasure trove and explore the history of international children's literature from 1963 to the present. (https://www.ibby.org/subnavigation/archives) To look back at the past is easy, for we have lived it. But what about the future? A print journal is currently a rarity, albeit a useful one. Ideas are constantly changing about how we access information. Some years ago, many believed that offices would become paperless, but to date that has not...
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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 | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.026 | 0.003 |
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.
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".