Change is the Only Constant: Libraries After COVID Pandemic
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
While change is a constant in libraries, this article will explore the changes that have occurred and may yet be discovered following the COVID pandemic. 2020 has been referred to as the year the Earth stood still. Yet for libraries, it was a year of tremendous change with quick adaptations in order to support our student and faculty populations while seeking to preserve the safety and health of library colleagues. The authors will explore what external factors are driving the post-pandemic changes, the practices that were standard that no longer work, and emerging changes in practices. While the authors work in a North American context as well as in academic and research library context, they will explore literature from around the world. The authors bring their experience as library leaders and subject expertise to the consideration of the impact of the pandemic on library efforts and operations.
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.002 | 0.022 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.001 |
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