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Record W4410705296 · doi:10.29173/cais1928

What Does a Librarian Look Like?

2025· article· en· W4410705296 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Sarah Barriage, Beth Strickland Bloch, Ena Prskalo

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS / Actes du congrès annuel de l ACSI · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLibrary Science and Administration
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPsychology

Abstract

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Enduring stereotypes and contemporary discourse surrounding librarianship as a profession may influence students’ decisions to use the library and to consider librarianship as a viable career path. This pilot study explores undergraduate students’ perceptions of librarians using a drawing activity. Participants were asked to draw a librarian and to provide a description of their drawing using the draw-and-tell or draw-and-write technique. They were also asked to complete a brief survey with questions focused on participant demographics and library use. Study findings may inform recruitment, marketing, and outreach efforts. A quoi ressemble un·e bibliothécaire? Comprendre les perceptions des étudiant·e·s de premier cycle sur les bibliothécaires RésuméLes stéréotypes persistants et les discours contemporains entourant la profession de bibliothécaire influencent les décisions des étudiant·e·s pour utiliser la bibliothèque et pour considérer les postes de bibliothécaire comme un chemin de carrière durable. Cette étude pilote explore les perceptions des étudiant·e·s de premier cycle sur les bibliothécaires en utilisant une activité de dessin. On a demandé aux participant·e·s de dessiner un·e bibliothécaire et de fournir une description de leur dessin en utilisant la technique du dessiner-raconter et dessiner-écrire. On leur a également demandé de compléter une brève enquête avec des questions portant sur les données démographiques des participant·e·s et leur utilisation de la bibliothèque. Les résultats de l’étude peuvent informer sur les efforts de recrutement, de commercialisation et de sensibilisation.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.017
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score0.058

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.017
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0050.003
Scholarly communication0.0110.008
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0170.009

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.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.275
Teacher spread0.254 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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