Bridging the Gap for Autistic Library Patrons
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The purpose of this online content analysis is to highlight an existing service gap within Ontario public libraries for patrons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Those with invisible disabilities such as ASD, are often forced to disclose their disability to seek information and services from libraries. The analysis from this study concludes the Dedicated Accessibility Web Page (DAWP) is an overlooked resource by Ontario public library administration to benefit the autistic community. This paper considers potential causes, such as a strong focus on technical accessibility, to explain the omission of information relevant to autistic patron interests from the DAWP content. Finally, this paper proposes how Ontario public libraries could reimagine their DAWPs as a first step toward removing barriers from the library experience of autistic patrons and identifies the benefits for doing so. These benefits include facilitating information access at low cost and minimal effort while avoiding the necessity of an autistic patron to disclose their disability.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.019 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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