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Record W4417485156 · doi:10.33137/ijournal.v11i1.46629

Becoming the Cyborg Librarian

2025· article· W4417485156 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Finley Eliasmith

Bibliographic record

VenueThe iJournal Student Journal of the Faculty of Information · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLibrary Science and Administration
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInformation literacyDigital literacyMetaphorCritical literacyPower (physics)Order (exchange)

Abstract

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When nearly everybody is hooked into a digital world in which misinformation, disinformation, and unchecked bias run rampant, it is crucial for librarians and other information literacy educators to promote critical engagement with the digital in their teaching practices. Therefore, this paper explores various feminist information practices as strong foundations for good critical digital literacy, such as the critical examination of dominant power structures, the use of local and personal knowledge in information-gathering, and recognizing how the digital and real worlds are two inherently interconnected, rather than separate, spheres. These practices meld in the figure of the cyborg librarian. Politically aware and able to move between the digital and real effortlessly, the cyborg librarian, though imperfect, is a useful metaphor for the information and digital literacy instructor to work with as they promote a critical awareness of the rigid hierarchies of power that structure many information-gathering resources. As information literacy educators, we should aspire to become the cyborg librarian in order to more effectively teach critical digital and information literacy to our often very-online students.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Scholarly communication
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.291
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.007
Open science0.0040.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.336
Teacher spread0.307 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

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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