Opening Access to Knowledge. The UIC University Library Strategic Plan. Version 2.2
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Abstract
The UIC Library aspires to be, and to be recognized as, the leading public academic research library in the Chicago metropolitan area.As an engaged provider of information services to students, faculty, staff and the community, the UIC Library is an integral partner in the University's mission of teaching, research, and practice. We will be a welcoming place, both physically and virtually, for students, faculty researchers, and citizens to engage in information seeking, research, and collaborative learning. We will be the premier public research collection in the Midwest for health care information and a primary resource for health care providers and consumers seeking health information resources. We will be a premier research collection on the history, government and culture of the City of Chicago and its region. We will be a leader in innovative uses of technology to improve resource and service delivery. We will be a leader in promoting collaboration with libraries and cultural organizations in the Chicago metropolitan area to ensure the preservation of and access to Chicago's rich intellectual and cultural heritage. We will be nimble in response to new opportunities and demands. Guiding ValuesAs the heart of a vital institution, the University Library actively engages in UIC's mission of teaching, research, service, and economic development.Its values emanate from the University's mission.We, the Library, hold these values: Tailored service to library users.The Library responds to local and individual needs for assistance with research, teaching, learning, practice, service, and engagement by taking advantage of its wide range of resources and expertise. Open access.The Library provides access to information for its users and promotes new models of scholarly information creation, preservation, dissemination, and access. Diversity.The varied skills, backgrounds, and experience of the Library faculty and staff should mirror those of the Library's diverse users, enabling the Library to serve patrons more sensitively and effectively.Flexibility.Library departments and staff are entrusted and empowered to respond appropriately to the evolving needs of the Library's diverse and dispersed user populations. Collaboration and outreach.Collaboration occurs at many levels: within the Library, with UIC Colleges, with healthcare providers, with other libraries and library consortia, with vendors, and with numerous other organizations and individuals.The Library engages in outreach in Chicago and with communities throughout the State, especially with rural populations, through its presence in Peoria, Rockford, and Urbana. Lifelong learning.The Library commits itself to continuous learning for its staff and the UIC community.Privacy and intellectual freedom.The Library is committed to protecting the public's constitutional right to privacy and freedom of thought and expression in a free and open society. Public mission.As a public institution, the Library is committed to making publicly accessible its information resources and its knowledge management expertise. Mandates Impacting the University LibraryIn addition to the mandates that cover UIC and the University of Illinois as a whole (such as human subjects research protocols), the University Library is subject to a number of federal and state laws, contractual requirements, and cooperative agreements that affect our policies and procedures.Listed below are the most significant of these.Brief descriptions of how these mandates impact the Library are included in Appendix A.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.209 | 0.183 |
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".