Charting Our Sustainable Future: Librarian Philosophies to Discover Meaning in What We Do
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Abstract
Introduction: Similar to teaching philosophies, librarian philosophies are reflections of librarians’ approaches to the profession. A librarian philosophy is a summary of a librarian’s professional practice and their standards and values, based on personal and professional beliefs. Description: In Summer 2020, I wrote my librarian philosophy based on personal and professional experiences. I reflected on what is meaningful to me and how I approach my work. I came up with four areas of emphasis: community building, meaningful work, lifelong learning, and supporting others. Outcomes: As an early-career librarian, I want to ground my decision-making early in my career. With my librarian philosophy, I frame current and future action on my personal beliefs and standards, giving me increased confidence. Having a document based on my values allows day-to-day values-based decision-making. My librarian philosophy is posted publicly, and it has guided me in my decision-making and goal setting. Students and faculty can publicly view how I approach librarianship; this gives transparency to how I provide library services for my clients. Librarian philosophies can also provide direction to your career and prevent burn out by intentionally infusing meaning throughout your work. Discussion: Reflection allows librarians to change their practice based on experience. In doing so, librarians clarify the work they do and why they do it. This guides future action and leads to a meaningful career. In developing a personal librarian philosophy, you chart a sustainable path, one that aligns with your values, and you can be an active participant in intentional and engaged librarianship.
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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 | 0.029 | 0.033 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.064 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.028 | 0.051 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.014 |
| Research integrity | 0.011 | 0.018 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.006 |
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".