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Welcome to code4lib BC!  
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Welcome to Code4Lib BC! Begun in Summer 2013, this chapter aims to create connections and professional development opportunities for folks from British Columbia and surrounding areas.
  
Begun in Summer 2013, this chapter aims to create connections and professional development opportunities for folks from British Columbia and surrounding areas.
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You can find the public discussion channel on the Code4lib Slack in #c4lbc.
  
= '''Code4lib BC Unconference 2016''' =
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If you're interested in hosting, please [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mh8haGBziQHiBkG_0byNgIEPxWIsBjKAXOss0cE9fJs/edit?usp=sharing take a read over our Planner's Guide].
  
'''[https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2016-code4libbc-unconference-tickets-26429947685 Registration is now open]''' for Code4Lib BC's fourth annual unconference!
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== '''Ninth Annual Code4Lib BC Unconference 2024''' ==
  
* December 1 and 2, 2016
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'''Save the dates!'''
* Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC, Vancouver BC
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* [https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2016-code4libbc-unconference-tickets-26429947685 Register now] ($30 for both days)
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* Thursday, 16 May and Friday, 17 May
* [https://goo.gl/forms/YFrcIF4UpQRnj5eD3 Propose a lightning talk or breakout session]
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* [https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/872117846957/?aff=oddtdtcreator Registration is now open]
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This year's C4LBC will be held in Vancouver, BC, and hosted by VCC at the [https://www.vcc.ca/about/college-information/contact-us/downtown-campus/ Downtown Campus], Room 420
  
 
=== What's it all about? ===
 
=== What's it all about? ===
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It's a 2-day unconference - a participant-driven meeting bringing together a diverse and open community of library developers and non-developers engaging in effective, collaborative problem-solving through technology regardless of their department or background.
 
It's a 2-day unconference - a participant-driven meeting bringing together a diverse and open community of library developers and non-developers engaging in effective, collaborative problem-solving through technology regardless of their department or background.
  
The event will feature lightning talks in the mornings, breakout sessions in the afternoons, with coffee, tea and snacks provided. Lightning talks are brief presentations which are typically 10-15 minutes in length on topics related to library technologies. Breakout sessions are an opportunity to bring participants together in an ad hoc fashion for a short, yet sustained period of problem solving, software development and fun. If there is a neat project you're been working on, a cool new tool you want to show off, or an interesting development in the world of library technology that you want to discuss, Code4Lib BC is a great opportunity to share with the community - [https://goo.gl/forms/YFrcIF4UpQRnj5eD3 let us know about it]!
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This year’s event will feature lightning talks and breakout sessions. Lightning talks are brief, 10-minute presentations on topics related to library technologies. Breakout sessions are an opportunity to bring participants together in an ad hoc fashion for a short, yet sustained period of problem solving, software development and fun.
  
'''What's included''': wifi, power, coffee/snacks
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* '''What's included''': a room, coffee/tea, wifi, power
  
'''What's NOT included/what to bring''': a laptop, lunch (on-campus options [http://www.food.ubc.ca/feed-me/ here] and [http://www.ams.ubc.ca/foodanddrink/ here]), your ideas and enthusiasm
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* '''What to bring''': your ideas and enthusiasm.
  
'''Hashtag''': #c4lbc
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* '''Mastodon Hashtag''': `#c4lbc`
  
'''Code of Conduct''': As a Code4Lib event, we adhere to the [http://bit.ly/coc4lib Code4Lib Code of Conduct], which seeks to provide a welcoming, harassment-free environment.
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* '''Code of Conduct''': As a Code4Lib event, we adhere to the [http://bit.ly/coc4lib Code4Lib Code of Conduct], which seeks to provide a welcoming, harassment-free environment.
  
=== Program ===
 
  
Here's a partial list of talks and breakout sessions that have already been confirmed for this year's unconference. There are more to come - watch this space!
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===Lightning Talk and Breakout Session Ideas===
  
==== Lightning Talks ====
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If there’s a neat project you've been working on, a cool new tool you want to show off, or an interesting development in the world of library technology that you want to discuss, Code4Lib BC is a great opportunity to share that with the community.
  
* MediaConch, video format validation for Archivematica (Sarah Romkey)
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[https://forms.gle/FH6DxDJgq18jPM5A6 Submit a lightning talk or breakout session idea]
* TechBC Memory Project metadata upgrade (Holly Hendrigan)
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* A Coal Miner’s History: Mapping Digitized Audio Interviews (Daniel Sifton)
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* simple library apps with Google Apps Scripts (Terry Brady)
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* Defining Projects using Gherkin Syntax (Sara Allain)
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* UX design on research data site (Jessica Gallinger)
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* Islandora On This Day module (Mark Jordan)
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* Provincial Digital Library update (Daniel Sifton/Caroline Daniels)
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* ElasticSearch API: Using Aggregation Queries to Do Cool Stuff (Schuyler Lindberg)
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* Introduction to Docker (James Fournie)
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* Web Analytics with Piwik (Jonathan Schatz)
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* Getting Things Done: Understanding and Analyzing Workflow (Cynthia Ng)
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==== Breakout Sessions ====
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===Food===
  
* Intro to SQL (Alex Garnett)
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Coffee/tea and light snacks (think: pastries) will be available at the venue.
* Awesome Excel tips (Trevor Smith)
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* PDL technologies Up Close (Daniel Sifton)
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[https://www.vcc.ca/services/eat-shop--more/cafeteria/ VCC's Downtown Cafeteria] (Floor 3) offers a variety of entrees and upscale diner-style food prepared by talented students from the Culinary Arts program. (Open '''Thurs only'''.)
* FOLIO (Andrew Nagy)
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* reSearcher and project sustainability
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Otherwise, attendees are encouraged to explore the wide range of food and beverage options nearby. Local organizers have provided a few recommendations below. If you have dietary restrictions/preferences, feel free to ask for specific suggestions!
* Intro to Git and GitHub for libraries (Sara Allain/Mark Jordan)
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* Using Islandora for Publishing XML (Michael Joyce)
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====Coffee & baked goods====
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* Nemesis coffee - [https://maps.google.com/?cid=3116382671480623498 302 W Hastings St]
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* Revolver coffee - [https://maps.google.com/?cid=7637660912074558893 325 Cambie St]
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* Purebread - [https://maps.google.com/?cid=448773891542528173 159 W Hastings St]
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* Lee's Donuts Gastown - [https://maps.google.com/?cid=13423786774947035631 199 Water St]
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====Meals====
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* [https://www.vcc.ca/services/eat-shop--more/cafeteria/ VCC Downtown Cafeteria] (Thurs only) - 3rd floor
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* Marugame Udon - [https://maps.google.com/?cid=9331854931384302026 589 Beatty St]
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* MeeT Gastown - [https://maps.google.com/?cid=8486430434256396620 inner Courtyard, 12 Water St] (vegetarian)
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* Meat & Bread - [https://maps.google.com/?cid=5974644075226205790 370 Cambie St]
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* Nuba - [https://maps.google.com/?cid=16710652764342550272 207 W Hastings St] (veg friendly)
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* Pholicious - [https://maps.google.com/?cid=464715567622825479 430 W Pender St]
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* Ready-to-eat at City Market (unless you're boycotting Loblaws!) - [https://maps.google.com/?cid=12866074011377369903 658 Homer St]
  
 
=== Schedule ===
 
=== Schedule ===
  
==== Thursday, December 1 ====
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'''''Please note that all times are PST (Vancouver, Canada).'''''
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==== Day 1 : Thursday, May 16 ====
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{| class="wikitable"
 
{| class="wikitable"
| 8:30 || Doors open
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| 8:30 || Venue opens
 
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|-
| 9:00 || Welcome & Announcements
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| 9:00 || Welcome and announcements
 
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|-
| 9:15 || Lightning Talks
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| 9:15 || Lightning talks
* Provincial Digital Library Update (Daniel Sifton/Caroline Daniels)
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* [https://cynthiang.ca/2024/05/16/presentation-giving-back-to-the-community-through-transparency-and-a-public-handbook/ Giving back to the community through transparency and a public handbook] - Cynthia "Arty" Ng
* Building Quick and Dirty Library Tools with Google Apps Script (Terry Brady)
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* [https://github.com/telezoic/PostTwitter Twitter Archiving, Post-Twitter] - Dan Sifton
* Makerspaces and the Maker Community in the Lower Mainland (Maryann Kempthorne)
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* "Wait I can't lose that!" Saving circ data with MS Office during a system change - Trevor Smith
* Web Analytics with Piwik (Jonathan Schatz)
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* TechBC Memory Project metadata upgrade (Holly Hendrigan)
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|-
 
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| 10:30 || Coffee break
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| 10:30 || Break
 
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|-
| 10:45 || Lightning Talks, cont'd
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| 10:45 || Lightning talks (continued)
* ElasticSearch API: Using Aggregation Queries to Do Cool Stuff (Schuyler Lindberg)
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* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nMJttwl7u8Rlv2x4b4b9tH_cbafZe4AQ6n1KinG_Muw/edit Find a Space] - Andy Peterson
* Getting Things Done: Understanding and Analyzing Workflow (Cynthia Ng)
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* Implementing Time of Flight People Counting at UVic Libraries - John Durno
* Defining Projects using Gherkin Syntax (Sara Allain)
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* Improving online user experience through collaboration with public service staff - Janis McKenzie
 
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| 11:30 || Lunch (On Your Own)
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| 12:00 || Lunch
 
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|-
| 1:00 || Breakout Sessions
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| 1:00 || Breakout sessions
* Intro to git/github for libraries (Sara Allain/Mark Jordan)
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* Navigating project management/strategic planning
* PDL technologies up close (Daniel Sifton)
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* Trevor's Excel Party (Tips, tricks, use cases)
 
|-
 
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| 2:30 || Break
 
| 2:30 || Break
 
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|-
| 2:45 || Breakout Sessions, cont'd
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| 2:45 || Breakout sessions (continued)
* FOLIO (Andrew Nagy)
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* Help! We had a data breach
* Digital Collections (Terry Brady)
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* IT centralization
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* All Things UX
 
|-
 
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| 4:00 || Breakout Reports
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| 4:00 || Breakout reports
 
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| 5:00 || Social Event
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| 5:00 || Social event at [https://internetarchivecanada.org/ Internet Archive Canada HQ] (330 Pender St) feat. [https://www.instagram.com/pretendwinebar/ Pretend Wine Bar]
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* [https://maps.app.goo.gl/WVUchkZHbstXfRHE9 Directions] from VCC (about a 2 min walk)
 
|}
 
|}
  
==== Friday, December 2 ====
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==== Day 2 : Friday, May 17 ====
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
{| class="wikitable"
| 8:30 || Doors open
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| 8:30 || Venue opens
 
|-
 
|-
| 9:00 || Announcements
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| 9:00 || Welcome and announcements
 
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|-
| 9:15 || Lightning Talks
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| 9:15 || Lightning talks
* A Coal Miner’s History: Mapping Digitized Audio Interviews (Daniel Sifton)
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* CatalogerGPT: an AI powered cataloguing assistant as agentic collaboration - Glen Greenly
* Introduction to Docker (James Fournie)
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* Moving to the Cloud: Better late than never? - Scott Leslie
* Makers Making Change (Harry Lew)
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* Moving our library to the Folio LSP - Olga Kalachinskaya
* MediaConch: A Video Format Validation Tool for Archivematica (Sarah Romkey)
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|-
 
|-
| 10:30 || Coffee break
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| 10:30 || Break
 
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|-
| 10:45 || Lightning Talks, cont'd
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| 11:00 || Lightning talks (continued)
* A Single Page Web App to Inventory 900,000 Books! (Terry Brady)
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* OpenAthens and the Ironies of Automation - Ryan Regier
* UX Design of a Research Data Management Micro-site (Jessica Gallinger)
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* Title list comparison using Pandas/Jupyter - James Fournie
* Islandora On This Day module (Mark Jordan)
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* Telidon update - John Durno
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* Cloud server disaster plan! - Calvin Mah
 
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| 11:30 || Lunch (On Your Own)
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| 12:00 || Lunch
 
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| 1:00 || Breakout Sessions
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| 1:30 || Breakout session organization
* Needling The Haystack: An Introduction to SQL and Query Languages (Alex Garnett)
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* reSearcher (CUFTS/GODOT) and project sustainability
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|-
 
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| 2:30 || Break
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| 1:45 || Breakout sessions
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* Practical applications of AI in Libraries
 
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| 2:45 || Breakout Sessions, cont'd
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| 2:45 || Break
* Using Islandora for Publishing XML (Michael Joyce)
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* Awesome Excel Tips (Trevor Smith)
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|-
 
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| 4:00 || Breakout Reports
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| 3:00 || Breakout sessions (continued)
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* ILS Migrations
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* eResources Troubleshooting
 
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| 4:30 || End of Day
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| 4:00 || Breakout session reports
 
|}
 
|}
  
=== Organizers ===
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=== Sponsors ===
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We want to acknowledge the continued administrative and fiscal support from the [https://bc.libraries.coop/ BC Libraries Cooperative].
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Thank you to [https://archive.org  Internet Archive] for generously sponsoring Thursday's social event at their Vancouver HQ
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Finally, thanks to [https://virl.bc.ca VIRL] for their support.
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=== 2024 Organizers ===
  
* Sara Allain
 
* Jeff Davis
 
 
* James Fournie
 
* James Fournie
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* Dan Sifton
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* Eka Grguric
 
* Tamarack Hockin
 
* Tamarack Hockin
* Mark Jordan
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* John Durno
* Paul Joseph
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* Scott Leslie
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* Trevor Smith
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* George Villavicencio
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* Rebecca Dickson
 
* Cynthia Ng
 
* Cynthia Ng
 
Comments or questions? Get in touch with us at c4lbc-organizers@googlegroups.com.
 
  
 
= '''Past Events''' =
 
= '''Past Events''' =
  
 
See our [[BC_Past_Events|past events]] page.
 
See our [[BC_Past_Events|past events]] page.

Latest revision as of 17:36, 21 May 2024

Welcome to Code4Lib BC! Begun in Summer 2013, this chapter aims to create connections and professional development opportunities for folks from British Columbia and surrounding areas.

You can find the public discussion channel on the Code4lib Slack in #c4lbc.

If you're interested in hosting, please take a read over our Planner's Guide.

Ninth Annual Code4Lib BC Unconference 2024

Save the dates!

This year's C4LBC will be held in Vancouver, BC, and hosted by VCC at the Downtown Campus, Room 420

What's it all about?

It's a 2-day unconference - a participant-driven meeting bringing together a diverse and open community of library developers and non-developers engaging in effective, collaborative problem-solving through technology regardless of their department or background.

This year’s event will feature lightning talks and breakout sessions. Lightning talks are brief, 10-minute presentations on topics related to library technologies. Breakout sessions are an opportunity to bring participants together in an ad hoc fashion for a short, yet sustained period of problem solving, software development and fun.

  • What's included: a room, coffee/tea, wifi, power
  • What to bring: your ideas and enthusiasm.
  • Mastodon Hashtag: `#c4lbc`
  • Code of Conduct: As a Code4Lib event, we adhere to the Code4Lib Code of Conduct, which seeks to provide a welcoming, harassment-free environment.


Lightning Talk and Breakout Session Ideas

If there’s a neat project you've been working on, a cool new tool you want to show off, or an interesting development in the world of library technology that you want to discuss, Code4Lib BC is a great opportunity to share that with the community.

Submit a lightning talk or breakout session idea

Food

Coffee/tea and light snacks (think: pastries) will be available at the venue.

VCC's Downtown Cafeteria (Floor 3) offers a variety of entrees and upscale diner-style food prepared by talented students from the Culinary Arts program. (Open Thurs only.)

Otherwise, attendees are encouraged to explore the wide range of food and beverage options nearby. Local organizers have provided a few recommendations below. If you have dietary restrictions/preferences, feel free to ask for specific suggestions!

Coffee & baked goods

Meals

Schedule

Please note that all times are PST (Vancouver, Canada).

Day 1 : Thursday, May 16

8:30 Venue opens
9:00 Welcome and announcements
9:15 Lightning talks
10:30 Break
10:45 Lightning talks (continued)
  • Find a Space - Andy Peterson
  • Implementing Time of Flight People Counting at UVic Libraries - John Durno
  • Improving online user experience through collaboration with public service staff - Janis McKenzie
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Breakout sessions
  • Navigating project management/strategic planning
  • Trevor's Excel Party (Tips, tricks, use cases)
2:30 Break
2:45 Breakout sessions (continued)
  • Help! We had a data breach
  • IT centralization
  • All Things UX
4:00 Breakout reports
5:00 Social event at Internet Archive Canada HQ (330 Pender St) feat. Pretend Wine Bar

Day 2 : Friday, May 17

8:30 Venue opens
9:00 Welcome and announcements
9:15 Lightning talks
  • CatalogerGPT: an AI powered cataloguing assistant as agentic collaboration - Glen Greenly
  • Moving to the Cloud: Better late than never? - Scott Leslie
  • Moving our library to the Folio LSP - Olga Kalachinskaya
10:30 Break
11:00 Lightning talks (continued)
  • OpenAthens and the Ironies of Automation - Ryan Regier
  • Title list comparison using Pandas/Jupyter - James Fournie
  • Telidon update - John Durno
  • Cloud server disaster plan! - Calvin Mah
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Breakout session organization
1:45 Breakout sessions
  • Practical applications of AI in Libraries
2:45 Break
3:00 Breakout sessions (continued)
  • ILS Migrations
  • eResources Troubleshooting
4:00 Breakout session reports

Sponsors

We want to acknowledge the continued administrative and fiscal support from the BC Libraries Cooperative.

Thank you to Internet Archive for generously sponsoring Thursday's social event at their Vancouver HQ

Finally, thanks to VIRL for their support.

2024 Organizers

  • James Fournie
  • Dan Sifton
  • Eka Grguric
  • Tamarack Hockin
  • John Durno
  • Scott Leslie
  • Trevor Smith
  • George Villavicencio
  • Rebecca Dickson
  • Cynthia Ng

Past Events

See our past events page.