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Welcome to code4lib 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 You can find the public discussion channel on the Code4lib Slack in Summer 2013, this chapter aims to create connections and professional development opportunities for folks from British Columbia and surrounding areas#c4lbc.

If you're interested in hosting, please [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mh8haGBziQHiBkG_0byNgIEPxWIsBjKAXOss0cE9fJs/edit?usp= sharing take a read over our Planner'''Code4lib BC Unconference 2016''' =s Guide].

== '''[https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2016-code4libbc-unconference-tickets-26429947685 Registration is now open]Tenth Code4Lib BC Unconference 2025''' for Code4Lib BC's fourth annual unconference!==

* December 1 Thursday, 16 October and 2Friday, 2016* Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC, Vancouver BC17 October* [https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/20162025-code4libbccode4lib-bc-unconference-ticketsregistration-26429947685 1677528636309/ Register now] ($30 for both days)* This year's C4LBC will be held in Vancouver, BC, and hosted by Emily Carr. Location: Emily Carr University of Art and Design, 520 E 1st Ave. [https://maps.app.goo.gl/formswDsSfdrZwAJyEYLb6 Map to get there], Rennie Hall (inside the front entrance). For more information on transit and parking, please check the [https:/YFrcIF4UpQRnj5eD3 Propose a lightning talk or breakout session/www.ecuad.ca/about/visit/parking-transit Emily Carr Campus Location, Parking, Transit, Contact page].

The This year’s event will feature lightning talks in the mornings, and breakout sessions in the afternoons, with coffee, tea and snacks provided. Lightning talks are brief presentations which are typically , 10-15 minutes in length 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. 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]!

* '''What's included''': wifi, powera room, coffee/snackstea, 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.

* '''Socials 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. Need an ear If you need help with funding your attendance, handyou can [https://forms.gle/Y6ZcWyXihBowrdndA request a bursary] by October 3, 2025. ===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 help? C4LBC helpersan 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. [https: //forms.gle/DEkDVn1rT35bdRj87 Submit a lightning talk or breakout session idea] ''Breakout Session Ideas''* Struggling Through Burnout (esp in IT); Getting Our DIY Ethic Back (Daniel Lerch)* GenAI Critical Literacy workshop demo + discussion (Michelle Ng) (20 person limit)* Knowledge management and M365/SP migration headaches (Michelle Ng)* Protecting website content created by libraries and server resources from Gen AI (Desy Wahyuni) ===Food=== Coffee/tea and light snacks (think: pastries, granola bars, fruit) will be available at the venue. 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====* ECU's Caf - on campus* Nemesis coffee - [https://twittermaps.comapp.goo.gl/therealarty @therealartyMLD3mahZS29Z6bYMA 555 Great Northern Wy]* Kafka’s Coffee Roasting and Bakery - [https://maps.app.goo.gl/y5KRY7wp8nHVHqpG8 577 Great Northern Wy]* Kranky Cafe in Mount Pleasant - [https://maps.app.goo.gl/c5zutNWHf9XiESsx7 228 E 4th Ave]* Tim Hortons - [https://maps.app.goo.gl/k78BjheVVKBFtxCR6 889 Great Northern Wy]* L'Atelier Patisserie - [https://maps.app.goo.gl/K79rrCYwFWdJx2rz9 599 E Broadway] (she15 min. walk) ====Meals====* Steve's Poké Bar - [https:/her/maps.app.goo.gl/DBDWoY4T5xZCTV656 891 Great Northern Wy]* Rotating Food Trucks - [https://maps.app.goo.gl/FDeCRQk9R3wEyKcdA 577 Carolina St.]* ECU Ramen bar - on campus, level 1 near the east exit* Chai Wagon - [https://maps.app.goo.gl/FXfday9yK4aCMgyE6 196 E 2nd Ave] (12 min. walk) * ECU Caf, Nemesis, Kafka's, and Kranky cafe also have lunch food* [https://twittervancouversoupcompany.com/skrrrl @skrrrlVancouver Soup Company] (he- [https:/him/maps.app.goo.gl/8ehwmwD1NoogsMR47 292 E 1st Ave] (9 min. walk)

'''''Please note that all times are PT (Vancouver, Canada).'''''  ==== Day 1 : Thursday, December 1 October 16 ==== 

| 8:30 || Doors openVenue opens

| 9:00 || Welcome & Announcementsand announcements

| 9:15 || Lightning Talks* Provincial Digital Library Update (Daniel Sifton/Caroline Daniels)* [https://github.com/terrywbrady/UsingAppScript Building Quick and Dirty Library Tools with Google Apps Script] (Terry Brady) * [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18oBOD-KsRLz6uUoaLuqrsirN2TaK_W7ZgerE6qvB4Bc/edit Makerspaces and the Maker Community in the Lower Mainland] (Maryann Kempthorne)* Web Analytics with Piwik (Jonathan Schatz)Icebreaker activity

| 109:30 || Coffee breakLightning talks* Remember When We Were Excited About Virtual Worlds? Let’s Try That Again - James Fournie* Sustainable Local Development; or, Two PHP Scripts in a Trench Coat - John Durno* User Experience: Case study plus discussion of a planned BCLA interest group - Janis McKenzie & Mark Goodwin* [https://cynthiang.ca/2025/10/16/presentation-how-to-stay-web-accessible-applying-wcag-2-1-2-2/ Making the Web Accessible: Putting WCAG 2.1 and 2.2 into Practice] - Cynthia Ng

| 10:45 30 || Lightning Talks, cont'd* TechBC Memory Project metadata upgrade (Holly Hendrigan)* ElasticSearch API: Using Aggregation Queries to Do Cool Stuff (Schuyler Lindberg)* Getting Things Done: Understanding and Analyzing Workflow (Cynthia Ng)* Introduction to FOLIO (Andrew Nagy)Break

| 1110:30 45 || Lunch Lightning talks (On Your Owncontinued)* Challenges of Identity and Access Management Policies and Documentation - Caitlin Lindsay * Manipulating MARC: Indigenous Cataloguing Beyond the Standards - Taya Jardine & Christina Needham* Developing introductory, interactive workshop modules on GenAI Critical Literacy - Michelle Ng

| 11:45 || ECU campus tour / Lunch!|-| 1:00 15 || Breakout Sessionssessions * Intro to git/github for libraries Manipulating MARC (Sara Allain/Mark Jordanredux)- facilitators: Taya Jardine & Christina Needham* PDL technologies up close (Daniel Sifton)Digital sovereignty, the surveillance state, & protection of privacy - facilitator: John Durno* Cookin' with VR - facilitator: James Fournie 

| 2:45 || Breakout Sessions, cont'd* FOLIO workshop sessions (Andrew Nagycontinued)* Digital Collections (Terry Brady)UX breakout! - facilitators: Janis McKenzie & Mark Goodwin* Are all the ULs hanging out without us? Consortial LSP planning and rumours - facilitator: Tamarack Hockin

| 4:15 00 || Breakout Reportsreports

| 5:00 || Social Event event at Red Truck Beer Company [https://docsmaps.googleapp.com/document/d/1quffBt9Lx5ljEoBQc3jSUmzqZ1neV29ncsVzJ5ixDaUgoo.gl/edit (new) Pit PubVH93xQZ1nJzvziBZ8 295 E 1st Ave]

==== Day 2 : Friday, December 2 October 17 ====

| 89:30 00 || Doors openWelcome and announcements

| 9:00 15 || AnnouncementsLightning talks* Transforming Unstructured Data in a Knowledge Base: Exploring the Potential of RAG and LLMs at SFU Library - Ian Song* Consent Not Required: (AI) Technology as Connection - Coco Chen & Rebecca Ardron* Building AI Literacy in the Public Library - Jaclyn Fong* Defending Library Services Against AI Scrapers - Scott Leslie

| 910:15 30 || Lightning Talks* A Coal Miner’s History: Mapping Digitized Audio Interviews (Daniel Sifton)* Introduction to Docker (James Fournie)* Makers Making Change (Harry Lew)* MediaConch: A Video Format Validation Tool for Archivematica (Sarah Romkey)Break

| 1011:30 00 || Coffee breakLightning talks (continued)* Working with APIs: Flows and Runner in Postman - Olga Kalachinskaya* [https://github.com/telezoic/SuperDuperPDF/blob/main/superduperPDF.pdf Bulk DOI generation in DSpace with the Super-Duper-App!] - Daniel Sifton* Building an assignment planner on Playlab - Joyce Wong

| 1011:45 || Lightning Talks, cont'd* A Single Page Web App to Inventory 900,000 Books! (Terry Brady)* UX Design of a Research Data Management Micro-site (Jessica Gallinger)* Islandora On This Day module (Mark Jordan)Lunch

| 11:30 || Lunch (On Your Own)|-| 1:00 || Breakout Sessionssessions* Needling The HaystackFinalized day-of based on attendee interests. See list of proposals above or [https: An Introduction to SQL and Query Languages (Alex Garnett)* reSearcher (CUFTS/GODOT) and project sustainability/docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeP7AZMzRzI_sLUnaLJ9mu0gvayJ0gU2mnScjMPvlQ9DFfCZw/viewform?usp=header submit your own].

| 2:45 || Breakout Sessions, cont'd* Using Islandora for Publishing XML sessions (Michael Joycecontinued)* Awesome Excel Tips (Trevor Smith)|Finalized day-| 4of based on attendee interests. See list of proposals above or [https:00 || Breakout Reports//docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeP7AZMzRzI_sLUnaLJ9mu0gvayJ0gU2mnScjMPvlQ9DFfCZw/viewform?usp=header submit your own].

| 4:30 00 || End of DayBreakout session reports / Who wants to host Code4Lib BC 2026?

=== Program Sponsors ===

Alphabetical by presenterWe want to acknowledge the continued administrative and fiscal support from the [https:/facilitator/bc.libraries.coop/ BC Libraries Cooperative].

==== Lightning Talks =2025 Organizers ===

''Defining Projects using Gherkin Syntax'', Sara Allain, Artefactual* The team at Artefactual has recently started using Gherkin, a human-readable syntax for defining software feature acceptance tests, in select software development projects. In this lightning talk, Sara will show how Gherkin acceptance tests are developed and how they're used by both end-users and developers. ''Building Quick and Dirty Library Tools with Google Apps Script'', Terry Brady, Georgetown University* The ubiquity of Google Drive solves many problems (file sharing, web publishing, bulk editing) that are cumbersome to build in a home-grown application. With a little bit of JavaScript magic, you can build a custom solution on top of the Google Apps your users use every day. See http://georgetown-university-libraries.github.io/#google-sheets for some examples. Google Apps Script is a server-side implementation of JavaScript supporting API calls to Google Services. This presentation will describe the various ways that your custom code can be deployed for a library audience (formula function, embedded in a document, web service, document add-on). ''A Single Page Web App to Inventory 900,000 Books!'', Terry Brady, Georgetown University* After completing a reorganization of our stacks, the Georgetown University Library needs to perform an inventory of 900,000 books within our stacks. This project needs to be completed before migrating our catalog to a new ILS (integrated library system) vendor in 2017.* The Georgetown University Library has developed an application that allows student workers with a barcode scanner and a Chromebook to rapidly move through the stacks and scan each item. The tool queries the ILS database to verify the item's status and location, while allowing the user to verify the Title, Call Number and Volume of each item. The tool will also highlight call number sorting errors with each scan.* This presentation will describe the solution that we have developed and the challenges that were overcome during the project. The code (and a video demonstration of the project) are available at https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/BarcodeInventory. ''Introduction to Docker'', James Fournie, VCC* Docker is an open-source application container engine that is taking the IT world by storm. James will introduce you to Docker -- what Docker is and isn't and how Docker might help you or your organization write or deploy software. ''TechBC Memory Project metadata upgrade'', Holly Hendrigan* Holly will provide an update to the TechBC Memory Project, her oral history project that has undergone a substantial makeover since last December's Code4Lib. She will tell the story of all the moving parts that came together when the collection migrated to SFU Library's Digital Collections. ''UX Design of a Research Data Management Micro-site'', Jessica Gallinger, SFU* The SFU Library is creating new web content to help researchers manage their data. Receive a whirlwind tour of the UX methods (personas, interviews, prototyping, user testing, etc.) applied to design an effective micro-site around the needs of the end user. A high-fidelity prototype in InVision will be demoed.  ''Islandora On This Day module'', Mark Jordan, SFU ''Makerspaces and the Maker Community in the Lower Mainland'', Maryann Kempthorne ''Makers Making Change'', Harry Lew, Neil Squire Society* Makers Making Change, a community based initiative that links makers, volunteers with technical skills, with people with disabilities with the goal of making affordable, open source assistive technolgies for those people with disabilities centered around community resources such as 3D printers in libraries and maker spaces. ''ElasticSearch API: Using Aggregation Queries to Do Cool Stuff'', Schuyler Lindberg, UBC ''Getting Things Done: Understanding and Analyzing Workflow'', Cynthia Ng* How does work move through your organization? Does the order make sense? How many times is it passed on? How many people is it handled by? Do all the steps still need to done in the current work environment? This presentation provides some suggestions on methods to understand and analyze workflow using technical services as an example, but which can be applied in other areas. ''MediaConch: A Video Format Validation Tool for Archivematica'', Sarah Romkey, ArtefactualDan Lerch* MediaConch is a new tool for validating preservation video files. In this presentation, Sarah will talk about how we're integrating this tool into Archivematica, an open-source digital preservation system, and how Artefactual Systems approached this development project. ''Web Analytics with Piwik'', Jonathan Schatz, BC Libraries Cooperative ''A Coal Miner’s History: Mapping Digitized Audio Interviews'', Daniel Sifton, VIU* Leveraging skills we developed in an earlier mapping project, we're using a rich set data from our Dspace instance to map the spoken word in the form of conversations [both audio and transcripts] about coal mines from the years 1900 – 1945 in and around the city of Nanaimo. ''Provincial Digital Library Update'', Daniel Sifton and Caroline Daniels* A brief overview of strategies, efforts, and technologies regarding the BC Provincial Digital Library. ==== Breakout Sessions ==== ''Intro to git/github for libraries'', Sara Allain and Mark Jordan* A hands-on introduction to git, GitHub, and their potential uses in the library environment. ''Digital Collections'', Terry Brady, Georgetown University* A group discussion. ''reSearcher (CUFTS/GODOT) and project sustainability'', Jeff Davis* SFU has discontinued support for CUFTS/ERM, GODOT, and the CUFTS knowledgebase. This breakout will be a group discussion about what happens next. ''Needling The Haystack: An Introduction to SQL and Query Languages'', Alex Garnett, SFU* Have you ever thought to yourself, "western nations seem powerless to defend against the creeping tide of fascism, but at least I know how to search within a database real well, as if that makes anything OK?"* Good news -- now you can! This workshop will provide an introduction to SQL and related query languages for people who have little to no experience using modern database backends. We'll discuss the differences in difference SQL implementations, how to efficiently retrieve data from already-existing databases that you might encounter in your job, and hopefully demystify some general concepts of querying. If you've ever had a graphical database design course, so much the better; we'll be trying to supplement but not rehash those concepts. Please bring your own laptop. ''Using Islandora for Publishing XML'', Michael Joyce, SFU* Islandora is well known in the library community as a digital repository. At Simon Fraser University we have been experimenting with it as a publishing platform for XML. Instead of simply presenting an XML file in the browser, we transform it to HTML for display. In this breakout session, we will examine the code for two projects: the TechBC Memory Project, a collection of oral histories, and a text transcription of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge.  ''FOLIO'', Andrew Nagy, EBSCO* An introduction to [https://www.folio.org/ FOLIO], a project to develop an open source Library Services Platform. ''Provincial Digital Library Technologies Up Close'', Daniel Sifton, VIU* An in depth demo of the harvesting/mapping/ingestion process in both the DPLA technology stack and in SuppleJack (from DigitalNZ) for consideration in a BC-PDL environment. Note, attendees will have an opportunity to explore the interfaces where they exist and where possible, but will not be interacting with these platforms at the command level. If you want to do this, however, this session might be a good place to get an understanding of the hidden pieces. To paraphrase Tom Vu, "Come to [this] seminar!"  ''Awesome Excel Tips'', Trevor Smith* Want to wrangle your data into submission either for collection management or budgeting? Learn how to use Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs, advanced queries, or even a dashboard all inside Excel. === Organizers === * Sara AllainGeorge Villavicencio * Jeff DavisHillary Webb

* Mark Jordan* Paul Joseph* Cynthia Ng Comments or questions? Get in touch with us at c4lbc-organizers@googlegroups.com.Trevor Smith