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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.
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].
== '''Sixth Annual Code4lib Tenth Code4Lib BC Unconference 20182025''' ==
=== 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.
* '''What's included''': wifi, powera room, coffee/snackstea, luncheswifi, prizes, limited transportation from downtown Nanaimo to VIU campus.power
* '''What's NOT included/what to bring''': a laptop, dinner, 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.
===Accommodations=Meals==== The Coast Bastion Hotel has reserved a block of 10 rooms per night at the government rate (Nov 29/30) Guests can call 800* Steve's Poké Bar -663-1144 and quote “Code4Lib” or group code CBI-GFC18933 to book under the block[https://maps. This block will be held until October 29th, any remaining rooms will be sent back to general inventoryapp. After that, guests can still book under the block, but based on general availabilitygoo. gl/DBDWoY4T5xZCTV656 891 Great Northern Wy]*Comfort Rooms – 2 beds $117Rotating Food Trucks - [https://maps.00app.goo.gl/FDeCRQk9R3wEyKcdA 577 Carolina St.]*Superior Rooms – 2 Bed or ECU Ramen bar - on campus, level 1 Queen bed $127.00near the east exit*Premium Rooms – 1 King bed $137Chai Wagon - [https://maps.00app.goo.gl/FXfday9yK4aCMgyE6 196 E 2nd Ave] (12 min. walk) * ECU Caf, Nemesis, Kafka's, and Kranky cafe also have lunch foodOther accommodation options can be found * [https://vancouversoupcompany.com/ Vancouver Soup Company] - [https://maps.app.goo.gl/aSm4MQ here.8ehwmwD1NoogsMR47 292 E 1st Ave](9 min. walk)
=== Schedule ===
{| class="wikitable"
| 8:30 || Doors openVenue opens
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| 9:00 || Welcome & Announcementsand announcements
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| 9:15 || Lightning Talks <!--* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1M1lC5ZosVXIkoNSMpM-6FvChcbn8ILdn0vJ-frwXDeY/edit?usp=sharing Code4lib/BC: What's it all about] - Cynthia Ng* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AaHddtez0MxGUeZjsXoilA0_KQ7LrfcWRBIMeItS5nI/edit?usp=sharing Canadian Federated Data Repository] - Alex Garnett* Using Ms Access to make vendor reports or local workflows less painful - Trevor Smith* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=10KdeR8LkrGMvZHQfSCkBmNSuh-BpGl_k3_2K9591a4A Games Day in the Library] - Kevin Brash* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UknFe0E0-U4DAKiNV9hQH-E6WQiERrFTkycvdZM5JRc/edit?usp=sharing What's in the Bag? Indexing and querying Bags with Elasticsearch] - Mark Jordan -->Icebreaker activity
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| 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
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| 10:45 30 || Lightning Talks, cont'd <!--* Restoring an interactive videotex art exhibition from the mid-1980s - John Durno* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13ETpshoL-YbRZaGuihG77sAaTjG4IAhM9zRzQOdLFnk/edit#slide=id.p3 I.T. things at FVRL: Sphero/Spark robots, Green Screens and VR Experience] - Traci Monchamp / Lewis Vacek / Tamarack Hockin* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xlFfKANrl3Ub_d5O5lGz_Fs4u9Gt6Uz8dfjYTKWTlh8/edit?usp=sharing ILS Migration Change Management: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly] - Janice Banser* Getting Started with RFPs - Trevor Smith* [http://hdl.handle.net/10613/5229 Contest of champions: Headless Battle] - Daniel Sifton -->Break
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| 1210:00 45 || Lunch Lightning talks (Providedcontinued)* 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
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| 11:45 || ECU campus tour / Lunch!|-| 1:00 15 || Breakout Sessions <!-sessions * Manipulating MARC (redux) -facilitators: Taya Jardine & Christina Needham* GODOT has left the building : Digital sovereignty, the CUFTS/GODOT end surveillance state, & protection of life debrief for everybodyprivacy - Maryann Kempthornefacilitator: John Durno* Show + tell IT things breakout : VIRL Creativity Commons Cookin' with VR - Geoffrey Allen / FVRL IT Things - Traci Monchamp, Lewis Vacek, Tamarack Hockin -->facilitator: James Fournie
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| 2:30 || Break
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| 2:45 || Breakout Sessions, cont'd <!--sessions (continued)* Using Ms Access to make vendor reports or local workflows less painful (expanded) UX breakout! - Trevor Smithfacilitators: Janis McKenzie & Mark Goodwin* Hosting Code4libBC - Geoffrey Allen, Cynthia Ng, Ben Hyman, Daniel Sifton -Are all the ULs hanging out without us? Consortial LSP planning and rumours ->facilitator: Tamarack Hockin
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| 4:00 || Breakout Reportsreports
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| 5:00 || Social Event <!-- event at Red Truck Beer Company [httphttps://whitesailsbrewingmaps.com/ White Sails Brewery] with pizza from [http://mambogourmetpizzaapp.com/ Mambo Pizza]* [https://goo.gl/6MM7vv DirectionsVH93xQZ1nJzvziBZ8 295 E 1st Ave] from VIRL to White Sails -->
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==== Day 2 : Friday, October 17 ====Events will be held at [https://www2.viu.ca/map/ VIU's Building 305, Room 507] A bus (with a friendly, qualified driver) will pick up attendees from the Coast Bastion on Friday morning at 8:20 am. If needed the bus will return for another load of passengers ~20 minutes later. The same bus, with the same friendly, qualified driver, will deliver attendees to the Departure Bay ferry terminal at the end of the day. <!--Parking: Closest is Lot N; Lot D is closed due to construction, some spaces in Lots F & C are short-term; [https://www2.viu.ca/eventservices/parkingmap.asp VIU Parking Map]-->
{| class="wikitable"
| 89:30 00 || Doors openWelcome and announcements
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| 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
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| 910:15 30 || Lightning Talks<!--* [http://hdl.handle.net/10613/5230 Supplejack Triclops Architecture] - Daniel Sifton* Open Source, Open Access, Open Data - Maryann Kempthorne* Linking video and audio in the Hansard - Mike Sinclair* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qd2vczQqx-SCgIMXp89UTMYW7C5P-r92d4yfpq77VF8/edit?usp=sharing Getting Started with Automating your EZproxy] - James Fournie* Smallest Possible Library Online Tools "SPLOT" - Scott Leslie -->Break
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| 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
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| 1011:45 || Lightning Talks, cont'd <!--* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1k08ku9tfarqkfAlN5H1WDhcBvWZOiy5VzGNsxCcB92E/edit?usp=sharing We have detected spider/robot activity on our site] - Calvin Mah * [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ymp2BuB3kq-3cvFSuQRoS8EWMIx4LWSDP_MJOE5_GkQ/edit?usp=sharing Using Islandora to centralize access to distributed content] - Mark Jordan * Systems Projects in Special Libraries - Charles Hogg* OCR tools for non-Latin alphabets - Rebecca Dickson* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UVCQxDW9wVQFyRykiHsNkroGaQeE441Y Through the Looking Glass: A Parallel World of Print Collections Data] - Jean Blackburn -->Lunch
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| 2:30 || Break
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| 2:45 || Breakout Sessions, cont'd <!--* Linking video and audio in the Hansard sessions (Expanded/Discussioncontinued) - Mike Sinclair* Finalized day-of based on attendee interests. See list of proposals above or [https://docs.google.com/documentforms/d/1LyL5AlPTTMW2YMT6-YG2p4iSiYQBA76RFwnH9h3wIyYe/edit1FAIpQLSeP7AZMzRzI_sLUnaLJ9mu0gvayJ0gU2mnScjMPvlQ9DFfCZw/viewform?usp=sharing All the DOCsheader submit your own]: Documentation and workflows - Cynthia Ng / Tamarack Hockin* Wordpress nightmare - Allison Trumble -->|-| 4:00 || Breakout Reports|-| 5:00 ||Meet up somewhere for drinks <!-- at [http://dev-viusu.pantheonsite.io/students-union-pub/ VIU Student Pub] -->
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| 4:00 || Breakout session reports / Who wants to host Code4Lib BC 2026?
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=== Sponsors ===
We want to acknowledge the continued administrative and fiscal support from the [https://bc.libraries.coop/ BC Libraries Cooperative].
=== 2025 Organizers ===
* Cynthia Ng
* Dan Lerch
* Daniel Sifton
* Dana McFarlandGeorge Villavicencio * Ben Hyman* Jason Kuffler* Charles Hogg* Paris CarrHillary Webb
* James Fournie
* Cynthia Janis McKenzie* Michel Castagné* Michelle Ng* Rebecca Dickson* Scott Leslie
* Tamarack Hockin
* Allison Trumble* Geoffrey Allen Comments or questions? Get in touch with us at c4lbc-organizers@googlegroups.com.Trevor Smith
= '''Past Events''' =
See our [[BC_Past_Events|past events]] page.