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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].
== '''Ninth Annual Tenth Code4Lib BC Unconference 20242025''' ==
=== What's it all about? ===
* '''What to bring''': your ideas and enthusiasm.
* '''Mastodon 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.
If you need help with funding your attendance, you 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 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.
[https://forms.gle/FH6DxDJgq18jPM5A6 DEkDVn1rT35bdRj87 Submit a lightning talk or breakout session idea]
=== Schedule ===
'''''Please note that all times are PST PT (Vancouver, Canada).'''''
==== Day 1 : Thursday, May October 16 ====
{| class="wikitable"
| 9:00 || Welcome and announcements
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| 9:15 || Icebreaker activity|-| 9:30 || Lightning talks* Giving back to the community through transparency and a public handbook Remember When We Were Excited About Virtual Worlds? Let’s Try That Again - Cynthia "Arty" NgJames Fournie* Twitter ArchivingSustainable Local Development; or, PostTwo PHP Scripts in a Trench Coat -Twitter John Durno* User Experience: Case study plus discussion of a planned BCLA interest group - Dan SiftonJanis McKenzie & Mark Goodwin* Collections dashboard [https://cynthiang.ca/2025/10/16/presentation- Trevor Smith 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
|-
| 10:30 || Break
|-
| 10:45 || Lightning talks (continued)
* FindaSpace Challenges of Identity and Access Management Policies and Documentation - Andy PetersonCaitlin Lindsay * Implementing Time of Flight People Counting at UVic Libraries Manipulating MARC: Indigenous Cataloguing Beyond the Standards - John DurnoTaya Jardine & Christina Needham* Improving online user experience through collaboration with public service staff Developing introductory, interactive workshop modules on GenAI Critical Literacy - Janis McKenzieMichelle Ng
|-
| 1211:00 45 || ECU campus tour / Lunch!
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| 1:00 15 || Breakout sessions * Manipulating MARC (redux) - facilitators: Taya Jardine & Christina Needham* Digital sovereignty, the surveillance state, & protection of privacy - facilitator: John Durno* Cookin' with VR - facilitator: James Fournie
|-
| 2:30 || Break
|-
| 2:45 || Breakout sessions (continued)
* UX breakout! - facilitators: Janis McKenzie & Mark Goodwin* Are all the ULs hanging out without us? Consortial LSP planning and rumours - facilitator: Tamarack Hockin
|-
| 4:00 || Breakout reports
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| 5:00 || Social event at The Permanent Library (330 Pender St) feat. [https://www.instagram.com/pretendwinebar/ Pretend Wine Bar]* Red Truck Beer Company [https://maps.app.goo.gl/WVUchkZHbstXfRHE9 Directions] from VCC to the Permanent Library (about a 2 min walk)* Big thanks to [https://internetarchivecanada.org/ Internet Archive CanadaVH93xQZ1nJzvziBZ8 295 E 1st Ave]!
|}
==== Day 2 : Friday, May October 17 ====
{| class="wikitable"
| 9:00 || Welcome and announcements
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| 9:15 || Lightning talks
* CatalogerGPTTransforming Unstructured Data in a Knowledge Base: an AI powered cataloguing assistant as agentic collaboration Exploring the Potential of RAG and LLMs at SFU Library - Glen GreenlyIan Song* Moving to the CloudConsent Not Required: Better late than never? (AI) Technology as Connection - Scott LeslieCoco Chen & Rebecca Ardron* Moving our library to Building AI Literacy in the Folio LSP Public Library - Olga KalachinskayaJaclyn Fong* Defending Library Services Against AI Scrapers - Scott Leslie
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| 10:30 || Break
|-
| 1011:45 00 || Lightning talks (continued)* OpenAthens Authentication vs IP EZProxy Working with APIs: Flows and Runner in Postman - Ryan RegierOlga Kalachinskaya* Title list comparison using Pandas[https:/Jupyter /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 - James FournieJoyce Wong
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| 1211:00 45 || Lunch
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| 1:00 || Breakout sessions * Finalized day-of based on attendee interests. See list of proposals above or [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeP7AZMzRzI_sLUnaLJ9mu0gvayJ0gU2mnScjMPvlQ9DFfCZw/viewform?usp=header submit your own].
|-
| 2:30 || Break
|-
| 2:45 || Breakout sessions (continued)
* Finalized day-of based on attendee interests. See list of proposals above or [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeP7AZMzRzI_sLUnaLJ9mu0gvayJ0gU2mnScjMPvlQ9DFfCZw/viewform?usp=header submit your own].
|-
| 4:00 || |-| 5:00 || Breakout session reports / Who wants to host Code4Lib BC 2026?
|}
=== Sponsors ===
=== 2024 2025 Organizers ===
* Cynthia Ng
* Dan Lerch
* Daniel Sifton
* George Villavicencio
* Hillary Webb
* James Fournie
* Dan SiftonJanis McKenzie* Eka GrguricMichel Castagné* Michelle Ng* Rebecca Dickson* Scott Leslie
* Tamarack Hockin
* Trevor Smith
= '''Past Events''' =
See our [[BC_Past_Events|past events]] page.