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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]
====Coffee & baked goods====
* ECU's Caf - on campus* Nemesis coffee - [https://maps.googleapp.comgoo.gl/?cid=3116382671480623498 302 W Hastings StMLD3mahZS29Z6bYMA 555 Great Northern Wy]* Revolver coffee Kafka’s Coffee Roasting and Bakery - [https://maps.googleapp.comgoo.gl/?cid=7637660912074558893 325 Cambie Sty5KRY7wp8nHVHqpG8 577 Great Northern Wy]* Purebread Kranky Cafe in Mount Pleasant - [https://maps.googleapp.comgoo.gl/?cid=448773891542528173 159 W Hastings Stc5zutNWHf9XiESsx7 228 E 4th Ave]* LeeTim Hortons - [https://maps.app.goo.gl/k78BjheVVKBFtxCR6 889 Great Northern Wy]* L's Donuts Gastown Atelier Patisserie - [https://maps.googleapp.comgoo.gl/?cid=13423786774947035631 199 Water StK79rrCYwFWdJx2rz9 599 E Broadway](15 min. walk)
====Meals====
* Steve's Poké Bar - [https://wwwmaps.app.vccgoo.cagl/services/eat-shop--more/cafeteria/ VCC Downtown CafeteriaDBDWoY4T5xZCTV656 891 Great Northern Wy] (Thurs only) - 3rd floor* Marugame Udon Rotating Food Trucks - [https://maps.googleapp.comgoo.gl/?cid=9331854931384302026 589 Beatty FDeCRQk9R3wEyKcdA 577 Carolina St.]* MeeT Gastown ECU Ramen bar - [https://maps.google.com/?cid=8486430434256396620 inner Courtyardon campus, 12 Water St] (vegetarian)level 1 near the east exit* Meat & Bread Chai Wagon - [https://maps.googleapp.com/?cid=5974644075226205790 370 Cambie St]* Nuba - [https://mapsgoo.google.comgl/?cid=16710652764342550272 207 W Hastings StFXfday9yK4aCMgyE6 196 E 2nd Ave] (veg friendly12 min. walk)* Pholicious - ECU Caf, Nemesis, Kafka's, and Kranky cafe also have lunch food* [https://maps.googlevancouversoupcompany.com/?cid=464715567622825479 430 W Pender StVancouver Soup Company]* Ready-to-eat at City Market (unless you're boycotting Loblaws!) - [https://maps.googleapp.comgoo.gl/?cid=12866074011377369903 658 Homer St8ehwmwD1NoogsMR47 292 E 1st Ave](9 min. walk)
=== Schedule ===
'''''Please note that all times are PST PT (Vancouver, Canada).'''''
==== Day 1 : Thursday, May October 16 ====
{| class="wikitable"
| 9:00 || Welcome and announcements
|-
| 9:15 || Icebreaker activity|-| 9:30 || Lightning 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/20242025/0510/16/presentation-giving-backhow-to-thestay-communityweb-throughaccessible-transparencyapplying-andwcag-a2-public1-handbook2-2/ Giving back to Making the community through transparency Web Accessible: Putting WCAG 2.1 and a public handbook2.2 into Practice] - Cynthia "Arty" Ng* [https://github.com/telezoic/PostTwitter Twitter Archiving, Post-Twitter] - Dan Sifton* "Wait I can't lose that!" Saving circ data with MS Office during a system change - Trevor Smith
|-
| 10:30 || Break
|-
| 10:45 || Lightning talks (continued)
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nMJttwl7u8Rlv2x4b4b9tH_cbafZe4AQ6n1KinG_Muw/edit Find a Space] 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!
|-
| 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
|-
| 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
|-
| 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
|-
| 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
|-
| 1211:00 45 || Lunch
|-
| 1:30 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].
|-
| 2:45 30 || Break
|-
| 32:00 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?
|}
We want to acknowledge the continued administrative and fiscal support from the [https://bc.libraries.coop/ BC Libraries Cooperative].
* 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.