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Code4Lib Midwest 2014 Meeting

Please join us July 23-24 in Grand Rapids, Michigan for the Code4Lib Midwest 2014 conference.

This informal conference will feature short lightning talks, longer presentations, workshops, a technology-infused hackfest, and site visits to local technology companies. We'll spend 2 days learning about technology and code in libraries, archives and museums from colleagues throughout the Midwest.

We are working out the details: keep an eye on this space!

Location

Code4Lib MidWest meeting will be hosted by Grand Valley State University Libraries.

• When - Wednesday, July 23rd - Thursday July 24th, 2014
• Where - Mary Idema Pew Library at GVSU
• Registration Cost - Free!
• Planning Committee - Kyle Felker (felkerk@gvsu.edu), Erin Fisher {fisherin@gvsu.edu), Eric Kunnen (kunnene@gvsu.edu), Kristin Meyer (meyerk@gvsu.edu), and Matthew Reidsma (reidsmam@gvsu.edu)

Logistics

We hope you consider staying overnight to enjoy both days of the conference. We recommend staying in downtown Grand Rapids at the Holiday Inn. There is a Rapid bus (#50) to the Allendale campus that leaves every 20 minutes in the summer from Front Street right next to the hotel. Alternatively, you can park in any non-faculty/staff space on the GVSU Allendale campus for Wednesday's events. Thursday will happen downtown, within walking distance of the hotel.

Suggested Hotels

• Holiday Inn Grand Rapids Downtown (310 Pearl Street NW, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49504 :: +1 (616) 235-7611)

-The Holiday Inn Grand Rapids Downtown is within walking distance to restaurants, breweries, museums, shops and Grand Valley's downtown campus. Access to free public transit to the Allendale campus is just a five minute walk (.2 miles).

• Sleep Inn & Suites (4869 Becker Dr., Allendale, MI, 49401 :: +1 (616) 892-8000)

-For those interested in staying near the Allendale campus, Sleep Inn is 1.2 miles away.

Directions, restaurants, and more

-A map with additional details coming soon!

Schedule

Wednesday, July 23rd

Meeting at the Mary Idema Pew Library, Allendale.

9am - 12pm : Presentations and Lightning Talks

12 - 1pm : Lunch

1 - 4:30pm : Hackfest with Toys from the Technology Showcase (3D scanner and printer, Makey Makey, etc.)

4:30pm : Optional tour of the Mary Idema Pew Library

6:00pm : Evening Social in downtown Grand Rapids. Last year, Grand Rapids was named Beer City USA. Let's keep the conversation going while visiting some local breweries and pubs. More details coming soon!

Thursday, July 24th

Meeting at the GVSU Bicycle Factory, Downtown Grand Rapids.

9am - 12pm : Presentations and Lightning Talks

12 - 1pm : Lunch

1 - 4:30pm : Site Visit to the offices of Yeti CGI and GR Makers to talk about partnerships between software developers and libraries and the future of makerspaces. (We'll be carpooling to these locations if you can make it!) More details to follow.

Social Media Goodness

Twitter hash tag: #c4lmw

Code of Conduct

Code4Lib Midwest is dedicated to a harassment-free conference experience for everyone. Our anti-harassment policy can be found at: C4LMW14 Code of Conduct

Programming Sign-up

Code4Lib Midwest programming depends on the folks attending the conference. Please consider giving a presentation or lightning talk, or submitting your ideas for the hackfest.

Share what you are working on! Add your name and a description below. Please also let us know how long you'll need, and whether you prefer Wednesday or Thursday (or if it doesn't matter)

Presentations or Workshops

Have something cool to share? Tell us about it. If you want someone to teach something to you, put that here as well.

• Eric Echeverri and Steve Lonn on the digital open badges initiative that is taken place at the University of Michigan, specifically Digital Badges for libraries. Steve Lonn will be joining us via Gtalk for an in depth understanding of this technology. Eric will go over the technical details of exporting badges into the Mozilla backpack for learners. This application is done in ruby and is up and running at https://mblem.umich.edu
• Development tips from the front-lines: Tips and techniques useful for software development in Libraries. Jon Gorman, University of Illinois (at Urbana-Champaign). Last year's Code4Lib Midwest there was a great amount of interest in improving development skills. Jon doesn't claim to be the best developer, but he's will to share what intimidated him unnecessarily and useful tips & tricks for both improving skills and overview of techniques that make life easier. (Bootstrap, jQuery, Rule engines, templates, Good books to read, etc). (Note: I'm willing to bump this down to a very quick lightning talk if people aren't interested, I just thought the schedule looked like it needed some fleshing out).
• Can you do FOSS at your library if you're a small, one-person shop? How do you figure it out? Megan Kudzia, Albion College Library. I've made plenty of mistakes along the way, and I thought maybe others might find what I've figured out useful. As a community that values free/open source, it can be really difficult to assess if you're starting out in your career and you're pretty much "the technology person" at your library (I suspect there are a lot of us in this boat). In addition to mistakes, I've had some successes too, which I'll also share about - it's not all bad news! (Note: like Joh, I'm willing to bump this down to a lightning talk if folks aren't really interested).
• CANCELLED (sorry) Deploy Code with Confidence (with lots of tests and application monitoring). Jeremy Prevost, Northwestern University
• Chicago Collections Consortium (CCC), XTF admin tool development -- The CCC is creating a unified portal to access archival collections relating to Chicago at a variety of institutions. The consortium has chosen XTF to search and index the metadata. Our first order of business is to create an admin tool that can ingest any metadata from home institutions and create standardized metadata to allow discovery of related material across institutions. Development of the tool began in May. I'll give an overview of what we're doing from a technical stand point and update about where we are and what our difficulties have been. Esther Verreau, UIC

Lightning Talks

Have something cool to share but you don't want to be in front of the room for more than 5 minutes? Lightning talks are for you. Sign up now or at the conference:

• Alison Hitchens - java program to create good e-theses MARC records from DSpace (UWSpace)
• Alison Hitchens -- involving library staff in software testing (using Primo as example)
• Brian Zelip - A Twofer: Migrating a library web app's website to an xml-based CMS & Use cases at an academic research services unit.
• Cole Hudson - Visualizing our book shelves: how we took Harvard's Stack View and made it our own
• Britain Woodman - how we evaluated and eventually made Suma part of our daily operations work
• Matthew Reidsma - improving website performance when you don't own all the assets: why I built cssMaker and how it might help other small teams.
• John Fink - a brief introduction to Docker and Linux containerization
• Sarah Park - how our users use a discovery tool (Using Google Analytics)
• Eric Lease Morgan - recent experiences installing Koha, exposing its content to the 'Net, and the possible use of ElasticSearch as the underlying indexer
• Jon Gorman - Short Story Index: MARC records + Neo4j Graph Database - A recently started personal project to harvest MARC records from various sources and graph relations between works, books, and authors. Mainly started to try to learn more of NoSQL databases, in particular graph databases. See https://github.com/jtgorman/shortstoryindex.

Hackfest

Pitch an idea you can work to solve in 3 hours or so, or join with someone else who has a project. Stuck on something at work? Find a buddy here to help you. Want to make something new and fun? Here's your chance for free labor. We'll have a hackfest idea basket at morning coffee, or you can leave your ideas on the wiki. Of course, you can also just show up with your idea. We're not the boss of you.

Registration

Registration is free. List your name, affiliation, and email address here to register for the meeting. If you signed up and are unable to attend please remove your name or contact us, so that we can make room for others.

Contact Ryan Wick (ryanwick@gmail.com) with your preferred username to set up a Code4Lib wiki account, or ask Matthew Reidsma (reidsmam@gvsu.edu) to add your name to this list if you prefer not to set up an account.:

1. Eric Lease Morgan, University of Notre Dame, emorgan - at - nd - dot - edu
2. Alexa Hagen, University of Michigan MLIS Student, alexa.hagen - at - gmail - dot - com
3. John Fink, McMaster University. john.fink - at - gmail - dot - com
4. Lisa Rabey, librarian for hire, lisa - at - biblyotheke - dot - net
5. Aaron Collie, Michigan State University, collie - at - msu - dot - edu
6. Ranti Junus, Michigan State University, junus-at-mail-lib-msu-edu
7. David Malone, Wheaton College, david dot malone at wheaton dot edu
8. Cole Hudson, Wayne State University, cole - dot - hudson - at - wayne - dot - edu
9. Brian Zelip, University of Illinois, bzelip -at- illinois -dot- edu
10. Michael Perry, Northwestern University, michael -dot- perry -at- northwestern -dot- edu
11. Joshua Neds-Fox, Wayne State University, jnf - at- wayne - dot - edu
12. Kelly Germain, Davenport University, kelly -dot- germain -at- davenport -dot- edu
13. Jeffrey Mudge, Wheaton College, jeffrey dot mudge at wheaton dot edu
14. Thomas Hilliker, Holly Township Library, thomashilliker at gmail dot com
15. Jamie Tiemeyer, Cornerstone University, jamie - dot - tiemeyer - at - cornerstone - dot - edu
16. Devin Higgins, Michigan State University, higgi135 - at - msu - dot - edu
17. Alison Hitchens, University of Waterloo, ahitchen - at - uwaterloo - dot - ca
18. Megan Kudzia, Albion College, moneill - at - albion - dot - edu
19. Roy Zimmer, Western Michigan University, roy-dot-zimmer-at-wmich-dot-edu
20. Thomas Padilla, Michigan State University, tpadilla-at-msu-dot-edu
21. Jonathan Earley, Grand Valley State University, jonathan.a.earley - at - gmail - dot - com
22. Jonathan Gorman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, jtgorman - at - illinois - edu
23. Britain Woodman, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, britainw - at - umich - dot - edu
24. Jessica Shuck, Cornerstone University, jessica - dot - shuck - at - cornerstone - dot - edu
25. Esther Verreau, UIC, verreau1 - at - uic - dot - edu
26. Brendan Quinn, Northwestern University, brendan-quinn - at - northwestern - dot - edu
27. Paul Clough, Northwestern University, p-clough - at- northwestern - dot - edu
28. Julie Vecchio, University of Notre Dame, jvecchio - at - nd - dot - edu
29. Sarah Park, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, gpark - at - siue - edu
30. Gary Maixner, Ferris State University, maixneg - at - ferris - edu
31. Christina Czuhajewski, University of Michigan MSI student & Kalamazoo Public Library, cczu - at - umich - dot - edu
32. Dan Wells, Calvin College, dbw2 - at - calvin - dot - edu
33. Remington Steed, Calvin College, rjs7 - at - calvin - dot - edu

The capacity of our venue requires us to cap participation at 40. Beyond that, please put your name, affiliation and email address on the wait list and we'll email you if a spot opens up for you.

Waitlist

Previous C4L Midwest Regional Meetings

• 2010 (Inaugural) Code4Lib Midwest Meeting
• 2011 Code4Lib Midwest Meeting
• 2012 Code4Lib Midwest Meeting
• 2013 Code4Lib Midwest Conference

Mailing list

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