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Welcome to Code4Lib BC! Begun in Summer 2013, this chapter aims to create connections and professional development opportunities for folks from British Columbia and surrounding areas.

You can find the public discussion channel on the Code4lib Slack in #c4lbc.

If you're interested in hosting, please take a read over our Planner's Guide.

Tenth Code4Lib BC Unconference 2025

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. Map to get there, Rennie Hall (inside the front entrance). For more information on transit and parking, please check the Emily Carr Campus Location, Parking, Transit, Contact page.

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.

This year’s event will feature lightning talks and breakout sessions. Lightning talks are brief, 10-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.

  • What's included: a room, coffee/tea, wifi, power
  • What to bring: your ideas and enthusiasm.
  • Socials Hashtag: `#c4lbc`
  • Code of Conduct: As a Code4Lib event, we adhere to the Code4Lib Code of Conduct, which seeks to provide a welcoming, harassment-free environment.

If you need help with funding your attendance, you can 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.

Submit a lightning talk or breakout session idea

Ideas so far (sneak peek, not finalized)

Lightning Talks

  • Bulk DOI generation in DSpace with the Super-Duper-App! (Daniel Sifton)
  • Making the Web Accessible: Putting WCAG 2.1 and 2.2 into Practice (Cynthia Ng)
  • User Experience: Case study plus discussion of a planned BCLA interest group (Janis McKenzie & Mark Goodwin)
  • Sustainable Local Development; or, Two PHP Scripts in a Trench Coat (John Durno)
  • Manipulating MARC: Indigenous Cataloguing Beyond the Standards (Taya Jardine)
  • Transforming Unstructured Data in a Knowledge Base: Exploring the Potential of RAG and LLMs at SFU Library (Ian Song)
  • Challenges of Identity and Access Management Policies and Documentation (Caitlin Lindsay)
  • Consent Not Required: (AI) Technology as Connection (Coco Chen & Rebecca Ardron)
  • Working with APIs: Flows and Runner in Postman (Olga Kalachinskaya)

Breakout Sessions

  • Digital sovereignty, the surveillance state, & protection of privacy (John Durno)
  • Struggling Through Burnout (esp in IT); Getting Our DIY Ethic Back (Daniel Lerch)
  • GenAI Critical Literacy workshop demo + discussion (Michelle Ng) (20 person limit)
  • Are all the ULs hanging out without us? (Tamarack)
  • UX breakout (Janis McKenzie and Mark Goodwin)
  • Developing introductory, interactive GenAI Critical Literacy workshop modules (Michelle Ng)
  • Building AI Literacy in the Public Library (Jaclyn Fong)

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

Meals

Schedule

Please note that all times are PT (Vancouver, Canada).

Day 1 : Thursday, October 16

8:30 Venue opens
9:00 Welcome and announcements
9:15 Lightning talks
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10:30 Break
10:45 Lightning talks (continued)
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12:00 Lunch
1:00 Breakout sessions
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2:30 Break
2:45 Breakout sessions (continued)
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4:00 Breakout reports
5:00 Social event at Red Truck Beer Company 295 E 1st Ave

Day 2 : Friday, October 17

8:30 Venue opens
9:00 Welcome and announcements
9:15 Lightning talks
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10:30 Break
11:00 Lightning talks (continued)
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12:00 Lunch
1:30 Breakout session organization
1:45 Breakout sessions
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2:45 Break
3:00 Breakout sessions (continued)
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4:00 Breakout session reports

Sponsors

We want to acknowledge the continued administrative and fiscal support from the BC Libraries Cooperative.

2025 Organizers

  • Cynthia Ng
  • Dan Lerch
  • Daniel Sifton
  • George Villavicencio
  • Hillary Webb
  • Holly Pickering
  • James Fournie
  • Janis McKenzie
  • Lynn Kleinveldt
  • Mark Goodwin
  • Michel Castagné
  • Michelle Ng
  • Rebecca Dickson
  • Ryan Regier
  • Scott Leslie
  • Tamarack Hockin
  • Trevor Smith

Past Events

See our past events page.

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