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.

Ninth Annual Code4Lib BC Unconference 2024

Save the dates!

Thursday, 16 May and Friday, 17 May
Registration is now open

This year's C4LBC will be held in Vancouver, BC, and hosted by VCC at the Downtown Campus, Room 420

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.

Mastodon 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.

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

Food and drink

Coffee/tea and light snacks (think: pastries) will be available at the venue.

For meals, VCC's downtown campus is conveniently located near a wide range of food and beverage options.

Closest by, VCC's Downtown Cafeteria (Floor 3) offers a variety of entrees and upscale diner-style food prepared by talented students from the Culinary Arts program. (Open Thurs only.)

Schedule

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

Day 1 : Thursday, May 16

8:30	Venue opens
9:00	Welcome and announcements
9:15	Lightning talks Giving back to the community through transparency and a public handbook - Cynthia "Arty" Ng Twitter Archiving, Post-Twitter - Dan Sifton Collections dashboard - Trevor Smith
10:30	Break
10:45	Lightning talks (continued) FindaSpace - Andy Peterson Implementing Time of Flight People Counting at UVic Libraries - John Durno Improving online user experience through collaboration with public service staff - Janis McKenzie
12:00	Lunch
1:00	Breakout sessions
2:30	Break
2:45	Breakout sessions (continued)
4:00	Breakout reports
5:00	Social event at The Permanent Library (330 Pender St) feat. Pretend Wine Bar Directions from VCC to the Permanent Library (about a 2 min walk) Big thanks to Internet Archive Canada!

Day 2 : Friday, May 17

8:30	Venue opens
9:00	Welcome and announcements
9:15	Lightning talks CatalogerGPT: an AI powered cataloguing assistant as agentic collaboration - Glen Greenly Moving to the Cloud: Better late than never? - Scott Leslie Moving our library to the Folio LSP - Olga Kalachinskaya
10:30	Break
10:45	Lightning talks (continued) OpenAthens Authentication vs IP EZProxy - Ryan Regier Title list comparison using Pandas/Jupyter - James Fournie
12:00	Lunch
1:00	Breakout sessions
2:30	Break
2:45	Breakout sessions (continued)
4:00
5:00

2024 Organizers

James Fournie
Dan Sifton
Eka Grguric
Tamarack Hockin
John Durno
Scott Leslie
Trevor Smith
George Villavicencio
Rebecca Dickson
Cynthia Ng

Past Events

See our past events page.

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