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Welcome to code4lib Code4Lib BC! Begun in Summer 2013, this chapter aims to create connections and professional development opportunities for folks from British Columbia and surrounding areas.
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].
== '''Sixth Ninth Annual Code4lib Code4Lib BC Unconference 20182024''' ==
'''Save the dates!'''
*Thursday, 29 November 16 May and Friday, 30 November17 May* [https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/872117846957/?aff=oddtdtcreator Registration is now open]
This year's C4LBC will be held in NanaimoVancouver, BC, and jointly hosted by the University of Vancouver Island and Vancouver Island Regional Library. Again! The Thursday events will be held in downtown Nanaimo VCC at VIRL's Harbourfront Branch. Friday's activities will be held the the VIU campus. This year's organisers are trying hard to make everything as easy as possible for mainlanders travelling to the island, so stay tuned for details on transportation, accommodations, and much more. [https://www.eventbritevcc.ca/eabout/2018college-code4libbcinformation/contact-unconferenceus/downtown-vancouver-island-tickets-50429527073 Registration is now open!campus/ 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.
* '''What's included''': wifi, powera room, coffee/snackstea, luncheswifi, prizes, limited transportation from downtown Nanaimo to VIU campus.power
* '''What's NOT included/what to bring''': a laptop, dinner, your ideas and enthusiasm.
* '''Mastodon 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.
===Food/Transportation===
===Accommodations=Meals==== The * [https://www.coasthotelsvcc.com/hotels/bcca/nanaimoservices/coasteat-bastionshop-hotel-more/ Coast Bastion Hotelcafeteria/ VCC Downtown Cafeteria] has reserved a block of 10 rooms per night at the government rate (Nov 28/29Thurs only)- 3rd floor Guests can call 800* Marugame Udon -663-1144 and quote “Code4Lib” or group code CBI-GFC18933 to book under the block[https://maps. google.com/?cid=9331854931384302026 589 Beatty St] This block will be held until October 29th, any remaining rooms will be sent back to general inventory* MeeT Gastown - [https://maps. After that, guests can still book under the block, but based on general availabilitygoogle. com/?cid=8486430434256396620 inner Courtyard, 12 Water St] (vegetarian)*Comfort Rooms – 2 beds $117Meat & Bread - [https://maps.00google.com/?cid=5974644075226205790 370 Cambie St]*Superior Rooms – 2 Bed or 1 Queen bed $127Nuba - [https://maps.00google.com/?cid=16710652764342550272 207 W Hastings St] (veg friendly)*Premium Rooms – 1 King bed $137Pholicious - [https://maps.00google.com/?cid=464715567622825479 430 W Pender St] Other accommodation options can be found * Ready-to-eat at City Market (unless you're boycotting Loblaws!) - [https://goomaps.gl/aSm4MQ heregoogle.com/?cid=12866074011377369903 658 Homer St]
=== Schedule ===
{| class="wikitable"
| 8:30 || Doors openVenue opens
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| 9:00 || Welcome & Announcementsand announcements
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| 9:15 || Lightning Talks <!--talks* [https://docscynthiang.google.comca/presentation2024/d05/1M1lC5ZosVXIkoNSMpM16/presentation-6FvChcbn8ILdn0vJgiving-frwXDeYback-to-the-community-through-transparency-and-a-public-handbook/edit?usp=sharing Code4lib/BC: What's it all aboutGiving back to the community through transparency and a public handbook] - Cynthia "Arty" Ng* [https://docs.googlegithub.com/presentationtelezoic/d/1AaHddtez0MxGUeZjsXoilA0_KQ7LrfcWRBIMeItS5nI/edit?usp=sharing Canadian Federated Data Repository] PostTwitter Twitter Archiving, Post- Alex Garnett* Using Ms Access to make vendor reports or local workflows less painful - Trevor Smith* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=10KdeR8LkrGMvZHQfSCkBmNSuh-BpGl_k3_2K9591a4A Games Day in the LibraryTwitter] - Kevin BrashDan Sifton* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UknFe0E0-U4DAKiNV9hQH-E6WQiERrFTkycvdZM5JRc/edit?usp=sharing What"Wait I can's in the Bag? Indexing and querying Bags t lose that!" Saving circ data with Elasticsearch] MS Office during a system change - Mark Jordan -->Trevor Smith
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| 10:30 || Coffee breakBreak
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| 10:45 || Lightning Talks, cont'd <!--* Restoring an interactive videotex art exhibition from the mid-1980s - John Durnotalks (continued)* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13ETpshoL-YbRZaGuihG77sAaTjG4IAhM9zRzQOdLFnk1nMJttwl7u8Rlv2x4b4b9tH_cbafZe4AQ6n1KinG_Muw/edit#slide=id.p3 I.T. things at FVRL: Sphero/Spark robots, Green Screens and VR ExperienceFind a Space] - Traci Monchamp / Lewis Vacek / Tamarack HockinAndy Peterson* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xlFfKANrl3Ub_d5O5lGz_Fs4u9Gt6Uz8dfjYTKWTlh8/edit?usp=sharing ILS Migration Change Management: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly] Implementing Time of Flight People Counting at UVic Libraries - Janice BanserJohn Durno* Getting Started Improving online user experience through collaboration with RFPs - Trevor Smith* [http://hdl.handle.net/10613/5229 Contest of champions: Headless Battle] - Daniel Sifton -public service staff ->Janis McKenzie
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| 12:00 || Lunch (Provided)
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| 1:00 || Breakout Sessions <!--sessions * GODOT has left the building : the CUFTSNavigating project management/GODOT end of life debrief for everybody- Maryann Kempthornestrategic planning* Show + tell IT things breakout : VIRL Creativity Commons - Geoffrey Allen / FVRL IT Things - Traci MonchampTrevor's Excel Party (Tips, Lewis Vacektricks, Tamarack Hockin -->use cases)
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| 2:30 || Break
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| 2:45 || Breakout Sessions, cont'd <sessions (continued)* Help!--We had a data breach* Using Ms Access to make vendor reports or local workflows less painful (expanded) - Trevor SmithIT centralization* Hosting Code4libBC - Geoffrey Allen, Cynthia Ng, Ben Hyman, Daniel Sifton -->All Things UX
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| 4:00 || Breakout Reportsreports
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| 5:00 || Social Event <!-- event at [httphttps://whitesailsbrewinginternetarchivecanada.comorg/ White Sails BreweryInternet Archive Canada HQ] with pizza from (330 Pender St) feat. [httphttps://mambogourmetpizzawww.instagram.com/ Mambo Pizzapretendwinebar/ Pretend Wine Bar]* [https://maps.app.goo.gl/6MM7vv WVUchkZHbstXfRHE9 Directions] from VIRL to White Sails -->VCC (about a 2 min walk)
|}
==== Day 2 : Friday, May 17 ====Events will be held at [https://www2.viu.ca/map/ VIU's Building 305, Room 507] A bus (with a friendly, qualified driver) will pick up attendees from the Coast Bastion on Friday morning at 8:20 am. If needed the bus will return for another load of passengers ~20 minutes later. The same bus, with the same friendly, qualified driver, will deliver attendees to the Departure Bay ferry terminal at the end of the day. <!--Parking: Closest is Lot N; Lot D is closed due to construction, some spaces in Lots F & C are short-term; [https://www2.viu.ca/eventservices/parkingmap.asp VIU Parking Map]-->
{| class="wikitable"
| 8:30 || Doors openVenue opens
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| 9:00 || AnnouncementsWelcome and announcements
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| 9:15 || Lightning Talks<!--talks* [httpCatalogerGPT://hdl.handle.net/10613/5230 Supplejack Triclops Architecture] an AI powered cataloguing assistant as agentic collaboration - Daniel SiftonGlen Greenly* Open Source, Open Access, Open Data - Maryann Kempthorne* Linking video and audio in Moving to the Hansard - Mike Sinclair* [httpsCloud://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qd2vczQqx-SCgIMXp89UTMYW7C5P-r92d4yfpq77VF8/editBetter late than never?usp=sharing Getting Started with Automating your EZproxy] - James FournieScott Leslie* Smallest Possible Library Online Tools "SPLOT" - Scott Leslie -Moving our library to the Folio LSP ->Olga Kalachinskaya
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| 10:30 || Coffee breakBreak
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| 1011:45 00 || Lightning Talks, cont'd <!--talks (continued)* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1k08ku9tfarqkfAlN5H1WDhcBvWZOiy5VzGNsxCcB92E/edit?usp=sharing We have detected spider/robot activity on our site] OpenAthens and the Ironies of Automation - Calvin Mah Ryan Regier* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/dTitle list comparison using Pandas/1Ymp2BuB3kqJupyter -3cvFSuQRoS8EWMIx4LWSDP_MJOE5_GkQ/edit?usp=sharing Using Islandora to centralize access to distributed content] - Mark Jordan James Fournie* Systems Projects in Special Libraries Telidon update - Charles HoggJohn Durno* OCR tools for nonCloud server disaster plan! -Latin alphabets - Rebecca Dickson* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UVCQxDW9wVQFyRykiHsNkroGaQeE441Y Through the Looking Glass: A Parallel World of Print Collections Data] - Jean Blackburn -->Calvin Mah
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| 12:00 || Lunch (Provided)
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| 1:00 30 || Breakout Sessions<!--* [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Q2ZOPYZz3SZ4WdePkrXKqEGhYuYHW07WQDuEIwNw5ps Parse, Harvest, Repeat: Hands on metadata ingestion in the Supplejack stack] - Daniel Sifton / James Fournie* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rz9V89VmxqIJD6c9zistu5T_JZ_ujErHpNZm5joUx64/edit?usp=sharing/ Web Archiving: Coordinating efforts, sharing best practices] - Dana McFarland* [[Brainstorming possible SPLOTs]] - Scott Leslie & Jonathan Schatz-->session organization
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| 21:30 45 || BreakBreakout sessions * Practical applications of AI in Libraries
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| 2:45 || Breakout Sessions, cont'd <!--* Linking video and audio in the Hansard (Expanded/Discussion) - Mike Sinclair* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LyL5AlPTTMW2YMT6-YG2p4iSiYQBA76RFwnH9h3wIyY/edit?usp=sharing All the DOCs]: Documentation and workflows - Cynthia Ng / Tamarack Hockin* Wordpress nightmare - Allison Trumble -->Break
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| 43:00 || Breakout Reportssessions (continued)|-* ILS Migrations| 5:00 ||Meet up somewhere for drinks <!-- at [http://dev-viusu.pantheonsite.io/students-union-pub/ VIU Student Pub] -->* eResources Troubleshooting
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| 4:00 || Breakout session reports
|}
Thank you to [https://archive.org Internet Archive] for generously sponsoring Thursday's social event at their Vancouver HQ
= '''Past Events''' =
See our [[BC_Past_Events|past events]] page.