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About Code4Lib About Code4Lib - Background and history of the community A Guide for the Perplexed - Building skills for working with library technologies How to hack code4lib - For those newer to the community Code4Lib Indoctrination (This is a Google doc open to all including anonymous feedback.) "How do we make code4lib a more inclusive place for newcomers? Or, how do we quickly indoctrinate newbies to our values and ways of doing things?" Suggestions, ideas, and follow-up actions solicited. One recommended tool/resource for n00bs - For new coding librarians/library Coders Mentorship Program Skill Sharing Clubs - Find people with similar interests in your field. Zoia or the Code4Lib IRC bot Software Usage and Documentation Umlaut - OpenURL link resolving middleware Patterns for Collaborative Code - Patterns to make your open source 'more open', more amenable to distributed development and use at multiple institutions without forking. ILS Documentation OSS Directory Working with MARC Rogue - principles for standards creation ProjectManagement - list of project management and issue tracking software that are frequently mentioned on the Code4Lib mailinglist Current topics Code4Lib Regional Meeting Streaming Code4Lib Website Update OCLC Policy Change SirsiDynix: Integrated Library System Platforms on Open Source Parsing Library Data Robots Are Our Friends Libraries Sharing Code Code4Lib Tagline brainstorm Fiscal Continuity Fiscal Sponsorship Working Group Accessibility Teaching beginners Other Code4Lib Sites code4lib.org planet.code4lib.org journal.code4lib.org Code4Lib Journal Code4Lib Journal - information and working documents

Code4Lib 2026 Conference URL https://2026.code4lib.org Dates March 3, 2026 - March 6, 2026 Location Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh Contact Ann Marie Mesco 2026 Conference Committees 2026 Hosting Proposals How To Plan A Code4LibCon Local / Regional Groups United States code4libcolorado - Colorado state and surrounding areas New England Code4lib - New England Code4LibNYC - NYC and surrounding areas Code4Lib Mid-Atlantic - Philadelphia and the Greater Tri-State Area Code4libMDC - Maryland, Washington D.C, Virginia, and surrounding areas Code4LibSE - North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Well, you get the idea Code4Lib Midwest - Wherever that is... Chicago - Chicago is a city in the Midwest Code4Lib South Central - Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, New Mexico PNWCode4Lib - Pacific Northwest Code4Lib West - California North and South Canada Code4Lib Great Eastern - Atlantic Provinces Code4lib North - Ontario and surrounding areas Code4LibYEG - Edmonton, Alberta Code4Lib BC - British Columbia Europe Code4Bib - Dutch Code4Bib Code4lib.hu - Group of Hungarian library developers Asia/Pacific Code4Lib Japan Code4GLAM Australia - coders, hackers, developers and technologists in the Australian GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) sector. Middle East Code4Lib Qatar - Doha (new in 2018) Interest Groups ILS Interoperability - A group working to develop an infrastructure for interoperating between discovery layers and integrated library systems. Open Source Book Widgets - A list of open source book widgets Open Source Discovery - Open Source application to enhance and support "discovery" in libraries Mobile Applications - A group interested in mobile web and native application development for libraries Sources Of Metadata - list of api's and sources of interest to libraries Fiscal Continuity - A group that explored from 2016 to 2017 whether and how to make long-term fiscal arrangements for conferences (and perhaps other activities) Fiscal Sponsorship Working Group - A group formed to implement a fiscal sponsorship agreement per the results of the fiscal options vote in late 2017

Earlier Conferences and events

• Code4Lib 2025 Princeton, NJ
• Code4Lib 2024 Ann Arbor, MI
• Code4Lib 2023 Princeton, NJ
• Code4Lib 2022 Buffalo, NY
• Code4Lib 2021 Virtual
• Code4Lib 2020 Pittsburgh, PA
• Code4Lib 2019 San Jose, CA
• Code4Lib 2018 Washington, DC
• Code4Lib 2017 Los Angeles, CA
• Code4Lib 2016 Philadelphia, PA
• Code4Lib 2015 Portland, OR
• Code4Lib 2014 Raleigh, NC
• Code4Lib 2013 Chicago, IL
• Code4Lib 2012 Seattle, WA
• Code4Lib 2011 Bloomington, IN
• Code4Lib 2010 Asheville, NC
• Code4Lib 2009 Providence, RI
• Code4Lib 2008 Portland, OR
• Code4Lib 2007 Athens, GA
• Code4Lib 2006 Corvallis, OR

Conference Financial History At A Glance

Older Conference T-Shirt Designs

• 2008 (Portland, Oregon) - winning design
• 2007 (Athens, Georgia) - winning design
• 2006 (Corvalis, Oregon) - winning design

Other workshops

• SearchCampDC - barcamp style event in DC with usual suspects from code4lib
• code4lib/elag2010 - 1-day code4lib preconference at elag2010

Archived topics

• Logo Design Process

AdminToDo - ideas and tasks for maintaining the Code4Lib sites