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The Inaugural Code4Lib "Midwest" Regional Meeting (June 11 & 12, 2010 at the University of Notre Dame) was a qualified success. About twenty-six people attended. (At least that was the number of people who went to lunch.) They came from Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Indiana, and Illinois. Julia Bauder won the prize for coming the furthest distance away — Grinnell, Iowa. We hope you will consider visiting us here began with Lightning Talks: * ePub files by Michael Kreyche* FRBR and MARC data by Kelly McGrath* Great Books by Eric Lease Morgan* jQuery and the OPAC by Ken Irwin* Notre Dame and the Big Ten by Michael Witt* Solr & Drupal by Rob Casson* Subject headings via a Web Service by Michael Kreyche* Taverna by Rick Johnson and Banu Lakshminarayanan* VUFind on a hard disk by Julia Bauder We dined in northern Indianathe University's South Dining Hall, and toured a bit of the campus on the way back taking in the "giant marble", the Architecture Library, and the Dome. In the afternoon we broke up into smaller groups and discussed things including institutional repositories, mobile devices & interfaces, ePub files, and FRBR. In the evening we enjoyed varieties of North Carolina barbecue, and then retreated to the campus bar (Legend's) for a few beers. The Code4Lib Challenge was not successful. Us hackers were either to engrossed to notice whether or not anybody came to the event, or nobody showed up to challenge us. Maybe next time. There were fewer participants on Day #2. We will do our very best spent the time listening to make Ken elaborate on the uses and benefits of jQuery. Eric hacked at something I'm calling "The Great Books Survey". The event was successful in that it worth your whileprovided plenty of opportunity to discuss shared problems and solutions. A good time was had by all, and it is quite possible the next "Midwest" Regional Meeting will be hosted by the folks in Chicago.
