Abstract
Established in 2003 , Code4Lib welcomes hundreds of developers each year to their annual conference . The overarching theme of the group is to bring together program-centric librarians who are committed to the creation and use of open technologies. As you might imagine, this attracts all sorts of librarians from various environments including academic, public, and corporate sectors, and individuals carry a mosaic of titles including systems and electronic resources librarians, metadata and cataloging librarians, faculty services and research librarians, and those who work with discovery layers, online collections of all shapes and sizes, and many who care deeply about open access. There is a strong DIY spirit to the conference, similar to several others with the ethos of open access, and they extend this to making all conference session recordings and materials like slides and handouts fully available for free online. Additionally, Code4Lib has its own quarterly journal, founded by the community in 2007, that publishes peer reviewed articles about libraries and technology under a CC license. Outside the annual conference, you can take part in and find lots of support from Code4Lib year round by engaging in their Wiki, joining their mailing list, utilizing their jobs board, or signing up to be a member of their ongoing chat groups. For more information about the Code4Lib community, visit https://code4lib.org/about/. For 2022, the Code4Lib conference was intentionally hybrid, inviting presenters and attendees to participate according to their comfort levels. Many attendees and presenters convened in Buffalo, NY, where virtual presenter sessions were live-streamed to the in-person audience. Throughout the multi-day conference, Code4Lib organizers invited and moderated continuous chat including session-specific discussions. Below are a few short reviews of my favorite sessions. I encourage you to explore the sessions for yourself, which are all now freely available on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/code4lib
Repository Citation
Evans, Rachel S., "Conference Roundup - Code4Lib 2022 Report" (2022). Articles, Chapters and Online Publications. 79.
https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/law_lib_artchop/79