I was fortunate to travel to attend the 2022 Code4Lib meeting in person in May. This was an engaging, varied, and practical conference, with lots of warm welcomes from ‘old-timers’ and great informal shop talk. The recordings from the conference are now on their YouTube playlist. Sessions I thought might be of particular interest–plus lightning talk list–are below. Titles link to abstracts; YouTube links should jump to start times for each.
Highly recommend:
- The Fickle, the Federated, the Frustrating: Library Search Experiences. Day 1 morning @ 1h23m https://youtu.be/iqzC9RfLPUg?t=5020
- Living the UX: When a Web Developer develops a disability. Day 1 afternoon – first session https://youtu.be/HiBb5UchIuI
- Actually Accessible Data: A Call To Action. Day 1 afternoon @ 58m https://youtu.be/HiBb5UchIuI?t=3508
- Cracking the Communication Code: Tools and Strategies for Savvy Project Management. Day 2 morning @ 1h 30 m https://youtu.be/RGaQfXssHNo?t=5436
Also interesting (among others):
- Small Team Taking on Large Library Technology Project: some reflection on the quest for open source library management platform at Lehigh. Day 1 afternoon @ 2h1m https://youtu.be/HiBb5UchIuI?t=7295
- Closing keynote (Lauren Chambers). Day 3 first session https://youtu.be/WE3LF-gVtHs
- You Got Your DEI in my Accessibility! Writing Inclusive and Equitable Alt Text for Diverse Communities. Day 1 afternoon @ 38m https://youtu.be/HiBb5UchIuI?t=2294
Lightning talks – solicited and prepared last minute! Very short, and strictly timed, lots of fun:
- Day 1 Afternoon @ 1h38m https://youtu.be/HiBb5UchIuI?t=5925
- LT 1 Weird python integers (“what if you did very bad things with integers?”)
- LT 2 Patron Driven Development
- LT 3 Data Access Networks
- Day 2 Morning @ 42 m https://youtu.be/RGaQfXssHNo?t=2547
- LT 1 Undergrad research at small libraries
- LT 2 “Baby vs Ficus” aka “the nursery problem” in information architecture
- LT 3 Alt text for code4lib22 speakers
- LT 4 Tompkins County Public library public library [mBlock (makeblock) tool/robotic Hexapods]
- LT 5 “What Buffalo hometown hero Ani DiFranco has taught me about #Fail4Lib”
- LT6 “Product management …for Libraries?!”
- **LT7 “Data Horror Show”
- Day 3 Lightning talks @ 53m https://youtu.be/WE3LF-gVtHs?t=3181
- LT 1 Hand raise feature and return to office
- LT 2 partially automating bibliometrics reports [from Slack chat: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/]
- LT 3 Code4 Local Program Committee plug
- LT 4 What is a .horse [dot horse]
- LT 5 Publishing requirements as systems librarian
- LT 6 Work and advocacy post-pandemic [recap from breakout session]
