Code4Lib 2025 will be held in Princeton, NJ from March 10 to March 13.

More information is available on the conference website at: https://2025.code4lib.org

Code4Lib 2024 will be held in Ann Arbor, MI from May 13 to May 16.

More information is available on the conference website at: https://2024.code4lib.org

Code4Lib 2023 will be held in Princeton, NJ from March 14-17.

More information is available on the conference website at: https://2023.code4lib.org

Code4Lib 2022 will be held in Buffalo, NY from May 23-26.

More information is available on the conference website at: https://2022.code4lib.org/

Code4Lib 2021 will be held online from March 22-26.

More information is available on the conference website at: https://2021.code4lib.org/

Code4Lib 2020 will be held from March 8-11 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

More information is available on the conference website at: https://2020.code4lib.org/

Code4Lib 2019 will be held from February 19-22, 2019, in San José, California.

More information is available on the conference website at: https://2019.code4lib.org/

Call for Papers (and apologies for cross-posting):

The Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future.

We are now accepting proposals for publication in our 41st issue. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to share your ideas and experiences. To be included in the 41st issue, which is scheduled for publication in August 2018, please submit articles, abstracts, or proposals at http://journal.code4lib.org/submit-proposal or to [email protected] by Friday, May 11, 2018. When submitting, please include the title
or subject of the proposal in the subject line of the email message.

C4LJ encourages creativity and flexibility, and the editors welcome submissions across a broad variety of topics that support the mission of the journal. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Practical applications of library technology (both actual and hypothetical)
• Technology projects (failed, successful, or proposed), including how they were done and challenges faced
• Case studies
• Best practices
• Reviews
• Comparisons of third party software or libraries
• Analyses of library metadata for use with technology
• Project management and communication within the library environment
• Assessment and user studies

C4LJ strives to promote professional communication by minimizing the barriers to publication. While articles should be of a high quality, they need not follow any formal structure. Writers should aim for the middle ground between blog posts and articles in traditional refereed journals. Where appropriate, we encourage authors to submit code samples, algorithms, and pseudo-code. For more information, visit C4LJ’s Article Guidelines or browse articles from the first 40 issues published on our website: http://journal.code4lib.org.

Remember, for consideration for the 41st issue, please send proposals, abstracts, or draft articles to [email protected] no later than Friday, May 11, 2018.

Send in a submission. Your peers would like to hear what you are doing.

Code4Lib Journal Editorial Committee

Issue 38 is now available!

Table of Contents:

Editorial: The Economics of Not Being an Organization by Carol Bean

Usability Analysis of the Big Ten Academic Alliance Geoportal: Findings and Recommendations for Improvement of the User Experience by Mara Blake, Karen Majewicz, Amanda Tickner, Jason Lam

Using the ‘rentrez’ R Package to Identify Repository Records for NCBI LinkOut by Yoo Young Lee, Erin D. Foster, David E. Polley, and Jere Odell

The Drawings of the Florentine Painters: From Print Catalog to Linked Open Data by Lukas Klic, Matt Miller, Jonathan K. Nelson, Cristina Pattuelli, and Alexandra Provo

Web-Scraping for Non-Programmers: Introducing OXPath for Digital Library Metadata Harvesting by Mandy Neumann, Jan Steinberg, and Philipp Schaer

DIY DOI: Leveraging the DOI Infrastructure to Simplify Digital Preservation and Repository Management by Kyle Bannerjee and David Forero

Direct Database Access to OCLC Connexion’s Local Save File by Rebecca B. French

Between the Sheets: a Library-wide Inventory with Google by Craig Boman and Ray Voelker

Tools and Workflows for Collaborating on Static Website Projects by Kaitlin Newson

Leveraging Python to improve ebook metadata selection, ingest, and management by Kelly Thompson and Stacie Traill

Testing Three Types of Raspberry Pi People Counters by Johnathan Cintron, Devlyn Courtier, and John DeLooper