Dear Code4Lib Community,

We know you all have been eagerly awaiting the schedule and registration
information. Thank you all for your patience as we worked out all of the
planning on the back end. On behalf of the Local Planning Committee, I am
pleased to announce that registration for the 2024 Code4Lib Conference is
now live at this link <https://concentracms.regfox.com/code4lib-2024>.
Hotel blocks are available and are listed, as well as the schedule,
post-conference information, and keynote speaker information on the website
<https://2024.code4lib.org/schedule/>. The cost for the main conference is
$225 early registration, or $290 late registration after April 16th if
seats are still available then. Last year’s conference sold out within
record time, so we recommend registering as soon as possible to secure your
spot. If the conference sells out before you are able to register, you may
opt to be added to the waitlist if more seats become available later on.
Payment is required at the time of registration via Visa, Mastercard, or
American Express. All registration fees must be paid for by credit card at
time of registration, or by calling the Code4Lib Registrar within 48 hours.

We would also like to give a huge thank you to our sponsors
<https://2024.code4lib.org/sponsors/>, the volunteers on the website,
keynote, program, and post-conference committees for their time and effort
in preparing for Code4Lib 2024. We truly could not do any of this without
the wonderful folks in the community making this possible. THANK YOU.

Keynote speaker information is as follows:

Opening Keynote: Libby Hemphill (she/her)

Libby Hemphill (Associate Professor, University of Michigan School of
Information, Research Associate Professor, U-M Institute for Social
Research, and Director, ICPSR’s Resource Center for Minority Data and
founding Director, ICPSR’s Social Media Archive) studies social computing
and digital curation. Her research on social computing has demonstrated the
impact of social media on Congressional behavior, has shown how social
media platforms shape public discourse in virtual and IRL public spaces,
and has developed a natural language processing approach to detecting and
intervening to de-escalate abusive online behavior. Her research in digital
curation has studied the responsible and ethical use and reuse of datasets
in research, the design of infrastructure and technology to support
research data archives, the importance of curation for improving the
FAIRness of social media and other data, and the impact of data reuse. Her
practice of digital curation at ICPSR has made available transformative
data such as TransPop, the first national probability sample of transgender
individuals in the United States, and SOMAR, a platform for transparent,
reproducible preservation and ethical access to social media data. She has
worked with the Anti-Defamation League to understand and respond to online
hate, and she has created a post-baccalaureate program to diversify the
pipeline of students engaged in computational social science research. She
is a transformative scholar who has used her expertise and position to
democratize data access.

Closing Keynote: Dr. Patricia Garcia (she/her)

Patricia Garcia conducts qualitative research on the complex relationship
between race, gender, technology, and justice. She is currently partnering
with public libraries to study how a computational justice program model
can support girls of color (ages 13-16) develop agentic computing
identities. This research involves the design of computing education
programs that support girls of color in situating their computing
identities within broader self-concepts and in ways that highlight how the
intersections of race and gender can function as sources of power, rather
than simply sites of marginalization. Her other related work examines how
harmful data practices perpetuate structural inequities along racialized
and gendered lines, and she collaborates with data practitioners to imagine
and enact more equitable data futures. Her work spans the fields of
computing education, learning sciences, youth studies, and critical data
studies.


We look forward to seeing you all in Ann Arbor in May!

Sincerely,

Code4Lib Local Planning Committee

Natasha Allen (chair, U-M)

Kathy Azevedo (Concentra)

Heidi Burkhardt (U-M)

Jennifer Cummings (Concentra)

Jesse Johnston (co-chair, U-M)

Ken Varnum (U-M)