by Edward M. Corrado

Welcome to the sixty-first issue of the Code4Lib Journal. When I look back to the first issue published in December 2007 I am amazed at how long the journal has lasted as a community effort that has no formal (and barely, if any, informal) structure. The Code4Lib Journal is not an organization, but instead it is an effort created and maintained by people who are passionate about “the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future.” [1] The numerous editorial committee members and technical administrators have enabled the journal to exist and thrive for almost 18 years and they are all owned a great deal of thanks. However, without the article authors and readers of the Code4Lib Journal that appreciate what we are doing it would be all for naught. Thank you for your continued support.

Issue 61 contains seven articles that we believe will help continue Code4Lib Journal’s mission “to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future.” [2] In no particular order, they are:

• What it Means to be a Repository: Real, Trustworthy, or Mature? by Seth Shaw
• Building and Deploying the Digital Humanities Quarterly Recommender System by Haining Wang, Joel Lee, John A. Walsh, Julia Flanders, and Benjamin Charles Germain Lee
• From Notes to Networks: Using Obsidian to Teach Metadata and Linked Data by Kara Long and Erin Yunes
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Web Archives: A Comparative Study of WARC-GPT and a Custom Pipeline by Corey Davis
• Extracting A Large Corpus from the Internet Archive, A Case Study by Eric C. Weig
• Liberation of LMS-siloed Instructional Data by Hyung Wook Choi, Jonathan Wheeler, Weimao Ke, Lei Wang, Jane Greenberg, and Mat Kelly
• Mitigating Aggressive Crawler Traffic in the Age of Generative AI: A Collaborative Approach from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries by Jason Casden, David Romani, Tim Shearer, and Jeff Campbell

We hope you enjoy these articles and find them useful. Thanks again for supporting Code4Lib Journal!

Notes

[1] “Mission,” Code4Lib Journal, accessed October 10, 2025, https://journal.code4lib.org/mission.

[2] “Mission,” Code4Lib Journal.