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METRO members may be interested in attending this year's ACRL/NY Symposium on cultivating entrepreneurship in academic libraries on Friday, December 7 at Baruch College's Vertical Campus. A number of METRO staff members will be attending, so we'll see you there. ...

UPDATE: With power restored to our area, METRO reopened on November 5, 2012.  Public transportation is creeping back into action, the roads are jammed with cars, and METRO's main office is -- like many in the region -- still without ...

In re Books Conference, October 26-27, 2012, NYC On October 26-27, the New York Law School is hosting In re Books, “a conference on law and the future of books.” Featuring a diverse mix of speakers  from groups such as the Sloan Foundation, ...

Fifth grade students at PS 30M working on a Civil Rights unit. Photo courtesy Brenda Shufelt. Historically, libraries in NYC public schools have faced a host of challenges including funding, scheduling, professional certification of personnel, and at times, lack of ...

  We received the following update from Brooklyn Public Library, and we wanted to share it with the community here on our site. Please read on for details about this important program:  The English Conversation Group Program at Brooklyn Public ...

On January 18, 2012, four teams of myMETRO members embarked on research projects to investigate cutting edge topics of their choice, including Occupy Wall Street, Fashion Blogging, Lifelong Learning, and Social Media. Join us as each team presents their findings ...

Photo courtesy @bpsusf on Flickr No matter the technical or how-to (“hard”) skill requirements of a job, there are "soft skills" valued at all workplaces. Sometimes what separates a good employee from an exceptional one is taking just one or ...

A petition has been posted on the "We the People" section of the White House website calling for "free access over the internet to scientific journal articles arising from taxpayer-funded research." The petition is halfway to the goal of 25k ...

Members of the METRO community may be interested in a new report from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, "Libraries and Museums in an Era of Participatory Culture." Read more from the official release below:  Libraries and Museums in ...

Last week, METRO co-sponsored a session with ACRL/NY's Special Collections and Archives Discussion Group. Video for this session is now available:  METRO & ACRL/NY Present: Catablogging - Leveraging Blogging Software to Present Your Collections on the Web from METRO on ...

As a member of ALA's Office for Information Technology Policy Advisory Committee, I received the following request for information from libraries creating digital content. I thought a number of our members might be able to contribute some useful information for ...

METRO members may be interested the following note from Acting State Librarian and Deputy Commissioner of Cultural Education Jeffrey W. Cannell regarding the Joseph F. Shubert Award The Regents Advisory Council on Libraries has announced that applications are now available ...

Photo courtesy Catalyst Information Center  Catalyst is not only an organization, it’s a revolution.  Founded in 1962 at the height of that decade’s social movement for equality, Catalyst has become the leading non-profit working to expand opportunities for women and ...

  When METRO’s new Digital Services Manager, Anne Karle-Zenith, is asked about what triggered her move to libraries she quickly points to the time she spent creating Taste of Brooklyn — a website she ran with her partner in the ...

As many of you know, American Library Association President Molly Raphael has been working to actively engage publishers in dialogue around digital content. At the Annual Meeting for the Association of American Publishers, Raphael moderated a panel, "Redefining the Dialogue ...

  On March 19, 2012, METRO and ACRL/NY co-hosted a talk with Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. In his remarks, Rainie discusses the Project's findings about how people gather, share, and create information on ...

METRO members and other professionals in the community may be interested in the following event, hosted by the Library Association  Library Technology and the Future of Libraries   LACUNY Institute 2012June 1, 20129:30 – 4:00CUNY Graduate Centerhttp://lacunyinstitute.wordpress.com/  http://lacuny.wordpress.com/ The goal of the ...

    Congratulations to our New York colleagues who were recently recognized by Library Journal in their annual Movers and Shakers series.  We'll let LJ speak for the program themselves:  "For ten years now, LJ's Movers & Shakers has been spotlighting ...

We recently learned of an upcoming program that the METRO member community will, no doubt, be interested in. Please read on for details:  On Tuesday morning, March 27, 2012, Columbia University Libraries will present a half-day conference titled "Standards and ...

Created with flickr slideshow. On Thursday, February 23, 2012, over 140 people attended a morning plenary focused on linked open data for libraries, archives, and museums in New York City. The morning plenary and afternoon hands-on session were co-organized by ...