UPDATE (Monday November 12, 4:15pm): We have rescheduled this event to Tuesday, January 15, 2013. Registrations for this event have been automatically transferred to the new date. If you are registered but unable to join us on January 15, please let us know.
UPDATE (Saturday October 27, 4:30pm): Due to a number of uncertainties at this point (severity of the storm and potential transportation shutdowns at the top of that list), it makes sense for us to postpone the Annual Meeting in the interest of safety. We will announce new details later in the week.
UPDATE (Friday, October 26, 12:00pm): METRO's Annual Meeting is still on. We are monitoring the potential weather situation for Monday, and we will notify all participants if there are any changes in plans.
As the Annual Meeting draws near, we've been hard at work assembling a roster of distinguished keynote speakers, presentations from our award winners and board members, and project briefings detailing innovative projects and current research from the METRO community. We hope to see you on Monday, October 29, 2012 from 9:30 until 4:30 at The Vertical Campus at Baruch College (55 Lexington Street, New York, NY) for this first run of our new Annual Meeting format.
We're pleased to announce the schedule and agenda for the Annual Meeting. In addition to these presentations, panels, and lightning rounds, we've reserved plenty of time throughout the day for catching up with your fellow METRO community members.
Please register for this event here. As always, please feel free to contact us with any questions you might have.
METRO 2012 Annual Meeting Schedule:
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM: Registration
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM: Business Meeting followed by morning keynote with Renee Hobbs, Professor and Founding Director of the Harrington School of Communication and Media at the University of Rhode Island
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM: Break
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM: Project Briefings
Developing Communities Around Digital Scholarship
Jonathan Cain, Hunter College
Room 270
Fold, Staple, Share: The Brooklyn College Library Zine Collection
Alycia Sellie, Brooklyn College
Room 285
Creating a Library Dashboard to Support Decision-Making: eResources and Services
Theodora Bakker, NYU School of Medicine
Room 280
The Shelby White and Leon Levy Information Commons: New Space, New Opportunities at Brooklyn Public Library
Melissa Morrone, Brooklyn Public Library
Jesse Montero, Brooklyn Public Library
Room 266
science@columbia: Fostering a Scientific Community in the Archipelago
Jeffrey Lancaster, Columbia University
Room 269
12:15 PM - 12:30 PM: Break
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM: Project Briefings
Introducing NYU to the Digital Humanities: A Faculty/Library Partnership
Jennifer Vinopal, New York University
Room 270
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee / Pratt Oral History Digitization Project
Aaron Rosenblum, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives
Anthony Cocciolo, Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science
Room 285
The Common Core / MyLibraryNYC
Richard Hasenyager, New York City Department of Education
Room 280
New Approaches to Workforce Development at Queens Library
Tara Lannen Stanton, Queens Public Library
Room 266
Three Books to the Wind: Reflections of Three Ship Librarians Aboard the Empire State VI
Elizabeth Berilla, SUNY Maritime
Room 269
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM: Lunch and keynote address by Deanna Marcum, Managing Director at ITHAKA S + R: The Power of Collaboration
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Project Briefings
Open Data at the Smithsonian
Micah Walter, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
Room 270
METRO Digital Projects Panel:
Documenting the Gilded Age
Suz Massen, Frick Art Reference Library
Views of the Bronx
Kerry Prendergast, Wildlife Conservation Society
Room 285
Teaching with Images: Integrating Visual and Information Literacy
Nicole E. Brown, New York University
Room 280
The IDS (Information Delivery Systems) Project
Beth Posner, CUNY Graduate Center
Room 266
Using Formative Skills Assessment to Drive Staff Training Decisions and Organizational Change
Jeffrey Lancaster, Columbia University
Room 269
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM: Break
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM: Project Briefings IV
Digital Performing Arts Collections
Douglas Reside, New York Public Library
Room 270
METRO Digital Projects Panel:
Queens Memory Project
Natalie Milbrodt, Queens Library
Andre Studios
Karen Cannell, Fashion Institute of Technology
Room 285
Looking for Information Literacy: A Syllabus Analysis Project in the LIU Brooklyn Library
Emily Drabinski, Long Island University
Room 280
Invoking the User from Data to Design
Nadaleen Tempelman-Kluit, New York University
Room 266
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Library: A Case Study
Stephanie Walker, Brooklyn College
Room 269
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM: Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM: Project Briefings
Digitizing the New York Philharmonic
Mitchell Brodsky, New York Philharmonic
Room 270
myMETRO Research Projects Lightning Session:
Off the Cuff: How Fashion Bloggers Find and Use Information
Kimberly Detterback, Purchase College SUNY
Research for the 99%: Working with Occupy Wall Street
Darcy Gervasio, Purchase College, SUNY
Lifelong Learning and Libraries
Susan Chute, formerly with NYPL, and Robert Weiss
Room 285
Brooklyn Connections: Matching Students with Local History Primary Sources
Nicole Belle DeRise, Brooklyn Public Library
Christine Modica, Brooklyn Public Library
Room 280
The Need to Feed: Managing a Social Media Policy and Strategy
Jennifer Waxman, Center for Jewish History
Lauren Bradley, Center for Jewish History
Room 266
A Mentoring Startup: the How, What, and Why of it All
Susanne Markgen, Purchase College, SUNY and ACRL/NY
Room 269
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM: Closing Remarks
Looking forward to seeing you there!
