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Latest News
May 9, 2025 | Mary Bakija
Introducing The New Look Of METRO
We're excited to debut the new visual identity of the METRO New York Library Council! Over the last decade METRO has grown and changed quite a bit, and we continue to plan exciting new initiatives to serve our membership and the field at large. We felt like the time was right for a brand refresh.…
May 9, 2025 | Becca Quon
Join Us For The 2025 METRO Annual Meeting
Please join METRO for our 2025 Annual Meeting on Tuesday, June 17th at the Center For Brooklyn History. We're thrilled to feature a keynote from Tega Brain, an Australian-born artist and environmental engineer who examines issues of ecology, data, automation, and infrastructure. Her talk, titled "Eccentric Interfaces, Inefficient Archives," will ask, "What happens when ecological…
April 22, 2025 | Mary Bakija
Apply For A Continuing Education Grant
METRO is pleased to provide support for employees of our member institutions to attend conferences, classes, or courses of their choosing. Our aim with this grant is to provide assistance for individuals who are seeking to learn new skills but who do not presently have the financial support necessary for doing so from their institution. Financial assistance…
Mission
METRO works to create a sustainable culture of creativity, collaboration, and open exchange for libraries, archives, museums, and cultural institutions in the Metropolitan New York region and around the world.
We accomplish our mission through leadership, grantmaking, resource sharing, professional learning, research, technology services, creative practice, and more.
Projects
METRO works alongside our membership to address common challenges and move the library and archives fields forward.
Archipelago
An evolving Open Source Digital Objects Repository / DAM Server Architecture based on the popular CMS Drupal 10 and released under GPL V.3 License.
Creative Research
Creative Research connects METRO’s membership to adjacent work in the realms of art, design, critical information and media studies, and ecology.
Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York
Providing online access to digital collections that document the history of the Metropolitan New York region.
Library Field
A place to deepen our relationships—between institutions, communities, and individuals—and the earth.