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In this 90-minute session, we will go through the three-part workshop series around Rethinking Your Tech Habits that was held for the NYU community in Spring of 2025, not only for its content, structure, and lessons learned, but as an opportunity to consider something similar for your own institution.  The workshop series tackles three evergreen…

Please join us for our Spring 2026 METRO Interlibrary Loan Special Interest Group Meetup, being held in person at Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, NYU!  We will be holding a casual forum, leading with the topic of Accessibility in Resource Sharing Practices, in light of the upcoming April 2026 deadline for compliance with new ADA guidelines…

Barchives hopes to see both Brooklynites and friends from other boroughs at Liz’s Book Bar on Thursday, April 16th. Prithi Kanakamedala will talk through the major findings of her 2024 book Brooklynites, which follows four families living in free Black communities of 19th-century Brooklyn. We’ll learn about Prithi’s research in local archival collections at the Center for…

Many METRO members joined us last fall for our guided hikes, which seeded our co-design process. We learned a lot from everyone, and we invite you to review our report. This spring, we’d like to welcome more of you to walk with us and explore the Library Field and its potential together. We’ll be rethinking our…

The snow has melted, spring is in the air, and we are preparing for a whole season of fun activities at the Library Field! This May, we will be inviting members to come plant 19 different species of native trees and shrubs with us, thanks to the NYSDEC spring seedling sale. In order to do…

Many METRO members joined us last fall for our guided hikes, which seeded our co-design process. We learned a lot from everyone, and we invite you to review our report. This spring, we’d like to welcome more of you to walk with us and explore the Library Field and its potential together. We’ll be rethinking our…

Join other library workers to plant up to 650 seedlings from 19 different species of native plants this spring! METRO purchased these baby trees and shrubs so that we can restore some of the overgrown and inaccessible areas at the Library Field. This will be a fun day where METRO members and their families are…

Libraries have long centered intellectual, textual, and cognitive ways of knowing—but our bodies have always been part of how we learn, sense, decide, and connect. This session invites library workers to remember and reclaim embodiment as an essential dimension of information work. Together, we will explore what somatics and embodied awareness mean within and beyond…

Join us for a tour of the historic Hunterfly Houses at the Weeksville Heritage Center, which provide an intimate look into one of Brooklyn’s vibrant neighborhoods. From the Weeksville Heritage Center website: Weeksville, part of the present-day neighborhoods of Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant, was an independent free black community, named for James Weeks. Weeks purchased…