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Join us on Wednesday, February 17th from 2-3PM for a Black History Month Celebration. This meant for BIPOC cultural workers only, we kindly ask that allies and comrades who identify as non-BIPOC to sit this one out. Our intention is to create a space that offers community, joy and conversation during this time. Please come…

From the attempted coup by white nationalists on January 6th to everyday interactions in our workplaces, white supremacy is threaded through our lives. A crucial piece of the work toward an anti-racist culture is the small moves each of us can make to bring accountability and criticality to our daily interactions. In this session, we…

Please join us for a presentation by Lisa Barrier and Kathryn Gronsbell. They will provide a case study from Carnegie Hall Susan W. Rose Archives. Lisa and Kathryn will describe steps from their start with web archiving in 2018 to present. Their approach is applicable to programs of any size and will be of special…

Please join us for a get-together and conversation with your fellow Library support staff members to share our experiences during the coronavirus pandemic. We look forward to hearing what has been working for you in maintaining social distancing, learn what’s been happening around you, and talk through how you’re coping with this stressful time.At the…

In our workshops, We Need 2 Talk educators always say, anti-racist work is a practice, not a destination. Some of us have been on our anti-racist journeys for many years, while for others, that journey began during the summer of 2020. How can we make this work sustainable in our libraries and communities? How can…

Karl Blumenthal, a web archivist at Archive-It, will give an overview of Archive-It’s features and capabilities as a suite of tools for creating, managing and sharing web archives. Archive-It is a subscription based service offered via the non-profit Internet Archive. Archive-It has hundreds of partners in the United States and worldwide.Anna Perricci will give an…

2020 saw a huge uptick in colloquial usage of the word “equity.” However, in most corners of the information professions, from libraries to archives to usability, we’ve been having this conversation for a long time. During this interactive session, we unpack some of the ways equity has been used (and misused) during the pandemic and…

This event features presentations and a Q + A session with Muira McCammon (University of Pennsylvania), Michael Nelson (Old Dominion University) and Lorena Ramírez-López (Archivist, Developer and Translator contributing to multiple projects). Our three speakers will share their perspectives on bringing an ethical lens to the work of web archiving, including how we might view…

Join our the Library Assistants and Support Staff Association for an event on creditworthiness, financial planning, and other topics to help you get your financial ducks in a row. Topics include:- what constitutes a FICO score- does your credit score matter?- how to improve your creditworthiness, with or without a credit scoreCarol O’Rourke is a…

Join us to hear from two leading voices in the web archiving world. Alex Thurman (Columbia University Libraries) and Sumitra Duncan (New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC)) will share lessons learned from the point of view of established web archives. Sumitra will also be joined by a former NYARC Web Archiving Fellow, Meghan Lyon, who…