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It’s summer, it’s Pride season, and although we’re gay and tired, we have enough energy for ice cream. Join your fellow LGBTQ+ library folks to unwind with a sweet treat at 6:30pm on June 17th*. We’ll meet at Uncle Louie G’s / Piccoli Take-Out, grab treats, and head over to Prospect Park across the street.Sign…

Join us on Friday, June 18th from 2:00 to 3:00pm for a Juneteenth Celebration. This gathering is 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…

Katelyn Angell and Elvis Bakaitis will present different strategies on how to help undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty to locate appropriate grants/funding. They will describe a recent grants initiative led by the Mina Rees Library (The Graduate Center), including interdepartmental partnerships and the CUNY Research Foundation. Initiatives and resources developed to promote external scholarships for…

In this presentation, members of the Prison Library Support Network will discuss: (1) how our organization started and how we build our relationships; (2) the projects we have done: from the asks that inspire them, to the way we work through them as a non-hierarchical organization, to their impact in the library and prison communities;…

Feel free to circulate broadly!METRO’s Digital Preservation SIG has become the Data Lifecycle Interest Group! Come to our first community meeting where the co-organizers will share more about the group’s expanded mission, introduce ourselves to each other, and share our collective and developing vision for future programming.When: July 7, 2021 at 2pm EDT (18:00 UTC)RSVP…

We’re finally emerging from the worst of this historic pandemic, and current economic trends finally favor workers. Businesses are hiring again and benefits are ending. Meanwhile, the digital divide is still an issue we have to contend with and many of the patrons we work with need us more than ever.Libraries are uniquely positioned to…

Major data breaches are increasingly front and center in the news, and for good reason. We live in an age where foreign actors can shut down major infrastructure from thousands of miles away.Join this session with security experts Dan Ayala and Gary Price to learn exactly how events like the Colonial Pipeline occur, who is…

In a moderated conversation with Davis Erin Anderson (METRO’s Assistant Director for Programs and Partnerships), Thorp will join us on Thursday, July 15 at 7pm for a talk about the central themes of his book. We’ll hear from him on how we as library and archives workers can lead the charge for a more humane…

We’re finally emerging from the worst of this historic pandemic, and current economic trends finally favor workers. Businesses are hiring again and benefits are ending. Meanwhile, the digital divide is still an issue we have to contend with and many of the patrons we work with need us more than ever.Libraries are uniquely positioned to…

If you were bored in the late 80s/early 90s you could always catch something weird on public access television. XFR Collective and METRO bring you a selection of oddities from the weekly arts-oriented show Downtown Tonight. First a stream of consciousness rant on the eve of the 1992 presidential election… “You kids do not know…