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This workshop will walk you through the basics of determining where your retirement income will come from. Kathleen Kalmes, CFA and former Financial Resources Specialist at NYPL's Business Library, will discuss how to best plan for a financially secure and happy retirement.Kathleen Kalmes, CFA, previously served NYPL’s Business Library as a Financial Resources Specialist, where…

Join the code4lib NYC for a code & coffee Zoom the first or second Friday of each month this spring & summer. These calls are generally casual discussions about projects we are working on, cool tools we have come across in the past month, and a casual forum for technical questions of all kinds.

Want to learn more about prison abolition? Looking to explore the role of information in the prison industrial complex? Excited to discuss ways we can collectively offer resources to address violence caused by mass incarceration? Join the club (literally!). This monthly discussion group with Prison Library Support Network will look at a rotating calendar of…

With Kelly Delevan from Syracuse University and facilitated by Iman Powe-MaynardIn this webinar, Information Literacy Librarian Kelly Delevan will discuss the multiple ways in which bias (implicit and explicit) complicates our search practices. Bias can reside in information systems, individual sources, or our personal perspectives. Navigating through this bias requires a dispositional shift – we…

If these past two years have proved anything, it’s that having reliable access to the internet is a necessity. And yet access to the internet is far from assured in many homes across the country.For this and so many other reasons, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed last November includes a directive to “ensure…

About This SessionWhy did Facebook rename itself for the Metaverse? What is the metaverse & how are people experiencing it? How are artists, nonprofits, even the NBA are racking up seven-figure payouts for otherwise mundane pieces of media called NFTs (non-fungible tokens)? Why are they so despised? In this session, we look at the crazy…

Louisa Tatum of The New York Public Library's Career Services staff will discuss how to put your best foot forward in your job search with a clear, well-written, and effective resume.Louisa Tatum is a passionate, energetic and innovative career coaching professional and presenter, who currently works as the Manager of the NYPL’s Career Services department.…

With the Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington, facilitated by Iman Powe-MaynardThe COVID-19 pandemic and the fallout from the 2020 U.S. presidential election have highlighted the acute impact of misinformation on democracy and public health. In addition, current global political crises have illuminated a new era of information warfare, with political…

Join the code4lib NYC for a code & coffee Zoom the first or second Friday of each month this spring & summer. These calls are generally casual discussions about projects we are working on, cool tools we have come across in the past month, and a casual forum for technical questions of all kinds.

Zotero is a free and open source citation management tool that organizes research resources, facilitates in-text citation, fosters collaboration with other scholars, and quickly generates bibliographies. Zotero is not tied to any institution and is available to all at no cost. Attend this session to learn how to set up and work with Zotero so…