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Join METRO and our sister council, Long Island Library Resources Council (LILRC), for this behind-the-scenes tour and information session with Ashley Dalle, Interim Chief Librarian, who will discuss the many free benefits available for both children and adults from the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library.The Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library is…

Join us for a tour of the Morgan Library & Museum’s Belle Da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy exhibition. The exhibition is devoted to the life and career of its inaugural director, Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950). Widely recognized as an authority on illuminated manuscripts and deeply respected as a cultural heritage executive, Greene was…

Join METRO and our sister council, Long Island Library Resources Council (LILRC), for this presentation from Ashley Dalle, Interim Chief Librarian about the many free benefits available for adults from the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library.The Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library is a branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL)…

A Beginner's Guide to Failure is a half-day cohort experience that teaches library workers how to embrace and even celebrate failure. Instead of viewing failure as evidence of something lacking, this short course endeavors to help individuals better integrate failure as part of being fully human, taking creative risks, and growing critical skills and mindsets…

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!). The Prison Library Support Network is collaborating with METRO to host Abolitionist Futures: A PLSN Discussion…

The Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education stresses that “Information Has Value,” and that we need to recognize issues of access or lack of access to information sources. A library that does not provide access to academic materials to all students is not allowing them to succeed. For example, how can we ensure that…

Please join us for the Second Annual STEM Information Professionals Mini Conference at Barnard College in New York City, co-sponsored by Barnard College and the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO).This two-day conference, taking place Thursday, March 20th and Friday, March 21st from 8:30am to 4:30pm both days, aims to bring together science librarians, other…

Please join us for the Second Annual STEM Information Professionals Mini Conference at Barnard College in New York City, co-sponsored by Barnard College and the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO).This two-day conference, taking place Thursday, March 20th and Friday, March 21st from 8:30am to 4:30pm both days, aims to bring together science librarians, other…

Join the METRO Economics & Business Librarians Group to tour New York Public Library’s Thomas Yoseloff Business Center and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL). North America’s preeminent public business library, The Yoseloff Business Center offers an array of free resources for those interested in personal finance and investing, small business, financial research, and career services.This…

Barchives, a METRO Interest Group, had such a spirited response to its March event with Bronx Brewery that they're going back for another round. Join Barchives on Saturday, April 5th for the second Bronx-based Barchives featuring the SUNY Maritime archives. Founded in 1874 as the New York Nautical School, SUNY Maritime is the oldest college…