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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…