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Gowanus, Brooklyn– maybe most often in headlines related to canal clean-up efforts and gentrification—is also home to longstanding residents who have lived through decades of changes to the neighborhood. In this installment of Barchives, Kellie Marty will talk to us about her community-based archives project for NYC public housing, focusing on the Gowanus Houses. Kellie will…

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…

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 us! The Prison Library Support Network is collaborating with METRO to host PLSN Presents: Abolitionist Futures Series, which will meet quarterly…