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Unfortunately, Barchives had to cancel this upcoming Barchives event. 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…

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…

Please join us for a special event where METRO Executive Director Nate Hill will provide an overview of the work METRO has done for our membership and the field at large in 2025-2026. After this introduction, we'll be joined by Britt Paris, Associate Professor at Rutgers University, and Charli Muller, New York University student, who…

This workshop will provide a brief introduction to bibliometric analysis as methodology before diving into a free data visualization tool—VOSviewer—that supports this work. The focus of this session will be a thorough look at how VOSviewer can take a bibliographic dataset and provide new perspectives on questions including: What are the main topics or research…

Join the Ossining Public Library and the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) for a fun outdoors, hands-on workshop exploring the tools, techniques, and philosophies behind the powerful but accessible citizen science tools that anyone can use to learn more about the world around them, expand their day-to-day experiences with nature, and engage with a…

Many METRO members joined us last fall for our guided hikes, which seeded our co-design process. We learned a lot from everyone, and we invite you to review our report. This spring, we’d like to welcome more of you to walk with us and explore the Library Field and its potential together. We’ll be rethinking our…

This practical workshop will dig into the functionality of VOSviewer, a freely available software that provides a variety of ways for visualizing bibliometric data. We’ll begin with some live demos of how the software works before attendees have an opportunity to practice with a sample dataset and step-by-step instructions. The majority of this workshop will…

Many METRO members joined us last fall for our guided hikes, which seeded our co-design process. We learned a lot from everyone, and we invite you to review our report. This spring, we’d like to welcome more of you to walk with us and explore the Library Field and its potential together. We’ll be rethinking our…