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If you've lived in Brooklyn long enough, you've probably been to Montero Bar and Grill for karaoke. It's ok if your memory is a little hazy. Like any longtime NYC establishment, it's the kind of place where you're either already a regular or, when you enter you say: Oh yeah…I've been here before!  If you've lived…

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…

Ensuring uninterrupted access to library e-resources requires both proactive monitoring and effective problem-solving. Using a healthcare metaphor, Dr. Kanu Nagra will present a practical approach to managing e-resource access issues by examining their causes, recognizing common symptoms, and developing an effective treatment plan. Participants will learn how to diagnose the root causes of access interruptions—including…

Join METRO for a community gathering on Tuesday, September 22 at the Center for Brooklyn History. Following this year’s virtual annual meeting in June, we’re excited to bring the METRO community together to mark the first day of fall and celebrate new projects from METRO’s Cross-Reference Coalition (CRC)! Join us for a range of self-directed…

In October 2023, Tara Maria Fernandes arranged some chairs in a circle at International House New York — around a book, fresh fruit, and a blue teapot of hot tea — and invited neighbors in her residential community to gather around literature. Thirty-one sessions later, The I-House Book Club has read its way from Le Guin to…

Join us on an embodied conversation and nature walk that invites exploration of the form, function, and feeling of libraries as ecosystem through planetary relations. We move across historical time and global library contexts to the material hands on practice of making paper as a collective record-keeping tool. What does relational practice look like through…

Join us for a behind-the-scenes tour of Carnegie Hall's Rose Archives and The Rose Museum. Opened in 1891, Carnegie Hall is a historic National landmark in New York City, comprising three stages dedicated to the transformative power of music and the performing arts. The library and archives team will showcase artifacts and ephemera related to…

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…

Join an in-person workshop on FM transmission as a model of collective sense-making, navigation, and relational learning. FM transmissions ride on slower and lower wavelengths than digital communications like WiFi, Bluetooth, and fiberoptic systems, potentially offering relief from the ambient speed, charge, and overwhelm of targeted, extractive, surveillant digital technologies. FM broadcasting also keeps running…

Concopia is a deck of curiosities and questions that encourages us to reimagine and reenchant the world. They can be used for quiet contemplation, for innovation processes that invite us to rethink the world with zeal and ingenuity, and for deep conversations about civics, endangered skills, the wonders of nature, and the meaning of life.…