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Join us for a discussion of Caste by Isabel WilkersonThis book club meeting will focus on guided discussion questions and will take place in breakout rooms so that everyone has a chance to share. All are welcome, regardless of participation in our first two meetings.We will be reading Caste: The Origins of our Discontent by…

Come drop by and say hello during our holiday mixer on Wednesday, December 9! We’ll have some nice friendly breakout rooms going so you can chat with friends and colleagues in the NYC library and archives community.

Join us for an open METRO community call on Tuesday, December 15th at 2:00 PM.Thanks to some quick moves and an incredibly dedicated staff, METRO is doing well and transitioning to our new remote-only reality. We plan to spend much of the winter and spring creating opportunities to listen to our member organizations in order…

Please join us for an overview of Webforms in Archipelago, featuring an introduction to webform customization with Jennifer Palmentiero, Digital Services Librarian with the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council. Come learn some tips and tricks that could be applied to your own Archipelago workflow.Register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive…

Join us on Thursday, December 17th from 4-5PM for a BIPOC Holiday Celebration! This is meant for BIPOC cultural workers only, we kindly ask that allies and comrades who identify as non-BIPOC to sit this one out. Our intention is to create a space that offers community, joy and conversation during this time. Please come…

In this 60 minute online session, Daniel Alaya, Davis Erin Anderson, and Gary Price will review how our world’s largest tech companies view privacy. We’ll discuss the steps these businesses take to collect your data, share the personal impacts of data collection policies, and give you tips for what you can do to bring back…

Follow along as we demonstrate a complete walkthrough of a local Archipelago 1.0.0-RC1 deployment, using the detailed instructions found here: Archipelago Docker Deployment.This meeting will take place on Zoom. Please contact Allison Lund for a meeting link.

12:30 – 1:30 PM EST: Presentations1:30-2:00 PM EST: Optional discussion for those who feel moved and can joinMETRO Reference and Instruction Special Interest GroupCo-sponsored by NYU LibrariesMETRO Reference and Instruction Special Interest Group is excited to present round two of a two-part series on Reference and Instruction and Critical Librarianship. The Case Studies in Critical…

Join us as we traverse the flexible and extensible ways Archipelago manages Metadata, Schemas, and Media.This meeting will take place on Zoom. Please contact Allison Lund for a meeting link.

Led by Anna Perrici, this webinar will serve as a high-level overview of core web archiving concepts. Attendees will learn about collecting models for web resources and the context in which this work is being done. We’ll discuss technical elements and briefly describe some web archiving approaches in use. Key takeaways will include how web…