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Putting Theories Into Practice: Engaging in Empathy and Trauma-Informed Librarianship, Part 1
Online/Virtual Event
Tuesday, February 7th 2023 from 4:00pm to 5:00pm
If you’ve ever wondered, “Where do I start?” after attending a webinar on trauma-informed librarianship, empathy, or serving diverse needs, this webinar from Emma Karin Eriksson is for you! This is the first of two sessions focused on closing the gap between those theories and the active practice of working with people. Each session includes an overview of theories, a demonstration of tools to and how to use them, time to engage in exercises and space to reflect on experiences. Part 1 looks at the six parts of emotional intelligence and the concepts of beliefs, values, and attitudes, and provides tips for how to examine your own beliefs and recognize them in action.
Code and Coffee with code4lib NYC
Online/Virtual Event
Join the code4lib NYC for a code & coffee Zoom the first or second Friday of each month. These calls are generally casual discussions about projects we are working on, cool tools we have come across in the past month, and a casual forum for technical questions of all kinds.
Introduction to Digital Rights for Library Workers
Online/Virtual Event
Thursday, February 2nd 2023 from 12:00pm to 1:30pm
How as a society might we balance copyright protections with free and equal access to information? Where does our individual right to privacy end and the public’s right to know begin? What is needed to reify and further the mission of providing equitable access to digital infrastructure? How might we utilize this infrastructure to the benefit of our communities?
Community Integration: Library Programming for Those with Intellectual Disability, Part 1
Online/Virtual Event
Join us to learn about the emerging movement in librarianship to engage those with intellectual disability (ID) who have previously been largely overlooked. Over two sessions, Leah Plocharczyk and Matthew Conner will discuss two intertwined case studies in academic libraries. They will then unpack the lessons they learned and how to apply it in academic, public, and school libraries.
In Part 1, Leah and Matt will go over the origins of their project and introduce the issues libraries face in working with disability, providing concrete examples about this kind of work.
Attendees can expect to:
Understand the definition of intellectual disability (ID)
Articulate the state of public education for ID and the role of post-secondary education
Understand the history of library engagement with intellectual disability, including new grass roots initiatives
See Part 2 of this series here.
About our presenters:
Leah Plocharczyk is the Director of the John D. MacArthur Campus Library at Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) Jupiter campus and became a professional librarian at FAU in 2007. She has an MLS from the University of South Florida and an MA from FAU. She is active in mentoring students, as well as leadership and library outreach. Her publications include articles on library collaboration with marine mammal stranding networks and conflict management within libraries. She co-authored a book about the importance of library book clubs as educational tools for adults with intellectual disabilities. Her book club is a member of the Next chapter Book Club.
Matthew Conner has an MLS, an MA and a PhD in English. He is the author of The New University Library: 4 Case Studies (ALA, 2014) and co-author of Libraries and Reading: Intellectual Disability and the Extent of Library Diversity (Emerald, 2020). He is also the former President of the Librarians Association of the University of California. He currently works as Student Services Librarian at the University of California, Davis where he serves as the subject liaison for the University Writing Program.
Please review our Code of Conduct, our Statement on Viewpoints, and details on Interpreter Services.
Digital Equity Ecosystems Measurement Framework Report Launch Event: A Panel Discussion with the Report’s Authors and Digital Equity Leaders in NYC
Online/Virtual Event
People in communities across the country are working together to advance broadband access and digital equity. Local coalitions play an important role in these efforts. However, few coalitions have the tools they need to measure the outcomes and impacts of their work.
In a new report, published in November 2022, Dr. Colin Rhinesmith (METRO) and Dr. Rafi Santo (Telos Learning) introduced a Digital Equity Ecosystems Measurement Framework to assist location coalitions in their work to advance more equitable access to technology and social, economic, and racial justice. In this event, the authors will join digital equity leaders who helped shape the report and talk about how the DEEM framework can be used effectively by local coalitions working with other members of their communities.
By the end of this event, you will be able to:
Talk about the important role that local coalitions play in digital equity efforts
Describe how the DEEM framework can be used to support local coalitions
Consider how libraries, archives, and museums could utilize the DEEM framework to advance broadband access and digital equity with others their communities
Panelists will include the report’s authors: Dr. Colin Rhinesmith, Director, Digital Equity Research Center at METRO and Dr. Rafi Santo, Principal, Telos Learning, along with the following local digital equity experts: Kathy Fall, Digital Equity Program Manager, Community Tech NY; Meghan McDermott, Director, Digital Inclusion & Partnerships, New York City Office of Technology & Innovation; and Houman Saberi, Co-Director, Community Tech NY. The discussion will be moderated by Davis Erin Anderson, Director of Programs and Partnerships at METRO.
This event is produced by Digital Equity Research Center.
Please review our Code of Conduct, our Statement on Viewpoints, and details on Interpreter Services.
A Day In The Life: A Panel Discussion With School Media Specialists
Online/Virtual Event
Join us for our next elucidating conversation in a series of panel discussions where we talk about the joys and challenges of working in various settings within the library industry.
We'll be joined by Sandra Echols, Melissa Jacobs, and Patricia Sarles to talk shop about working in school libraries. We'll learn what aspects of their work make them excited to show up every day, what their day-to-day experiences are like, and how the broader library community can help our colleagues meet today's challenges.
We'll have time for questions from our audience; feel free to bring your Qs.
This event is a co-production between METRO and The City of New York Department of Education Department of Library Services. Register here.
Please review our Code of Conduct, our Statement on Viewpoints, and details on Interpreter Services.
Postponed: Code and Coffee with code4lib NYC
Online/Virtual Event
This event has been postponed. Please join Code4LibNYC at their gathering on February 3, 2023. More information is available here.
Join the code4lib NYC for a code & coffee Zoom the first or second Friday of each month. These calls are generally casual discussions about projects we are working on, cool tools we have come across in the past month, and a casual forum for technical questions of all kinds.
code4lib NYC Meetup at Urbanspace Vanderbilt
Interest Group Meeting
Join code4lib NYC for a casual, in-person meetup at Urbanspace Vanderbilt, a food hall near Grand Central Terminal.
Please contact organizer Michael Rios at mrios27@fordham.edu to receive details on how to locate the group within the space.
Archipelago Workshop Series 2022: Session 3
Workshop
Please join us for our upcoming Archipelago Workshop Series taking place this early Winter 2022. These workshops will focus on general migration and ingest workflows using the Archipelago Multi Importer (AMI). Each session will include live demonstrations and explanations of different areas of AMI functionality and configurations. Follow up Q+A and use case discussions will take place in our Archipelago Slack channel after each session.
Session 3: AMI Set Processing
Attendees will need to register for each separate workshop session. You can choose to attend one or more of the sessions.
Thank you & hope to see you for these workshops!
NYC Digital Safety Train-the-trainer Reprise
Online/Virtual Event
We're celebrating the launch of over 40 curriculum modules, written especially for library workers by the project team at NYC Digital Safety!
Join us on Zoom meetings to learn more about these approachable and engaging modules in train-the-trainers workshops.
This workshop features a walk through the project's website, where you can find these scalable modules on data privacy and digital security. We will walk you through a few of these modules and will share ideas for how you can incorporate them into your workshop offerings.
By the end of this two-part workshop, you will be able to:
Identify the topics that are covered in these curriculum modules and find them online
Figure out which modules work best in your pre-existing programs
Build your own workshops using these materials
This workshop will be interactive. While these workshops are geared toward the public library settings, these workshops are open to all library workers interested in sharing information with their users on data privacy. If you'd like to bone up on the concepts in data privacy and information security that are covered in these short modules, you are welcome to view the videos we made just for library workers like you at nycdigitalsafety.org.
NYC Digital Safety is funded by the City of New York's Office of Technology and Innovation. This project was managed by METRO Library Council with input from Brooklyn Public Library, The New York Public Library, and Queens Public Library.
Abolitionist Futures: A PLSN Discussion Group, December / Building Accountable Communities
Online/Virtual Event
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 the club (literally!). This monthly discussion group with Prison Library Support Network will look at a rotating calendar of media resources for discussion, meeting the 2nd Monday of each month at 7:30pm.
While the group's facilitators (and host) are affiliated with libraries, you do not need to be a librarian or information professional to attend this group. We will share our discussion calendar regularly through METRO and the PLSN listserv, so that folks can plan ahead to attend the months that sound interesting to them.
For our final discussion of the year we want to explore moving forward and away from prisons and punishment. We will be watching all the videos in this series and talking about transformative justice, accountability, and what we can put into practice in our lives:
Building Accountable Communities Video Series (watch all videos on the page)
Optional:
Beyond Survival (We read this last year but it is a great book! If you’ve already read it give it a skim through to refresh your memory)
Please review our Code of Conduct, our Statement on Viewpoints, and details on Interpreter Services.
Archipelago Workshop Series 2022: Session 2
Workshop
Please join us for our upcoming Archipelago Workshop Series taking place this early Winter 2022. These workshops will focus on general migration and ingest workflows using the Archipelago Multi Importer (AMI). Each session will include live demonstrations and explanations of different areas of AMI functionality and configurations. Follow up Q+A and use case discussions will take place in our Archipelago Slack channel after each session.
Session 2: Twig Templating and Metadata Display Preview for AMI Ingest -- adapting the default AMI Ingest Template for your own data needs
Attendees will need to register for each separate workshop session. You can choose to attend one or more of the sessions.
Thank you & hope to see you for these workshops!
Code and Coffee with code4lib NYC
Online/Virtual Event
Join the code4lib NYC for a code & coffee Zoom the first or second Friday of each month this fall. These calls are generally casual discussions about projects we are working on, cool tools we have come across in the past month, and a casual forum for technical questions of all kinds.
Common Mistakes in Cataloging (And How to Avoid Them)
Online/Virtual Event
Wednesday, November 30th 2022 from 4:00pm to 5:00pm
When it comes to metadata and cataloging, many library staff members feel they get thrown into the deep end before being taught how to swim. Cataloging training in library education is frequently designed to give an overview rather than in-depth preparation, leaving actual cataloging practices to be acquired on the job. Sometimes a cataloging component gets added to a position (such as acquisitions or reference) after the fact, with little training or guidance.
Melanie Wacker, Head of Digital Resources Metadata, Cataloging & Metadata Services Division, Columbia University Libraries, provides some help by identifying three common areas of confusion in cataloging and strategies on how to navigate them. She goes over why more isn't always more, the importance of authority control, and how to put non-MARC metadata work into the larger library context.
By the end of this webinar, viewers will be able to:
Identify each of these three common cataloging misunderstandings
Notice when these things crop up in their work
Take steps to align their cataloging efforts with common cataloging processes and procedures
About our presenter:
Melanie Wacker works with her colleagues within Columbia University Libraries to ensure the integration of digital metadata with local and national systems to enable information discovery. She provides guidance on best practices, and develops, documents, and maintains standards and procedures for metadata for digital content generated within the Libraries. Her other responsibilities include the cataloging of electronic resources and name (NACO) and subject (SACO) authority work.
Melanie is the chair of the MODS/MADS Editorial Committee, a member of the VIVO Ontology Group, a member of the planning group for the OCLC Research Library Partners Metadata Managers Focus Group, an At-Large-Member of the PCC Policy Committee (PoCo), as well as co-chair of the BIBFRAME Interoperability Group (BIG).
Archipelago Workshop Series 2022: Session 1
Workshop
Please join us for our upcoming Archipelago Workshop Series taking place this early Winter 2022. These workshops will focus on general migration and ingest workflows using the Archipelago Multi Importer (AMI). Each session will include live demonstrations and explanations of different areas of AMI functionality and configurations. Follow up Q+A and use case discussions will take place in our Archipelago Slack channel after each session.
Session 1 : AMI Essentials and Tricks of the Trade
Attendees will need to register for each separate workshop session. You can choose to attend one or more of the sessions.
Thank you & hope to see you for these workshops!
How "Data Cartels" Mine, Commodify, And Sell Our Data: A Talk With Sarah Lamdan
Online/Virtual Event
Join METRO's Director of Programs and Partnerships, Davis Erin Anderson, for a conversation with Sarah Lamdan about Lamdan's new book, Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information.
About the book:
In our digital world, data is power. Information hoarding businesses reign supreme, using intimidation, aggression, and force to maintain influence and control. Sarah Lamdan brings us into the unregulated underworld of these "data cartels," demonstrating how the entities mining, commodifying, and selling our data and informational resources perpetuate social inequalities and threaten the democratic sharing of knowledge.
Just a few companies dominate most of our critical informational resources. Often self-identifying as "data analytics" or "business solutions" operations, they supply the digital lifeblood that flows through the circulatory system of the internet. With their control over data, they can prevent the free flow of information, masterfully exploiting outdated information and privacy laws and curating online information in a way that amplifies digital racism and targets marginalized communities. They can also distribute private information to predatory entities. Alarmingly, everything they're doing is perfectly legal.
In this book, Lamdan contends that privatization and tech exceptionalism have prevented us from creating effective legal regulation. This in turn has allowed oversized information oligopolies to coalesce. In addition to specific legal and market-based solutions, Lamdan calls for treating information like a public good and creating digital infrastructure that supports our democratic ideals.
About the author:
Sarah Lamdan is a Professor of Law. She teaches administrative law, environmental law, data privacy, information access, and government transparency courses. Before teaching law, Lamdan was a librarian in academic and private libraries.
Professor Lamdan’s 2017 reference book Environmental Information: Research, Access & Environmental Decisionmaking (Environmental Law Institute) is a resource for journalists, scientists, and researchers who rely on government science. Her work has been published in law reviews and information science journals, including the NYU Review of Law and Social Change, Library Journal, Government Information Quarterly, and forthcoming work in the Georgetown Law Technology Review.
When she’s not teaching, Professor Lamdan is active in national information access and data privacy research and organizations. She is a Senior Fellow with the SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and a fellow at the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at NYU School of Law. She’s also a member of the Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI) and a co-chair of the Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) Community Oversight Council.
Please review our Code of Conduct, our Statement on Viewpoints, and details on Interpreter Services.
NYC Digital Safety Train-the-trainers Workshop
Workshop
We're celebrating the launch of over 40 curriculum modules, written especially for library workers by the project team at NYC Digital Safety!
Join us on Zoom meetings to learn more about these approachable and engaging modules in train-the-trainers workshops.
This workshop features a walk through the project's website, where you can find these scalable modules on data privacy and digital security. We will walk you through a few of these modules and will share ideas for how you can incorporate them into your workshop offerings.
By the end of this two-part workshop, you will be able to:
Identify the topics that are covered in these curriculum modules and find them online
Figure out which modules work best in your pre-existing programs
Build your own workshops using these materials
Teach others about important concepts in keeping their personal data safe and secure
This workshop will be interactive. While these workshops are geared toward the public library settings, these workshops are open to all library workers interested in sharing information with their users on data privacy. If you'd like to bone up on the concepts in data privacy and information security that are covered in these short modules, you are welcome to view the videos we made just for library workers like you at nycdigitalsafety.org.
NYC Digital Safety is funded by the City of New York's Office of Technology and Innovation. This project was managed by METRO Library Council with input from Brooklyn Public Library, The New York Public Library, and Queens Public Library.
Please review our Code of Conduct, our Statement on Viewpoints, and details on Interpreter Services.
Interlibrary Loan Interest Group Meeting
Interest Group Meeting
Join the ILL's interest group meeting on November 15! Bring your updates, thoughts, and questions about resource sharing across your networks.
Abolitionist Futures: A PLSN Discussion Group, November / Indigenous Incarceration
Online/Virtual Event
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 the club (literally!). This monthly discussion group with Prison Library Support Network will look at a rotating calendar of media resources for discussion, meeting the 2nd Monday of each month at 7:30pm.
While the group's facilitators (and host) are affiliated with libraries, you do not need to be a librarian or information professional to attend this group. We will share our discussion calendar regularly through METRO and the PLSN listserv, so that folks can plan ahead to attend the months that sound interesting to them.
In recognition of Native Heritage Month, we will be looking at the incarceration of Indigenous populations in North America:
The U.S. criminal justice system disproportionately hurts Native people: the data, visualized
Indigenous Spirituality Inside Oregon Prisons (PBS Video 9 minutes)
Exploring the States of Incarceration Minnesota webpage, "Carceral Colonialism: Imprisonment in Indian Country: How has settler colonialism shaped the carceral state?"
Optional:
An Indigenous Abolitionist Study Guide by Yellow Head Institute
Please review our Code of Conduct, our Statement on Viewpoints, and details on Interpreter Services.
Unlocking Restricted-Access Government Data with the NY Federal Statistical Research Data Center at Baruch College
Online/Virtual Event
Join the NYC Economics & Business METRO community to learn about how the NY Research Data Center (NYRDC) at Baruch College facilitates access to restricted-use microdata from a variety of statistical agencies. Our speakers will cover:
The restricted-access demographic, economic, health, and other data available through the NYRDC
Examples of the types of questions that can be explored using RDC data
How researchers can apply to use data via the NYRDC
Speakers:
Shirley Liu, PhD, Economist & Administrator, NYRDC at Baruch
Diane Gibson, PhD, Executive Director, NYRDC at Baruch and Professor, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs
Please share this event with social science colleagues who may be interested in attending!
Individuals outside of the NYC metro area may wish to connect with their regional RDC to organize a similar event: https://www.census.gov/about/adrm/fsrdc/locations.html
Postponed: NYC Digital Safety Train-the-trainers Workshop
Workshop
We're celebrating the launch of over 40 curriculum modules, written especially for library workers by the project team at NYC Digital Safety!
Join us on Zoom meetings to learn more about these approachable and engaging modules in train-the-trainers workshops with curriculum developer and designer Sarah Morris and project manager Davis Erin Anderson.
Davis will show you the project's website, where you can find these scalable modules on data privacy and digital security. Sarah will walk you through a few of these modules and will share ideas for how you can incorporate them into your workshop offerings.
By the end of this two-part workshop, you will be able to:
Identify the topics that are covered in these curriculum modules and find them online
Figure out which modules work best in your pre-existing programs
Build your own workshops using these materials
Teach others about important concepts in keeping their personal data safe and secure
This workshop will be interactive. If you'd like to bone up on the concepts in data privacy and information security that are covered in these short modules, you are welcome to view the videos we made just for library workers like you at nycdigitalsafety.org.
NYC Digital Safety is funded by the City of New York's Office of Technology and Innovation. This project was managed by METRO Library Council with input from Brooklyn Public Library, The New York Public Library, and Queens Public Library.
This is part 1 of a 2 part series; please click here for info on part 2.
Please review our Code of Conduct, our Statement on Viewpoints, and details on Interpreter Services.
CRT in Libraries Case Study: A Conversation on Library Work In and Against Prisons
Online/Virtual Event
This event is co-sponsored by the Prison Library Support Network and the Reference and Instruction Special Interest Group. It is the second event in a series, leading up to a symposium on Critical Race Theory in LIS, slated for May 2023.
Foundations of Evaluation and Assessment in Library Settings: Part II – This Is How We Do It…
Online/Virtual Event
Tuesday, November 8th 2022 from 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Part II of the Foundations of Evaluation and Assessment in Library Settings workshops focuses on what these concepts looks like in practice. Building on real-world examples, this session addresses a variety of approaches used to conduct evaluations and assessments, with a focus on participatory approaches designed to be more inclusive and democratic.
Examples of concepts covered include data collection approaches (focus groups, interviews, observations, surveys, etc.), data analysis approaches, and implementation of the results.
Viewers will learn to:
Compare data collection and analysis techniques to aid in the selection of appropriate methods that align with evaluation and assessment projects
Recognize the importance of participatory approaches to evaluation and assessment, particularly for the integration of inclusive practices
Identify potential opportunities for implementing results of completed evaluation and assessment projects
See Part 1 of this series here.
About Our Presenter:
Dr. Kawanna Bright is Assistant Professor of Library Science at East Carolina University. Dr. Bright earned her PhD in Research Methods and Statistics from the University of Denver in 2018. Prior to earning her doctorate, Dr. Bright worked as an academic librarian for twelve years, with a focus on reference, instructional services, and information literacy. She earned her MLIS from the University of Washington iSchool in 2003.
Dr. Bright’s current research focuses on assessment in libraries, equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in libraries, the application of research methodology to the study of library and information science, and the importance of the liaison librarianship role in academic libraries. Her work with Dr. Amy VanScoy (University at Buffalo) to investigate the reference and information services experience of librarians of color received a 2014 ALA Diversity Research Grant and was awarded the 2017 Beta Phi Mu-Library Research Round Table Research Paper Award.
Dr. Bright is also a co-PI on a recently funded IMLS grant project that will utilize survival analysis to determine when and why BIPOC librarians are likely to leave the profession. Dr. Bright is a 2021 recipient of an ECU College of Education Profiles in Diversity Award and a 2021 recipient of a 2021 NCLA Round Table for Ethnic Minority Concerns’ LIS Instructor Roadbuilder Award.
Code and Coffee with code4lib NYC
Online/Virtual Event
Join the code4lib NYC for a code & coffee Zoom the first or second Friday of each month this fall. These calls are generally casual discussions about projects we are working on, cool tools we have come across in the past month, and a casual forum for technical questions of all kinds.
This month, Dan Woulfin of NYU will present on DIYDDICurator, a Shiny web app he designed to help researchers generate a valid Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) codebook, and rddi, the R package powering that generation.
Abstract:
Generating project metadata is crucial for data sharing but also a challenge for both information professionals and researchers, especially in the social sciences. This presentation will look at DIYDDICurator, a Shiny web app designed to help researchers generate a valid Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) codebook, and rddi, the R package powering that generation. We will explore the social drivers and needs that led to DIYDDICurator, the basics of reactive programming that structures the app, and how rddi powers it and can be used in data pipelines. While DIYDDICurator is mostly relevant for curators or researchers working with human survey data, the lessons learned when creating this app can be applied to a wide range of situations where there’s a technological gap between the information professional/librarian and the researcher.
Speaker bio:
Dan Woulfin is an information professional and the Data Associate at Global TIES for Children - NYU, an interdisciplinary social science research center. He is responsible for the proper curation and archiving of research data and its outputs as well as managing data curation workflows at the center. Dan earned his MLS from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Queens College - CUNY (2021) and his PhD in History from Stony Brook University (2011).
Keeping Your Digital Life Organized, Part 2: Beyond the GUI
Online/Virtual Event
Tuesday, November 1st 2022 from 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Once you start dealing with big batches of files, File Explorer and Finder can only go so far. If you’re looking to deal with files on a larger scale, with more control, and in a systematic way, there are some tools that can help. This webinar, led by Katie Wolf, Science and Technology Librarian at Fordham University Libraries, covers the command line and the ways you can manipulate files, folders, and more—all with minimal mouse clicking! And, for those who want to be a bit more programmatic about it, this webinar also covers essential Python recipes for repeated file manipulation strategies. Get ready to go beyond the GUI.
Viewers can expect to:
Become comfortable navigating the command line and using it to navigate files and folders quickly
Learn how to use the command line and Python to work with files in large batches and in a reproducible way
Take away Python code recipes for manipulating files that can be adjusted for individual projects
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