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Announcing our 2019 Digitization Grant Program Awards
METRO is pleased to announce the 2019 METRO Digitization Grant Program awards. All of the funded projects will provide free online access to unique/rare materials in the collections of METRO member institutions. METRO members selected to receive the grants, totaling...
Announcing the Beta Release of Our New Digital Repository Software
On Monday, July 29, METRO Library Council released the first beta of Archipelago, a new open source repository system. More information and code for this project can be found at https://github.com/esmero/archipelago-deployment. Ready to deploy now, our first beta...
Announcing Our Studio Interns
METRO is pleased to announce the recipients of its Studio Internship Program. The goals of the METRO Studio Internship Program are to support innovative work for graduate students, recent graduates, and individuals in career transition entering the cultural heritage...
Sunsetting ESDN in July 2019
For almost five years, METRO has operated the New York State Service Hub for the Digital Public Library of America, ESDN. Over these years, METRO has facilitated the addition of 443,200 records from about 200 organizations to the DPLA platform, thus making many hard...
Early Episodes of WNYC’s On the Media Are Now Available Online
New York Public Radio recently completed a project to digitize early On the Media broadcasts from 1993-1996, courtesy of a METRO digitization grant. Over 200 hours of the seminal program, which investigates “how the media shapes our world view” are now freely...