With uncertainty swirling around our professional lives, we notice that we're feeling similarly to how we did in the spring of 2020. During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, METRO staff gathered with library workers on virtual community chats to help support one another and process the situation. The current moment seems like a necessary time to revisit this communal space, so we'll be hosting a community chat in May to see what library workers across New York City and Westchester County are experiencing, and to consider how we might help one another through it.
Please join METRO's Mary Bakija and Becca Quon for an open community discussion with the following agenda:
Welcome and introductions
Poll: What is the top concern for you / library workers at your institution right now?
Guided discussion: Based on these concerns, what do you / your colleagues need most to best support you? Where are you finding joy, in your work and outside of it?
Call for future agenda items/moderators: Would a monthly community chat be useful right now? If so, what shape might you like that to take?
Please note, this will be a Zoom Meeting, which allows participants to be on mic and/or on camera if they so choose. To encourage open discussion, the Meeting will not be recorded.