Join us for an exploration of core principles of data visualization and their application within library settings. This session will introduce fundamental concepts and techniques for visualizing both qualitative and quantitative data. We will cover visualization methods, including charts, graphs, and infographics, and discuss how these tools can en…

Join us for an exclusive, closed-to-the-public tour of the Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library’s Treasures, which showcases some of the most extraordinary items from the 56 million in its collections. We'll see manuscripts, artworks, letters, still and moving images, recordings, and more! Current exhibitions include "Censorship …

Join METRO’s Reference and Instruction Interest Group for a conversation about decolonial perspectives - practices and frameworks - in librarianship. For the upcoming 2025 Critical Pedagogy Symposium on Decentering the West, the Case Studies in Critical Pedagogy will feature case studies and a primer for learning about and thinking about anti-colo…

Join Library Freedom Project, Library Futures, and Metropolitan New York Library Council as we host some of our favorite small, progressive publishers like Verso Books, Seven Stories Press, Feminist Press, PM Press, Pluto Press, and more at Francis Kite Club in Alphabet City (Manhattan). We'll hear about new titles, and there will be door prizes an…

METRO’s Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York (DCMNY) repository provides online access to digital collections that document the history of the Metropolitan New York region. Through DCMNY, METRO endeavors to cultivate sustainable digital spacemaking and cultural heritage resource exchange, provide access to collections materials from a spectrum …

Understanding the "manosphere" -- a discursive online space occupied by a loose confederacy of interest groups encompassing a wide range of ideologies and beliefs centered on reinforcing patriarchy -- is important for information professionals for many reasons. First, many manosphere sites act as echo chambers which significantly contribu…

Join the Prison Library Support Network for the last Abolitionist Futures meeting of 2024. We are beyond thrilled to be hosting the incredible Dean Spade as our guest. As part of this conversation, we’ll discuss Dean Spade’s Mutual Aid (a resource PLSN has used directly in its organizing work), and ways that groups like our own can work through dif…

This session will provide and talk through practical tips for supporting the agency of autistic and neurodivergent individuals in your library. Led by Bailey Hoffner, an adult-diagnosed autistic librarian, the session will encourage attendees to ask questions such as: What are specific ways of thinking that aren't serving your entire community, a…

Join us for a behind-the-scenes studio and archive tour of Democracy Now!, one of the leading U.S.-based independent daily news broadcasts in the world. Founded in 1996, Democracy Now! provides reporting including breaking daily news headlines and in-depth interviews with people on the front lines of the world’s most pressing issues. Following the …

Join us for a tour of our fall exhibitions at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), Luis Fernando Benedit: Invisible Labyrinths and Dueñas de la Noche: Trans Lives and Dreams in 1980s Caracas. Visitors will also be able to visit the Research Center, which houses the ISLAA Library and Archives. Luis Fernando Benedit: Invisible La…

Join METRO's Economics & Business Librarians interest group for an in-person Fall event about AI. Everyone seems to be talking about artificial intelligence, but what does it mean for subject librarians? We'll look at some of the ways that AI is changing how research is conducted, review critical approaches to evaluating AI tools for research, …

The METRO-ILL Fall 2024 meeting welcomes everyone interested in resource sharing and interlibrary loan topics. Bring any resource sharing topics/questions/ideas that you would like to discuss. Or, we may take on some topics such as learning/enhancing best practices when dealing with tough requests, resources for searching difficult to fill requests…

So you want to be an information worker? Congratulations and welcome to the noble and complex world of public service! An MLS/MLIS degree can prepare you for a lot of the technical side of things, but it may not prepare you for the everyday reality of the work. Join Brooklyn Public Library's Emma Karin Eriksson for a seminar on what to expect in th…

UPDATE: Unfortunately, we made the decision to cancel this event due to low registration. However, we hope to reschedule the workshop in 2025, so please stay tuned! A Beginner's Guide to Failure is a half-day cohort experience that teaches library workers how to celebrate failure–really! Instead of viewing failure as evidence of something lacking, …

This interactive workshop builds on foundational concepts covered in the first session, Foundations of Data Visualization: Theory and Techniques. Scheduled three weeks later to allow time for individual practice, this session provides an opportunity for participants to workshop their own data visualizations. Participants will engage in discussions …

Indebted to the work of Black women writers Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, and Tricia Hersey, and the continued efforts of library workers from Sandy Berman to Emily Drabinski, this session from Bailey Hoffner will explore why slowing down is not only a viable approach to metadata justice work, but the only sustainable approach allowing us the restful …

In late 2023, Brooklyn Public Library debuted a podcast series entitled Borrowed and Banned that told the story of America’s ideological war with its bookshelves. The series followed the teachers and librarians whose livelihoods were endangered when they spoke up, the writers whose work has become a political battleground, and the young people caug…

Join us for a behind-the-scenes tour of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, one of the world’s premier collections of botanical literature from throughout world history, and the largest such archive in the Western Hemisphere. The Mertz Library promotes the intelligent stewardship of the natural world by collecting and preserving works of merit in botany…

The Afro-Argentine Diaspora oral history project is designed to uncover the history of the Afro-Argentine diaspora community in Argentina and NYC. A common narrative promoted within Argentina and globally is that there are no Black people in Argentina. This narrative of erasure around the African roots of many elements of Argentine culture, includi…

As a form of conversation, reference interviews are uniquely positioned to facilitate relationship building, collaboration, and community care. This can be especially salient in academic settings where productivity, efficiency, and achievements are built into the community’s expectations. In this webinar, Tricia Clarke, PhD, explores the relevance …

Join us for a book discussion led by special guest hosts Joseph Morris and Mia Vasquez (Librarians with Brooklyn Public Libraries Jail + Prison Services). Using Blood in the Water by Heather Ann Thompson as a guide, our hosts will lead us in conversation about the politics and societies that grow and exist within prisons, the limitations of prison …

Help us imagine the future of the Library Field Project. Get involved today! This summer the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), alongside our consulting team BKS Studio, is hosting a series of community gatherings aimed at bringing together a diverse and creative group of cultural institution workers from New York City and Westchester C…

Strawberryfield Formatters are one of the key tools powering Archipelago's display and rendering of your repository assets. In this session we will review Archipelagos default Strawberryfield Formatters and Display Modes, and discuss how you can adjust these to your own display preferences and needs.

Join us for a two hour long session dedicated to Archipelago's Search & Solr setup. After the first hour focusing on the nuts and bolts of Search and Solr, we will take a short break and then resume for a live walkthrough of the Strawberry Keyname Providers to Facet Block process, following step-by-step with our related Archipelago documentatio…

Description: Join us for a walkthrough of an Archipelago 1.4.0 Local Deployment and a quick tour through some of the new and updated features baked into the latest release.