2024-2025 CCDA applications are open and available here. Please contact Mark at mparson@metro.org if you need assistance.

METRO's Programming Advisory Committee

We're putting together an advisory committee of METRO members to help us explore ideas that our community should be digging into in our professional development events. This committee will:

We all have a lot to learn from each other. METRO connects people who are doing similar work at different institutions.

Our Interest Groups are convened by leaders in our field around a topic of interest to our community.

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METRO is a non-profit service provider that helps libraries, archives, and museums excel at their work.

Mission Statement

METRO works to create a sustainable culture of creativity, collaboration, and open exchange for libraries, archives, museums, and cultural institutions in

Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York (DCMNY) provides online access to digital collections that document the history of the metropolitan New York region.

METRO works alongside our project partners to address challenges and move the library and archives fields forward.

Scroll on to see our portfolio of projects. If you'd like to partner with us, please reach out to us at info@metro.org.

We’re thrilled to announce our 2022 participants for the inaugural Equity Mentorship Program.

You can find our online application form here. To be eligible to apply, an institution must be a METRO member. 

Equity in Action Program Managers

• Traci Mark, Program Manager - Equity, Archives & Media Preservation(tmark@metro.org)

Currently in its third cycle, METRO's Equity in Action grant has awarded funding to fourteen institutions for eight projects.

Let our work producing online events be your gain.

We've run more than 100 online events since March 2020, and we've got recordings, summaries, and other deliverables for every single one. Scroll down for direct access to content from our whole universe of past event outputs.

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METRO’s Equity Mentorship Program: Information Session
Thursday, July 21st from 11:00am to 12:00pm

Important Information

• Initial Call for Applications: Tuesday, July 5th, 2022
• Application Deadline: Friday, August 5th, 2022
• Program Start Date: Friday, October 7th, 2022 (First class session meets)

The World Wide Web started with so much promise: to connect people across any distance, to allow anyone to become a publisher, and to democratize access to knowledge. However, today the Web seems to be failing us. It’s not private, secure, or unifying.

METRO launched our Digitization Grant Program in January 2005 to support projects involving significant collections held by METRO member libraries in New York City and Westchester County. Since that time, we’ve awarded over $900,000 in grants to support 92 digital projects. Our grant program is s

Our Library Referrals system makes it easier for students and researchers to locate materials or research across our member libraries.

See how it works below.