This webinar will be facilitated by METRO’s Equity in Action Grant Program Manager Traci Mark. Traci will review the main components of the grant process, including: The program’s information sheet The grant application form The selection rubric used by the program’s advisory council There will be a Q & A period at the end of the session. Ple…

Linking Lost Jazz Shrines (LLJS) is an ongoing collaboration between the Weeksville Heritage Center and the Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute to investigate the application of linked open data technologies to the Weeksville Lost Jazz Shrines of Brooklyn (WLJSB) oral history collection. This rich collection documents Central Brooklyn’s cultural legacy…

With the support of METRO’s Equity in Action grant program, the Brooklyn Public Library and The New York Public Library worked in partnership with BookOps, which serves the cataloging needs of both institutions, to begin aligning their public catalogs with their values by identifying and replacing the subject headings “illegal aliens” and “aliens” …

The CUNY Digital History Archive (CDHA) used its 2020-2021 METRO Equity in Action grant to support the digitization and curation of historical materials documenting three movements that aimed to make access to public higher education more equitable toward and inclusive of New York City’s diverse residents. Based at the American Social History Proje…

The Organizing Resource Library (ORL) is a free and fully accessible digital library and archive of mutual aid organizing tools and oral histories—created for, by, and in collaboration with mutual aid organizers in New York City. It exists to preserve, and make openly available, materials from mutual aid work in marginalized communities across NYC …

Weeding library collections can be hard work, with lots of small details that come into play. This one-hour general overview of the weeding process, based on Rebecca Vnuk's book The Weeding Handbook: A Shelf-by-Shelf Guide, is suitable for anyone who has questions on weeding projects of all kinds. Attendees will come away with: Tips and tricks to…

The goal of this three-part series is to help people manage difficult conversations in spaces with school-aged children in relation to the current cultural moment (e.g. conversations about race and equity in schools and Covid protocols). Led by Jessica Hochman and Tonya Leslie of We Need 2 Talk, each session will introduce Epoch Education’s RIR Pro…

The optics of weeding is an often-overlooked part of the weeding process. No one wants to have to lock their dumpsters or appear on the news accused of book burning! In this hour-long session with Rebecca Vnuk, author of The Weeding Handbook: A Shelf-by-Shelf Guide, attendees will: Learn how to get your staff (or administration) thinking positivel…

The goal of this three-part series is to help people manage difficult conversations in spaces with school-aged children in relation to the current cultural moment (e.g. conversations about race and equity in schools and Covid protocols). Led by Jessica Hochman and Tonya Leslie of We Need 2 Talk, each session will introduce Epoch Education’s RIR Pro…

The goal of this three-part series is to help people manage difficult conversations in spaces with school-aged children in relation to the current cultural moment (e.g. conversations about race and equity in schools and Covid protocols). Led by Jessica Hochman and Tonya Leslie of We Need 2 Talk, each session will introduce Epoch Education’s RIR Pro…

Videotape (and audiotape) preservation is all about equipment: sourcing equipment, getting the right equipment for the formats you’re digitizing, paying attention to how your equipment is functioning, repairing or finding experts to repair equipment for you, and putting all of these pieces together. In this hour-long webinar, Ben Turkus, audiovisua…

Library workers can make great use of NYC Open Data to both answer questions from library visitors and conduct their own research. For anyone who doesn’t know about it yet, NYC Open Data is a treasure trove of free information that can be tapped into easily, whatever your experience with data thus far. Through this class you will gain a deep, conce…

How can librarians integrate discussions on digital citizenship, even without the benefit of a designated technology class, with tweens and teens? Manuela Aronofsky is a middle school technology integrator who engages with 10- to 14-year-olds on a daily basis. She will share some of the things she's learned from discussing online habits, trends, an…

Copyright affects so much of the creative content we interact with and create... not just a painting we may see in a museum or a novel we are reading, but also the emails we ourselves send, the blogs and articles we write, and the photos we take and post. Copy That! Copyright Basics for Library Professionals is a three-part series focusing on basi…

About This Session What is the decentralized web, why is it important, and where is it along the path of development? What are the problems the decentralized web seeks to solve? Who are the players working to realize this vision? Why is the Internet Archive, a library, a leader in the decentralized web movement? Find the resource guide to this sess…

Oak Park Public Library in Illinois built a comprehensive combined social services and public safety model over the past six years. Rob Simmons, Oak Park's Director of Social Services and Public Safety, has been instrumental in creating innovative programs including free mental health assessment and counseling services, educational support for low-…

2021 was quite a year for Facebook. New details that emerged from leaked documents proved that, as nefarious as Facebook is for users here in the United States, the reality for other countries is far worse. Join our data privacy + security experts Dan Ayala and Gary Price for a discussion on how Facebook functions behind the scenes, how their corpo…

Facebook broke news in 2021 that it is creating an umbrella company through which it is poised to create a virtual reality. Living life through avatars in a new world has long been the subject of science fiction; now, though, technology is moving closer to making virtual reality, well... a reality. Join our data privacy + security experts Dan Ayala…

Copyright affects so much of the creative content we interact with and create... not just a painting we may see in a museum or a novel we are reading, but also the emails we ourselves send, the blogs and articles we write, and the photos we take and post. Copy That! Copyright Basics for Library Professionals is a three-part series focusing on basi…

About This Session Libraries understand the headache of storing materials. How do you create room for an ever-expanding collection? What if you don’t want to weed materials to make room? Enter decentralized storage—a network of P-2-P servers that store materials across a global network in exchange for cryptocurrency. What problems does this solve? …

Every morning you get the chance to begin your day in a positive way. Linda Carignan-Everts, Employee Assistance Program Wellness Coordinator for the State of New York, will share twenty-two positive habits and their benefits for an amazing 2022. If you are not a morning person, you just might become one after participating in this webinar! Linda C…

We're excited to participate in Open Data Week 2022! Library workers can make great use of NYC Open Data to both answer questions from patrons and conduct their own research. Once you've got the dataset, though, the process has only just begun. The next step? Ensuring the data is uniform so you can begin to answer those research questions as accura…

What do you do when your tape is sick? Won’t play? Feels damaged? XFR Collective is back to cure what ails your magnetic media. We’ll walk you through the anatomy of a tape, how to diagnose common audio visual artifacts, and discuss your treatment options. In this hour-long webinar we’ll also highlight some recent experiments with DIY tape baking a…

Providing robust readers’ advisory service that values equity, diversity, and inclusion principles is essential to all library service. Moving from being a neutral, well-meaning library where systemic racism is acknowledged to an actively anti-racist organization involves work. In this program you will learn tangible skills to help build enthusiasm…

Copyright affects so much of the creative content we interact with and create... not just a painting we may see in a museum or a novel we are reading, but also the emails we ourselves send, the blogs and articles we write, and the photos we take and post. Copy That! Copyright Basics for Library Professionals is a three-part series focusing on basi…