What are we really agreeing to when we check an "I Agree" box in terms of service agreements? This workshop will take a close look at the ubiquitous checkbox and examine what we sacrifice for convenience and access to our digital world. Participants will leave with: A better understanding of terms of service agreements Practical ways t…

Join METRO's Economics & Business Librarians Special Interest Group for this in-person Fall event. There are a handful of documents public companies must file with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These documents, while steeped in legalese, contain a wealth of information and serve as the backbone for libraries’ major financial …

In this session, Vicky Rampin (NYU) will discuss building and maintaining services for research data management and reproducibility. Attendees will hear about different ways to ramp up and scale different offerings in order to address new federal regulations, wishes of researchers, and preservation concerns. We will also discuss different modalitie…

In light of pressing federal regulations, changing norms in different fields, and growing interest in preserving research outcomes, more and more librarians are getting involved in supporting research data management in their institutions. In this session, Vicky Rampin (NYU) will provide a crash course in the core concepts involved in research data…

States across the country are working to provide communities with reliable and affordable high-speed internet with support from unprecedented federal funding. Libraries and library workers will continue to play an essential role in this work. In this webinar, as part of Digital Inclusion Week, the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) will pro…

A symposium by Brooklyn Public Library and Metropolitan New York Library Council Hosted by BPL's Brooklyn Heights Library and Center for Brooklyn History The day's emcee is Sheneatha Frison, School Outreach Librarian, Brooklyn Public Library When it comes to working on issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion – particularly in libraries and archi…

While surveys are popular means of collecting data, there are limits to what survey data can tell you. When libraries want to gain a different perspective about their services, programming, and communities, focus groups, interviews, and observations are accessible options. For some, conducting focus groups/interviews or engaging in an observational…

Surveys are a common go-to for libraries interested in collecting data both in support of and about their services, programs, and community. While creating surveys is fairly easy, creating good surveys takes a bit more effort. This session will focus on providing attendees with the principles of good survey design and an essential checklist that ca…

Focus groups, interviews, and observation studies produce large amounts of data for libraries to analyze. Depending on which data collection approach was used, you’ll want to apply the correct data analysis approach in order to gain the most from your data. Coding is a necessity when working with focus groups, interviews, and even observational dat…

Scholars such as Twana Hodge, Fobazi Ettarh, and Kaetrena Davis Kendrick have helped us understand how standard everyday library work puts you at risk for secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout. They have pointed out how vocational awe perpetuates stories of how library workers overcome adversity through resilience, grit, or doing more w…

Critical Pedagogy Symposium (virtual) May 17th - May 19th, 2023 12pm - 4pm EST Registration is free! Use this link to register for the entire event. The Critical Pedagogy Symposium aims to be a working symposium that is focused on building a space to learn, collaborate, and engage with critical race theory in dialogue and community. The 2023 Sympos…

Critical Pedagogy Symposium (virtual) May 17th - May 19th, 2023 12pm - 4pm EST Registration is free! Use this link to register for the entire event. The Critical Pedagogy Symposium aims to be a working symposium that is focused on building a space to learn, collaborate, and engage with critical race theory in dialogue and community. The 2023 Sympos…

Coordinated book banning efforts have been underway for nearly two years, and each week brings with it new tactics from the censors to accomplish their work. This presentation will look at how these groups are organizing, the tools they’re using, and what potential next targets may be. The entire ecosystem of books, publishing, reading, and knowled…

Heard of ChatGPT? Not sure what to make of it? In this interactive session, the presenters will highlight how AI tools have already been embedded in libraries long before the arrival of ChatGPT in November 2022. This webinar offers a critical perspective on the issues that will start occurring from the use of such technologies. ChatGPT and other g…

No doubt you've heard of artificial intelligence AI (perhaps from another session at METRO!). Perhaps you've even mulled over the implications of these new technologies on teaching, learning, and even our social lives. This webinar will describe how AI works from a technical perspective and shares ideas for how we might provide this information to …

We at METRO work tirelessly on behalf of libraries and archives in our membership and, indeed, around the country. We believe firmly in the value of libraries and archives as institutions that provide conscientious and meaningful services to members of our communities. Libraries can and do change lives. That said, working in the profession can be …

This session dives a bit deeper into all that Python can do! Katie Wolf, Data Manager at Murmuration, will help attendees explore Python libraries and use a couple to tailor the Python experience to your needs. During the workshop, we will also take the time to interact with APIs to get a lot of data at once in a format that we can use! Attendees c…

This webinar was facilitated by METRO’s Equity in Action Grant Program Managers Traci Mark and Allison Sherrick. Traci and Allison reviewed 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 was a Q & A period at the…

Studies by the Society for Human Resource Management show that 41% of employees feel burnt out and 45% feel emotionally drained from work. These studies show that the risk for depression among U.S. workers has risen to 102% and, more specifically, to 305% for those between the ages of 20 and 39 as a result of the pandemic. A bad situation is an ex…

Do you work with students who would like to publish? Three librarians who developed a 90-minute workshop to strengthen students’ knowledge and confidence in finding publishing platforms for their work will share examples of those activities in this workshop, and then examine the results of their assessment from participants. Join us to learn how to…

New York School of Interior Design’s (NYSID) Archivist/Librarian Julie Sandy will talk about her year-long collaboration with professional curators, NYSID faculty, and design team Darling Green for the “Designing Duo: Sarah Tomerlin Lee and Tom Lee” exhibition in NYSID’s Gallery (on view Fall 2022). The vast majority of the exhibition content was d…

Save the date of Thursday, February 2 at noon for presentations and a discussion about our rights to access, create, and publish information here in this era of networked technologies. We'll be joined by Deborah Yun Caldwell, Jennie Rose Halperin, Alison Macrina, and Jessamyn West, who will dig into thorny questions like: How as a society might we …

If you’ve ever wondered, “Where do I start?” after attending a webinar on trauma-informed librarianship, empathy, or serving diverse needs, these workshops are for you! Join us for two sessions focused on closing the gap between those theories and the active practice of working with people. Each session will include an overview of theories, a demo…

Join us to learn about the emerging movement in librarianship to engage those with intellectual disability (ID), who have previously been largely overlooked. Over two sessions, Leah Plocharczyk and Matthew Conner will discuss two intertwined case studies in academic libraries. They will then unpack the lessons they learned and how to apply them in …

If you’ve ever wondered, “Where do I start?” after attending a webinar on trauma-informed librarianship, empathy, or serving diverse needs, these workshops are for you! Join us for two sessions focused on closing the gap between those theories and the active practice of working with people. Each session will include an overview of theories, a demo…