We worked in partnership with the Brooklyn Historical Society on a $498,135 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as part of the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. With BHS, we implemented the National Digital Stewardship Residency program in New York City for two years. The NDSR-NY program continued to develop and refi…

The myMETRO Researchers program gave individual METRO members an opportunity to grow their research skills in a supportive environment. Three cohorts formed teams to investigate, report, and present on library-related research topics of their choosing.

The Innovative Internship program (2013-15) funded 14 internships for enrolled graduate students, recent graduates, or individuals in career transition at a METRO member institution. Each internship required at least 120 hours of work over the course of a semester on an innovative project within libraries, archives, and museums.

The METRO Fellowship (2016-17) aimed to address cross-institutional challenges amongst METRO member institutions. Real-world problems of practice were submitted by METRO members, and fellowship applicants submitted project proposals that would seek creative solutions to these challenges. Three fellows were matched with participating institutions an…

NYC Digital Safety: Privacy + Security is a partnership between New York City’s three library systems — Brooklyn Public Library, The New York Public Library, and Queens Library — and METRO Library Council. With support from the City of New York Mayor’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer, this project ensures that NYC residents can rely on publi…

METRO has been assisting IMLS and OCLC with the management of the Operations, Scientific, and Executive Steering Committees for the REALM Project. REopening Archives, Libraries, and Museums (REALM) is a research project conducted by OCLC, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and Battelle to produce and distribute science-based COVI…

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has provided the New York State Library with $6.2 million in federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds through the LSTA Grants to States Program. The State Library has allocated $5,514,315 of these federal funds to New York State’s nine regional Reference and Research Library Resources Co…

Collection: Digitize Suffrage Periodicals Description: Collection of 382 issues made up of 6,117 pages from two periodicals published by Women's Suffrage organizations in the 1910s: The Woman Voter, published by the Woman Suffrage Party of New York City between 1910 and 1917, and The Suffragist, published by the Congressional Union for…

Collection: William S. Ladd Collection of Prints Description: Collection of 671 prints, primarily portraits, dating from the 17th century through the early 19th century. The prints, which demonstrate a variety of printing processes including etching, engraving, mezzotint, stippling, lithography, and hand coloring, primarily depict peop…

Collection: Audio of JTS Lectures, 1947-1969 Description: Reel to reel audio recordings and one 16mm film of lectures at JTS documenting American Jewish history, society, and scholarship throughout the mid to late 20th century. The items selected capture lectures, conferences, and events held and recorded at The Jewish Theological…

Collection: Maria Gerard Messenger Women’s Bookplate Collection  Description: Collection of more than 2,000 women’s bookplates and book labels assembled by Maria Gerard Messenger (1849-1937) of Great Neck, Long Island. The collection represents women book owners from the sixteenth century to the 1930s, and includes women from Nort…

Collection: Photographs of Polish Soldiers and Civilians During WWII (1939-1945) Description: Collection of over 1,000 photographs of Polish Armed Forces in the West, including organized military formations, established in the autumn of 1939 outside of Poland, on the basis of inter-allied agreements signed with France and the United Ki…

Collection: Five Timicua Language Imprints, 1612-1635 Description: This digital collection includes five seventeenth-century Mexican imprints that are among the earliest known primary sources in the lost Timucua language of Spanish Florida and among the first works ever published in a native language of the Americas. They owe their sur…

Collection: Hall of Fame for Great Americans Collection Description: The Hall of Fame for Great Americans collection consists of 142 photographs and documents related to the selection, election, induction and media coverage of individuals represented in the Hall of Fame located at Bronx Community College (BCC). Honorees include authors…

Collection: Selections from Special Collections Description: This collection comprises 78 volumes from Fordham Library Special Collections, grouped into three broad categories. 1) Early Fordham publications: documenting the history of Fordham University and Catholic New York during the 19th and early 20th centuries, including three han…

Collection: Annual Reports of the Hospital for Special Surgery Description: Collection of 63 volumes of Annual Reports from the Hospital for Special Surgery, originally known as the Hospital for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled. The reports span the years from 1895-1979, chronicling the development of life-changing discoveries p…

Collection: Annual Reports of St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals Description: This collection includes the Annual Reports for St. Luke's Hospital (1859-1976) and the Roosevelt Hospital (1871-1978). These two famous New York City medical institutions were both founded in the 19th century to serve the worthy poor in the City. Both grew t…

Collection: Industry & Culture Collection Description: Collection of 364 objects composed of selected archival materials and museum holdings from The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York (GSMT). Founded in 1785, The General Society initially served as a benevolent organization that provided mutual supp…

Collection: Political and religious pamphlets of the Italian unification, 1815-1871 Description: This collection of approximately 1600 short printed pamphlets was published in Italy, largely from 1815-1880, and markings on several of the items appear to link the collection with Cardinal Carlo Luigi Morichini (1805-1879) as a former own…

Collection: Institute of Public Administration Collection Printed Materials and Reports, 1907-1959 Description: A unique colleciton of reports from the Institute of Public Administration on the origins of reform government in the US. The organization was created and financed in the early twentieth centurey by wealthy reform-minded New …

Collection: Gilding the Gilded Age: Interior Decoration Tastes and Trends in New York City as Documented by a Collection of Auction Catalogs in Frick and Hearst Library Collections Description: The Gilded Age, witnessed large and valuable private collections disposed of at auction. New York City played an important role in this burgeon…

Collection: Carnegie Hall's Booking Ledger Collection Description: Carnegie Hall booking ledgers that recorded every event that took place in the Hall’s three auditoriums and were used to schedule performances spanning 1955-2007. These ledgers include rare documentation of the great artists and managers of various music genres that hav…

Collection: Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences Periodicals Description: The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences Bulletins Collection is comprised of promotional materials known as Bulletins, or Monthly Magazines of Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. These periodicals contain listings of upcoming performances, lectures,…

The Leo Baeck Institute received funding for two projects. Collection: Digitizing the Estate of the Art Historian Rachel Wischnitzer Description: The collection (18 reels of microfilm/20,000 frames), documents the professional activities of the art historian and architect Rachel Wischnitzer (1885-1989), including her research and publications…

Asian American Arts Centre in New York City (AAAC) and Pratt Institute’s Semantic Lab will work together to ensure continued online access to resources documenting AAAC’s work. The project team will digitize, describe through Wikidata records, and contribute AAAC’s full collection of approximately one hundred exhibition flyers to the open repositor…