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Financial & Economic Data Analysis Librarian

Sunday, January 16, 2022 - 09:47

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New York University Libraries is seeking a librarian to support the needs of data-intensive financial and economic researchers at New York University (NYU). The Financial & Economic Data Analysis Librarian guides faculty, students, and staff with data analysis software; statistical and qualitative data analysis techniques; and data collectio…

Librarians for Health Sciences, Nursing and Allied Health (two positions)

Sunday, January 16, 2022 - 09:46

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New York University Libraries is seeking two librarians to support the Health Sciences: the Librarian for Nursing will support the Rory Meyers School of Nursing and the Librarian for Allied Health will support Steinhardt’s Allied Health programs for Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Communication Sciences and Disorders. Applicants can app…

Librarian for Open Science

Sunday, January 16, 2022 - 09:46

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New York University Libraries is seeking a librarian to provide guidance, tools, and services to better meet the needs of faculty and students across the sciences, with a strong focus on scientific literacy and the values of equity, openness, and privacy. The Librarian for Open Science will work creatively with colleagues to implement and enhance S…

Audiovisual Metadata Librarian

Sunday, January 16, 2022 - 09:45

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NYU Libraries is seeking a tenure-track faculty librarian to support the creation and maintenance of metadata for audiovisual resources. NYU’s growing collections currently comprise 175,000 audio recordings, 75,000 video recordings, and over 100 streaming media subscriptions in addition to ongoing audiovisual digitization projects. This position wi…

Paper Conservation, NYC Municipal Archives

Sunday, January 16, 2022 - 09:45

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The New York City Municipal Archives Conservation Unit seeks a paper conservator for a 4-day/week term position of up to 3 years. The successful candidate will participate in a grant-funded project to conserve a collection of drawings detailing the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge. The paper conservator will use standard methods to assess and do…

Equity in Action Grant

Our Equity in Action Grant program funds digital projects that focus on anti-racist practices and marginalized communities. We’re very excited to announce the grant recipients for the 2022 cycle of METRO’s Equity in Action grant program! Congratulations to the following institutions.

Data Services Specialist/Professional Specialist

Friday, January 14, 2022 - 10:29

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Data Services Specialist Princeton University Library Requisition # D22 LIB 00005 Princeton University Library seeks a dynamic service-oriented library professional to serve as a Data Services Specialist in the Data and Statistical Services (DSS) unit at Firestone Library. DSS specialists play a critical role in helping world class academ…

Data and Assessment Specialist

Friday, January 14, 2022 - 10:27

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The Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) seeks applications for the position of Data and Assessment Specialist. Position Summary The Data and Assessment Specialist will play a critical role in enhancing the Health Sciences Library’s (HSL) understanding of the CUIMC community’s needs and…

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Copy That! Copyright Basics for Library Professionals, Part 1: The Whats and Whys

Thursday, January 13, 2022 - 11:41

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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…

Director of the Summit (NJ) Free Public Library

Wednesday, January 12, 2022 - 21:45

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The Summit Free Public Library (SFPL) Board of Trustees seeks a dynamic, action-oriented library  professional to lead its vibrant public library following the retirement of its well-respected director. The  new director will have the challenge to lead the library into the future including reorganizing our children’s  and teen spaces…

Special Collections Analyst

Wednesday, January 12, 2022 - 21:16

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Columbia University Libraries (CUL) seeks a creative and engaged Special Collections Analyst Librarian to design, coordinate and collaborate in planning and implementing ongoing integration, discovery, and syndication, and usage analysis efforts around the Columbia Libraries’ collections metadata, digital collections and licensed digital resources.…

Library Relations Manager

Wednesday, January 12, 2022 - 21:15

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Join PLI and represent the legal community’s premier provider of continuing education and research services as a Library Relations Manager in our New York office. Work in a collaborative environment that prides itself on a genuine commitment to a work-life balance (3+ weeks of vacation days and hybrid remote/in-person schedules for most roles!). Gr…

Technical Services Librarian (Instructor/Assistant Professor)

Wednesday, January 12, 2022 - 21:14

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FACULTY VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT The Kurt R. Schmeller Library at Queensborough Community College invites applications for the position of Technical Services Librarian at the rank of Instructor or Assistant Professor. The candidate will perform original cataloging, oversee and maintain vendor-ready cataloging for print and ebooks and serials.  …

Equity in Action 2022 : Asian American Arts Centre and Pratt Institute’s Semantic Lab

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Equity in Action Grant

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…

Equity in Action 2022 : CUNY Graduate Center and NYU Libraries

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Equity in Action Grant

CUNY Graduate Center and NYU Libraries will join forces to create an oral history collection that documents the stories of individuals and groups who are engaged in developing and implementing alternative library classification schemes or controlled vocabularies. In addition to creating a fully transcribed and cataloged oral history collection, the…

Equity in Action 2022 : Lesbian Herstory Archives and LGBT Community Center National History Archive

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Equity in Action Grant

The Lesbian Herstory Archives and the LGBT Community Center National History Archive will partner on a project to create a research guide to materials about Black Lesbians in each collection. The archive researcher entrusted with this task will survey, create metadata for, and digitize on an as-needed basis both organizations’ collections, which en…

Equity in Action 2022 : New York Public Radio

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Equity in Action Grant

New York Public Radio will implement a Field Recording Cataloging Project to describe approximately 1,278 MiniDiscs. This cataloging project will assist in the preservation of field recordings made by WNYC reporters whose ‘beats’ focused on underserved communities, communities of color, the homeless, health, the environment, social services, the po…

Equity in Action 2021 : Mina Rees Library (CUNY) and CUNY Digital History Archive (CDHA)

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Equity in Action Grant

The CUNY Digital History Archive (CDHA) received a METRO Equity in Action grant to support the digitization and curation of historical materials documenting three movements to make access to public higher education more equitable toward and inclusive of New York’s diverse residents.   Based at the American Social History Proj…

Equity in Action 2021 : Brooklyn Public Library and New York Public Library

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Equity in Action Grant

Through the Change the Subject project, Brooklyn Public Library and The New York Public Library, working with Book Ops, seeked to align their public catalogs with their values by identifying and replacing subject headings, including the terms “illegal aliens” and “aliens,” with the less biased terms “undocumented immigrants” and “non…

Equity in Action 2021 : Pratt Institute School of Information and Weeksville Heritage Center

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Equity in Action Grant

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…

Equity in Action 2021 : Bronx Community College and Mutual Aid NYC (MANYC)

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Equity in Action Grant

The Bronx Community College (BCC) Archives and Mutual Aid NYC (MANYC) collaboratively developed an Organizing Resource Library (ORL) to preserve and make openly available materials from mutual aid work in marginalized communities across NYC that were devastated during the COVID-19 crisis, and whose stories are at significant risk of being lost. …

Announcing METRO’s Equity in Action Grant Recipients

Wednesday, January 12, 2022 - 11:13

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METRO is pleased to announce the recipients of funding from our 2021-2022 Equity in Action Grant Program. Each project focuses on themes of addressing systemic issues of racism and equity within the library system, uncovering histories of racialized communities, and providing access to previously unreported data. The grant period for this year’s pr…

Equity in Action - Recipients

Currently in its second cycle, METRO's Equity in Action grant has awarded funding to fourteen institutions for eight projects. We are very proud and excited to see how the projects from the first cycle have flourished, and we're looking forward to seeing the progress of this year's grantees.