Join us for a project presentation from one of our esteemed 2022 Equity In Action Grant recipients! The Lesbian Herstory Archives and the LGBT Community Center National History Archive partnered on a project to create a research guide to materials about Black Lesbians in each collection. Team members surveyed, created metadata for, and digitized on…

Join us for a project presentation from one of our esteemed 2022 Equity In Action Grant recipients! CUNY Graduate Center and NYU Libraries joined 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 voc…

Join METRO's Director of Programs and Partnerships, Davis Erin Anderson, for a conversation with Sarah Lamdan about Lamdan's new book, Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information. About the book: In our digital world, data is power. Information hoarding businesses reign supreme, using intimidation, aggression, and force …

So much about finding a job has changed, and yet so much remains the same. We still take great care to format and word our resumes appropriately. We still spend time crafting cover letters that are specific to the job we are applying for. And yet, we now live in a world where remote meetings and, yes, remote job interviews have become commonplace. …

Conducting useful and impactful evaluations and assessments in libraries often starts with needing to understand the distinction between the two concepts. This session will serve as an introduction to evaluation and assessment as concepts, and begin laying the ground work for understanding how to apply both evaluation and assessment to library prog…

About This Session Web 1.0 and 2.0 started out full of idealism, too. What is to prevent the decentralized web from being corrupted by profit, market domination, and bad actors? What is the normative or social layer we need to build alongside the tech? We'll examine the set of principles the Decentralized Web community has crafted as an ethical nor…

Zotero is a free and open source citation management tool that organizes research resources, facilitates in-text citation, fosters collaboration with other scholars, and quickly generates bibliographies. Zotero is not tied to any institution and is available to all at no cost. Attend this session to learn how to set up and work with Zotero so that …

Zotero is a free and open source citation management tool that organizes research resources, facilitates in-text citation, fosters collaboration with other scholars, and quickly generates bibliographies. Zotero is not tied to any institution and is available to all at no cost. Attend this session to learn how to set up and work with Zotero so that …

With the Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington, facilitated by Iman Powe-Maynard The COVID-19 pandemic and the fallout from the 2020 U.S. presidential election have highlighted the acute impact of misinformation on democracy and public health. In addition, current global political crises have illuminated a new era of informa…

Louisa Tatum of The New York Public Library's Career Services staff will discuss how to put your best foot forward in your job search with a clear, well-written, and effective resume. Louisa Tatum is a passionate, energetic and innovative career coaching professional and presenter, who currently works as the Manager of the NYPL’s Career Services de…

About This Session Why did Facebook rename itself for the Metaverse? What is the metaverse & how are people experiencing it? How are artists, nonprofits, even the NBA are racking up seven-figure payouts for otherwise mundane pieces of media called NFTs (non-fungible tokens)? Why are they so despised? In this session, we look at the crazy breakt…

If these past two years have proved anything, it’s that having reliable access to the internet is a necessity. And yet access to the internet is far from assured in many homes across the country. For this and so many other reasons, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed last November includes a directive to “ensure that all people of the…

Universal Design for Learning is an educational framework that builds on the concept of Universal Design to ensure that learning spaces and materials are accessible and inclusive for all learners. It’s principles can be applied in all sorts of library settings from children’s programming at public libraries to the design of learning spaces and mate…

Today, many library colleagues are entering a downturn for the first time, or are now in a different circumstance than the 2007 financial crisis. In this talk, Tony Zanders will share key lessons and heuristics for preparing for unexpected career shifts, how to reverse engineer the skill sets you want in order to build on skill sets you already hav…

In this 60 minute online session, Daniel Alaya, Davis Erin Anderson, and Gary Price will review how our world’s largest tech companies view privacy. We’ll discuss the steps these businesses take to collect your data, share the personal impacts of data collection policies, and give you tips for what you can do to bring back a modicum of control over…

Creating a learning environment that empowers our patrons, community, and colleagues is imperative. Even though there is a larger system at play, we can still implement change in our daily practices as cultural workers, and as a collective. This webinar is meant for cultural workers, activists, and anyone interested in exploring practical tips su…

Looking to understand how your library is protecting the privacy of your patrons? Wondering how you might identify areas for improvement in safeguarding sensitive information? Join a webinar with Bill Marden (New York Public Library) and Erin Berman (Alameda Country Library) to learn how your library can audit its online and offline records, resour…

A great resume is a crucial component for securing job interviews. In this workshop, you will learn how to make your resume stand out to potential employers by effectively communicating about your work accomplishments. The presenter will also give some general guidelines about resume length and formatting.

Six plus months after pandemic lockdown, we continue to offload many of our formerly in-person meetings onto web conferencing software. What does living and working on Zoom, Microsoft Meetings, and Cisco WebEx mean for our data privacy? How secure are these platforms? And what are the unforeseen pitfalls of relying on tech companies for most of our…

DevOps is a set of practices that arose from the software development community which have had, and continue to have, a transformative effect on the culture of Information Technology. What are these practices, why do they exist, and how can you use them to improve your library services? Join us in exploring its use in finding solutions to real worl…

Shrinking budgets and looming cancellations are increasingly a reality for many, if not most libraries. As librarians confront these pressures, being well-informed is essential to making difficult decisions, and usage data is one of the most powerful decision-making tools. This workshop will focus on gathering electronic resource usage data, puttin…

When making difficult decisions about electronic resource collections, librarians often examine valuable usage data. While organizing your data is an important first step, leveraging that data to make evidence-based collections decisions requires an additional layer of skill and strategy, which we’ll cover in this workshop. Best practices for how t…

How do we prepare for futures we can’t easily predict or anticipate What are the fastest, simplest ways to make effective decisions in turbulent times? These two sessions offer simple, practical tools for planning and acting under uncertain conditions. By the end of this series of two webinars, you will be able to: Map uncertainties facing the env…

Case Studies in Critical Pedagogy Presented by the METRO Reference & Instruction Special Interest Group Monday, November 16, 2020 Introduction and Case Study Presentations – 12:30pm-1:30pm Optional Follow-up Discussion of Concepts and Ideas – 1:30pm-2:00pm Whether critical pedagogy has been the focus of your reference/instruction practice and…

How do we prepare for futures we can’t easily predict or anticipate What are the fastest, simplest ways to make effective decisions in turbulent times? These two sessions offer simple, practical tools for planning and acting under uncertain conditions. By the end of this series of two webinars, you will be able to: Map uncertainties facing the env…