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We strive towards a world where communities’ aspirations are uplifted in the libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions they build.
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METRO works alongside our membership to address common challenges and move the library and archives fields forward.
Archipelago
An evolving Open Source Digital Objects Repository / DAM Server Architecture based on the popular CMS Drupal 10 and released under GPL V.3 License.
Creative Research
Creative Research connects METRO’s membership to adjacent work in the realms of art, design, critical information and media studies, and ecology.
Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York
Providing online access to digital collections that document the history of the Metropolitan New York region.
Library Field
A place to deepen our relationships—between institutions, communities, and individuals—and the earth.
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METRO works to create a sustainable culture of creativity, collaboration, and open exchange for libraries, archives, museums, and cultural institutions in the Metropolitan New York region and around the world.
We accomplish our mission through leadership, grantmaking, resource sharing, professional learning, research, technology services, creative practice, and more.
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January 16, 2026 | Mary Bakija
Library Field Report 2025
From July through November of 2025 we led participants from METRO member institutions on a 15-stop, 2-hour hike at the Library Field as part of our ongoing participatory design process. This report is a review of the input we received, and it offers some insight into what our next steps will be based on that…
December 16, 2025 | Mary Bakija
Call For Proposals For The 2026 STEM Information Professionals Mini Conference NYC
The third annual STEM Mini Conference for Information Professionals is taking place on March 19th and 20th, 2026 at Barnard College in New York City, co-sponsored by the Metropolitan New York Library Council and New York University. This two-day conference aims to bring together science librarians, other liaison librarians, archivists, museum curators and workers, library…
November 17, 2025 | Becca Quon
Announcing ‘Search & Discovery,’ the spring course offering from the Cross-Reference Coalition
We’re thrilled to share the Call for Applications for a new course from the Cross-Reference Coalition: an interdisciplinary community learning project from the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO). The program launched in Fall 2025 with a course on The Misfit, and we now invite you to join us for our second course, in Spring…