METRO’s 2017 Annual Conference will take place at NYU’s Kimmel Center on Wednesday, January 11, 2017.
Tickets are $30 for METRO, myMETRO, and ESLN members, and $60 for non-members.
8:00 - 9:00 - Registration
9:00 - 10:15 - Opening Session
Welcome & An Update on 599
Morning Keynote
10:15 - 10:30 - Break
10:30 - 12:15 HLSP Plenary
10:45 - 11:30 - Session 1
Empire State Digital Network: Updates on New York State’s Service Hub for DPLA
Will this be on the test?: Rethinking Information Literacy Course Design for High School Students
Living to tell the tale: Librarians and an archivist come clean about their original research projects
11:15 - 11:30 - Break
11:30 - 12:15 - Session 2
No API, No Problem
Measuring Metadata for the Masses: Starting a Data Quality Program from Scratch
Rethinking Educator Partnerships: Bringing Teachers to the Library to Learn
The IDS Project 2016: Interlibrary Loan Staff Development and Automation
12:15 - 12:30 - Break
12:30 - 1:30 - Lunch
1:30 - 2:15 - Session 3
The METRO Fellowship: New Narrative Approaches
The Design for Learning Program: Teaching Librarians Online About How to Teach Online
Teaching MLA Skills to College Students with America’s Next Top Citation
Getting More Out of (and Into) Your Collections Management System
2:15 - 2:30 - Break
2:30 - 3:00 - Session 4
Hack the Stacks
Librarianship in the Age of Trump
Establishing the Archives for Storefront for Art and Architecture
3:00 - 3:15 - Break
3:15 - 3:45 - Session 5
The Culture in Transit Toolkit: A Discussion and Demonstration
Librarians as Labor: Lessons from Past and Present
Space in the City: Moving an Archive in Manhattan
3:45 - 4:00 - Break
4:00 - 5:00 - Afternoon Keynote
Afternoon Keynote
Details about the HLSP plenary session will be announced in coming weeks. Questions about this year’s event can be addressed to Davis Erin Anderson at deanderson@metro.org.