METRO’s 2022 Annual Meeting was the first in-person event we put on in more than two years, so we went big. In addition to planning the event, I gave brief remarks on what our team of three had accomplished since around March 2022. See my slides here.

Partly because I think it is genuinely impressive and part because I went to all the trouble of putting this together, I’m dropping a complete list of programs we developed and facilitated since going online in March 2020.

March 2020

• Managing a Branch Library from Home

April 2020

• METRO Community Chat
• Moving Library Instruction and Reference Services Offsite
• METRO Community Chat
• Managing People and Projects from Home
• Working Mindfully in Uncertain Times
• METRO Community Chat
• Documenting the Present Moment
• METRO Community Chat
• Web Accessibility Tools & Best Practices
• Information Inequity and Other Fault Lines Revealed by the Pandemic
• It Takes a Village: A Community Call for Support and Self-Care during COVID-19
• METRO Community Chat

May 2020

• Libraries and the Employment Crisis
• METRO Community Chat
• How Libraries Are Updating their Complete Count Efforts During a Pandemic
• Accessibility and Social Media
• It Takes a Village: A Community Call for Support and Self-Care during COVID-19
• Accessibility and Social Media
• Sharing Memories: Oral History Projects During COVID-19
• Scope Creep: Privacy During Lockdown
• METRO Community Chat

June 2020

• How to Be a Good Ally
• Gathering Online: Tips for Planning and Managing Remote Engagement
• Preservation During Pandemic Lockdown
• Gathering Online: Delivering one-shot instruction sessions
• What’s That Rack? Preserving Indie Video Art: A METRO/XFR Collective Love Story
• Data Privacy 101
• BIPOC Community Call and Juneteenth Celebration
• How to Become an E-book Sleuth
• LGBTQ/NTWRKNG

July 2020

• METRO’s Anti-racism Book Club No. 1
• Big Disruptions Can Lead to Big Opportunities
• Universal Design for Learning At Your Library
• Neurodiversity in the Workplace
• From Downturn to Downturn: Applying 2010 Lessons in 2020
• Data Privacy + Big Tech: How Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google Deal With Data (And What It Means for You)
• Media Care 101: Digital Preservation that Supports Activists Racism, Capitalism, and Libraries

August 2020

• Privacy Audits at The Library BIPOC
• Community Call
• Crafting A Great Resume
• Anti-racist Book Club Meeting No. 2
• Resume One-on-ones
• Recent Grads Community Chat
• Overcoming FLUs: Practical Advice for Furloughs, Layoffs, and Uncertainty
• Community Call for Those Living Alone During This Pandemic
• BIPOC Community Call
• Data Privacy + Web Conferencing Software
• Making Difficult Collection Decisions, Part 1 – Organizing Usage Data

October 2020

• Recent Grads Community Chat
• BIPOC Community Call
• Critical Cataloging: Revealing and Dismantling Hegemonic Systems
• LGBTQ/NTWRKNG 2
• Writing A Great Cover Letter
• Making Difficult Collection Decisions, Part 2 – Analyzing Usage Data
• METRO’s Equity in Action Grant Information Session
• Recalculating: Agile Library Responses in Times of Crisis

November 2020

• “Where Do We Go From Here?”: Fundamentals of Design for Uncertainty, Part 1
• “Where Do We Go From Here?”: Fundamentals of Design for Uncertainty, Part 2
• Recent Graduates Community Chat
• Community Call for Those Living Alone During the Pandemic

December 2020

• METRO’s Anti-racism Book Club No. 3
• METRO’s Online Holiday Mixer

February 2021

• Introduction to Web Archiving
• A Black History Month Celebration
• Interrupting White Supremacy Culture
• Getting Started with Web Archiving

March 2021

• Supporting and Sustaining Anti-Racist Work
• Tools to “Do” Web Archiving
• What we talk about when we talk about “equity”: from essential workers to George Floyd to Nice White Parents
• Ethics and Archiving the Web: How to ethically collect and use web archives

April 2021

• Learning from Long-term Leading Web Archiving Initiatives
• BIPOC Community Call

May 2021

• Digital Asset Management: Theory & Practice
• Introduction to Disk Imaging
• Clippy is Dead, Long Live Clippy: Emulation as a Strategy
• Supporting Research Reproducibility

June 2021

• Ice Cream Social Celebrating Pride Month
• BIPOC Community Call and Juneteenth Celebration
• Strategies for the Search: Grants & Funding ​for Faculty and Students
• Fumbling Toward Radical Information Liberation with Prison Library Support Network
• The Data Lifecycle SIG’s first meeting!

July 2021

• Compassionate Career Services, Part One: Providing Assistance to Those Who Benefit Most
• Data Breaches: How and Why They Happen, and Why Library Staff Should Care
• Living in Data: A Book Talk with Jer Thorp
• Compassionate Career Services, Part Two: Tips and Tricks for Working Across the Digital Divide
• XFR Collective Presents: Downtown Tonight
• Data Breaches: What Libraries Can Do To Prevent Them

August 2021

• Compassionate Career Services, Part Three: Teaching People to Fish
• Navigating Productivity Culture
• Mindfully Reopening

September 2021

• A City Is Not a Computer: A Book Launch and Panel Discussion with Shannon Mattern and Friends
• Equity in Action Grant: What We’ve Learned So Far
• Equity In Action Grant: Information Session
• Equity in Action Grant Recipient Presentation: Pratt / Weeksville

October 2021

• Equity in Action Grant Recipient Presentation: NYPL / BPL
• Not in the Archive!: Design Considerations for Building More Web Archive-Friendly Websites
• Equity in Action Grant Recipient Presentation: Mina Rees
• Equity in Action Grant Recipient Presentation: BCC / MANYC
• Feel the Need to Weed Part 1: Why and How

November 2021

• Managing the Conversations of the Moment, Part 1: Discussing Equity With Your Community and Why It Matters
• Feel the Need to Weed: Part 2
• Managing the Conversations of the Moment, Part 2: CRT in K-12 Is Not a Thing, So Why Are We Talking About It?
• Managing the Conversations of the Moment, Part 3: Moving From Conflict Toward Repair

December 2021

• Heavy Metal: Hardware Solutions for People Who Digitize Tapes
• NYC Open Data 101 Tweens, Teens & Tech Use: Integrating Conversations About Digital Media Consumption Through the Library
• Community Call
• A BIPOC Holiday Celebration

January 2022

• Copy That! Copyright Basics for Library Professionals Part 1: The Whats and Whys
• What Is Web 3.0? The Decentralized Web: An Introduction
• Innovative Approaches to Serving Vulnerable
• Patrons Facebook + Data Privacy: How Facebook Mismanages Information and What It Means for Users

February 2022

• Facebook Going Meta: The Future for Online Interaction and What to Do About It
• Copy That! Copyright Basics for Library Professionals, Part 2: Exceptions and Limitations
• BIPOC Community Call: A Black History Month Celebration
• In an Ever-Expanding Library, Using Decentralized Storage to Keep Your Materials Safe

March 2022

• Managing Messy Data, Part 1: Squirrely Data in OpenRefine
• Analog Ailments: How to Diagnose and Treat Your Magnetic Media
• Actively Anti-Racist Library Service, Part 1: Collection Development Copy That! Copyright Basics for Library Professionals, Part 3: Licensing and Risks
• Keeping Your Personal Data Personal: How Decentralized Identity Drives Data Privacy

April 2022

• Managing Messy Data, Part 2: Even Messier Data
• Actively Anti-Racist Library Service, Part 2: Readers’ Advisory
• Info Lit 101, Part 1: Developing Research Questions
• Actively Anti-Racist Library Service, Part 3: Discussing Anti-Racist Stewardship
• BIPOC Community Call
• Goodbye Facebook, Hello Decentralized Social Media? Can Peer-to-Peer Lead to Less Toxic Online Platforms?

May 2022

• Info Lit 101, Part 2: Evaluating Sources and Navigating Through Bias
• Preventing Digital Discrimination: How Libraries and Their Allies Can Ensure Access and Equity For All
• Decentralized Apps, NFTs, and the “Next Big Thing”

June 2022

• Info Lit 101 Part 3: Misinformation and Disinformation
• Zotero: Collect, Cite, Connect (Part One)
• METRO’s Annual Meeting