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Nate Hill on the Library Consortium as Studio, Platform, and Metacommunity

Published: Feb. 15, 2018, 8:18 p.m.

b'METRO/599 is a studio in Hell\\u2019s Kitchen that connects more than 250 of New York\\u2019s libraries, archives, and knowledge organizations. With 6,000 square feet of event and studio space, supporting projects in digital privacy, multimedia media archiving, metadata aggregation, and podcasting, and offering tools for everything from software preservation to signage prototyping to spaghetti and meatball crafting, METRO/599 is reinventing the multi-type library consortium as a metacommunity center.\\n\\nIn this talk, Nate Hill, Executive Director of the Metropolitan New York Library Council, gives an overview of the programs at METRO/599, talks about the challenges associated with this organizational recalibration, seeks input and ideas from the group, and extends an invitation to attendees to come take part in the fun.\\n\\nFor more information visit:\\nhttps://cyber.harvard.edu/events/2018/luncheon/02/Hill'