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The Cross-Reference Coalition is an experimental school tracing exuberantly interdisciplinary links among New York City’s libraries, archives, and other knowledge institutions.

Upcoming

Spring 2026 Call for Applicants: Search & Discovery

In this course, we’ll gather to survey the state of search and discovery, reclaim lost methods, explore strategies for circumventing automation and extraction, imagine new modes of orienteering, and conjure up new terrains of wonderment.

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Fall 2025

The Misfit

Instructor

Shannon Mattern

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This inaugural offering from METRO’s Cross-Reference Coalition celebrates our geographic anomalies, pushes against automation’s flattening fakery, and addresses the erasure of difference and the prioritization of profitable utility in our current political climate, by examining and appreciating The Misfit.

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Spring 2025

Local Media

Instructor

Shannon Mattern

Dates

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We may be tethered to global networks, streaming content from around the planet, joining in conversation (or conspiracy) with folks from all corners of the earth, but we also live in places with local characters and concerns, among people with local needs and contributions. What happens when we lose the local media — the newspapers and broadcast outlets — that bind and inform our localized communities?

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