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

Spring 2026

Search and Discovery

Instructor

Shannon Mattern

Dates

February 18, 2026–April 29, 2026

Format

In Person

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

Dates

September 25, 2025–December 4, 2025

Format

In Person

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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