hipster librarians (NYT)

Nice article. Nothing really new here, but it is nice to see the publicity for a profession that has always had plenty of “Smart, well-read, interesting, funny people, who seem[ed ]to be happy with their jobs.”


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July 8, 2007

A Hipper Crowd of Shushers

By KARA JESELLA

ON a Sunday night last month at Daddy’s, a bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, more than a dozen people in their 20s and 30s gathered at a professional soiree, drinking frozen margaritas and nibbling store-bought cookies. With their thrift-store inspired clothes and abundant tattoos, they looked as if they could be filmmakers, Web designers, coffee shop purveyors or artists.

When talk turned to a dance party the group had recently given at a nearby restaurant, their profession became clearer... MORE>>