Librarians: The New “Hip” Generation

The New York Times had a story recently on the Hipper Crowd of Shushers, focusing on a group of young librarians from the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York who gather regularly at a professional soiree, complete with drinks named—rather, numbered—according to the Dewey Decimal System. As the article notes, “With so much of the job involving technology and with a focus now on finding and sharing information … a new type of librarian is emerging.”