{"id":569,"date":"2007-07-13T14:03:20","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T19:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=569"},"modified":"2007-07-13T14:03:20","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T19:03:20","slug":"too-hip-for-shushing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2007\/07\/13\/too-hip-for-shushing\/","title":{"rendered":"Too hip for shushing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/woeful\/373432672\/' ><img src='https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/uploads\/bacardibynight.png' class='right frame' alt='bacardi ad' \/><\/a>I can say, from experience, that the librarians of the future (e.g. my current classmates), are totally fucking rad.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe one day we&#8217;ll even break the whole &#8220;shusher&#8221; stereotype.  Read the whole NYTimes article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/08\/fashion\/08librarian.html?ex=1184472000&#038;en=60020e0dbfef307b&#038;ei=5070&#038;emc=eta1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why are people getting into this profession when libraries seem as retro as the granny glasses so many of the members of the Desk Set wear?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause it\u2019s cool,\u201d said Ms. Gentile, who works at the Brooklyn Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Murphy, 29, thinks so, too. An actress who had long considered library school, Ms. Murphy finally decided to sign up after meeting several librarians \u2014 in bars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople I, going in, would never have expected were from the library field,\u201d she said. \u201cSmart, well-read, interesting, funny people, who seemed to be happy with their jobs.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In more local &#8220;Ain&#8217;t the library cool&#8221; news, the Olympia Timberland Library had Boston-based punk band <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eskimolabs.com\/hp\/band.htm\">Harry and the Potters<\/a> performing a show, just last night, as part of their summer events for teens program.<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s not cool then I&#8217;m a muggle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can say, from experience, that the librarians of the future (e.g. my current classmates), are totally fucking rad. Maybe one day we&#8217;ll even break the whole &#8220;shusher&#8221; stereotype. Read the whole NYTimes article here. Why are people getting into this profession when libraries seem as retro as the granny glasses so many of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}