Comments on: Hello New York Times/Sun readers and other “hip shushers”

By: librarians, and hipsters, and cocktails, oh my! « m00se

librarians, and hipsters, and cocktails, oh my! « m00se — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:37:32 +0000

[...] At the end of the day as Kendra notes, the article wasn’t for us, us being library types. Jessamyn points out that, “As someone who talked to the author of this article at length about politics, I think the problem was that the publishable article was about hipness but the article the author *wanted* to write about was about progressive politics… I agree, fluffy article, but if it can get a little more attention to the leftist aims of some librarians, I’m all for it.“ [...]

By: sarah

sarah — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:24:06 +0000

Thanks for the shout out. I have to say that the article was more fluffy than I’d hoped it might be but better than it could have been.

Oh well.

By: Abby

Abby — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:24:42 +0000

Is there anybody else out there who is sick of this “new” phenomena of the hipster librarian? When I worked at the reference desk of a major midwestern land-grant university in 1986 and 1987, I had pink hair. On my first day of work, I was thrilled to meet a colleague with purple hair. Shame on the media for just figuring out that those uptight stereotypes are older than the Dewey Decimal system. And sorry, Gen X & Y librarians, you aren’t the first class of hip!

By: J

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:20:17 +0000

Although I was pleasantly surprised to see you in my Sunday morning NYT, something about that article really set me off (and I would probably qualify as a "hipster librarian", even). This blogger sums up my feelings nicely.

Articles like this one reinforce my belief that a lot of library school students have no idea what it means to be a librarian. That worries me.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:15:08 +0000

My friend just sent me a link to the article, so I blogged about it and decided to drop you a line. I thought it was rather entertaining, and I find that the more positive press we get about librarianship the better, (even though it may seem like a big “duh” to those of us in the field.) I am STILL constantly fighting the “you don’t look like a librarian!” fight. We probably need a little more ammo like this here in the suburbs of Texas than in NYC, though! Love your blog, btw…

By: christine

christine — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:24:17 +0000

The third comment on Gothamist’s post on this article was interesting…

http://gothamist.com/2007/07/07/librarians_ackn.php#comments

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:25:21 +0000

fixed it!

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:09:05 +0000

Thanks for the tip on the font size KG, it’s decent on the Mac but I’ll bump it up some. That age thig just seems to be something that reporters do that I’ve had to get used to. I’m always curious who else besides the reporters care how old anyone is.

By: K.G. Schneider

K.G. Schneider — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 13:29:53 +0000

between “guybrarian” and mentioning your age, the article irritated me. It’s a typical NYT piece that sees the world through Manhattan-colored glasses.

By the way, I’m using Firefox on XP and this comment box sets the font very very very tiny, almost too hard to see. Otherwise I like your theme… pretty!

By: Cindy Embleton

Cindy Embleton — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:22:16 +0000

“A Hipper Crowd of Shushers which, despite the title is less annoying than the usual “librarians, they’re not as lame as you think!”

It is weird how librarians automatically get that schoolmarm rap. The press seems mystified by the idea that academics know how to have fun. I get the same issue with my Web site–don’t these folks know that “hot librarian” is the world’s most exciting fetish? :-)

By: cortex

cortex — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:41:44 +0000

This is a comment on the internet. Hippoop!