Introduction - who am I?

Greetings to all the people already in the room and listening to the download - encourage live participation

Explain a bit about how TalkShoe works and how to call in live

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your PIN

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1. More on Dewey freedom

Doing it without Dewey: A Perry Branch Library Tour (Gather No Dust)

2. On being hip (listeners are likely divided between those who are way tired of hearing and reading about this article and those who can't wait to hear this discussion - maybe you're in both camps)

A Hipper Crowd of Shushers (New York Times)

For New-Look Librarians, Head to Brooklyn (New York Sun)

Hipster status, Determining your (A Librarian's Guide to Etiquette)

Librarians Rarely Make the News (Huffington Post)

Talking points:

Annoyed LIbrarian - Yuck; KGS - "mortifying"

the guybrarian thing

ageism - can only youngsters be hip?

haven for left-wing social engagement?

Where are these $51,000 jobs?

3. If Public Libraries Didn’t Exist, Could You Start One Today? (Freakonomics blog)

4. Why ALA will never learn (Pattern Recognition)

Closing -

How to contact me - email

plug the blog;

podcast - now available in iTunes store?

Facebook group;

Discussion ideas? - Use the unvocab tag - the more who tag an individual article, the more likely we are to talk about it

Note that those who stream live gain access to the post-recording after-party

 Thanks to everyone for participating