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A Hipper Crowd of Shushers
Michael Nagle for The New York Times
EAT, DRINK, BE LITERARY From left, Jessica Pigza, Maria Falgoust, Jeff Buckley and Sarah Murphy at a social event for librarians where the author Robert Sullivan, far right, spoke.

(article courtesy of New York Times online; photo credit: Michael Nagle for The New York Times)
Correction Appended
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.
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So do you think YOU are a "hip" librarian? Can librarians BE "hip"? If so, what makes us hip?