HIP: We all know the information profession needs modern-day entrants and practitioners. So it was good to see the article in The New York Times' Fashion & Style Section on 8 July 2007 entitled "A hipper crowd of shushers" extolling just how hip today's librarians are. It is encouraging that the life style article appeals to new professionals. We need them, and the article's focus on how the profession of librarianship has gone from "shh" to "cool" painted an encouraging picture.
HIRABLE: Ideally, I would like for any CEO reading the article to think, "I'd better hire some of those!". That angle was not the article's focus, but I was reminded that we always need to answer the question: Sure we can be hip, but can we also be in business demand because we deliver business value?
The trick, of course, is to be hip and hirable. Perhaps that could be restated as "know the impact you want to make".
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