{"id":2793,"date":"2007-09-24T08:01:13","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T16:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/09\/shushing_the_shushers.html"},"modified":"2007-09-24T08:01:13","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T16:01:13","slug":"shushing_the_sh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/shushing_the_sh.html","title":{"rendered":"Shushing The Shushers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And somehow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/boroughs\/brooklyn\/2007\/09\/23\/2007-09-23_theyre_community_centers_says_chief_who_.html\">it still comes off as priggish<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In at the Brooklyn Public Library: rock concerts, children playing and singing, adults talking.<\/p>\n<p>Out at the Brooklyn Public Library: getting shushed by librarians.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because recently-appointed Brooklyn Public Library Executive Director Dionne Mack-Harvin views libraries as community centers &#8212; places where people are expected to talk to each other, not sit in silence.<\/p>\n<p>Mack-Harvin is so determined to end the shushing that librarians from all 60 branches have been attending training sessions to get the word out about her approach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve moved away from what some consider the &#8216;shushing library&#8217; model of the past, from being a sterile, educational place that&#8217;s somewhat elitist,&#8221; she said, &#8220;to being a community space where everyone walking in the door can find a place for themselves.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And somehow it still comes off as priggish: In at the Brooklyn Public Library: rock concerts, children playing and singing, adults talking. Out at the Brooklyn Public Library: getting shushed by librarians. That&#8217;s because recently-appointed Brooklyn Public Library Executive Director Dionne Mack-Harvin views libraries as community centers &#8212; places where people are expected to talk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}