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Tickling the Ivory Tower: Toward a Salon Culture in Libraries

a dialogue between the library and its constituents. 3 Holdengraber's program, "Live from the NYPL," has reinvigorated the library's public contact with the city and has made it a competitor for "the" place to be on weeknights in the city. He advised setting up a conversation between groups on stage, in the library, and throughout the city to instigate a creative tension because, as he put it, "You can't tickle yourself." 4 Although Holdengraber is reluctant to call what he is organizing a salon, the model of conversation and gathering place that a salon exemplifies can prove to be enlightening for librarians as they re-envision the ways that the field can be vital for patrons and for communities. The salon is about the people who attend; therefore, the library as salon may be about the patrons who use the resources, the authors and artists whose cultural products are found within the collections, and the librarian who is the host and the facilitator of access to such materials. 5 Art