{"id":78,"date":"2009-03-06T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-06T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caveatquaestor.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/06\/calmer-in-the-morning"},"modified":"2009-03-06T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T14:46:00","slug":"calmer-in-the-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/2009\/03\/calmer-in-the-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Calmer in the morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in a bit of a tizzy last night, and cooler heads have reminded me that sometimes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraryjournal.com\/article\/CA6471076.html?q=entry+level+jobs\" target=\"new\">rebuttals happen<\/a>. Still, the rebuttal (which made a few sweeping statements of its own, I thought) was pre-economic-downturn. The special libraries that decreased the size of the applicant pool are no longer as numerous, or as well funded. (While I realize that the plural of &#8220;anecdote&#8221; is not &#8220;data,&#8221; something like three special libraries have closed in Pittsburgh, recently.) <\/p>\n<p>I still believe that continuing to allow enrollment increases&#8211;or even keeping enrollment steady&#8211;would be short-sighted and unethical. I still think there are too many library schools. I still think 90% acceptance rates are a crime. But I am no longer going to storm my dean&#8217;s office, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in a bit of a tizzy last night, and cooler heads have reminded me that sometimes rebuttals happen. Still, the rebuttal (which made a few sweeping statements of its own, I thought) was pre-economic-downturn. The special libraries that decreased the size of the applicant pool are no longer&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/2009\/03\/calmer-in-the-morning\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Calmer in the morning<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-librarianship","category-library-school","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheldon-hess.org\/coral\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}