{"id":93,"date":"2005-01-03T23:18:13","date_gmt":"2005-01-04T04:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=93"},"modified":"2005-01-03T23:18:13","modified_gmt":"2005-01-04T04:18:13","slug":"librarian-shortage-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/03\/librarian-shortage-in-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"Librarian shortage in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I lived in New Jersey (near Princeton) until I was 12.  I have very fond memories of the area, so I&#8217;ve been looking for jobs in public and academic libraries there.  While I&#8217;ve applied for several, I really haven&#8217;t found that New Jersey has a glut of open librarian jobs.  Apparently, I must be blind, because according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/state\/ny-bc-nj--librarianshortage0101jan01,0,7375942.story?coll=ny-region-apnewjersey\">this article from Newsday<\/a> [via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisnews.com\/article.pl?sid=05\/01\/03\/1840223\">Blake at LISNews<\/a>] there is a major &#8220;library shortage&#8221; in the state (or will be quite soon).  The article talks about all of the librarians who will be retiring soon and includes interviews with library administrators who just can&#8217;t find enough professional librarians to fill their open positions.  <em>Hello!  I&#8217;m right here!  Nice girl, MLS, computer skills, public service experience, looking for a job.  Ummm&#8230; hello? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>These articles really annoy me.  Does anyone understand that shrinking budgets in libraries may have some effect on the number of library jobs available?  It&#8217;s as if age demographics are the only measure of job outlook, and librarianship exists in a bubble where the economy has no impact.  I&#8217;d love to know where the articles are about librarians who have spent months looking for jobs to no avail.  At least that&#8217;s not just conjecture.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I lived in New Jersey (near Princeton) until I was 12. I have very fond memories of the area, so I&#8217;ve been looking for jobs in public and academic libraries&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}