{"id":728,"date":"2009-03-09T14:04:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T21:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=728"},"modified":"2009-03-09T14:04:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T21:04:58","slug":"what-i-wasnt-taught-in-library-school-dress-for-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/what-i-wasnt-taught-in-library-school-dress-for-success\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Wasn&#8217;t Taught in Library School: Dress for Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My advice for new children&#8217;s librarians would be to only wear &#8220;machine wash&#8221; clothing to work at the public library.\u00a0 I discovered this the day the kindergartner locked herself into the bathroom stall in the public bathroom during their class visit to the library.\u00a0 Since her teacher was a man, he wasn&#8217;t comfortable going into the woman&#8217;s room to rescue her.\u00a0 So guess who got to wriggle under the stall to calm the crying girl and unlock the door?\u00a0 Nothing like contact with the floor of a public bathroom and your dry-clean-only blouse to change your shopping patterns&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Duffy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My advice for new children&#8217;s librarians would be to only wear &#8220;machine wash&#8221; clothing to work at the public library.\u00a0 I discovered this the day the kindergartner locked herself into the bathroom stall in the public bathroom during their class visit to the library.\u00a0 Since her teacher was a man, he wasn&#8217;t comfortable going into the woman&#8217;s room to rescue her.\u00a0 So guess who got to wriggle under the stall to calm the crying girl and unlock the door?\u00a0 Nothing like contact with the floor of a public bathroom and your dry-clean-only blouse to change your shopping patterns&#8230; Jennifer Duffy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-wasnt-taught-in-library-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}