Now that my vast career slowly winds to an end, let me lay it out for you:
How to be a good library clerk.
To be a good library clerk takes only one thing:
Correct more mistakes than you make.
Ah, the young one asks: But how does one know if they are correcting more mistakes than one is making, for if we knew the mistakes we made wouldn't we not make them?
Alas that I have an answer, and it is dark!
If you are not in a state that oscillates between irritation at all the mistakes you are always correcting, and sheer horror at how regularly your co-workers seem to make those mistakes, then you are making more mistakes than you solve.
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