The Clerk Manifesto

Maybe it is not strictly Clerk or Library related, but she could never be considered a friend of either of these things and I am marking her...

  The Thin Line (Clerking 12) Even the most obtuse clerks, the craziest clerks, the most perfect clerks, the mean clerks, t...

Initial report filters down to me that a man has fallen in the upstairs men's room. Will I investigate? Yes, I will investigate! I go ...

Liars   (Clerking 11) “What do you do when a patron lies to you?” I am asked by a co-worker. It is a rhetorical q...

After repeatedly teasing the accounts of my clerk investigation about town I can finally set down the earth shattering account of my investi...

If you look a post or two down from here you will see my plans to shop all day and post about my encounters with clerking at large in my cit...

Having a few days off in a row, which happens every couple of weeks for me, has caused me a bit of blogger's worry: how will I keep the ...

A long one... Clerking 10 Enlightenment One of my colleagues, after reading my missives on the art of clerking, presented me...

I thought a lot about Live Blogging (see sidebar) from the fiction shelves but had to face it; it is, as usual, real quiet up here. I think ...

Under the category of random stories from the front desk, today, one with a bit of commentary, one not: 1. A man came to the front desk, t...

Clerking 9 Happy To Be Here Some things I only learn through a joke. This one came when I was standing at the check-in desk with ...

Because it's  breakroom week I felt I better update you on the free food situation. I have eaten one of the tiny mangoes. I didn't m...

New food in the breakroom today so check out that sidebar on what free food there is in the breakroom because it's pretty exotic. I may ...

Clerking 8 Greetings Are Fun and Easy I have begun to suspect that some of the regular patrons, ones who spend most of their ...

I eat pretty well. I use a vast majority of organic ingredients. I shop at co-ops and cook a lot. Today the food I've brought to work in...

Hello to all my friends in China. I got a page view from China! It might have been some sort of weird, automated thing, but, if not, hello t...

There is nothing going on at the Library today. It is one of my regular days off, but also it is Easter which is a holiday about eggs and th...

Relenting You have spent an hour carefully collecting an appealing stack of books and movies. I cannot let you check the...

In olden days library work was structured in such a way that I did not shelve at all. When shelving one or two hours a day became a part of ...

Clerking 6 Your Clerk I will give you the benefit of the doubt, when you come to me instead of the self check out machines sayi...