The Clerk Manifesto

I like the sound of this title. This could be a handsome new series of blog posts. If I were king of the library indeed! I'm all for it....

Exhaustive, (but oddly idiosyncratic) Review of the Pierre Bottineau Public Library, Minneapolis, Minnesota Phase 1 of the review expedit...

I woke up with a powerful sense of mission. I feel like I'm going on an expedition. This may have to do with all the sort of wilderness ...

This bookmark was sitting, mysteriously abandoned, on a table in the back workroom, and I just love it. It's from the Minnesota Histor...

I work the automated check in machine with a strange mash-up of busy contentment and wild rage. Setting aside the contentments, which are co...

At our sort of recent staff day (see post here ) we talked about User Experience, which is about trying to look at our library from an outsi...

In defense of our collection I find that a lot of the time we have the books and DVDs people want somewhere immediately available in our lib...

My favorite Terry Pratchett books generally seem to have something to do with the witches. And somewhere in those books, probably Wee Free M...

Approximately once a week I walk part way to work, mostly along the Mississippi River. I am reluctant to be more specific about my route, si...

My public library produces a collection of some of the widest range of voices outside of an opera house, or, no, maybe an opera house locate...

My colleague was helping someone at the front desk. The person wanted his fines partially waived because our automated check in machine jamm...

Hi, it's me, your blogger, and I'm piping up here to say that there is a little contest now live with a post maybe one or two below ...

"What is that secret something in your blog that makes it so special?" people don't ask me, because my readers are very specia...

(Note: this is a super linkable blogpost, just, you know, in case you want to try clicking things in it. Some are what you think, some not, ...

Someone I have worked with my whole lengthy career here has just retired after 37 years. And the book I keep thinking of in relation to this...

So I am shelving some large type Romances and an octogenarian down the aisle from me is perusing our very thin collection of Western large t...

Sometimes, like now, I just can't find anything to read. Or, I can find tons of things to read, everything at the library ends up sort o...

I am very leery of bringing this blog down with too many complaining posts. I am trying to keep that balance of analysis and comedy, folly a...

This is a review of the new graffiti work that was done sometime during the last couple of weeks. I call it "Hangman" as it is mai...

Enjoy a special teatime interview with a retiring Carol and the half Swedish Gloria. Flags fly and Bob asks all the pertinent questions ab...