The Clerk Manifesto

Yesterday, here, we got to talking about coffee at work. When I say we, I mean me, but you did all the hard work of having to care about wha...

I really love coffee and it's a big part of any day for me, certainly including work days (which are most days!). My library houses a ba...

In the totally wonderful Daniel Pinkwater book The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death our teen narrator visits the family home of Rat (...

When one works around media and representations of media one runs into an amazing amount of coincidences. For fun you can pretend you are co...

Today someone brought into the break room several small paper plates with some slightly smashed looking fruit bar cookies. At least I think ...

What is the Internet? The four thousandth totally brilliant invention in a row to utterly fail its promise. What is Clerkmanifesto? Qu...

Keeping up with a blog like this can be a very intense process. I make sure never to be without a pen that I like, and my pants pockets are ...

Here's the world famous blogger setting down to write another world famous blog post. Oh, excuse me, I have to pose for a picture for ...

They may walk in the door and you are all full of greetings and news and chatter, and you may think you like them, but it is not necessarily...

 To do my live blog poetry interpretation I first looked around for difficult poets and poems, but then, as I wrote yesterday, I happened...

 So, in preparation for my live, on blog, poetry interpretation (to be done in penance for our massacred library poetry section) I went out...

The librarians have been at the weeding again recently. We only have so much room for books and the new ones keep pouring in. And do you kno...

When you have a lot of co-workers being friendly with them all is not necessarily the best course of action. It can be nice to be on amiable...

At my last library in-service day I learned about U-X, user experience, as a model for library improvement. A couple of times since then I h...

I very rarely work pre-opening hours as I do today, and up shelving in Genre the sheer peacefulness goes some way to confirming my suspicion...

A storm hit my city. My wife and I watched it from our wee, snug city cottage. The winds were fierce and it was fun and dramatic to see, but...

In the retrofitted book I told you about the retrofitted books I am working on to send out to the little free libraries of my city to do wh...

Okay, yes, this is a little Mad Magazine, but people who blog every day can't get all picky about their antecedents, and what's wron...

Yesterday a newly hired clerk/page for the substitute pool was being quietly trained in on the computers. I met her only in passing and whet...

As King I have been revolutionary ( everybody shelves ) , community oriented (the local library )  a defender of literature ( the staff libr...