The Clerk Manifesto

No, Michael Chabon never came to my Library. But all his books have been here at one time or another. And they always seemed like just the s...

Actually, the squirrels in our backyard don't look like this at all, but I found this picture by Red R out there on the internet and h...

Every once in awhile I toss out one of my posts, or a link to it, onto some likely place on the Internet. If I blog about a fly (and me) a...

A mighty legend of my Library is now gone . Retired. I feel wistful, nostalgic and strangely untouched. But I have one last story about her ...

This is a non-scientific study. Today we had a rather well attended retirement party for a long time co-worker. There was a potluck. I bro...

Now that banned books week is over I can safely discuss the tiny subsections of the written word that I just won't read. I think everyon...

There are two seats out at our Service Desk, two seats for two staff members. One is up higher, one is down lower. When it is my time to go ...

On the way to the elevators, sitting on the table for staff mailboxes, is an inscribed brick paver. I don't know what it's doing the...

I don't think of it as very much my nature to accord too much respect to others. I am by nature, wounds, experience, or some combinati...

It is a long story, well, too long for here. You can go here, to MPR , to see a sort of full story of this, but, almost briefly, I will tr...

I have discussed various coping mechanisms clerks use to navigate the despair strewn path of work life (examples here , here , and here ),...

A patron walks into a Library (why don't more jokes start out like this, and, no, sorry, this isn't a joke). This person comes to m...

Tension and expectation steals oxygen from the air and it feels hard to breathe. The Library opens in 30 seconds. The wall of people moves...

I was wandering out to the front desk to enter onto our waive sheet the 90 cents I had waived for someone while I was on the phone (that...

We have now completed Famous People at the Library week, and what a week it was! Sally Brown! Prince! Garrison Keillor's nephew! But i...

Kerri Miller hosts the late morning show on our local public radio station. She used to come to my Library occasionally and so I've ...

I was all set to gently chide those of you who did not know the very famous Sally Brown. But then I remembered that each post in Famou...

That is a terrible title for this blog post. I think the problem is that I have been lying so much this week, during Famous People at ...

Sure, this is titled Prince at the Library . It's for the sake of consistency. I'd like Famous People at the Library Week to ha...

"How famous is best selling author Elizabeth Berg?" some of you might want to know.  Thirty-two out of 100 on the famous peop...