The Clerk Manifesto

Yesterday my wife and I were at a lecture at our local museum. It was about eccentricity in Japanese Painting. It was okay. But two things f...

Having burst into this day by drinking two large cappuccinos I have had no problem generating an excellent idea for today's blog post....

Don't get me wrong, I am happy to stand around talking about the weather until our toes start to hurt, turn blue, and, finally, detach. ...

I have previously spoken of the librarian who chooses display books based almost entirely on the books being hardcover and the fact that the...

The library cat, kafka, belongs to himself and to the Library. But I sometimes get jealous of all his other friends. Though I am perhaps mos...

As a person of strong opinions, aye, ferocious, sometimes terrifying opinions, I have had to step back on occasion and reflect on the idea o...

On Friday, I fell in love with a painting. I will resist comparing it, which is one of my weaknesses, as in, it is the seventh greatest pa...

In a very recent post I spoke happily of kafka, the Library cat, and how he seems to be turning out very well indeed as he grows up. But som...

Sometimes I am walking around with my pockets stuffed full of blog ideas. It's a little like having my pockets full of cash, a nice, rea...

As kafka the Library cat bursts quickly through his weeks of adolescence, I can only conclude he is turning out very well. He is going to be...

I love working with the public. In the context of helping them as a Library employee I find them entertaining, endearing, and interesting...

I am not one for much celebrating of Thanksgiving. I am happy enough and quite thankful for any day I can spend at home with my wife. This w...

Perhaps it would be best if you think of this like a Zen Koan. In all the internet, full of its hucksters, glory hounds, relentless and ma...

Have you longed to be a comedian about town, a nut, a fool, a secret font of wisdom, hilarious? That is, do you want to be funny? I advise a...

When things go missing at the Library I have learned not to jump to the conclusion that they have been stolen. My pessimistic nature used to...

If you read yesterday's post, the natural answer to today's question about what I'm up to would be "Trouble."  But, n...

I like working with the Library volunteers, or, I like working around them. It's not simply the diversity of that volunteer population t...

I have been very eager to bring you the latest update on kafka, the Library cat. Unfortunately there has been nothing to report. No, serious...

I am in a long running secret war with whoever officially puts out the featured, display books at the ends of the fiction and genre fic...

Most people come to the front desk of the Library for the usual things. They want to pay fines, get cards, request a book, find out where so...