The Clerk Manifesto

I think of teen librarian Marcus as the most well read person I know. What he is reading always comes up when we talk, and often eno...

A week or two ago, during a post in which I devised a foolproof method to test the quality of any public library, I let drop, casually, the ...

Recently I wrote a blog post in which I suggested that my library is a lot like Sesame Street ( here ). As I was thinking of it and walking ...

Sometimes I'll write up some really smashing bit of prose here, and feel all tingly and proud, and I'll send it off to the internet ...

This is the fourth post in the blog of The Last Harbor Library. The first post concerned our blogger, Nate, being instructed to write a ...

I suppose every library department, maybe every department everywhere, has their moment in the sun (in the shade?) where they really hit the...

There is no shortage of cynicisms here at the library I work at. My co-workers complain about the patrons regularly, and we're ...

One of my favorite stories from behind the scenes at my library comes from a long past era. The account, as I heard it from one of the inv...

I had a somewhat negative reaction recently to a couple of studies that purported to measure the quality of libraries through statistics...

It snowed again last night and the wind is ripping around in fascinating spirals. The fine, light snow illustrates the fierce low swirling o...

Have you ever read a book? It is traditional in a lot of books for the author to write a little bit about all the people who helped the au...

This is the third post in the blog of The Last Harbor Library. The first post concerned our blogger, Nate, being instructed to write a bl...

Yesterday I  summarily dismissed a German University's study of the best libraries in the world. I felt there could be nothing fundament...

In my ceaseless desert wanderings of the internet I have come upon word that the Chicago Public Library is the best library in the cou...

 You have some old books from the 1970s festering in some corner of your house. You thought you'd like to give them where they mi...

At a large and busy library like my own, there are occasionally great surges. Some of these surges are on the check out side. The summer rea...

I have been in the library when it's closed. It is lovely, hushed, and smooth. You can look out the windows and see the people come. Eve...

Due to some sudden impulses to make pictures for my blog, write lengthy posts, and pursue elaborate projects like The Last Harbor Library Bl...

This is the second post in the blog of The Last Harbor Library. The first post concerned our blogger, Nate, being instructed to write a bl...