The Clerk Manifesto

I guess it's bald eagle season around here or something. There's one soaring over the library now. Over by the river yesterday I ...

In any field where greatness is possible there is a standard age at which people peak. This is obvious in sports and even varies from sp...

I hope you'll bear with me, I've been through a traumatic experience. Someone just read me their library card, over the phone ! ...

What none of you may have realized at this point in clerkmanifesto (two years in) is that I am engaged in writing a religious text, lik...

The other day I wrote a letter to the Internet of the future, 50 years hence. I will still be here 50 years hence! So I thought it would ...

A slow day at clerkmanifesto. I check in every four minutes to see if there's been any activity on my blog. No. No. No. No. ...

A food product, mostly eaten, was sitting in the staff refrigerator today. It was in the way of my shrimp and broccoli, so I had to gentl...

The Internet already provides such a shattered mirror vision of the world as it is to us in the present that I worry about the Internet v...

Two figures who appear frequently here are Vincent Van Gogh and Bob Dylan. Nevertheless they rarely appear together. I don't think th...

When I write a blog post, as part of the process of assembling it, there comes a time where I give the post labels . If you're read...

The rule at my library is: Your break shall be directly in proportion to the difficulty of the co-worker(s) you are teamed with. If y...

I've missed a few of my walks, so it was probably inevitable. I'll be walking the river tomorrow, but what with car things, weath...

I love lessons that run counter to the usual human discourse. And so I was delighted to read the story of the sleeper hit song "Sail...

I have updated my blog subtitle to read: Somewhere between   the cream rises to the top   and  dead things float   lies the tru...

Ten rules for criticizing your co-workers behind their backs 1. It's not behind their backs. It's just not in their immedia...

We live in an age of accelerating technology. The videotape becomes the DVD and, just as you think it can go no further, it becomes a bl...

For today's exciting blog post we are going to go with a little comedy. You may or may not laugh, but I'll have already collected...

Here is the story as it has happened to me countless times before, mostly in my own library where I have spent some majestic chunk of my ...

The image of the shushing librarian is perhaps the most iconic library image we have going. The fact that I have never seen this essenti...

  The conundrum of objectively good art vs. subjectively good art is hard enough. Let us set it aside and talk instead today about sme...