The Clerk Manifesto

There comes a time in every middle aged man's life when everything just sort of falls apart. I'm not talking about deadly ser...

If you checked out materials from another public library anywhere in the greater metropolitan area you can return it to us! We will...

There is nothing wrong with puns. Shakespeare loved them and so do I. The reason great and famous writers like us (on average) so e...

  There's nothing wrong with email's ability to disseminate information. There's a pretty good chance you are reading the...

Once upon a time at my library we got phone calls all the time. All the time. You had two options, you could come in to the library, ...

It is an unavoidable fact that most of the patrons I see when I am working at the library are in some state of leisure. They are he...

I have felt sour lately, and crabby. Can you tell here? Perhaps I have passed it off as pure hilarity, and it's not so bad that ther...

A couple of days ago I was telling you about the recent unevenness in my work assignments at the library. I mentioned how in a bizarre...

I would not have guessed that I would have managed the impartiality of library work as well as I have. I have a lot of strong opinions ...

One of the main purposes of the schedule at my library is to spread the variety of work among us clerks and pages, keeping us fr...

For nearly a quarter century I have been living in these darling twin cities (fraternal, not identical, but they still live together...

I do best when I don't take writing clerkmanifesto so seriously. Because the thing is that it takes itself so seriously that i...

Yesterday afternoon I was out at the front desk with one of my pleasant co-workers. The horrifically smelly man, who we institution...

I was talking with a co-worker at the front desk of my library. We were talking about work. This brings up the question: Does talkin...

Every once in awhile I consider the Internet, which is more that I can say it does for me. Then I come here and sum it all up for you...

Stop me if I've already written this one before. It's okay if you need to go back through the 1,200 post history of cler...

Sometimes I wander the Internet. I don't know what I'm looking for there. Do you? Well, you. Look who I'm asking this of....

On the rare occasions I peruse the geographic statistics of where people are reading my blog I find that a third of all my reader...

I found a collection of one-liners that struck me as so amusing that I jotted them down on one of the hundreds of scraps of paper I c...

Today the semi annual Friends of the Library book sale had its opening day. Many little old ladies staffed the tables outside our comm...