The Clerk Manifesto

When I was in Disneyworld a few years ago I narrowly passed up buying a very cute giraffe headband. It had giraffe ears and those l...

Are you tired of having only three people read the blog post you labored over for hours? Are you discouraged by the fact that havin...

Many times a co-worker has mentioned what a great sitcom our library would make. Sure, fine. It depends on the writers, and the cast,...

Somewhere a person at the library today held up a dvd and asked me "Have you seen this movie?" The movie was from about...

Today one of our regular patrons, spending the day as he does on one of our Internet computers, collapsed into the keyboard. Heart at...

January 3, 2017 Dear Publisher, I can see by your recent note in the mail that you are not interested in publishing my eight v...

Today at the library the American flag ripped from its flagpole and fell to the ground. Why not at the library? That seems like the ...

I don't think random markers in time are good places to make decisions for change. One shouldn't resolve to improve based on...

Every rare once in awhile we get an unbelievably quiet night like this. It's the season of course. But also we had a lot of staf...

Recently I was telling you about the spate of remedial emails we were getting from the management at my library. "When accepting...

A patron, or a prospective employee, comes to me at the Service Desk. They're interested in library work. "Are you a volu...

Lately, at my library job, we have been getting a lot of informational notes. These tend to be remedial. "I shouldn't hav...

Once, long ago, I almost died. Most of us have had our run ins with death. Life is dangerous. In this long ago time my friend Gra...

No, the title of this post aside, I am fine with Christmas, which, due to the tape delay quality of the Internet is over for you eve...

There is no god. What a Universe, what a place! All these atoms everywhere. Everything dying but nothing, in the whole great infini...

I don't know how many friends I have. I get confused on the point. I'm willing to be free with the term if someone wants it...

The "If I Were King of the Library" project was begun so many decades ago on this blog that some of you who only started f...

I recently went on a month long vacation to Rome. This was known to many people. I wasn't shy about mentioning it. I made a rathe...

Perhaps our nation's faith in God has waned. Maybe the power of churches and preachers has broken under the weight of corruption...

I would have thought I'd written more about the trip my wife and I recently took to Rome. We were there for a month, but the proj...