The Clerk Manifesto

My library, in the nineties, was an early adopter in the "Coffee shops in Libraries" movement. In the face of the terr...

This is a basically accurate phone transcript, as far as I can remember, with the usual moving around of names to protect the ba...

Among the roughly two-thirds of my co-workers that I consider to be of sound mind I try to take as open a view as possible....

Are you a genius? How can you trust your own highly invested self-assurance, or, conversely, that your noble humility won't mu...

I don't know about Heaven and Hell in the afterlife. Or I do know. They don't exist. On the other hand they are always with ...

There was an early stage in my cocktail/aperitif fascination where I thought I wanted a broad knowledge. I thought maybe I wanted to...

At the library I work at putting a cart of books into alphabetical or numerical order is usually distinct from taking said cart ups...

I was out at the desk when a library patron came up needing help. He was working on a patent application. He was having problems atta...

High among the various subjects I am occasionally obsessed with, but never much discuss here, is gaming, as in video gaming, or comp...

Here is a charming demonstration you can use at parties to illustrate elements of the current tax plan working its way through the A...

It started right after Halloween with people complaining about Christmas decorations going up too early. Soon after that the first t...

Orso 80 🌟🌟✩✩✩ 2 Stars First of all, I'd like to apologize to Orso 80. I had a really lovely five days off from work an...

On Black Friday you saw our biggest discount of the year, 30% off! We only offer a huge discount like that on the most special and o...

"There is no one we hate more than those who tell us the truth we don't want to know." -Ralph Waldo Emerson ...

Not long ago I discovered that the elevator at the library I work at travels not just between floors, but it can go to any time of th...

In the work area of the library where I am employed there are two private staff bathrooms. Both are located down an out of the way...

After the feast of Thanksgiving, and then a day to wallow through the leftovers, one invariably comes to Saturday. That's today!...

The elevator at the library I work at no longer simply serves the mundane purpose of traveling between floors, but now it also allow...