The Clerk Manifesto

I don't have a lot of readers out here in Internetland, something I like to periodically mention in passing in the hope that it ...

One of my newer co-workers has little kids. Some nights their father brings them in to visit the mom at work. Just after they left o...

We totally have celebrities at my library. You know, famous people. Not famous people so as you would know them if you aren't par...

While it's not a particularly original program, our "Read to the Animals" sessions in the children's room have been v...

When I was a child it was a well accepted truism that all the things one might want to eat, or drink, or smoke, were bad for you. Su...

I know that much of my wee but discerning audience does not love when I talk about soccer. Based on the circumstantial evidence my mos...

The heat and humidity pressed into the world all day, and walking through my thick and soon to be former neighborhood 79 degrees felt t...

I recently heard from a Hennepin County Library worker that their strongly enforced policy there is that staff are not allowed to d...

Our house is for sale. And as we enter into the end of the initial, though not necessarily fruitful, flurry of interest in it I am str...

Because we are selling our house, each morning we go through a process of getting it all neat and clean for all the day's showing...

In today's housing market it is super easy to make a ton of money flipping houses. I should know! My wife and I are just completi...

I have been working at this library for 24 years now. I know a lot of people. I know thousands of people here. I like them all, if I ...

Because of the fact that for any hour I'm allotted to shelve I more or less screw around for half of that time, I am generally ea...

We're selling our home. We're selling our home and moving to an apartment. I haven't bought or sold a lot of homes, bu...

A co-worker of mine accepted an idle challenge to process three bins of books in a short amount of time, sort of on a dare. Dan was th...

I may have mentioned that I work in a very popular library. I'm not going to go much into my theories as to why we are so popular, ...

Do not argue. Arguing does not work, no matter how civil and calm you are. Do not accuse them of being: Evil Racist #fakechristian...

I was at the front desk of my library when a rather large woman approached. She was wearing an even larger white t-shirt. On the t-shi...

I was back on our giant check in machine at the library when someone returned their books. They were kids' books, picture books, a...

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