The Clerk Manifesto

Dear Publisher; Well, I throw my hands up. I don't know what to do anymore. I have written thousands of essays. I have compose...

This year my wife and I are going to Florence. And as i peruse the raft of guides to this city crammed with art and beauty it is diffi...

I'd like to begin my comments today with a little joke. Don't worry, it's not funny. Wait, you mean you'd like for ...

Today my library is swarming with teens! We are having a History Day Hullabaloo which means, and this might get a little te...

I work in what I like to call a near urban library. There are advantages and disadvantages to not working in an urban, downtown li...

The 2018 Library Journal Star Ratings for Libraries is out. It has probably been out for awhile, but I only just noticed. You see...

The highlight tonight at the front desk of the library was throw-up. Brace yourself. My co-worker's small son came for a visit ...

When I first moved to The Twin Cities seeing a bald eagle was an event. I had not only come from a virtually bald eagle-free Californi...

I was walking through the University where, as usual, a great many large scale construction projects were going on. It was lunchtime,...

Simple foods are the best foods. What overwrought kitchen construction of a dish could possibly rival a sweet, pure mandarin orange, ...

It has been both quiet and busy today at the library I work at. This is a change from a December that ambled along in a seas...

Oh, hi. Thanks for stopping by. But unfortunately I didn't come to the Internet today to write a blog post. I have found writi...

The partrons come into my library like they do at the start of every new year, and they want to know if we've got the fed...

Once every 35 or so blog posts I get really impressed. What? Don't you? Anyway, I get so impressed I just feel like everyone...

At midnight, New Year's Eve, the whole north of town was laid at our feet like we were masterminds or millionaires. We could se...

It's ten o'clock and time for the Clerkmanifesto Sidewalk Report brought to you by Sneed's Electric Shoelaces. Sneed...

I am shelving, or I was trying to, but there is a man talking so loudly at the reference desk that I cannot concentrate. He...

Over the past year I have produced 365 blog posts, unless it was leap year, in which case there will be an extra one squeezed in there...

It's a good news/bad news situation as viable wolf populations have returned to France.  The European Gray Wolf went extinct i...

Readers and Neighbors: Last night it snowed for a long time. But oddly, towards morning, the temperatures warmed a little. The snow...