The Clerk Manifesto

Myself and a colleague spent 75 minutes cleaning out our two staff-room refrigerators. This job takes two people, I have found, not ...

Tensions are high as Pakistan and India seem perched once again on the very precipice of war. These are two countries with nuclear wea...

Due to some initiative of the County we hand out gun locks at my library. This means every once in awhile someone wanders up to me at t...

Morticia and Pugsley are working harmoniously in the boulevard strip garden that borders the sidewalk fronting their crumbling mansion ...

I hate shelving items on the bottom row. It turns a 2-step process into a 4-step process. On any of the other shelves I merely need to...

We live on the top floor of a building with an elevator. Sometimes I use the stairs, sometimes I take the fancy way, especially if I...

An important new study on studies came out today. This study shows that 82% of all news venues will report the results of any study...

This month, I tell you. First there were the minus 60 wind chills. Then there were the endless snowfalls which have so buried our dea...

One of our prominent work areas looks out on the carpool and disabled parking spots. And so I have much cause and opportunity t...

Working in common with a lot of different people at a public library sometimes the only feasible way to communicate is through a pos...

Attention End Users: We will no longer be responding to problems outside of our work order system. If something goes wrong, if th...

I don't like complaining about our wonderful library patrons, but sometimes they're simply so infuriating, so inexplicable, a...

One of my several dozen managers likes to draw cartoons on an informational whiteboard that greets us at the back entrance of the l...

As I write, my dear little soccer team from Barcelona is playing a very important game that I cannot watch. "Aren't t...

It is a well acknowledged fact that no significant amount of people will read anything on the Internet without being tricked into it....

Dear Editor: Yes, I have submitted my work to you now 47 times for your consideration. Yes, you have said no every time. ...

Because our attempts at prayer here have recently gone awry, we offer this prayer: Please, oh lord, I pray for all the peoples of ...

It is Saturday, so let us pray. Please bow your heads. Wait, WAIT! You can't see the screen if you've bowed your heads! Ugh!...

There are crazy people who come to my library and then there are crazy people who come to my library. I'm just saying that there...

It is not in my nature to consider myself lucky. My professional dreams have come to little. My 2,200 plus and counting daily missives ...