The Clerk Manifesto

Among the many groups I once suspected would have found my blog interesting, librarians were among the top. After all, I write extens...

A man came up to the front desk of the library to talk to me. I was honored. He said "My wife sent me to pick up something....

Yesterday my library system had its now biannual In Service Day. It was scheduled on my day off so I didn't go. But the truth is I ...

It has become common currency in our culture that working at something for 10,000 hours is how long it takes to master it. Work at m...

If you can't enjoy a good book hunt you probably shouldn't be working at a library. But first, let's ...

I have had the unique opportunity to be one of the very first people to read all 472 pages of The Mueller Report. Knowing that many pe...

Another Sunday at the library. I work every other one of these, usually after three days off. Upon my reintroduction I was mad at...

In my excitement I can get a little caught up in the best. This afternoon I got to watch Messi play yet again and it's hard no...

It is a common misconception that the computers at libraries are popular because a surprising number of people don't have Inte...

As I journey through life there are things I want to say. I have many important ideas that would improve the world if only God woul...

Being a blog made exclusively out of words it can be a challenge when I want to tell you about something fundamentally visual, or a tas...

Dear Publisher: Right off the bat I want to acknowledge that this manuscript submission is a simultaneous submission. I am concur...

Dear Department of Transportation Employee: It was while I was waiting at a busy crosswalk for the sign there to turn to "Wa...

While I have long understood that no season makes me happier than the height of Autumn, it is only this week, while walking around in a...

A Peter Lorre-like character I sometimes talk to at the library I work at said something about how he was pleased with something his f...

A reader writes in to say "I don't know if this is okay, but I have an idea for a blog post." Except he didn't write...

I have been working with the very worst one of all my co-workers for at least ten years now. So I've had a good deal of practice ...

In the interest of my health and even more so as a good faith effort in trying to snore less, I adopted a series of new eating habits...

One of the items we circulate in the children's room of my library are storybags. These are big zippered bags with a couple of pic...

Over the weekend the greatest soccer player who ever lived played an exceptional game. Lionel Messi scored three goals. This is called...