The Clerk Manifesto

Who would've thought we'd get a full half year into this Pandemic before we sat down and had a serious discussion about hand sa...

Lately I have been out at the front entry desk of the library for an hour every early evening. I have been telling you all about it he...

Sometimes under our current set-up at my library we library workers are scheduled to staff an entry desk in the lobby. There we act a...

Several years ago Naomi Klein wrote a brilliant book called The Shock Doctrine . The main thesis, poorly expressed by me, is that in...

Dear Clerkmanifesto: Recently, while perusing one of your blogposts, I came across a reference to "weird birds". You al...

Currently at my library you can request things online, or over the phone. You are notified when it comes in for you. And then, during ...

The flowers are blooming. The sun is shining. The wind is calm. The butterflies are singing their super quiet song. The temperature is...

Among the wide range of photographic materials I have bought, scrounged, and gathered is a book of postcards of William Morris wallpap...

I'm sitting at the library reception desk watching a perfectly beautiful Summer evening rain. It's heavy and silver and falls ...

Increasingly concerned about the intense divisiveness in my country I vowed to do my part in trying to heal the nation's wounds. A...

I am not here today to discuss the advisability of taking everything that happens in the world personally . It's probably a bad i...