The Clerk Manifesto

  After many years on the sidelines here at clerkmanifesto, refusing to take a stand on anything, or have an opinion of my own on any subjec...

  The first thing I found when, with the excuse of the Pandemic, I brought photography into this blog, was graffiti. But after a string of p...

        What kind of thing is this to enjoy?  And yet I did. One takes one's pleasures where one can on the Internet, and at work, and i...

        I am not one to casually recount dreams, especially for their entertainment value. I don't believe their narratives work in a co...

Let us call these co-workers of mine June and Jan. I have worked with Jan way past a decade. I have worked with June just a few years, but l...

  Warning: You may encounter a small amount of mild, entirely necessary swearing in the description of one of the   systems  my library uses...

         Our Library Director is leaving. And the current chatter at my library turned to who might be named as an Interim Director. One of ...

  It could be a metaphor.   All the depth, all the complexity, everything we feel, everyone we touch, every thought, every action, all the d...

  Today I was upstairs shelving books in the library I work at. Because we have much less to shelve in the limited library of the Pandemic, ...

  I was shelving and a librarian came by. He was pulling a book off the shelves for a notorious library patron I know all too well. "Sh...

      I was working in the phones area at my library and I got a super easy call.  It was just one simple question. The patron had gotten a ...

      I'm not usually one to be on the cutting edge of breaking news. So my natural inclination is to nurse my secret information, maybe...

  It's a pretty quiet day at the front desk of the library. I don't know if it's the season, or the infection and death toll in ...

With this mild December it may not be my last bike ride of the year, but I like to treat each one as if it is. So as I biked along today I w...

  Oh, sorry. I meant to say: Pictures of my dam trip. I went to a dam. I didn't mean to. I was on an outing on my electric bike, and I w...