The Clerk Manifesto

I stayed home nursing what I think is probably a repetitive stress injury in my wrist caused by shelving! Though what do I know, I'm no ...

  It's hard for me to believe that just a couple of days ago I was clearing out my files here of failed photoshop experiments. Almost no...

  I have written far more than 3,000 blog posts, many of them about library work, but have I ever simply titled a blog post "Library...

  I spent some share of my longer weekend poking about in the dead end cu-de-sac of my photoshop pictures. No great themes developed, and I ...

  This picture I'm showing today might be a little familiar to you. An element similar to the design of this whole picture appeared in t...

  Sometimes I collect photographs and visual elements for photo projects that make perfect sense. There are stories I want to tell you, or t...

  It is the ancient custom of this blog, clerkmanifesto, to not name the library I work at. There were sensible enough precautionary reasons...

  I have managed to show a few decent pictures of eagles on clerkmanifesto over the years. They are fond of the Mississippi River up here, a...

  Somewhere in the holy books of Clerkmanifesto lies a proposal that every year my library be completely redecorated along the lines of a th...

  I might have left you hanging the other day when I suggested there was a newsworthy event at my library. And it wasn't the story about...