The Clerk Manifesto

  I was busily engaged with my computer on the front desk of my library. Whether it was work related or not I don't remember nor care. A...

  A co-worker of mine came in for her evening shift and I greeted her with an elaborate Latin nickname loosely related to her actual name. I...

  The County is using our large meeting room today for a leadership conference. It is packed full of county middle managers, including most ...

  In one of those darling movies my lovely wife and I have watched so many times that now we've had to switch over to watching British A...

  In my adventures in following soccer, I have mostly experienced losing. My chosen National team was losing the World Cup simultaneously wi...

  I have long been opposed to Capital Punishment. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of people whose death I have no problem with and ...

  I was reading an online discussion on the "Libraries" subreddit. Someone had asked about printing and what different libraries d...

Fishing around in the recent history of clerkmanifesto I came upon my recent series where I was making the case that any city was improved b...

  At the desk: A library patron was looking for a book that was supposed to be on hold for him. There was a cart of unshelved books sitting ...

  I haven't spent much time on the photography side of clerkmanifesto lately. Nor have there been any of my strange music videos, or AI ...

  In the sheer chaos of understaffing, new hires, sub training, random sub appearances based on their availability over our need, and a gene...

  It's not that I don't tell jokes here. Some of my posts here are nothing but jokes. But my jokes are particular. They can be surre...

  I was coming back into the staff area after an hour at the front desk. Two super nice older lady volunteers were finishing up with emptyin...

  The debates came up with one of my co-workers out at the front desk of the library. "Isn't there supposed to be another one?...

  My art show is up at my library. I like how it's going.  The show itself is full of dozens and dozens of pictures of my library richly...

The elder branch manager of my library was leaving the library on the evening of July the third. "Don't forget to leave milk and co...

  One of our relatively new branch managers came by the front desk of my library to see if there was anything good for the children's ro...

  All the drama at my library this week has to do with indulgences. A difficult library patron has taken to asking desk staff to take his fo...

  Yes, the library I work at is mismanaged. The people in charge at every level act like royalty. We are increasingly understaffed. No one i...

  A library patron returned a book to me at the front desk of my library. The book had been in a little bit of a tussle with some water. The...