Library policy discussion

[Marko_Markoko]

@fightmaster

@Trogdor

Might I also suggest a halfway solution that has the benefit of making no one entirely happy (the hallmark of a true compromise)? What if those stationed in the Balearics were allowed one season a year to study summae in Andorra? They'd still live in the Balearics, of course. But they'd be allowed to come to the Andorra library for eight hours a day to study the good summae. We could even arrange it so that the visits were spread out across the seasons so that no more than two journeymen were studying in Andorra during any given season. Better yet, allow six 'slots' per year of Balearic journeyman time studying in the Andorra library - two seasons of one journeyman in the library and two seasons of two journeymen in the library. That guarantees that at any given time there are at least four or five journeymen in the Balearics. And for 2/3 of the time there will be all six. Each journeyman would get one of those slots, but if they weren't using it, another journeyman could take it. That allows a little wiggle room for studying practices.

I like this. I like it even more if the journeymen develop their own shadow economy by selling their seasons to each other.

I am not such a fan of this. The Resolutions state

Further, they shall have unrestricted access to the covenant's Main Library

I suppose you could always employ Solomon's draconian elastic clause, but that is another inspiration for rebellion.