Register of Librarians
Librarians keep this place. They hang exhibits, review applications, look after the wardens and translate. Each has a number. Numbers are not given out in order, and short or memorable ones are held back for events and contributors.
On duty.
| Number | Name | Since |
|---|---|---|
| No. 1 | Founding Librarian | 2026-10-04 |
Only librarians who chose to be listed appear here, by pen name.
Leave the register
We send a code to your email. Once you enter it, your email is deleted and your number is retired, never to be reused.
One minute. No test. One oath.
Give a name or stay anonymous, pick a desk, take the oath, and get a card with your number. We keep your email only to send you a code and the occasional notice from the front desk. Our emails never contain links.
Get a librarian cardNumbers follow no pattern.
Numbers are issued at random between 100000 and 999999. Everything below 100000 and every memorable number is locked in a cabinet for events and contributors: repeated digits, runs, mirrors, round numbers, and numbers that mean something here, such as 78, 520, 1004 and 2114. Reserved numbers cannot be sold, traded or transferred, and they carry no authority. A retired number is never issued again.
Observances
- 03-31
- Duplicate Day. Keepers check that their share still exists.
- Qingming
- Lamp Day. Visit a plaque you care about. Look at your own exhibit once.
- 05-20
- Keeper Day. Thank someone who holds a share for you.
- 10-04
- Founding Day. The front desk stays empty, as usual.
- Solstice
- Warm Room Day. The longest night; the whole building turns warm. Call someone. Do not mention the stacks.
- 12-31
- Tidy-up Day. Update your exhibit; retire what you no longer mean.
Seven lines.
- 01I hold no one's keys.
- 02I never open a box alone.
- 03I quote. I never speak for anyone.
- 04I take no money for this.
- 05I come back once a year to look.
- 06I defer to the living.
- 07I help things be remembered, and help them rest.
Rank records what you did. It grants no power.
- Librarian
- Finished orientation, took the oath, received a number.
- Docent
- Helped someone hang an exhibit or a plaque, confirmed by that person. Never paid, never pushed.
- Warden-keeper
- Looks after wardens: tests them, reports where they quote badly.
- Conservator
- Code, docs, translation, design, accessibility or a security report accepted into the project.
- Steward of the Stacks
- A long-standing conservator. Keeps the rules; gives no orders.
Badges, not ranks: Night Warden (a responsible security disclosure) · Interpreter (a translation) · Lamplighter (lit lamps on ten plaques they were recognised at). No rank can open anyone else's layers, the founder's included.