O land of manure and mist, of dirty, cold rain

A toddler in the children's library has had an accident, as children do, but unfortunately walked a lot of the resulting mess into the carpet and threw a few books into it. Mary and T.Aldous drop everything to review this outrage. As Seth gingerly donned his Marigolds and started putting soiled books into a bag Mary turned to Lola and said:

"You'll need to get the barcodes out of those books so that they can be withdrawn properly."