The mirror crack'd

One of 'those' disputes, so beloved of libraries:

"Staff in branch libraries do not do stock-editing. They don't know how to do stock-editing and it isn't part of their job," say T.Aldous and Julia.

"So that memo you sent you sent us last year telling us to remove all stock more than five years old and detailing the criteria for removal of the dead or tatty stock that you wanted us to remove before our stock figures were inspected was just a mirage then was it?"