What was the plan?

What was the plan when King Hairboy eliminated the Library Coordinator and the central library support budget 3 years ago?

Why did GoG tell everyone 2 years ago that Dotland was gone and all library support had to go through GoG?

Why were library meetings with anyone but GoG eliminated?

Why did the Black Dot Queen keep Dotland busy with "strategic planning" for a whole year and then drop the whole thing?

Why did the Duchy stop paying for Folly support at the same time they were trying to eliminate central library support? (It would seem that not supporting folly would be a GOOD thing, but if you are stuck with the folly anyway shouldn't you have some support and comfort to get you through it?)

Why was the book ordering electronic work transferred to the villages? (More about this later.)

Why was TiTs cut AFTER eliminating Folly support, most of Dotland, trying to eliminate Silver, and transferring the book ordering electronic work to the villages? Is the point to see that nothing in the library can function?

Why is the training offered to librarians only about classroom teaching and not about librarianship?

Why is there no training for peasants (beyond the Tropical Vacation Dotland snuck in at the beginning of the year)?

When does "I'm working on it" cease to be a plausible answer?

If the above actions are components of a coherent plan, where is that plan leading but to the conversion of teacher-librarians to classroom teachers only and to the elimination of school libraries in the Duchy.
(Yep, folks, I slept on it and I'm still not happy!)

Now about that question of transferring the book budgets to the village budgets. This was the process. Dotland had a salary budget of around $450,000 (the exact amount is in the 2005-2006 Budget Book online) and a supply budget of around $10,000 for supplies that would be bought centrally and sent to the villages. As soon as the new budget was approved each year Dotland was informed about the size of the library book budget. Dotland made sure that all outstanding financial obligations incurred last year by the village libraries would be paid and then divvied up the remainder among the villages and notified villages of how much they had to spend. The villages selected the library materials and sent the orders either to DotLand or directly to the vendor. Nearly all orders were handled electronically. Dotland was able handle the problems that we are now seeing in the villages. This is how it used to be.

Then the State decreed that the Duchy could only spend 35% of their budget on ADMINISTRATION, that is, Dot Castle salaries and expense and places like Busland and Dotland. So the Duchy decided that the book budgets had to be placed in the village budgets. OK, make the 2006-2007 Budget Book show the library book budget as part of the village budget. However, why do the orders have to be submitted, electronically, directly to already overworked departments in Dot Castle? Why can't the orders still be submitted, electronically, to Dotland, who could then use their accumulated expertise and experience to group them, get discounts, correct errors, receive shipments, catalog and process, etc. After all, the bank has most of our cash, we can't spend it without going through the bank with a check or an electronic transfer, but the IRS is never fooled into thinking that money is BELONGS to the bank. Why is the Duchy unwilling to admit that Dotland was only acting as a bank for the village libraries. Do you have an answer? I have an answer but I don't know if it's the right answer. The decision to force villages to handle their own orders can only be justified, financially or otherwise, if the intention is to completely eliminate Dotland. The White Queen has promised that Dotland will never... well hardly ever... well not this year at least...go away. What do you think?