and you carefully sign out any spares that you have and you get them recovered. In other words, you have an actual library, not just some books lying around. And if you were really building the thing up, you should have a copy of every tape ever made. Now, that’s quite a library, but we were actually, would be in a position up the line to furnish that, but you certainly should have a basic copy of every tape being used in HCI2, not just all the tapes in HCI. [HCI is the name of the Academy on Flag: Hubbard College of Improvement. (FSO 65)]
And that’s a full library. Now you are in the business of knowledge, well, that’s where it’s concentrated in the Org. Now, the duties of the librarian have not been written up but they are simple enough. They do the standard duties of a librarian. They never let the master copy out. They could have some area there where somebody can sit and read and look up something. They always have a master copy of everything they own and they answer questions.
Now that takes an interesting librarian because he’s the technical information centre. Tech Information Centre, so if there’s any other technology that you are using such as the lawnmower and so forth, he’s got it, too. So all booklets about all equipment in the Org also belong in that library. Now that librarian has got to be enough on the ball to be able to look up this volume or be able to tell the guy ‘Look in that volume, and here it is.’ Now there’s actually technical indexes have been made and we have been trying to get them issued, but they’re being issued along with this HCOB series. You’ll find that the OEC volumes are extremely good in their indexing.
Information, where can a guy go to see it? Not to be told verbally, where can the guy go to see it? And so on. Well, that is Department 14’s library, that’s the Knowledge Centre. And so you don’t get verbal data lines, or anything of the sort and you also can get this kind of a situation. Some senior in Division 2 tells this fellow immediately to move out all of those CF folders and so forth because they’re not using those now, and something, and he says it’s in policy they should, and this fellow says ‘Doesn’t sound very sensible to me, but urr-urr-urr.’
He’s got to have some place to go where somebody will tell him what policy to look up. He may be quite green, he may not be that well trained, do you follow. What IS policy on this subject? Well, a librarian should be able to inform him.
By the way, the same quote was used in the content of HCO PL 3 March 1982, "The Qual Library."
The collection of every issue that "has ever been issued" has been severely violated in the Qual Libraries of RTC-controlled organizations. On the contrary, there have even been Sea Org Missions sent out with the sole purpose of ensuring that "old tech" and books, like the Volunteer Ministers Handbook or pre-2007 editions of the "18 Basic Books", were disposed of in Orgs, Missions, and even Field Offices.
This is a report from Dallas in 2014: "The Idle Org of Dallas is about to collapse. THE RED VOLUMES — remember those? New ones are coming, 'written the way LRH intended.' NO, THEY DON'T HAVE THE NEW ONES YET. The old ones of 1991 have to go. So, the Sea Org Garrison staff is gathering all the old ones to send them for recycling. No, that doesn't mean give them to other readers, that means burn them up. He even went into the Senior C/S's office and took his. The C/S came out demanding his red volumes so he would have something to work with. The S.O. showed him the big pile. THE SENIOR C/S had to dig through that pile to find his."
These "Scientology book burnings" are justified as part of a "Keeping Scientology Working" activity: "Hammering out of existence incorrect technology." But the real reason behind these bizarre activities is to hide the fact that the tech has been changed, altered, and faked for half a century. Ron's policy to keep every "Tech or Policy or anything else that has ever been issued" had the intention that any alteration could eventually be recognized and corrected.