re: LB - https://glitch.social/@kyzh/102173104906310598 - ...

...post-apocalyptic video game where you run a library and your goal is to keep the collection safe so people have ongoing access to it

this means:

- making sure library staff have places to sleep, food to eat, water to drink, and sanitary facilities

so you have enough people to

- keep up maintenance
- reshelve books
- catch problems (e.g. leaks, mold) before they become catastrophic
- teach newcomers how to use the library
- spot thieves (and hopefully talk them into using the library properly)
- &c.

which probably means

- making housing in and near the library
- growing food near the library
- mustering support from other survivors (either because they love libraries, as most people do, and you show yourself to be a good custodian or out of some mutually beneficial arrangement, e.g. "you can camp here with your horse and carriage on your way through in exchange for a sack of food")
- and so on

the main UI window would probably do the thing like with City Skylines and the Firaxis XCOM and so on where you get to see people moving about through the building doing things as time passes

(yeah this is an idea I've been thinking about for a little while already)

some possible library staff stats:

- extraversion: how long they can spend interacting with non-staff (e.g. working circulation desk) before getting tired
- charm: how much they cheer up patrons and/or fellow staff just by interacting with them, how well they can charm thieves, how well they can cut deals
- athleticism: how long they can spend on physically intensive activities (e.g. shelving) before getting tired
- reading speed: how quickly they can do reading and writing tasks (e.g. information desk)

and skills:

- Page: can reshelve books
- Cataloguer: can manage the collection, adding new books and culling items that don't belong, like duplicates (either by storing out of the circulation area or by selling in a booksale)
- Bookbinder: can repair damaged books