When the Bearers go forth on missions, somepony has to cover for their day jobs. In Twilight's case, this means the palace assigns a temporary to the tree, and that pony keeps the library running to government standards. The usual problems come in when Twilight gets back and finds the results aren't up to hers.
The disaster starts when she learns the latest hire has Standards of her own.
There's nothing a compulsive reorganizer hates so much as being compulsively reorganized.
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Tropes include:
- Bothering by the Book: The antagonist of the story is an official librarian who resorts to this to express her disdain for Twilight being given a library position over a pony who "deserved it more" by having an actual library-related Cutie Mark.
