Well, that explains a lot.

While trying to find yet another book that the catalog listed as being on the shelf but I couldn't find anywhere, the librarian let slip the one fact that made everything make sense. The construction project that has had most of the ground floor blocked off? That's where the fiction section used to be. Also, it is where the fiction section will be again when it's finished. Everything I've been complaining about? The results of temporary overcrowding while the work is being done.

You know, if there had been any signs anywhere mentioning this, I would have taken everything as a matter of course. For that matter, if any of the other librarians I've involved in my searchs had said something, I would have been more understanding. I mean, if you try to compress anything down to 5/6ths of it's normal size, there will be side effects.

And now I no longer have my curiosity about what was going on with the ground floor bugging me either.

-NB-

If a being that exists outside of time has the capacity to change, then both versions would exist simultaneously from the viewpoint of any being within time. The other version wouldn't simply come into being at some point, it would have been there all along. It is quite possible that prior to the "time" of the change there would be no reason for antone inside time to connect the two, but those similarly outside would. And if it was something like a evil god being redeemed or a good one falling, wouldn't the two versions hate each other like nothing else? Or at least struggle to undermine each other's actions. Perhaps this explains ambivalent deities such as Lady Luck?