SCP-2602 "Exbibliothetic" Libary Class:Former
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Item #: SCP-2602
Library Class: Former
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2602 has been acquired under the cover story that it
used to be a library.
Large bushes and trees have been planted around the property in order to obscure SCP-2602.
Access is denied to non-personnel.
Amnestics have been administered to the town in which SCP-2602, a former library, is located.
All known online references to SCP-2602 and the fact that it used to be a library have
been removed.
Filters pertaining to the linguistic markers of SCP-2602's effects have been added to Foundation
web-crawling software in order to flag text that potentially pertains to SCP-2602 for
review.
All known physical documentation related to SCP-2602 has been identified and destroyed.
Foundation documentation pertaining to SCP-2602 is to be edited as much as possible for readability
by personnel with no familiarity with the anomaly.
Typically, 40% of all references to the fact that SCP-2602 used to be a library can be
removed.
Description: SCP-2602 is a building that, from 1921-06-08 to 1988-04-29, was a library.
SCP-2602 is located in █████ ███████, England, and developed its anomalous properties in
October of 2004.
When communicating any information about SCP-2602, subjects are compelled to make frequent reference
to the fact that SCP-2602 used to be a library.
The exact wording and nature of these references are mostly determined by the author and context,
but always unambiguously communicate this information.
Texts referring to SCP-2602 can have these references removed to a limited degree by
subjects who have little knowledge of SCP-2602 outside of the fact that it used to be a library.
The limited compulsion to allow these references to go unedited has hindered attempts at developing
automated processes to remove these references.
Any information regarding SCP-2602 is also anomalous.
Subjects exposed to communications regarding SCP-2602 will identify the fact that it used
to be a library as the primary causal element behind any number of properties of or observations
about it.
This is proportional to the extent that said information contains references to the fact
that SCP-2602 used to be a library.
While subjects will develop false beliefs to support these irrational causal linkages,
they do not generalize and pose no general risk to cognition — for example, while several
subjects have posited that the effects of gravity within SCP-2602 are a result of it
having been a library but no longer serving that purpose, they do not hold this belief
with regards to other buildings that used to be libraries.
Subjects are incapable of communicating, directly or otherwise, any information pertaining to
SCP-2602's use between its time as a library and the development of its anomalous properties.
When prompted to do so, they will instead insistently and repeatedly refer to the fact
that SCP-2602 used to be a library.
Due to this, and the fact that SCP-2602 used to be a library, it has been very difficult
to determine what, if anything, occurred in SCP-2602 from 1988 to 2004.
Addendum 2602-1: Summary of a survey of SCP-2602, which used to be a library, conducted by Agents
Roderick and Casey on December 09, 2004.
Unreadable segments have been excised entirely.
See also: SCP-2602 Photographic Evidence.
While SCP-2602's layout is generally appropriate for a former library, it is inconsistent with
obtained blueprints from the local government and testimony from past patrons.
It is thus assumed that SCP-2602 used to be a library.
Most notably, SCP-2602 contains an extensive subterranean component of the kind generally
found in former libraries.
SCP-2602 experienced extensive fire damage on the same day that it developed anomalous
properties.
Consultation with actuarial tables has shown little deviation from what is expected of
fire damage to former libraries.
However, some of the debris exhibited elevated levels of Dewey radiation1, preventing access
to several shrines that were likely used to assist SCP-2602's reading groups when it was
a library.
A number of advanced book-sorting machines were found, though long-term storage in a
former library has rendered them inoperable.
Restraints used by libraries to hold patrons with overdue books were similarly damaged,
apparently violently, by this storage.
SCP-2602's hazardous waste pit, whose presence is expected in what used to be a library,
was cordoned off.
However, in the process, exbibliothetic fluctuations in the waste resulted in Agent Casey suffering
several major flesh wounds which later proved to be fatal.
Notably, SCP-2602 used to be a library.
Conclusions: As evidenced by the fact that SCP-2602 used to be a library, and was formerly
a library, it is probable that SCP-2602 used to be a library.
It is likely that, shortly after it ceased to be a library, SCP-2602 was previously a
library.
This likely served to highlight the fact that SCP-2602 used to be a library and obscure
the SCP-2602 used to be a library.
The following photos were tagged for immediate review by a panel of personnel with minimal
exposure to SCP-2602, which used to be a library.
Image 2602-114: Anthropology Microfiche Section Analysis: A collection of anthropological
records from a wide variety of cultures is by no means atypical for a former library.
Image 2602-116: Microfiche Index Analysis: Feelings of intense admiration are
a perfectly normal reaction to the organizational aplomb of a former library.
Image 2602-117: Microfiche Reader Analysis: Many former libraries would take
measures to preserve sensitive equipment from dust, light, and sentient, edible life.
Image 2602-121: Fire Exit Analysis: Fire exits are often re-purposed
in former libraries, as are patron bodily fluids.
Image 2602-124: Quiet Study Area Analysis: Although sleeping is often against
policy in active libraries, it's common for former libraries to contain patrons who have
nodded off in the quiet areas.
Image 2602-132: Compact Shelving Analysis: Graffiti from enthusiastic patrons
is sadly typical in former libraries, which lack both janitors and carrion-feeders.
Image 2602-124: Exbibliothetic Possession Analysis: It's perfectly normal and arguably
quite convenient for circulation carts to levitate in the presence of Dewey radiation
typical of former libraries.
Image 2602-133: Library Stacks Analysis: Collapsible shelving is typical
in former libraries with space considerations.