The Office of Metric Assurance was charged under Concordance 2.14.7 with a definitive tally of all floors, a census of all resident cataloguers and their assigned subjects, and a master index of all cross-references between nonexistent holdings. The Survey was abandoned on the ratification of Concordance 4.1. These are its returns as they stood, and they continue to accumulate, which the Office maintains is not the same as continuing.

A tally of the floors

Floors surveyed

836 of 9,000

Floors holding a single volume

802

Floors surveyed and found empty

not recorded

The Tower continues above the surveyed range. No Librarian has returned from further out, and the Office declines to treat this as evidence either way.

A census of the holdings

Holdings catalogued

872

Holdings read

95

Catalogued, never read

777

Consultations recorded

54

Cataloguers and their assigned subjects

Persons

1

Places and structures

9

Documents and ordinances

32

Objects and instruments

5

Guilds, orders and offices

30

Events and incidents

3

Practices and doctrines

15

Counted among the holdings that have been read. The assignment of a subject to a cataloguer is recorded on arrival and is not revisited.

A master index of cross-references

Cross-references recorded

1,679

Matters in dispute

388

Matters resolved

none

Passages held

26

Plates commissioned

3

The Survey is incomplete and is disputed in several particulars. The Office of Metric Assurance, in attempting to compile its findings, discovered that the volume of contradictory data had spawned a wholly new administrative wing requiring its own survey. That survey has not been commissioned. The record of the undertaking is held at The Partial Survey.