Alice Hartley
Every new Reader means another username to issue. She issues it, begrudgingly, within the hour.
Hartley is an old English place-name: a clearing where the deer were.
Staff
Directors and deputies are titled in the language of their own background. Everyone else makes do with English. Each entry carries one small true thing about a name.
Komi Agbo
Deputy to the Director, and keeper of the catalogue numbers, including the duplicates.
Teƒenɔla is Ewe for deputy: the one who stands in the place. Komi is the Ewe name for a boy born on a Wednesday.
Samantha Reyes
Runs Pause & Wonder. Keeps the list of variables that decide when an annual Edition appears.
Direktora is the Filipino title, borrowed from Spanish and kept.
Aino Korhonen
Deputy to the Direktora of Editions. Keeps the Book Branch's paperwork in the order the Direktora would have kept it, had she kept it.
Varajohtaja is Finnish for deputy director: vara-, the reserve, + johtaja, the leader. Aino is Finnish for the only one, from the Kalevala.
Seren Evans
Deputy director of the Dark Room and Imaging Lab, where the Institute's photographs become permanent.
Seren is Welsh for star. Welsh mutates its first letters: cyfarwyddwr becomes gyfarwyddwr after dirprwy.
Professor Giorgi Beridze
His desk is a landmark; visitors are directed by it. His retirement is perpetually pending. He has no email.
Georgian has its own alphabet, Mkhedruli, with no capital letters.
- Mateo QuispeCartographerQuispe is Quechua for free, or liberated.
- Ingrid SolbergCartographerSol-berg: Norwegian for sun mountain.
- Hamza IdrissiCartographerHamza is an Arabic name associated with strength and steadfastness.
- Mei Lin TanConservatorTan is the Hokkien reading of the surname Chen.
- Oluwaseun AdeyemiConservatorOluwaseun is Yoruba for 'God has done it'.
- Clara MoreauConservator, PaperMoreau comes from the Old French for dark-haired.
- Tomás Ó BriainField LogisticsIrish surnames take Ó, meaning grandson or descendant.
- Priya RamanField LogisticsIn Tamil naming, a father's name often stands where a surname would.
- Lars EriksenQuartermasterEriksen: son of Erik, in the Danish and Norwegian way.
- Yuki SaitoDark Room & ImagingYuki can mean snow, or happiness, depending on the characters chosen.
- Anselm VogtDark Room & ImagingA Vogt was a steward or bailiff in medieval German lands.
- Nalani KahaleHerbarium & Seed LibraryNalani is Hawaiian for the calm of the heavens.
- Ruth AbebeHerbarium & Seed LibraryEthiopian naming uses the father's given name, not a family name.
- Diego FernándezHerbarium & Seed LibraryThe -ez ending in Spanish once meant 'son of'.
- Farida NazariCommunicationsFarida is Arabic and Persian for unique, unrivalled.
- Kwame MensahCommunicationsKwame is the Akan name for a boy born on a Saturday.
- Elif YıldızCommunicationsYıldız is Turkish for star. Turkish has a dotless ı.
- Henrik LundArchive RecordsLund is Scandinavian for a grove.
- Sofia RossiArchive RecordsRossi, from rosso, red: once a nickname for red hair.
- Bui Thanh HaArchive RecordsVietnamese names place the family name first.
- Marek NowakVault ClimateNowak is Polish for newcomer, the country's most common surname.
- Ayasha BegayVault ClimateBegay comes from the Navajo bigéé', 'his son'.
- Leilani FonotiReader CorrespondenceLeilani is Hawaiian for heavenly flowers.
- Isabel DuarteReader CorrespondenceDuarte is the Portuguese form of Edward.
- Niko PapadakisExpeditions OfficeThe -akis ending marks a family from Crete.
- Hana NovákExpeditions OfficeCzech surnames change form for women; Nováková is the usual.
- Rahul DesaiBursar's OfficeDesai was a title for a district official in western India.
- Margit KovácsBursar's OfficeKovács is Hungarian for smith. Hungarians put the family name first.
- Owen PryceGrounds and FootpathsPryce, from the Welsh ap Rhys: son of Rhys.
- Tsering DolmaGrounds and FootpathsTsering is Tibetan for long life. Many Tibetans have no surname.
- Ama OwusuCartographerAma is the Akan name for a girl born on a Saturday.
- GeraldDehumidifier · Honorary StaffEmployee of every month. Holds the Vault at 45%.