Yet in the course of studying the library's digital future, committee members pondered some fundamental questions.
Dan M. Berkovitz, the general counsel of the futures commission, told the committee that the agency was looking closely to make sure that the markets would not be susceptible to manipulation.
"When all you have is a hammer, everything is a nail, and unfortunately this governor and the Maine Heritage Policy Center only have a hammer in their economic toolbox," says House majority leader Seth Berry, who chairs the workforce and economic future committee.
"If it can override the will of the voters, as determined by its courts, what is to stop other states from doing the same thing in the future?" The committee votes were preceded in both chambers by impassioned testimony from Florida voters.
What is the most important lesson for similar future committees?
For the foreseeable future, the committee continues to believe that against the background of its long-run goals of price stability and sustainable economic growth and of the information currently available, the risks are weighted mainly toward conditions that may generate economic weakness.
We should therefore make concerted attempts to collate the experience to date with mixed committees of this sort, and build a base of research knowledge that can provide practical guidance to chairs and executive secretaries of future committees.
At the very least, in the future the prize committee should be allowed to consider institutions and collaborations as well as individuals.
If there is an EIA for a new incinerator plant to be reviewed in the future, the official committee of the Taiwan EPA could review the reasonableness of impact levels in EIA reports quickly.
So perhaps, at some distant point in the future, the Nobel committee will find a crass way to play politics at the same time as giving a retroactive nod to Malala – unless she has become president of Pakistan: in which case she'll finally be in the sort of day job that tends to catch their eye.
Cllr David Jeffels said: "I think the three-year temporary use on the site has given the council some control that we can say to the travellers that if it is not well used they would not be allowed to use it in the future". The planning committee voted unanimously to only grant permission for another three years.
