A/N According to the Buffy wiki Giles has a History degree. In the first episode Willow tells Buffy that Giles used to work at the British Museum. In Day of the Nightmares, he states he speaks five languages. To be a Librarian usually required a Bachelor's degree in Library Science and to hold the position in a school library because it's considered a teaching position, most schools require a Master's degree in Education as well, especially if you're the Head or only Librarian.
So, yes, it appears Giles is unqualified for his position, but than we almost never saw him being an actual Librarian, did we? 😁
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Having had it impressed on him independently by both Jenny and Buffy that the Library was not the best place for either his collection of occult books or for training Buffy, Giles began looking for another location where he could live, house his books and train Buffy. Which in Sunnydale was not a difficult thing given the large number of abandoned houses, some of which had housed nests of vampires. He soon found a good sized three bedroom house with a finished basement. The basement would work for training and Buffy was pleased with the size of it. By the time Christmas vacation had ended Giles was completely moved in. Just in time, though he didn't know that.
Xander was spending a lot of his free time going through his own inventory wondering if there was something in there that could help Cordy's mother. Most of the potential items that might be useable would also give her powers, like Cordy's sword gave her. That had to be thought about very carefully before doing anything, power bestowal didn't always go right and people didn't always deal well with power. Xander had read enough comic books and seen enough movies to know that. The responsibility of the Sanctum was sitting heavy on his shoulders right now, bowed by the helpless feeling that he couldn't do more than just hold Cordelia when she was feeling scared over her mother's condition.
Willow and Oz weren't seen too much over the course of the month as they were spending most of their time working on their own projects and having a grand time doing it.
The same could not be said for Deputy Mayor Allen Finch, long suffering employee of the City of Sunnydale or the sorcerer he unwillingly served, Mayor Richard Wilkins the First, Second and Third. The abrupt destruction of the vampires and draining of the Hellmouth had backlashed against Richard Wilkins, a man who'd tied his destiny to it in 1899 when he set out on a century's long quest to become an Old One, a dinosaur size demon with near godlike powers.
The current police force was woefully under qualified and under staffed, they all had to be replaced and new ones hired. Standard clause in contracts signed directly in Mayor Wilkins presence meant permanent retirement for them. Mayor Wilkins had also employed demons who willingly disposed of dead bodies when asked.
Deputy Mayor Finch refused to ask exactly how they disposed of them. He had enough nightmares, thank you very much, Mayor Wilkins, no need to invite more.
Allen Finch sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose, the Mayor had been in seclusion since the initial severing of his connection to the Hellmouth had caused a snap of power to slap him, the way a whip would. He'd been badly injured and knocked unconscious by the blow and had been in a great deal of pain since. Which left Allen Finch to run Sunnydale in his place and he was finding the Mayor's official duties on top of his own to be very time consuming. Plus there was having to update procedures and policies now that the vampires they'd allowed to be in Sunnydale and protected were gone. The demon presence was small compared to them and they didn't cause the same numbers of dead that vampires did.
Sunnydale had a constant influx of people to replace the ones the vampires dined on and now with no vampires, well in just the last two months the inventory of available housing was going down rapidly and no new inventory was becoming available. More families meant more children and more children meant a need for classroom space, usually not a problem because classrooms, especially at the High School, sat empty. Now they were filling up too and that meant a need for more teachers. Qualified teachers, which it turns out, didn't include some of the people already employed by the school system.
Well, they hadn't been hired primarily to be teachers, now had they? Snyder, the current Principal, had been hired to cover up the number of dead students that turned up on campus. Rupert Giles, Watcher, had been part of the package of having a Slayer in Sunnydale and Richard Wilkins desire to avoid attracting the attention of the Watchers Council, so he'd let them believe the Hellmouth alone was responsible for the constant vampire presence.
Both would have to go now. Snyder wasn't needed to cover up the dead anymore and his standard clause meant he was already out the door and would not be returning. As for Rupert Giles, well in addition to not being qualified for his position he was a technophobe currently having a panic attack over the announcement that the Library was going to be outfitted with multiple new computers, internet capable.
Which was the cause of Allen Finch's current headache. Too bad Rupert Giles had signed his contract with the School Board and never signed the contract with Mayor Wilkins, it would have ended the cause of this headache. And Rupert Giles hadn't even been informed yet that he was no longer employed by the Sunnydale High School.
Allen Finch was certain his headache wasn't going away anytime soon. Running Sunnydale like a real city instead of a haven for vampires was turning out to be really hard.