diff --git a/modules/only-office/README.md b/modules/only-office/README.md
index 8b1a5291..73f787cd 100644
--- a/modules/only-office/README.md
+++ b/modules/only-office/README.md
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ Each directory or archive this module declares says how it treats a file it did
 - `${dir:logs}`: everything in it is the program's; the mesh moves nothing out (ADR 0422 §2).
 - `${dir:data}`: everything in it is the program's; the mesh moves nothing out (ADR 0422 §2).
 - `${dir:server-lib}`: everything in it is the program's; the mesh moves nothing out (ADR 0422 §2).
-- `${dir:lib}`: everything in it is the program's; the mesh moves nothing out (ADR 0422 §2).
 - `${dir:db}`: everything in it is the program's; the mesh moves nothing out (ADR 0422 §2).
 - `${dir:rabbitmq}`: everything in it is the program's; the mesh moves nothing out (ADR 0422 §2).
 - `${dir:redis}`: everything in it is the program's; the mesh moves nothing out (ADR 0422 §2).
@@ -23,8 +22,3 @@ Everything the container mounts sits in `${dir:box}` (`/var/lib/only-office/box`
 The image opens what is below each mount to every account on every start (`chmod -R 755`), so the barrier is a
 parent the container never sees. The module root stays root-owned 0711: the converter, which runs on the host
 as `only-office-converter`, passes through it to its two secrets and nothing else.
-
-`${dir:lib}` (`/var/lib/only-office/lib`) is the copy the container used before, no longer mounted, kept by the
-mesh because it is not empty and closed to 0700. It keeps its id so mesh-host sets that mode: a new id at a path
-the image owns would be used as found (issue 339). Its contents, and those of the old `logs`, `data`, `db`,
-`rabbitmq`, `redis` and `fonts` beside it, are removed on the operator's word, and then `lib` leaves the manifest.
diff --git a/modules/only-office/manifest_test.go b/modules/only-office/manifest_test.go
index 2e44316d..e0919159 100644
--- a/modules/only-office/manifest_test.go
+++ b/modules/only-office/manifest_test.go
@@ -184,19 +184,16 @@ func TestConverterPassesOnlyTheRoot(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// 1843/AC3 (unit: manifest check)
-// Given the catalogue, when only-office's manifest is read, then the directory lib is declared with no
-// path (its old place, /var/lib/only-office/lib) and mode 0700, so the next apply closes the copy the
-// image opened, which mesh-host keeps because it is not empty; no container volume names ${dir:lib};
-// and every data entry points at a directory that is mounted now.
-func TestOldLibIsClosedAndUnmounted(t *testing.T) {
+// 1854/AC1 (unit: manifest check)
+// Given the catalogue, when only-office's manifest is read, then it declares no directory lib (the old
+// copy the container used before issue 1843, emptied on the operator's word), no container volume names
+// ${dir:lib}, and every data entry still points at a directory the server container mounts.
+func TestOldLibIsGone(t *testing.T) {
 	m := readLayout(t)
-	lib := m.dir(t, "lib")
-	if lib.Path != "" || lib.Place != "" {
-		t.Errorf("lib = path %q, place %q, want neither: it stays where the old copy is", lib.Path, lib.Place)
-	}
-	if lib.Mode != "0700" {
-		t.Errorf("lib mode = %q, want 0700", lib.Mode)
+	for _, r := range m.Resources {
+		if r.ID == "lib" && r.Type == "directory" {
+			t.Errorf("the manifest still declares the directory lib (path %q, mode %q)", r.Path, r.Mode)
+		}
 	}
 	mounted := map[string]bool{}
 	for _, v := range m.container(t, "server").Volumes {
@@ -213,6 +210,22 @@ func TestOldLibIsClosedAndUnmounted(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// 1854/AC2 (unit: manifest check)
+// Given the catalogue, when only-office's README is read, then it names no ${dir:lib} and no longer
+// describes the old copy as kept.
+func TestReadmeNamesNoOldLib(t *testing.T) {
+	raw, err := os.ReadFile("README.md")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("reading README.md: %v", err)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(string(raw), "${dir:lib}") {
+		t.Error("README.md still names ${dir:lib}")
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(string(raw), "/var/lib/only-office/lib") {
+		t.Error("README.md still describes the old copy at /var/lib/only-office/lib")
+	}
+}
+
 type layoutResource struct {
 	ID      string            `json:"id"`
 	Type    string            `json:"type"`
diff --git a/modules/only-office/module.json b/modules/only-office/module.json
index b4c1f5a1..4cabbfd0 100644
--- a/modules/only-office/module.json
+++ b/modules/only-office/module.json
@@ -188,12 +188,6 @@
       "mode": "0711",
       "unknown": "program"
     },
-    {
-      "id": "lib",
-      "type": "directory",
-      "mode": "0700",
-      "unknown": "program"
-    },
     {
       "id": "db",
       "type": "directory",