Recommendation is to avoid using the year nomenclature as this
information is already encoded in the git repo. Avoids needing to
repeatly update.
Also updates AUTHORS.txt from current repo with contributor names
Mostly intended right now for allowing testing of library tables
to help with testing chained loading, but it also decouples the
idea of a library table from on-disk files in general.
All current (real) lib table implementations continue to use the
file-based IO.
This could be made more general (not just for tables) if really
needed.
