diff --git a/papers/filebroker.py b/papers/filebroker.py
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+import os
+
+def check_file(path, fail=True):
+    if fail:
+        if not os.path.exists(path):
+            raise IOError("File does not exist: {}.".format(path))
+        if not os.path.isfile(path):
+            raise IOError("{} is not a file.".format(path))
+        return True
+    else:
+        return os.path.exists(path) and os.path.isfile(path)
+
+def check_directory(path, fail=True):
+    if fail:
+        if not os.path.exists(path):
+            raise IOError("File does not exist: {}.".format(path))
+        if not os.path.isdir(path):
+            raise IOError("{} is not a directory.".format(path))
+        return True
+    else:
+        return os.path.exists(path) and os.path.isdir(path)
+
+def read_file(filepath):
+    check_file(filepath)
+    with open(filepath, 'r') as f:
+        s = f.read()
+    return s
+        
+def write_file(filepath, data):
+    check_directory(os.path.dirname(filepath))
+    with open(filepath, 'w') as f:
+        f.write(data)
+
+
+class FileBroker(object):
+    """ Handles all access to meta and bib files of the repository.
+
+        * Does *absolutely no* encoding/decoding.
+        * Communicate failure with exceptions.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, directory, create=False):
+        self.directory = directory        
+        self.metadir = os.path.join(self.directory, 'meta')
+        self.bibdir  = os.path.join(self.directory, 'bib')
+        if create:
+            self._create()
+        check_directory(self.directory)
+        check_directory(self.metadir)
+        check_directory(self.bibdir)
+                
+    def _create(self):
+        if not check_directory(self.directory, fail = False):
+            os.mkdir(self.directory)
+        if not check_directory(self.metadir, fail = False):
+            os.mkdir(self.metadir)
+        if not check_directory(self.bibdir, fail = False):
+            os.mkdir(self.bibdir)
+    
+    def pull_metafile(self, citekey):
+        filepath = os.path.join(self.metadir, citekey + '.yaml')
+        return read_file(filepath)
+
+    def pull_bibfile(self, citekey):
+        filepath = os.path.join(self.bibdir, citekey + '.bibyaml')
+        return read_file(filepath)
+        
+    def push_metafile(self, citekey, metadata):
+        filepath = os.path.join(self.metadir, citekey + '.yaml')
+        write_file(filepath, metadata)
+    
+    def push_bibfile(self, citekey, bibdata):
+        filepath = os.path.join(self.bibdir, citekey + '.bibyaml')
+        write_file(filepath, bibdata)
+        
+    def push(self, citekey, metadata, bibdata):
+        self.push_metafile(citekey, metadata)
+        self.push_bibfile(citekey, bibdata)
+
+    def remove(self, citekey):
+        metafilepath = os.path.join(self.metadir, citekey + '.yaml')
+        os.remove(metafilepath)
+        bibfilepath = os.path.join(self.bibdir, citekey + '.bibyaml')
+        os.remove(bibfilepath)
+
+    def listing(self, filestats = True):
+        metafiles = []
+        for filename in os.listdir(self.metadir):
+            stats = os.stat(os.path.join(path, f))
+            metafiles.append(filename, stats)
+
+        bibfiles = []
+        for filename in os.listdir(self.bibdir):
+            stats = os.stat(os.path.join(path, f))
+            bibfiles.append(filename, stats)
+
+        return {'metafiles': metafiles, 'bibfiles': bibfiles}
+
diff --git a/tests/test_filebroker.py b/tests/test_filebroker.py
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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+import unittest
+import os
+
+import testenv
+import fake_env
+
+from papers import filebroker
+
+class TestFakeFs(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Abstract TestCase intializing the fake filesystem."""
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.fs = fake_env.create_fake_fs([filebroker])
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        fake_env.unset_fake_fs([filebroker])
+
+
+class TestEnDecode(TestFakeFs):
+
+    def test_pushpull1(self):
+
+        fb = filebroker.FileBroker('bla', create = True)
+
+        fb.push_metafile('citekey1', 'abc')
+        fb.push_bibfile('citekey1', 'cdef')
+
+        self.assertEqual(fb.pull_metafile('citekey1'), 'abc')
+        self.assertEqual(fb.pull_bibfile('citekey1'), 'cdef')
+
+        fb.push_bibfile('citekey1', 'ghi')
+
+        self.assertEqual(fb.pull_bibfile('citekey1'), 'ghi')
+
+    def test_existing_data(self):
+
+        fake_env.copy_dir(self.fs, os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'tmpdir'), 'tmpdir')
+        fb = filebroker.FileBroker('tmpdir', create = True)
+
+        with open('tmpdir/bib/Page99.bibyaml', 'r') as f:
+            self.assertEqual(fb.pull_bibfile('Page99'), f.read())
+
+        with open('tmpdir/meta/Page99.yaml', 'r') as f:
+            self.assertEqual(fb.pull_metafile('Page99'), f.read())