1. A method for handling status commands direct to a partitioned media library comprising: establishing a set of initial logical element addresses for a set of physical element addresses, wherein each initial logical element address within the set of initial logical element addresses corresponds to a physical element address of an element assigned to a library partition; assigning a set of new logical element addresses for the set of physical element addresses in response to a command from a host application; and determining a corresponding physical address for a received element address based on the set of new logical element addresses.