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"Librarian Mummery. Listen to me. What you want is to close the Library to the public. You wish to smash a long tradition. Have you the heart to do that?"
"It's not heart we need. It's funding. Surely the Chief Librarian has wept on your shoulder in telling you our woes. Appropriations are down, salaries are cut, needed maintenance is absent. What are we to do? We've got to cut services and we certainly can't afford to support you and your colleagues with offices and equipment."
"Has this situation been put to the Emperor?"
"Come, Professor
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"It's true that we are entering bad times."
"And do you believe the Library is immune to those bad times? Professor
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Seldon said desperately, "What if I find the credits for you?"
"Indeed. How?"
"What if I talk to the Emperor? I was once yilai:
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