Case Study No. 2096: Elliott Hamlet (student library worker) and Mr. Witherspoon

Night in the Library
2:26
An explosive film to be shot in St. John the Evangelist's Library, Christendom, VA.
Tags: night in the library christendom college dominic de souza chris christopher foeckler
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["He thought he had the easiest job on campus" appears on screen, then cut to a male student library worker (red hair, glasses, blue shirt, tie, black pants) walking outside of the SJE Library]
[cut to inside the library, where an elderly male librarian (short brown hair, glasses, brown sweater, white undershirt, grey pants) hands the student worker an ID card]
MR. WITHERSPOON: Welcome to the library, Mister Hamlet ...
ELLIOTT HAMLET: It's "Ham-lay."
[cut to the two walking through the stacks of the library]
MR. WITHERSPOON: So, you'll be doing an evening shift. It's quiet and calm ... You just lock up and try to leave everything in order. It's really quite simple.
[the librarian stops walking and turns to the student]
MR. WITHERSPOON: Try not to mess it up, or it's--
[he smiles and makes a "throat-slashing" motion with his finger, then continues walking]
["It wasn't what he expected" appears on screen, then cut to the student worker sitting alone at the front desk, whistling to himself]
[cut to the student worker pushing a book cart through the empty library]
ELLIOTT HAMLET: "Work in the library," they said. "It'll be exciting," they said. "Meet interesting people," they said ... What've I gotten myself into?
["His dream job" appears on screen, then cut to the student worker shelving books]
["Would soon become" appears on screen, then cut to the student worker picking up a book off the floor]
["A nightmare" appears on screen, then cut back to the student worker bending down to pick up the book ... when a sword (held by an unseen assailant) appears in the frame]
[cut to a shot from behind the crouching student worker, as he looks up to see a man in a tunic brandishing the sword]
[cut to a shot of the student worker ducking (as the man swings the sword at his head), then quickly backing away]
[cut to a shot of the student worker running through the library, before he dives under the front desk and tries to hide]
[cut to a shot from above the student worker, as a gloved hand grabs at the desk (causing him to look up in fright)]
[cut to a shot of the student worker looking up, as the source of the gloved hand reveals himself to be someone dressed as a Ring-wraith (including the "screeching" sound effect from the films)]
["A night of adventure" appears on screen, then cut to a man in a leather jacket and a fedora]
INDIANA JONES: It's "Jones" ... not "Junior."
["Action" appears on screen, then cut to a mustachioed man in a Nazi uniform grabbing the student worker around the neck]
HITLER: You are going to do what I tell you!
ELLIOTT HAMLET: Ack!
["Fun" appears on screen, then cut to a woman wearing a beret slapping the student worker in the face]
WOMAN: When are you going to pay me a dowry?
["This Fall 2009 Film Club presents" appears on screen, then cut to a man tap dancing on one of the tables in the library]
[cut to another student grabbing the student worker by the collar]
PATRON: No, you don't understand! I've got a thesis to finish!
[cut back to the man tap dancing on the table, then to the student worker sitting next to a man dressed in ancient Roman garb]
ELLIOTT HAMLET: How is this all happening?
ROMAN: Beats me, old chap ... You're the librarian.
[cut to Indiana Jones punching Hitler in the face, then "Night in the Library" appears on screen]
[cut to the student worker running from the Ring-wraith]
ELLIOTT HAMLET: I didn't sign on for this!
[cut to a closeup shot of the librarian's face]
MR. WITHERSPOON: Expect ... the unexpected!
[he gives a maniacal laugh, then "Coming to a library near you" appears on screen]

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From facebook.com:

Night in the Library - Teaser Trailer
February 1, 2010

The first "official" trailer for the Christendom College Film Club's most ambitious project to date. I apologize for the lack of real substance in this trailer, as at this point we have, at most, maybe a little less then half the footage needed already shot. However, we are hopeful that the coming semester will be extremely productive and will result in the completion of the film before the end of the school year. I hope this first tiny glimpse will help maintain people's interest in the project.

A special thanks to everyone who has already helped with this project in some way, whether it be by helping to haul equipment around, actually playing a part in a scene, or everything in between.

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From christendom.edu:

There are many clubs on campus, but out of all of them, the Film Club is one that gets the whole campus involved. Though all the students may not participate in the making of the films, they all benefit from the entertainment produced.

Chris Foeckler and Caroline Deucher are co-presidents, and operate the club together. While theirs are the only official positions, the club is a "project to project" club. Essentially, when a project comes up, cast, members, etc., are chosen by the group.

Brian Pelletier is the current official camera man. The Film Club has been in existence since 2005, and its first film was The Perils of Being an Author, which is a story of an author whose characters come alive and berate him about his book.

Chris and Brian say that this movie was actually an indirect inspiration for their first full length film they are working on: Night in the Library (which is also a spin-off of Night in the Museum). None of the members have attempted a project of this magnitude before, so they are all incredibly excited about the whole experience of putting down the groundwork for actually making a movie.

Brian says that the group is "still in its infancy stage" and really just focusing on growing slowly and producing more projects that will attract people to join, as well as increasing the professionalism of the club.

"We are trying to create a group for people who want to get some experience with film, especially those who are interested in going into film as a future," Sophomore Chris Foeckler says. "We are hoping to gradually turn into a club that more systematically, professionally, and corporately approaches film making, while still retaining the sense of fun."

Chris and Brian summed it up by saying, "Film is an extremely powerful medium. If a picture speaks a thousand words, and you have 35 frames a second, thirty five thousand words a second—how much does that turn out to be in a movie? It's extremely powerful. Our goal is to produce a project that can help the film club to grow, and provide a great opportunity for people who want to get a good Catholic education, and also want to get experience in filming, without selling their soul to Hollywood. We want to be something else Christendom can say it does to help develop students and their talents, and really encounter the Faith and the Truth."

Case Study No. 2095: "Not a single old lady told a single soul to shushhh"

Scroobius Pip - Library (Animated Video)
2:15
Watch Scroobius Pip's animated poem 'Library' - commissioned by Chris Hawkins for BBC 6 Music's celebration of libraries and performed live on his show in November 2014.
Tags: BBC Music Scroobius Pip (Composer) libraries BBC Radio 6 Music (Radio Station) Poetry (Literary Genre)
Added: 7 months ago
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There's never really
been much to do
in my town

The grey skies
and grey buildings
unifying a frown

The public ones
aren't that different
inside, and out

It's hardly
inspiring
when walking about

Except for that one building

The one that's
bursting
with stories

And I don't
mean it's
tall

I mean it's
full of
history

And full
of poems

That rhyme
better than
this one

And full of
tales
for your mind

To absorb
like a
thick
sponge

I mean they had
The Hobbit

75 years

Before my
local cinema

And the
special effects
were way better

And the tone
far more
sinister

Inside my own mind
every tale is in
3D

But
to be fair
in my mind
not that many of them
are in
PG

But

It's not just all
about the books

I mean

I can't put this any
simpler

But

I just don't think
I'm the
kind of guy
that will ever have
ink in his
printer

And that's not a
euphemism
it's just who keeps
that topped up

It's not one of those
things that just appear

like

underwear
and new cups

It's also my
haven
when my internet
is on the
blink

Which is far more
regular than the
adverts
would have you think

On one visit

I could hear
kids singing
nursery rhymes

And tales of a
boot
wearing
puss

And not a single
old lady
told a single soul to
shushhh

So

Surely to enter
such a building
must hold an
outrageous
fee

Right?

I mean

You need to
remortgage
for a
cinema
spending spree

So in the
modern world
this next fact
might be hard
to believe

But

You can enter

And

Even take
things away
with you

For free

So

For education
for the escape

And
for the fact
it allows for me
to refuse to
develop into a
grown up
with a
printer
that works

I love my local
library
and all of its
quirks

I mean to be fair
it hasn't really
made me that good at
writing poems

So
you know ...

Library
by Scroobius Pip

Performed for Chris Hawkins on 6 Music

BBC Radio
6 Music
(c) BBC MMXIV

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From bbc.co.uk:

As BBC Radio 6 Music celebrates Libraries, award winning spoken-word poet and hip hop artist Scroobius Pip presents a poem about libraries which he has written especially for Chris Hawkins' Early Show.

Plus, another Mr Men character features in the 6 Music Mr Men Musical Mission.

It's the Early Show search for the ultimate list of songs mentioning every character in the original Mr Men series.

Songs might include The Smith's 'Heaven Knows I'm MISERABLE Now', Ian Dury's 'Reasons To Be CHEERFUL' or Xpress 2/David Byrne's 'LAZY'.

Case Study No. 2094: Ellen Scott

I Thought I Heard a Rustling
1:03
A play by Alan Plater
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An ex-miner turned poet is appointed writer-in-residence at Eastwood branch library.
Ellen, senior librarian, soon realizes the feckless but charming Geordie is no poet.
Despite this she finds him highly entertaining, much to the disgust of Nutley, an earnest young man who covets the writer-in-residence role.
These three find themselves an unlikely but united strike group when the Libraries sub-committee proposes demolishing the library.

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From amazon.co.uk:

I Thought I Heard a Rustling
by Alan Plater

I Thought I Heard a Rustling is a comedy – about a very serious topical dilemma: would you rather live in a town with twenty-seven supermarkets and one library, or a town with twenty-eight supermarkets and no library? With passing swipes at Professional Northerners and pompous local councillors, Alan Plater's play is a Celebration of the Written Word, suggesting as a basis for negotiation that Books are a Good Idea. First seen at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, in January 1991 starring Annette Crosbie and Paul Copley. (Cast 3m, 2f)

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From google.com:

Unpublished "writer"-in-residence and alleged former coal miner Bill Robson is presented at a pitiful press conference in the Eastwood Road branch library on the edge of London. Ellen Scott is head librarian, and she realizes immediately that the poems Robson submitted in his application for the position are plagiarized.

Ensuing scenes in the library between Scott and Robson are most amusing. Scott is an ironice quipster and lover of literature who finds Robson's brazen naivete baffling and outrageous. Robson sloughs off his task of criticizing would-be writers' amateurish bilge onto Scott but lines up solidly with her to defend the library against the town council's plan to sell the building to make room for a supermarket. Robson helps her save the library; if it takes a pack of lies to do the job, it is still a job well done.

Scott is a strong character who likes her work and treats it as a calling: "Art and Beauty and Truth are the only things that matter a damn. I try to put it into practice in a tatty little branch library patronised by deaf old women and short-sighted old men." It's a funny and even inspiring play. (The title constitutes a running joke in the work.)

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From cops.org.uk:

For anyone like me who has greatly admired Alan Plater's other work, I Thought I Heard a Rustling is a big disappointment. Yes, the old skill with dialogue is still there, and some good jokes, but apart from that it's very thin stuff. The central situation, a con man pulling the wool over the eyes of a staggeringly inept local authority, might have been more interesting had the fraud been more ingenious, the prize of greater value than a stint as writer-in-residence at a moribund public library, and the consequences of discovery more serious than endangering a local councillor's re-election. And we might have been more firmly gripped if the dénouement had been of greater moment than the saving of a branch library which even the notorious Borough of Hackney would have long since closed down as a waste of public money. This one-woman branch seemed to have about three customers, yet our sympathies were supposed to be engaged by the preposterous notion that the place needed an extension!

Which leaves only the interaction between the two main characters to rescue us from a potentially mind-numbing evening's theatre. Even here, Plater seems to have deliberately tried to make things more difficult for himself. Sparks are hard to strike between Ellen and Bill when she so quickly falls in with his deception and he so rapidly succumbs to the arcane joys of library cataloguing. Nor is there any sexual attraction between them to spice the dish. As for the final moral dilemma she faces, when she has to decide whether to go along with a pack of lies in order to save her "little palace of truth", she gives in far too easily to make the problem appear anything like the weighty issue we're invited to believe it is.

All in all then, a piece that might just about succeed if the two main characters were played by a couple of starry charmers like (say) Judi Dench and a younger James Bolam - the kind of actors whose charisma and brilliant technique so often deceive us into thinking some piece of theatrical fluff is more weighty than it appears on the page.

Well, that's what I thought after reading the script and before seeing the CoPS production. The greatest compliment I can pay the company is that I had an enjoyable evening despite the shortcomings of the play, though their undoubted skill didn't make me revise my basic opinion of the piece. Having now seen it as well as read it, I'm not sure anyone could have done that, not even Dame Judi.

Carol Monzeglio, as librarian Ellen, and Andy Kirtley, as the fraudulent "poet" Bill, both gave excellent performances which convinced us we were seeing real people. They worked together very well, and both had mastered the difficult art of appearing to be really listening to what the other was saying, without the kind of exaggerated reactions that less experienced actors sometimes stoop to in pursuit of that aim. Most important of all, they (and indeed all the cast) got the comedy right. I didn't spot a single joke that flopped, which is pretty unusual on the amateur stage. It's fair to say that between them they made the evening. I thought though that Bill could have smiled a bit more, and Ellen a bit less; a more coolly ironic demeanour, especially at the beginning, would have made her eventual capitulation more effective. The only other general criticism I have of them applies to some extent to all the actors: not enough was thrown away; too much emphasis was sometimes applied to lines that would have benefited from a more casual approach. You have a wonderfully intimate space at COPS, which allows you a subtlety denied to those who act in bigger theatres. There were several occasions when a lighter touch would have worked better.

Mark James, who played the journalist and unpublished novelist Nutley, is an excellent comic actor who added a lot to the success of the main partnership. I particularly enjoyed his embarrassed reaction after proposing "I love you" as one of the routine lies used in everyday life, a nice bit of business that was exaggerated enough to be funny but not so much as to jeopardise its truthfulness. But he should beware of over-exploiting his marvellously mobile face: his reaction to Bill's hatchet job on his trilogy sacrificed truth for comic effect, and the director should have reined him in at that point.

Councillor Graham, played by Claudia McKelvey, is a one-dimensional and relatively unrewarding role. The only way to play such a caricature is with the utmost earnestness, which Claudia did to great effect, getting all the laughs to which she was entitled. As did Stephen Warren, a promising young actor in the cameo role of trainee surveyor Bernard. He too has learned the important lesson that straight-faced gravity is the surest route to comic success. There were only two minor faults in his performance: the pauses before he spoke were often as funny as intended, but occasionally he prolonged them beyond the bounds of reality; secondly, it was impossible to believe that even as dim a lamp as Bernard would have been quite so inept at measuring a room. When an actor has to appear to be doing some job of work on stage, even doing it badly, the audience will instantly distinguish the real from the sham. If you're meant to be writing a letter, for example, there's no alternative but to write out the damned thing in full, because the audience will instinctively know if all you're doing is making random scribbles on the paper. In this case he should have set out each night to produce a dimensioned sketch plan of the room, and stuck to his task through thick and thin. On that subject, Ellen really seemed to be doing the cataloguing, whilst Bill looked as though he was just pretending. I will leave others to judge whether this subtlety was intended or accidental.

It was a good set, with one important reservation: it had fewer books in it than any library work room I've ever seen, and I worked in public libraries for ten years. Given the plot-line emphasis on the lack of space, that was an unfortunate failing. More bookshelves, especially downstage right, would have given Ellen an excuse to get up from her desk more often than she did. A filing cabinet up-stage left would also have been useful for the same reason. I thought it a pity that the tabs were left partly open for the scenes in the civic centre, but I'm not familiar with the restrictions imposed by your stage, so that may be unfair comment. The placing of the two desks could have been improved - I would have put Bill's nearer the down-stage left corner and Ellen's nearer the up-stage right, which would have opened up the centre of the stage and also given a diagonal line between Bill and Ellen when they were both seated, always a more interesting arrangement than the almost straight-across line we actually got.

Props were excellent, and I particularly liked the trilogy, which was both funny and authentic looking. Most impressive of all was the match between the book titles mentioned by Ellen and the actual volumes she was holding. Nothing is more irritating than seeing a book used on stage which perfectly obviously can't be the one a character is referring to, but it's a distressingly common fault.

The music was well chosen, and the lighting - well, as someone who has in the past designed and operated lights, I will only say that I didn't notice it. No lighting designer can hope for higher praise.

Experienced directors know well that if a play flops it's their fault, whereas if it succeeds it's all down to the actors. I've pointed out the things I thought could have been better, but I haven't praised the directors for the much greater number of things that were absolutely right. So let me say in conclusion that I thought this an excellent production of a curate's egg of a play, and I'm certain that good direction had a great deal to do with the enjoyment I and the rest of the audience got from it.

Case Study No. 2093: Karen Mand

Longtime Librarian Closes the Book on 43 Years of Service
2:21
Longtime librarian Karen Mand retires after 43 years of service to St. Norbert College.
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From jrn.com:

Longtime Librarian Closes the Book on 43 Years of Service
By Stacy Engebretson. CREATED Jan 14, 2015

De Pere, WI -- The average American worker changes jobs about every four-and-a-half years, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. So you can imagine the void St. Norbert College is going to feel as their longtime librarian, Karen Mand, calls it a career after 43 years.

Mand's enthusiasm for working in the college library is as infectious today as it was on her first day on the job back in 1971.

"I love libraries. I love working with books. The atmosphere on campus is a good place to work," she explained.

Mand has seen a lot of changes in 43 years including working in three different libraries on campus.

"Part of my job for many years was typing catalog cards and filing everything. You know once they were typed, they had to be filed."

Then in the late 1980's, she had to adapt to new technology.

"We had one computer for the whole library staff, so we had a sign-up sheet. Everybody had to sign-up for the time they wanted to use the computer."

The evolution of the internet brought new challenges for Mand. She was tasked with tracking 190,000 books and making it easy for students to access them. Now, after more than four decades of service, she's closing the book on her career.

"I don't want to learn anymore technology," Mand said with a chuckle.

Her colleagues threw her a retirement party to express the impact she's had on so many, not just as the Cataloging Management Specialist but also as a Student-Employee Supervisor and through her committee work on campus.

"I hope she feels a sense of pride and a sense of love, I think both of which are very well deserved. She's given so much, shown so much dedication and there are so many people who wish her well," said Library Director Kristin Vogel.

Mand says riding off into retirement is bittersweet.

"It'll be difficult. It will be hard to walk out of here."

It's difficult for the college as well to bid farewell to the one constant among all the changes.

"There will be many people who feel the loss of Karen on a day to day basis," said Vogel.

But Mand is looking forward to starting the next chapter in her life.

"Who knows what the future will bring? I'm open to anything."

Mand plans to spend her free time traveling with her husband, sewing and volunteering on campus and in the community.

Case Study No. 2092: The Librarian (Counting Glaciers)

The Librarian
3:29
The Librarian

Counting Glaciers
R Smith

(P) 2015 Nub Music

Released on: 2015-02-22

Music Publisher: Nub Music

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From amazon.com:

Counting Glaciers

Release Date: February 22, 2015
Label: Nub Music
Copyright: (C) 2015 Nub Country Records
Total Length: 40:54
Genres: Folk

1. Counting Glaciers
2. Weather or Not
3. Bethlehem
4. Say It
5. The Librarian
6. Lullabye
7. Scottish Prayer
8. Shadows
9. D-Dance
10. Bad Boy

Case Study No. 2091: Mrs. Tocknell and the Extreme Librarian

The Extreme Librarian
2:24
A Short Silent Film About A Librarian Who Is Enthusiastic About His Job.

Entered into the De La Warr Pavilion Film Festival 2012
Shown At The De La Warr Pavilion Film Festival 2012
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Added: 2 years ago
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[scene opens with a young male librarian (red hair, blue sweater, white undershirt, red and blue striped tie, black pants) happily pushing an AV cart outside of his school]
[cut to a closeup of his face, as he looks at something off camera while dramatic music plays]
[cut to a closeup of the "Guiness Book of Knowledge" sitting on the ground]
[cut to slow motion footage of the librarian pushing the cart aside and (with an exaggerated look of determination on his face) running over to pick up the book]
[cut to the librarian running back to the cart (holding the book over his head)]
[cut to a closeup of the cart as he slams the book down on top of it, then the camera pans out to show the librarian pushing it back into the school as intense music plays]
[cut to various shots of the librarian pushing the cart through the hallways of the school (while the tires makes "screeching" noises at every turn)]
[cut to the librarian pushing the cart into the elevator, then cut to the librarian leaning against the cart (with a bored look on his face) as elevator muzak plays]
[cut to the librarian calmly pushing the cart out of the elevator once it reaches the correct floor, then continuing with his mad dash to the library (as the intense music starts playing again)]
[cut to the librarian entering the library, as he waves to someone off camera]
[cut to an older female librarian (long black hair, glasses, purple blouse) sitting at a computer, as she waves back]
[cut to slow motion footage of the librarian pushing the cart towards a bookshelf, as "O Fortuna" begins to play]
[he smiles and pumps his fist, then take the book and (with seemingly great effort) places it in an open slot on the top shelf]
[he turns and celebrates, as the camera zooms in on the newly shelved book ... revealing that it doesn't actually belong with the other volumes around it]

Cast

Actor 1 ... Archie Young
Actor 2 ... Mrs. Tocknell

Music

Kevin McLeod

Directors

Ben Smith
Archie Young

Editors

Ben Smith
Archie Young

Filmed By

Ben Smith

Case Study No. 2090: Las Zenow and Tryma Acarnio

part27 Isaac Asimov — Forward the Foundation {audiobook}
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It was a lovely day. Neither too warm nor too cold, not too bright nor too gray. Even though the groundskeeping budget had given out years ago, the few straggly perennials lining the steps leading up to the Galactic Library managed to add a cheerful note to the morning. (The Library, having been built in the classical style of antiquity, was fronted with one of the grandest stairways to be found in the entire Empire, second only to the steps at the Imperial Palace itself. Most Library visitors, however, preferred to enter via the gliderail) Seldon had high hopes for the day.

Since he and Stettin Palver had been cleared of all charges in their recent assault and battery case, Hari Seldon felt like a new man. Although the experience had been painful, its very public nature had advanced Seldon's cause. Judge Tejan Popjens Lih, who was considered one of, if not the most influential judge on Trantor, had been quite vociferous in her opinion, delivered the day following Rial Nevas's emotional testimony.

"When we come to such a crossroads in our 'civilized' society," the judge intoned from her bench, "that a man of Professor Hari Seldon's standing is made to bear the humiliation, abuse, and lies of his peers simply because of who he is and what he stands for, it is truly a dark day for the Empire. I admit that I, too, was taken in - at first. 'Why wouldn't Professor Seldon,' I reasoned, 'resort to such trickery in an attempt to prove his predictions?' But, as I came to see, I was most grievously wrong." Here the judge's brow furrowed, a dark blue flush began creeping up her neck and into her cheeks. "For I was ascribing to Professor Seldon motives born of our new society, a society in which honesty, decency, and goodwill are likely to get one killed, a society in which it appears one must resort to dishonesty and trickery merely to survive.

"How far we have strayed from our founding principles. We were lucky this time, fellow citizens of Trantor. We owe a debt of thanks to Professor Hari Seldon for showing us our true selves; let us take his example to heart and resolve to be vigilant against the baser forces of our human nature."

Following the hearing, the Emperor had sent Seldon a congratulatory holo-disc. On it he expressed the hope that perhaps now Seldon hope that perhaps now Seldon would find renewed funding for his Project.

As Seldon slid up the entrance gliderail, he reflected on the current status of his Psychohistory Project. His good friend - the former Chief Librarian Las Zenow - had retired. During his tenure, Zenow had been a strong proponent of Seldon and his work. More often than not, however, Zenow's hands had been tied by the Library board. But, he had assured Seldon, the affable new Chief Librarian, Tryma Acarnio, was as progressive as he himself, and was popular with many factions among the Board membership.

"Hari, my friend," Zenow had said before leaving Trantor for his home world of Wencory, "Acarnio is a good man, a person of deep intellect and an open mind. I'm sure he'll do all that he can to help you and the Project. I've left him the entire data file on you and your Encyclopedia; I know he'll be as excited as I about the contribution to humanity it represents. Take care, my friend - I'll remember you fondly."

And so today Hari Seldon was to have his first official meeting with the new Chief Librarian. He was cheered by the reassurances Las Zenow had left with him and he was looking forward to sharing his plans for the future of the Project and the Encyclopedia.

Tryma Acarnio stood as Hari entered the Chief Librarian's office. Already he had made his mark on the place; whereas Zenow had stuffed every nook and cranny of the room with holo-discs and tridijournals from the different sectors of Trantor, and a dizzying array of visiglobes representing various worlds of the Empire had spun in midair, Acarnio had swept clear the mounds of data and images that Zenow had liked to keep at his fingertips. A large holoscreen now dominated one wall on which, Seldon presumed, Acarnio could view any publication or broadcast that he desired.

Acarnio was short and stocky, with a slightly distracted look - from a childhood corneal correction that had gone awry - that belied a fearsome intelligence and constant awareness of everything going on around him at all times.

"Well, well. Professor Seldon. Come in. Sit down." Acarnio gestured to a straight-backed chair facing the desk at which he sat. "It was, I felt, quite fortuitous that you requested this meeting. You see, I had intended to get in touch with you as soon as I settled in."

Seldon nodded, pleased that the new Chief Librarian had considered him enough of a priority to plan to seek him out in the hectic early days of his tenure.

"But, first, Professor, please let me know why you wanted to see me before we move on to my, most likely, more prosaic concerns."

Seldon cleared his throat and leaned forward. "Chief Librarian, Las Zenow has no doubt told you of my work here and of my idea for an Encyclopedia Galactica. Las was quite enthusiastic, and a great help, providing a private office for me here and unlimited access to the Library's vast resources. In fact, it was he who located the eventual home of the Encyclopedia Project, a remote Outer World called Terminus.

"There was one thing, however, that Las could not provide. In order to keep the Project on schedule, I must have office space and unlimited access granted to a number of my colleagues, as well. It is an enormous undertaking, just gathering the information to be copied and transferred to Terminus before we can begin the actual work of compiling the Encyclopedia.

"Las was not popular with the Library Board, as you undoubtedly are aware. You, however, are. And so I ask you, Chief Librarian: Will you see to it that my colleagues are granted insiders' privileges so that we may continue our most vital work?"

Here Hari stopped, almost out of breath. He was sure that his speech, which he had gone over and over in his mind the night before, would have the desired effect. He waited, confident in Acarnio's response.

"Professor Seldon," Acarnio began. Seldon's expectant smile faded. There was an edge to the Chief Librarian's voice that Seldon had not expected. "My esteemed predecessor provided me - in exhaustive detail - an explication of your work here at the Library. He was quite enthusiastic about your research and committed to the idea of your colleagues joining you here. As was I, Professor Seldon" - at Acarnio's pause, Seldon looked up sharply - "at first. I was prepared to call a special meeting of the Board to propose that a larger suite of offices be prepared for you and your Encyclopedists. But, Professor Seldon, all that has now changed."

"Changed! But why?"

"Professor Seldon, you have just finished serving as principal defendant in a most sensational assault and battery case."

"But I was acquitted," Seldon broke in. "The case never even made it to trial."

"Nonetheless, Professor, your latest foray into the public eye has given you an undeniable - how shall I say it? - tinge of ill repute. Oh yes, you were acquitted of all charges. But in order to get to that acquittal, your name, your past, your beliefs, and your work were paraded before the eyes of all the worlds. And even if one progressive right-thinking judge has proclaimed you faultless, what of the millions - perhaps billions - of other average citizens who see not a pioneering psychohistorian striving to preserve his civilization's glory but a raving lunatic shouting doom and gloom for the great and mighty Empire?

"You, by the very nature of your work, are threatening the essential fabric of the Empire. I don't mean the huge, nameless, faceless, monolithic Empire. No, I am referring to the heart and soul of the Empire - its people. When you tell them the Empire is failing, you are saying that they are failing. And this, my dear Professor, the average citizen cannot face.

"Seldon, like it or not, you have become an object of derision, a subject of ridicule, a laughingstock."

"Pardon me, Chief Librarian, but for years now I have been, to some circles, a laughingstock."

"Yes, but only to some circles. But this latest incident - and the very public forum in which it was played out - has opened you up to ridicule not only here on Trantor but throughout the worlds. And, Professor, if, by providing you an office, we, the Galactic Library, give tacit approval to your work, then, by inference, we, the Library, also become a laughingstock throughout the worlds. And no matter how strongly I may personally believe in your theory and your Encyclopedia, as Chief Librarian of the Galactic Library on Trantor, I must think of the library first.

"And so, Professor Seldon, your request to bring in your colleagues is denied."

Hari Seldon jerked back in his chair as if struck.

"Further," Acarnio continued, "I must advise you of a two-week temporary suspension of all Library privileges - effective immediately. The Board has called that special meeting, Professor Seldon. In two weeks' time we will notify you whether or not we've decided that our association with you must be terminated."

Here, Acarnio stopped speaking and, placing his palms on the glossy, spotless surface of his desk, stood up. "That is all, Professor Seldon - for now."

Hari Seldon stood as well, although his upward movement was not as smooth, nor as quick, as Tryrna Acarnio's.

"May I be permitted to address the Board?" asked Seldon. "Perhaps if I were able to explain to them the vital importance of psychohistory and the Encyclopedia-"

"I'm afraid not, Professor," said Acarnio softly and Seldon caught a brief glimmer of the man Las Zenow had told him about. But, just as quickly, the icy bureaucrat was back as Acarnio guided Seldon to the door.

As the portals slid open, Acarnio said, "Two weeks, Professor Seldon. Till then." Hari stepped through to his waiting skitter and the doors slid shut.

What am I going to do now? wondered Seldon disconsolately. Is this the end of my work?

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From wikipedia.org:

Forward the Foundation (1993) is a novel written by Isaac Asimov. It is the second of two prequels to the Foundation Series. It is written in much the same style as the original novel Foundation, a novel composed of chapters with long intervals in between. (Both books were first published as independent short stories in science fiction magazines.)

The parallels between Hari Seldon and Isaac Asimov found in this book—the last one written by Asimov—and the focus on Hari Seldon as he grows old and dies, strengthen the idea that Asimov considered Seldon his literary alter ego. Many regard some of the thoughts and opinions expressed by Seldon in this book as autobiographical; a double reading of Forward the Foundation may shed light on Asimov's inner thoughts at the end of his life.

Plot summary
In Forward the Foundation, Isaac Asimov continues the chronicles of the life of Hari Seldon, first begun in Prelude to Foundation.

The story takes place on Trantor, and begins eight years after the events of Prelude to Foundation. It depicts how Seldon developed his theory of psychohistory from hypothetical concept to practical application in galactic events.

Beginning during the latter years of the reign of Emperor Cleon I, Seldon's work brings him into the world of galactic politics, and takes him to the height of Imperial power as Cleon's First Minister, after the mysterious disappearance of his previous First Minister, Eto Demerzel (whom Seldon knows as R. Daneel Olivaw). Seldon becomes First Minister to the Emperor, but loses the position ten years later after the Emperor is assassinated.

Gradually, Seldon loses all those who are close to him. Seldon's wife Dors is killed saving his life from an assassin. His adopted son Raych is killed in the Rebellion in Santanni; his daughter-in-law and second granddaughter are missing and never found. Yugo Amaryl dies early, brought on by the strain of his work. Except for his granddaughter Wanda, Seldon is alone. He eventually sends her off to start the Second Foundation.

The Galactic Empire's decline accelerates during the later chapters, as does the decline of Seldon's physical health. At the same time, Seldon finally begins to unravel the secrets of psychohistory; he initiates a grand plan that will come to be known as the Seldon Plan, the road map for mankind's post-Imperial survival.

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From wikia.com:

The Imperial Library is in the Foundation Universe placed within the Robot, Empire, and Foundation series by Isaac Asimov.

History
The Imperial Library is placed on Trantor in the Imperial district. The Library, along with the Imperial Palace, is the only building uncovered by Trantor's many domes. The Library has a long history culminating with the history of the Second Foundation.

Golden-age of the Galactic Empire
During Cleon's reign the library was well funded and stocked with holobooks on all sorts of topics. The head librarian at the time (and the library council) assisted Hari Seldon (and his group of scholars) with the Psychohistory project.

Decline of the Empire
During the Military Junta the Library received nearly zero funds and they had to make severe cuts in services. The Chief Librarian was forced (by the Library Council) to have Hari Seldon and the group leave the library. Seldon had to convince several people to give funds to the group in order to stay at the library. No one would give funds so Hari Seldon had Wanda Seldon "convince" the librarians to allow the group to continue.

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From wikipedia.org:

The Library of Trantor was one of the prominent features of the fictional planet Trantor, created by Isaac Asimov and appearing in his Empire series and the Foundation series. Located in the Imperial Sector of the planet, it was variously referred to as the Imperial Library of the Galactic Empire, the University of Trantor Library, and the Galactic Library, in which librarians index the entirety of human knowledge by walking up to a different computer terminal every day and resuming where the previous librarian had left off.

Around 260 FE, a rebel leader named Gilmer attempted a coup, in the process sacking Trantor and forcing the Imperial family to flee to the nearby world of Delicass, renamed Neotrantor. After the sack, the population dwindled rapidly from 40 billion to less than 100 million. Most of the buildings on Trantor were destroyed during the sack, and over the course of the next two centuries the metal on Trantor was gradually sold off, as farmers uncovered more and more soil to use in their farms. Eventually the farmers grew to become the sole recognized inhabitants of the planet, and the era of Trantor as the central world of the galaxy came to a close. It began to develop a dialect very different from Galactic Standard Speech, and the people unofficially renamed their planet "Hame", or "home."

As revealed to the reader at the end of Second Foundation, not all these farmers were what they seemed, with the now-rustic Trantor serving as the centre of the Second Foundation. From Trantor, the Second Foundationers secretly guided the development of the Galaxy (roughly parallel to the city of Rome becoming, after the fall of its empire, the headquarters of the Papacy, with its enormous influence on the development of Medieval Europe). Indeed, their self-perception as leaders of the future Second Empire is captured in the Second Foundationers' use of the word "Hamish" to describe the farmers despite reserving for themselves use of the word "Trantorian." It is noted that it was the Second Foundation which ensured that the famed library would survive the sacking to Trantor and the destruction of its urban culture – especially significant, considering that the library was vital to the Second Foundation itself.

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From goodreads.com:

"The Library was outmoded and archaic - it had been so even in Ebling Mis's time - but that was all to the good. Pelorat always rubbed his hands with excitement when he thought of an old and outmoded Library. The older and the more outmoded, the more likely it was to have what he needed. In his dreams, he would enter the Library and ask in breathless alarm, 'Has the Library been modernized? Have you thrown out the old tapes and computerizations?' And always he imagined the answer from dusty and ancient librarians, 'As it has been, Professor, so it is still.'"
- Isaac Asimov, Foundation's Edge