Asimov,
Isaac. Foundation's
Edge (Garden City, N.Y.:
Doubleday, 1982) 366 p.
The
Trantor University Library is mentioned, but now it is called the
Galactic Library. First in the imagination of a historian who wants
to study there.
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 is it still.” (p. 35).
Also,
members of the Second Foundation discover that all references to
Earth have been removed from the Library.
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