The tour of the Archive takes around an hour, which is considerably less time than Galade would like it to take, ultimately. So much of the catalogue is either in storage rooms, unprocessed, or in storage rooms, unshelved. He explains to Melian about the interviewer and the oral histories, the types of materials people send in -- paper, holos, infodiscs, sometimes whole consoles from offices that no longer exist -- and how they all need to be opened and read, categorized.
In the end he brings Melian back to his office and starts to heat water for tea on his compact hot unit. There's a cot in one corner covered with a rumpled blanket for the nights he sleeps here.
"We have funding now from the outreach I did last year," he remarks, as he fills a filter bag with loose tea. "We need to hire more staff now."