Librarians supplied popular romance fiction only to justify continued funding.

Evidence

Librarians only reconciled themselves to supplying such books to their readers when it became necessary to justify continued funding. — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 964

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the recurring theme of libraries’ tension between popular demand and curatorial standards across the book’s earlier chapters. — connects to: Libraries eventually yielded to reader demand for romantic fiction — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 866
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 964