«I am an appropriate hire because my degree granting institution is not far away. I know where the books I need are, and I have access to them. People from further away will be cut off from the books whose locations their professors showed them, and will thus be unable to do research.»
A Ph.D. said that. I am still not over it.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
wow …
Yes, a damned shame.
With same person:
Me: I want to introduce to you my new hire, he is in field related to yours and interested in working in the part of the archives you like; he might be someone you want to work with on the journal, too.
Person: Surely. I will show him where the archives are and in what part of them the documents he probably wants are.
Me: I think he already knows those things.
Person: Then why does he need to talk to me?
Me: I suppose he does not need to.