List of fictional librarians
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This is a list of fictional librarians: librarians having significant roles in notable fictions.
- Karin Andersson in the Sune series[1]
- Mary Hatch Bailey, a "old maid" librarian in It's a Wonderful Life[2]
- Batgirl as Dr. Barbara Gorden, who is depicted as working as librarian in Gotham City's Public Library.[3][4]
- Belle, a princess-turned-librarian in "Once Upon A Time".[5]
- Evelyn Carnahan, a clumsy librarian, in The Mummy (1999) and sequels.[6]
- Allison Carroll in Jo Walton's Among Others[7]
- Flynn Carsen in the The Librarian, a librarian of the Metropolitan Public Library in New York.[8]
- Conan the Librarian in UHF.[9][10][11]
- Female librarian in Monkey Island II: LeChuck's Revenge.[12]
- Flora, a drunk librarian in The Crazy Ones.[13]
- George and Lance in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, who run a family library.[14]
- Rupert Giles, a stereotypical school librarian, in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer.[4]
- Stuart Goodson in The Public, who is comfortable with the homeless people who use his public library every day.[15]
- Henry in Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife, who working in the Newberry Library, and in the film.[16][17]
- Alicia Hull, a small town librarian, in Storm Center (1956).[18]
- Tasha “Taystee” Jefferson, librarian at Litchfield Penitentiary, in Orange Is the New Black.[5]
- Kaisa in Hilda, librarian of the Trolberg Library and a witch.[19][20]
- Karin in the Sune series.[21]
- Jacqueline Kirby in Elizabeth Peters' novel The Seventh Sinner (1972).[22]
- Librarian in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim[23]
- Librarians in Metro 2033".[24]
- Librarian in the 2020 adventure game, The Librarian.[25]
- Librarian in Citizen Kane.[26]
- Librarian in the Disney/Pixar film Monsters University (2013).[9][27]
- Librarian in Goodbye, Columbus who is racist.[2]
- Librarian in Only Two Can Play (1962), a Welsh librarian and occasional drama critic.[9]
- Librarian at the beginning of Ghostbusters[4][28]
- Librarian in Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade.[26][28]
- Librarian in Something Wicked This Way Comes.[28]
- Lirael, an assistant librarian in Garth Nix's Lirael (2001).[29][30]
- "Marian the Librarian" in the movie The Music Man.[28][27]
- Mary as the ultimate Party Girl (1995) who discovers, "I want to be a librarian!".[31][26]
- Mira and her father Sahil in Mira, Royal Detective for one episode, as they operate a bookmobile.[32]
- Mr. Dewey, an eccentric librarian, in The Pagemaster.[5]
- "Ms Dewey", a sexy librarian character for the Bing search engine.[33][34]
- Gloria Mundy, a shy San Francisco librarian in Foul Play.[26]
- Old librarian lady in the We Bare Bears episode "The Library".[35]
- Pearl, a librarian action figure, modeled on Seattle Public Library librarian Nancy Pearl.[36][37]
- Madam Irma Pince is the librarian at Hogwarts during the Harry Potter series.[7]
- Aaron Pratt, an autistic librarian in an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.[38]
- Protagonists of The Librarians[39]
- Protagonists of The Librarians, which follows a new team of librarians.[40]
- Protagonists of The Library at Mount Char who refer to themselves as librarians.[41]
- Clara Rhone in Welcome to the Wayne, head librarian of The Stanza.[42]
- Tammy in episodes of Parks and Recreation[43][5]
- The Librarian in Terry Pratchett's Discworld fantasy series.[30]
- Unnamed librarian at a city library in the Big City Greens episode "Quiet Please."[44]
- Virtual librarian in Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash.[45]
- Bunny Watson, a librarian in the movie Desk Set (1957).[9]
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References[]
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- ^ Scarlet, Janina (6 August 2015). "The Psychology of Inspirational Women: Batgirl". The Mary Sue. Archived from the original on April 13, 2016. Retrieved November 30, 2019.
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- ^ a b c d Trombetta, Sadie (March 2, 2015). "11 Of The Coolest Librarians From Pop Culture". Bustle. Archived from the original on February 25, 2020. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
- ^ Morgan, Alissa (January 18, 2019). "How Evelyn Carnahan's (Rachel Weisz) Role in 'The Mummy' (1999) and 'The Mummy Returns' (2001) Affirmed my Love of Storytelling". Flip Screened. Archived from the original on April 21, 2020. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
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- ^ "TNT greenlights 'The Librarians' franchise as a series". EW. April 10, 2014. Archived from the original on August 3, 2017. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
- ^ a b c d Nastasi, Alison (November 9, 2013). "Our Favorite Pop Culture Librarians". Flavorwire. Archived from the original on March 22, 2019. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
- ^ Ruth Kneale, You Don't Look Like a Librarian: Shattering Stereotypes and Creating Positive New Images in the Internet Age, Information Today: 2009, p 77
- ^ Cronin, Brian (January 13, 2021). "The Surprisingly Complicated History of Conan the Librarian". CBR. Archived from the original on January 16, 2021. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
- ^ "Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, PC, 1991 [Review]". Tumblr. November 10, 2014. Archived from the original on May 29, 2016. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
- ^ Logan, Michael (February 26, 2014). "Exclusive: The Young and the Restless' Melody Thomas Scott Guests on The Crazy Ones". TV Guide. Archived from the original on April 7, 2020. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
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- ^ Kenigsberg, Ben (April 4, 2019). "'The Public' Review: Emilio Estevez Takes Us to the Library for a Civics Lesson". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on May 11, 2019. Retrieved November 30, 2019.
- ^ "The Time Traveler's Wife and the Newberry Library".
- ^ Irani, Rashid (November 7, 2009). "Review: The Time Traveler's Wife". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on September 23, 2020. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
- ^ Robbins, Louise S. (2000). The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-3314-7.
- ^ Hermann, Burkely (September 21, 2020). "A Mysterious Librarian is the Breakout Star of Netflix's "Hilda"". I Love Libraries. American Library Association. Archived from the original on September 22, 2020. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
- ^ Hermann, Burkely (January 8, 2021). "The Mysterious Librarian in Netflix's "Hilda" Finally Gets a Name". I Love Libraries. American Library Association. Archived from the original on January 8, 2021. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
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- ^ Reiman, Lauren (2003). "Solving the mystery: what makes the fictional librarian such a good sleuth?". Washington State University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-12-02. Retrieved October 19, 2017.
- ^ "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Review". IGN. November 10, 2011. Archived from the original on January 19, 2012. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
- ^ Marshall, Neil (February 11, 2019). "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly- Librarians in Video Games". Medium. Archived from the original on December 10, 2020. Retrieved November 28, 2020. Neil Marshall (Assistant Librarian for the Faculty of Education of the MMU Library is the writer of this article.
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As one of my co-workers typed in different words and phrases, the “Ms. Dewey” character (pre-recorded film footage of actress, Janina Gavankar) engages in flirtatious banter, sometimes becoming irritated or condescending if too much time passes before entering a search term: “Hellloooo... type something here!”
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