 Libraries in Science Fiction - http://www.ku.edu/~sfcenter/library.htm Essay exploring the role of libraries in science fiction. |
 Librarians - Now 'Media Specialists' - http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2002/fyi/teachers.ednews/02/03/school.librarians.ap/index.html Changing roles of librarians. [CNN] |
 Looking It Up - http://www.cnn.com/2000/CAREER/trends/11/28/librarians/index.html Article explaining how librarianship is not an endangered career. [CNN] |
 The Naked Librarian - http://www.jessamyn.com/naked Features pictures and links to female librarians who are not entirely clothed. |
 Librarians Trade 'Shhh' for 'Va-Va-Voom' - http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/01/nyregion/01LIBR.html News of a pinup calendar featuring New Jersey librarians. [NY Times] |
 Library Cartoons - http://pw1.netcom.com/~dplourde/cartoons/index.html An annotated bibliography of cartoons dealing with aspects of librarianship. |
 Web Overturning Image of Book-filing Librarian - http://washington.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2000/04/03/focus4.html Demand for the highly trained information specialists. [Washington Business Journal] |
 The Librarian Stereotype and the Movies - http://wings.buffalo.edu/publications/mcjrnl/v1n1/image.html Article from The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship about Hollywood's treatment of librarians. |
 By the Book? Not Today's Information-Savvy Librarians - http://www.canoe.ca/CareerConnectionNews/030129_librarian.html Report on professional librarian duties and salaries. [The Toronto Sun] |
 Sex in the Stacks - http://www.chiprowe.com/articles/library.html Bibliography of pornographic literature featuring librarians by Candi Strecker. |
 An Interview with Jessamyn West - http://www.bookslut.com/features/2003_12_001173.php A short assortment of questions about librarianship and hot topics related to it. [Bookslut] |
 Progressive and Radical Librarians - http://marylaine.com/exlibris/xlib77.html Short interview with anarchist librarian Jessamyn West. |
 From Buns to Bytes - http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/sfsla/bulletin/mayjun99/buns.html Brief article on the changing image of librarians. |
 The Archetype of the Crone in Librarianship - http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/staff/moe/archetype.html Paper from a conference presentation on human issues in libraries. |
 Recataloging Librarians - http://www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/libr500/02-03-wt1/www/A_Ogden/index.htm Online term paper on librarian stereotypes. |
 Librarian Spotting - http://www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/libr500/03-04-wt1/assignments/www/C_Wallace/intro.htm An historical examination of librarian stereotypes, with references. |
 Librarians As Characters In Fiction - http://www.gslis.mcgill.ca/marginal/mar7-3/Librarians%20As%20Characters%20In%20Fiction.htm List of references, by Laura Cobrinik. |
 A Librarian At Every Table - http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/a-librarian-at-every-table/ A resource to demonstrate the value of librarianship in the community building movement. |
 Image of Libraries in Popular Culture - http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/impact/f01/Focus/Image/index.htm Site exploring images of libraries and librarians in film and literature. |
 Why be a Librarian in the 21st Century? - http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~hblack/whylibrarian.htm Advocacy site featuring smart, radical, sexy, and famous librarians. |
 A Brief History of Librarians and Image - http://home.earthlink.net/~cyberresearcher/resources.htm Not that brief. Includes essay with many citations and hyperlinks. |
 Image and the Librarian - http://home.earthlink.net/~cyberresearcher/ImageHomepage.htm Exploration into the stereotypes surrounding the image and status of librarians and the library profession. |
 Stereotypes of Librarians - http://home.earthlink.net/~cyberresearcher/stereotypes.htm Discussion questions about the "bun lady" and related images. |
 Movie Librarians - http://home.earthlink.net/~movielibrarians/ Annotated listing of notable libraries and librarians in films. |
 Librarians in Pornography - http://www.riverofdata.com/librariana/porn/ Dan Lester's text bibliography of racy books featuring librarians. |
 Self Love and Joy and Satisfaction in Librarianship - http://www.alia.org.au/~jcram/self_love.html A review of factors affecting the image of librarians which concludes that librarians feed and support negative images of themselves. By Jennifer Cram. |
 Status of Librarians - http://www.ala.org/ala/hrdr/libraryempresources/specialpresidential.htm Homepage for the American Library Association Special Presidential Task Force, with history and resources. |
 Libraries Are 31337 - http://slashdot.org/articles/02/10/20/1228255.shtml Commentary and discussion on a technology news website about the technical prowess of libraries. [Slashdot] |
 Shhh! This is a Library! - http://www.blisspix.net/library/songs.html Lists of songs about libraries and librarians. |
 The Anti-Stereotype Stereotype - http://www.blisspix.net/library/image.html A young librarian's commentary on the recent wave of 'cool librarians' articles. |
 Library Career Romances - http://www.jenw.org/home.htm Describes books from the 1940s through the 1960s about women becoming librarians. |
 The Making of a Virtual Librarian - http://www.careerdevelopmentgroup.org.uk/impact/archives/abrewerton.htm Review of librarians that wear lipstick, have a tattoo, belly-dance, then get naked. |
 I Am a Librarian - http://iamalibrarian.com/ Library student and photographer solicits librarian pictures to show that librarians come in many different shapes and sizes, are from various backgrounds, and include all different types of people. Also has a collection of links to library "image" sites. |
 Cool Librarians - http://valinor.ca/waycool.html Reviews some popular images of librarians. |
 Children's Picture Books with Librarians and Libraries - http://mingo.info-science.uiowa.edu/~heintzelman/foundations/mainpage.htm Review of some children's literature, by Matthew Z. Heintzelman. |
 Net has Boosted Need for Librarians - http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/4643370p-5661617c.html Report that "the Internet has made trained librarians more necessary than ever before." [The Sacramento Bee] |
 Why are Librarians So Sexy? - http://www4.ncsu.edu/~n51ls801/librarians.html Professor David Austin explains quotes from various sources. |
 Fighting Librarians - http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0620/p11s02-legn.html Column on librarians, who are "relentless when it comes to ensuring that as much information as possible gets into people's hands." |
 Librarians and Tigers - http://ftrain.com/librarians_tigers.html Story by Paul Ford about the portrayal of librarians. |
 Librarians in the Movies: An Annotated Filmography - http://emp.byui.edu/raishm/films/introduction.html Maintained by Martin Raish of the David O. McKay Library, Brigham Young University. Films are grouped by degree of connection to libraries or librarians. |
 You Don't Look Like a Librarian! - http://www.librarian-image.net/ Results of a survey examining how closely librarians really resemble the stereotypical librarian. |
 Librarians in Comics - http://www.ibiblio.org/librariesfaq/comstrp/comstrp.htm List of sources compiled by Steven M. Bergson. |
 Film Librarian - http://www.filmlibrarian.info/ Annotated list of films featuring lLibraries, librarians and the book arts compiled by Steven J. Schmidt. |