Image of Librarians

Resources in this category:

The Librarian Stereotype and the Movies
http://wings.buffalo.edu/publications/mcjrnl/v1n1/image.html

Depictions of librarians in film is the focus of this article published in MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1993.

Librarians in Comic Books
http://www.ibiblio.org/librariesfaq/combks/combks.htm

Features lists of comic books which feature or mention librarians and/or libraries. Did you know that Batgirl was a librarian?

Librarians in Comic Strips
http://www.ibiblio.org/librariesfaq/comstrp/comstrp.htm

This bibliography of librarians as comic strip characters covers a range of images of the profession.

Librarians in the Movies: An Annotated Filmography
http://emp.byui.edu/raishm/films/introduction.html

Lists and describes films featuring librarians as characters; also names the actors and actresses who have played them. Films are indexed by title and grouped into four categories according to how they depict libraries and/or librarians.

The Lipstick Librarian
http://www.lipsticklibrarian.com/

"She's bold! She's sassy!! She's helpful!! She's ... The Lipstick Librarian!" This delightfully facetious website describes a new image for librarians, and avers that the most important aspect of a Lipstick Librarian is the "ability to look fabulous while poking around a dot-matrix printer with a bent paper-clip."

You Don't Look Like a Librarian
http://www.librarian-image.net/

Focuses on the public perception of librarians and links to articles and online resources about non-stereotypical librarians.