More images of Librarians on TV
Have been thinking about Grant Stone's presentation and am racking my brain for more depictions of Librarians (and other library staff) in film and TV.
I've come up with:
1. Giles (the watcher) from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
2. Mr Bookman (the Library Investigations Officer [or book detective]) from Seinfeld
3. the female Library Assistant (who Kramer gets to know in the library after hours)
and let's not forget
4. Barbara Gordon (Batgirl) - from the 1960's Batman TV series
posted by Jill @ 9:08 am
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Salmonberries (1991) - the town's new librarian forms a deep bond with K D lang, the Alaskan pipeline worker.
Just go read "Looks in Books: the image of the profession in the literature"
(...done in time for the 1990 ALIA Biennial I seem to recall???)
And who can forget the very attractive female librarian, Evelyn, in "The Mummy" who caused chaos in the shelves and was "proud to be a librarian".
Giles in Buffy has given librarians an image we can celebrate too.
For some more fun popular culture images see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librarians_in_popular_culture
I am currently preparing a paper for NLS3 in December entitled "Librarians in the Looking Glass: Reflections of Our Profession in Popular Culture" (http://conferences.alia.org.au/newlibrarian2006/abstracts.php#kdriscoll). I didn't realise that Grant had done something along the same lines for Click. I would love to hear people's thoughts on this topic, please feel free to email me: djkl@djkl.com
There is always the librarian in 'Drop Gorgeous' who was a wartime Mount Rose American Teen Princess, but now explains what lutefisk is.
I actually did my MA dissertation on this - if you're interested you can read it at http://www.angelfire.com/oz/tomgoodfellow/LibrariesinFilm.htm
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