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A Brief History of Librarians and Image - http://home.earthlink.net/~cyberresearcher/resources.htm Not that brief. Includes essay with many citations and hyperlinks.

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.

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]

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]

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.

Cool Librarians - http://valinor.ca/waycool.html Reviews some popular images of librarians.

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."

Film Librarian - http://www.filmlibrarian.info/ Annotated list of films featuring libraries, librarians and the book arts compiled by Steven J. Schmidt.

From Buns to Bytes - http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/sfsla/bulletin/mayjun99/buns.html Brief article on the changing image of librarians.

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.

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.

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.

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 and Tigers - http://ftrain.com/librarians_tigers.html Story by Paul Ford about the portrayal of librarians.

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.

Librarians in Comics - http://www.ibiblio.org/librariesfaq/comstrp/comstrp.htm List of sources compiled by Steven M. Bergson.

Librarians in Pornography - http://www.riverofdata.com/librariana/porn/ Dan Lester's text bibliography of racy books featuring 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.

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]

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]

Libraries in Science Fiction - http://www.ku.edu/~sfcenter/library.htm Essay exploring the role of libraries in science fiction.

Library Cartoons - http://pw1.netcom.com/~dplourde/cartoons/index.html An annotated bibliography of cartoons dealing with aspects of librarianship.

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]

Movie Librarians - http://home.earthlink.net/~movielibrarians/ Annotated listing of notable libraries and librarians in films.

Progressive and Radical Librarians - http://marylaine.com/exlibris/xlib77.html Short interview with anarchist librarian Jessamyn West.

Recataloging Librarians - http://www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/libr500/02-03-wt1/www/A_Ogden/index.htm Online term paper on librarian stereotypes.

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.

Sex in the Stacks - http://www.chiprowe.com/articles/library.html Bibliography of pornographic literature featuring librarians by Candi Strecker.

Shhh! This is a Library! - http://www.blisspix.net/library/songs.html Lists of songs about libraries and librarians.

Stereotypes of Librarians - http://home.earthlink.net/~cyberresearcher/stereotypes.htm Discussion questions about the "bun lady" and related images.

The Anti-Stereotype Stereotype - http://www.blisspix.net/library/image.html A young librarian's commentary on the recent wave of 'cool librarians' articles.

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.

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.

The Naked Librarian - http://www.jessamyn.com/naked Features pictures and links to female librarians who are not entirely clothed.

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]

Why are Librarians So Sexy? - http://www4.ncsu.edu/~n51ls801/librarians.html Professor David Austin explains quotes from various sources.

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.

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.

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