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Image of Librarians

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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.
 
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