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Sites discussing the status, image, and portrayal of librarians.

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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.

• 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]

• 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."

• 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.

• Librarians and Tigers

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

• Librarians As Characters In Fiction

  http://sis-webspace.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 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.

• Stereotypes of Librarians

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

• 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://www.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.

• 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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