Top 15 Librarians in Pop Culture!
“There are plenty of pop-culture librarians to choose from. Who did we miss? Who is your favorite?
| Librarian | Where You May Know Them From | Claim to Fame |
| Rupert Giles | Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Film, 1992, TV Series 1997-2003) | Battles the Vampiric forces of evil |
| The Librarian | Terry Pratchett’s Discworld (Novel Series, 1983-2015) | Interdimensional Orangutan Librarian and rock keyboardist |
| Barbara Gordon a.k.a Batgirl and Oracle | DC Comics (Comic Book, 1967-Present) | Fights crime alongside the caped crusader, Batman. |
| Evelyn Carnahan | The Mummy (Film, 1999) | As a librarian and egyptologist, Evelyn helps defeat the mummy, Imhotep |
| Madam Pince | Harry Potter (Novels, 1997-2007) | As a librarian and Egyptologist, Evelyn helps defeat the mummy, Imhotep |
| Tammy Swanson a.k.a. Tammy Two | Parks and Recreation (TV Series, 2000-15) | Ron Swanson’s evil ex-wife, sometimes referred to as a “punk ass book jockey” |
| Mary Hatch Bailey | It’s a Wonderful Life (Film, 1946) | Making librarianship look like a fate worse than death |
| Ghost Librarian | Ghostbusters (Film,1984) | Shushing patrons and kicking off a city-wide ghost epidemic in NYC |
| Atoz | Star Trek (TV Series,1966-69) | Saving the inhabitants of the planet Sarpeidon from destruction |
| Mike Hanlon | Stephen King’s IT (Novel, 1986) | Getting “The Losers’ Club” back together to battle Pennywise the clown |
| Mira Romaine | Star Trek (TV Series,1966-69) | Librarian aboard the USS Enterprise, transferring equipment to Memory Alpha, the Federation’s Central Library |
| Romney Wordsworth | The Twilight Zone (TV Series, 1959-64) | In the episode entitled “The Obsolete Man,” Romney Wordsworth, a librarian, is deemed obsolete and ordered to be executed by an authoritarian dictator. Coincidentally, Wordsworth is played by Burgess Meredith who also depicted the book-addicted Henry Bemis in the classic Twilight Zone episode, “Time Enough at Last.” |
| Alicia Hull | Storm Center (Film, 1956) | Played by Bette Davis, Hull gets shunned by her town for refusing to remove “objectionable” books from the library. |
| Stuart Goodson | The Public (Film, 2018) | Played by Emilio Estevez, Goodson takes a stand for homeless patrons of the Cincinnati Public Library. Ironically, Estevez is well-known for his role in The Breakfast Club where he is sent to the library for punishment. I guess he saw the light. |
| Marian Paroo | The Music Man (Musical,1957; Film 1962) | Seeing through the lies of a conman before falling for him. Whoopsy.” |
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