Recasting the debate: The sign of the library in popular culture

Libraries and the Cultural Record

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 530-546

  Tancheva, Kornelia ^a  

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EID: 60949791472     PISSN: 19324855     EISSN: 19329555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lac.2005.0079     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. See William H. King, "The Celluloid Librarian: The Portrayal of Librarians in Motion Pictures," master's thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1990;
2. and Judy Firebaugh, "From Old Maids to Young Professionals: Depiction of the Image of Librarians in the Twentieth Century," master's thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996.
3. and Daniel Liesman, "Looking Back to the Future: Turn of the Last Century Librarians Look Ahead to the Twentieth Century," 25-46);
4. and Elaine Yontz, "Librarians in Children's Literature," 85-96);
5. and Joy Fagan, "Students' Perceptions of Academic Librarians," 131-48);
6. and Julie Still, "The Role and Image of the Library and Librarians in Discipline-Specific Pedagogical Journals," Journal of Academic Librarianship 24, no. 3 (May 1998): 225-31.
7. The most frequent objects of critical interest include Sinclair Lewis's Main Street and its idealistic librarian (Emily C. White, "Carol Kennicot of Main Street: Utopian Reformer or Trained Librarian?" Collection Management 25, no. 4 [2001] : 25-36);
8. Evelyn Kerslake and Ann O'Brien, "Storm Center: A Discursive Approach to Constructions of Library Workers," Library Management 20, no. 8 (1999): 439-46;
9. and Arlene Rodda Quaratiello, "Greatly Exaggerated Death of the Library," College and Research Libraries News (October 1997): 625-26.
10. and John Cullen, "Rupert Giles, the Professional Image-Slayer," American Libraries 31, no. 5 [May 2000]: 42).
11. See van Answegen on the novels of Barbara Pym, for instance: Elizabeth S. van Aswegen, "'Thankless Tasks': Academics and Librarians in the Novels of Barbara Pym," South African Journal of Library and Information Science 66, no. 1 (1998): 34-39.
12. Vladimir F. Werstman, The Librarian's Companion: A Handbook of Thousands of Fact's and Figures on Libraries/Librarians/Books/ Newspapers/Publishers/ Booksellers (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1987), to short features.
13. These again can vary from full-length studies such as Grant Burns, Librarians in Fiction: A Critical Bibliography (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., 1998)
14. The expert in this field is, of course, Martin Raish. His works include Martin H. Raish, "Librarians in the Movies: An Annotated Filmography," Urban Library Journal 10, nos. 1/2 (Fall 1997/Winter 1998): 28-54,
15. and "Librarians in the Movies," Library Mosaics 9, no. 4 (1998): 12-15.
16. See also Ann O'Brien and Martin Raish, "The Image of the Librarian in Commercial. Motion Pictures: An Annotated Filmography," Collection Management 17, no. 3 (1993): 61-84;
17. and Shelley Wood Burgett, "Libraries and Librarians in Film: An Annotated Filmography," Kentucky Libraries 64, no. 1 (2000): 3-9,
18. as well as "Back to the Library: Libraries and Librarians in Film: The Sequel, an Annotated Filmography," Kentucky Libraries 65, no. 4 (2001): 23-27.
19. It is impossible to enumerate all or even most of the works here. For a representative sample see Marion Warburton, "Library Workers: Can We Escape 'Marian the Librarian'?" Feliciter 46, no. 4 (2000): 207-13;
20. and Marie L. Radford and Gary P. Radford, "Power, Knowledge, and Fear: Feminism, Foucault, and the Stereotype of the Female Librarian," Library Quarterly 67 (1997): 250-66.
21. Curiously, Rupert Giles appears on both sides of the stereotype debate (Decandido, "Bibliographic Good vs. Evil"; Cullen, "Rupert Giles").
22. For instance, Alison Hall, "Batgirl Was a Librarian," Canadian Library Journal 49, no. 5 (1992): 345-47;
23. Marilyn Souders, "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Librarian: Surprising Images among the Notable," American Libraries 22 (June 1992): 576-78;
24. Alexander and Huggins, "A Celebration";
25. and DeCandido, "Bibliographic Good vs. Evil."
26. See also Linda Wallace, who argues that negative images are not perpetuated by the media but are the result of negative childhood experiences of the authors ("The Image-and What You Can Do About It in the Year of the Librarian," American Libraries 20 [January 1989]: 22-25).
27. See Antony Brewerton, "There Be Dragons-and They Are in Brown Cars," Library Association Record 94 (1992): 514;
28. Norman D. Stevens, "Our Image in the 1980s," Library Trends 36 (1988): 825-51;
29. and Dickinson, "Looking at the Male Librarian Stereotype."
30. Rosalee McReynolds, "A Heritage Dismissed," Library Journal 110 (1985): 25-31, 30.
31. Gary P. Radford and Marie L. Radford, "Libraries, Librarians, and the Discourse of Fear," Library Quarterly 71, no. 3 (2001): 299-329, 308.
32. Gary P. Radford and Marie L. Radford, "Librarians and Party Girls: Cultural Studies and the Meaning of the Librarian," Library Quarterly 73, no. 1 (2003): 54-69, 58.
33. Charles S. Peirce, Collected Papers, vol. 2 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960-66).
34. William B. Edgar, "Toward a Theory of Collection Development: An Activities and Attributes Approach," Library Collections, Acquisitions & Technical Services 27 (2003): 393-423.