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Novels
- Asimov, Isaac. Foundation trilogy. The characters worked on the "Encyclopedia," intended to preserve all knowledge when civilization would inevitably fall.
- Carr, Josephine. The Dewey Decimal System of Love.
- Fforde, Jasper. The Eyre Affair. New York: Viking Penguin, 2001. The first in a series featuring Thursday Next, whose world intersects literature with reality.
- Heinlein, Robert A. Time Enough For Love and later works. The recurring character Justin Foote (actually he's Justin Foote the 45th) is an archivist.
- Kurzweil, Allen. The Grand Complication. New York: Hyperion, 2001.
- Miller, Keith. The Book of Flying. New York: Riverhead Books, 2004. Pico, the librarian protagonist, goes on a journey to find a pair of wings in order to win the girl he loves.
- Millet, Lydia. Oh pure and radiant heart. New York: Soft Skull Press, 2005. A librarian and her husband host a quest by J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard, after they are transported to the year 2003; they are horrified at the results of their atomic invention, and seek to redress the wrongs.
- Murakami, Haruki. Kafka on the Shore. "Joining the rich literature of runaways, Kafka On The Shore follows the solitary, self-disciplined schoolboy Kafka Tamura as he hops a bus from Tokyo to the randomly chosen town of Takamatsu, reminding himself at each step that he has to be "the world¹s toughest fifteen-year-old." He finds a secluded private library in which to spend his days--continuing his impressive self-education--and is befriended by a clerk and the mysteriously remote head librarian, Miss Saeki, whom he fantasizes may be his long-lost mother. Meanwhile, in a second, wilder narrative spiral, an elderly Tokyo man named Nakata veers from his calm routine by murdering a stranger. An unforgettable character, beautifully delineated by Murakami, Nakata can speak with cats but cannot read or write, nor explain the forces drawing him toward Takamatsu and the other characters."
- Nix, Garth. Lirael. (2001). New York: Harper Collins.
- Piper, H. Beam. Four Day Planet. (1961). New York: Putnam. While not about the library in particular, there is a unique discussion of the role of the library in the educational process.
- Pratchett, Terry. The Colour of Magic (1983). New York: St. Martin's Press. In this and other volumes in the Discworld series, the Librarian of the Unseen University is a recurring character.
- Scott, Melissa. Mighty Good Road, Night sky mine, others. A look at a future society with information technology on the cutting edge and information as a commodity.
- Truman, Margaret. Murder at the Library of Congress.
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Short Stories
- Lerner, Fred. "Rosetta Stone" (Artemis, Winter 2000; reprinted in Year's Best SF #5). Described by anthologist David G. Hartwell as "the only SF story I know in which the science is library science."
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Media
- Day after tomorrow (2004). People take refuge in the library (New York Public?), and after an argument about burning books by Nietzsche, a boy states "Yeah, we got a whole section on tax laws down here we can burn." P.S. - the Gutenberg bible is always TWO volumes.
- Desk Set. 1957, with Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. She is the newspaper librarian, and he is trying to replace her with a computer.
- GhostbustersI, part 1, the opening sequence in the New York Public Library.
- The Librarian. Noah Wylie.
- Logan's Run (1976). The runners get to the surface and find the ruins of the Library of Congress, where they meet a mad Peter Ustinov, who explains to them what a library is, and what books are.
- Mr. Atoz, All Our Yesterdays. Star Trek: the original series.
- The Mummy (1999). Rachel Weisz's disaster in the Museum's library, and her charming "I'm PROUD to be ... a librarian!"
- Time Enough At Last. Twilight Zone, starring Burgess Meredith (whose character is not a librarian, but should have been one instead of a bookkeeper)
- League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Both M and Dorian Gray were encountered in their libraries.
- National Treasure. The main character has to break into the National Archives.
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Comics
- Unshelved A daily comic strip set in the Mallville Public Library. One of the creators of the strip works in a public library. The Sunday "book talk" strip frequently features a fantasy or science fiction title.
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Libraries of the Past
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Libraries of the Future
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Books About Books About Libraries and Librarians
- Burns, Grant. Librarians in Fiction: A Critical Bibliography. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. 1998.
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Websites
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Other Resources
- Library of Congress. catalog.loc.gov (no www) provides simple or complex searching, including fictitious characters! authorities.loc.gov lists authors' names, and their pseudonyms.
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