List of librarians in SF

SF fans and writers = bibliophiles; bibliophiles love librarians; and therefore librarians show up disproportionately in SF. Which is interesting because librarianship in real life is gendered profession, disproportionately female (and gay).

Female librarians

• "Batwoman"
• Evelyn Carnahan in "The Mummy" feature film, 1999
• Cimerone in The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede spends a lot of time working in the library and at one point holds the title Head Cook and Librarian.
• Jane Fletcher. The World Celaeno Chose (Dimsdale: London, 1999) - a librarian plays an important role (although by the time of the plot she is an ex-librarian)
• Lirael in Garth Nix's Old Kingdom Books.
• seven librarians in Ellen Klages' short story, "In the House of the Seven Librarians" (Firebirds Rising anthology)
• a protagonist in Joanna Russ's The Female Man
• librarian protagonist and gay black male librarian cohort, in Nancy Springer's Fair Peril .
• a stereotypical shy librarian without social skills in Cynthia Ward's short story, "Brass in Pocket" in New Amazons edited by Margaret Weis, 2000.

Male and other-gendered librarians

• Rupert Giles in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (TV series)
• the title character in Gill Alderman's The Archivist
• The gay black male librarian cohort in Nancy Springer's Fair Peril
• Flynn Carsen iin The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (fall 2004) and The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines (2006) (linked TV movies)
• Mr. Raven in George MacDonald's Lilith (1895) (the ghost of Mr. Raven, a librarian, haunts Mr. Vane's library)
• The Librarian of the Unseen University in the Discworld series who was turned into a orangutan early in the series and refuses to be changed back
• The Master Archivist in "If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?" by Theodore Sturgeon on an interestingly-described library-sort-of-planet, is the recipient of this tale which is otherwise not about librarians. The MA -- as an upper-echelon male -- has an attractive female secretary.)
• protagonist in "Paper Cuts Scissors" by Holly Black (in The Poison Eaters and Other Stories)

Unsorted

• Jorge Luis Borges. The Library of Babel.
• Keith Donohue. The Stolen Child
• Rosemary Edghill. The Sword of Maiden's Tears
• Harlan Ellison. "Enter the Fanatic, Stage Center," in Gentleman Junkie (1961)
• Ursula K. Le Guin
  • The Telling (2000) (The whole thing is about libraries, really.)
  • short story in Sea Road (not science fiction, but completists may want to read it just because it's by Le Guin)
• Laurie J. Marks. Librarians, generally offstage, play a crucial role in the Elemental Logic series, particularly in preserving the letter which Zanja na'Tarwein sends to Emil in Water Logic.
• Sean McMullen. Souls in the Great Machine
• Audrey Niffenegger. The Time Traveler's Wife
• Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Shadow of the Wind

Notable non-SFnal librarian works

• Desk Set (Katharine Hepburn's character)
• The Music Man (stage musical and film), featuring Marian, the librarian, who has a whole song devoted to the rhyme of her profession and her name
• Party Girl the movie and Party Girl the TV series

Further reading

• LibraryThing discussion thread on librarians in fiction
• The Librarian Hero (WisCon 30 panel)