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 a disproportionately female profession.

• "Batwoman"
• "The Mummy" feature film, 1999
• Giles in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (TV series)
• Alderman, Gill. The Archivist
• Ellison, Harlan. "Enter the Fanatic, Stage Center," in Gentleman Junkie (1961)
• Fletcher, Jane. 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)
• Ellen Klages, "In the House of the Seven Librarians" (Firebirds Rising anthology)
• Le Guin, Ursula K. The Telling (2000) (The whole thing is about libraries, really.)
• Ursula K. Le Guin. short story in Sea Road (not science fiction, but completists may want to read it just because it's by Le Guin)
• Joanna Russ' The Female Man (one of the protagonists is a librarian)
• Springer, Nancy. Fair Peril (librarian protagonist / gay black male librarian cohort)
• Sturgeon, Theodore. "If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?" (the Master Archivist, 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.)
• Ward, Cynthia. "Brass in Pocket" in New Amazons edited by Margaret Weis, 2000. (not a very nice librarian; in fact a librarian that is one of the stereotypical shy women without social skills)
• Wren, M. K. A Gift Upon the Sea (tale centers around a post-holocaust archivist of books and the threats posed by fundamentalist christians)
• Sean McMullen, Souls in the Great Machine

Further reading

• LibraryThing discussion thread on librarians in fiction