Books about librarians
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FROM: "Franz, Patty" <pfranz@pamunkeylibrary.org>
REC'D: 2/12/01, 8:53 AM
I think I am hallucinating... I thought that someone had done a list
of books with librarians as characters. I wanted to use that list for our
staff newsletter, but can't find it in the Fiction_L booklists. Does anyone
else remember this and can you give me a hint where to look in the archives?
Thanks, Patty
Patty Franz
Supervising Librarian
Pamunkey Regional Library
P. O. Box 119
Hanover, VA 23069
pfranz@pamunkeylibrary.org
FROM: Vicki Biehl <vbiehl@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/12/01, 9:25 AM
http://www.gslis.mcgill.ca/marginal/mar7-3/Librarians%20As%20Characters%20In%20Fiction.htm
http://librarysupportstaff.com/libbooks.html#For young
adults and
Also, the following is from
http://ucs.orst.edu/~kristicl/myspage.htm
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Librarians as Detectives
Jordan Poteet
The Mirabeau, TX, librarian created by Jeff
Abbott. First met in Do Unto Others, he is a wonderful
character set in a wonderful small town. Excellent
writing.
Helma Zukas
A reference librarian at the Bellehaven, WA,
library created by Jo Dereske. The first Miss Zukas
book is Miss Zukas and the Library Murders; she may
appear to be the classic stereotypical librarian, but
she has hidden depths.
Edward George
A retired librarian created by Charles Goodrum,
Edward George spends a lot of time at the Werner-Bok
library in Washington, DC. The first book in the
series is Dewey Decimated; my favorite is Carnage of
the Realm.
For other librarian mysteries and mysteries with
library settings, check out
http://www.bibliomysteries.com/
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Hope this helps.
Vicki Biehl
Pearl River Public Library
Pearl River, NY 10965
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FROM: Bsbgc@aol.com
REC'D: 2/12/01, 11:21 AM
<<
I think I am hallucinating... I thought that someone had done a list
of books with librarians as characters. I wanted to use that list for our
staff newsletter, but can't find it in the Fiction_L booklists. Does anyone
else remember this and can you give me a hint where to look in the archives?
Thanks, Patty
Patty Franz
Supervising Librarian
Pamunkey Regional Library
P. O. Box 119
Hanover, VA 23069
>>
I don't know if the final list was posted, but within the year 2000, there
was at least one thread on this topic, perhaps more. I think the best thing
to do is to go to the Fiction_L archives and use the search term "Librarians
in Fiction." That will lead you to the various postings on the topic. I
know many people contributed suggestions.
Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian
FROM: Dennis Lien <Dennis.K.Lien-1@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 2/12/01, 11:39 AM
I don't know if a list was ever compiled, but the question has come up
two or three times on Stumpers as well as on Fiction-L. There are a
number of suggestions in this area in the Stumpers Archives; here's
what I said once or twice before when the question arose:
Stumpers Archives can be searched via hotlink from--
http://www.cuis.edu/~stumpers/
'gopher_root:[searchidx]stumpers-l_1997-11.txt;30'.
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 14:40:22 -0600
From: "Dennis K. Lien" <Dennis.K.Lien-1@tc.umn.edu>
To: djlander@hit.net, STUMPERS-L@crf.cuis.edu
Subj: % fiction about librarians
At 06:16 PM 11/20/97 -0600, Parsons Public Library wrote:
>I have a patron who would like a list of fiction books that the story line
>is about a librarian. Thank you in advance.
> Debbie
This question has been through Stumpers a couple of times before, and a
quick check of the Archives reveals about fifty relevant postings (and a
number of not-so) under "Librarians in fiction" or "Librarians in
literature." There was even some vague thought about someone trying
to gather all the suggestions together into a publishable article or
website, but I don't think that ever happened.
Anyway, if you search the Archives under keywords librarians fiction
most of the relevant results should be obvious from their headers.
There are also references to libraries/librarians in movies etc.
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien@tc.umn.edu
a.k.a. Master Dennileen, the librarian in Kara Dalkey's THE SWORD OF
SAGAMORE (Ace Books, 1989)
***************************
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien@tc.umn.edu
FROM: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <RBEERBOWER@mail.open.org>
REC'D: 2/12/01, 3:58 PM
Robin Beerbower
Salem (OR) Public Library
rbeerbower@open.org
<<< "Franz, Patty" <pfranz@pamunkeylibrary.org> 2/12 6:48a >>>
Folks -
I think I am hallucinating... I thought that someone had done a list
of books with librarians as characters. I wanted to use that list for our
staff newsletter, but can't find it in the Fiction_L booklists. Does anyone
else remember this and can you give me a hint where to look in the archives?
Thanks, Patty
Patty Franz
Supervising Librarian
Pamunkey Regional Library
P. O. Box 119
Hanover, VA 23069
pfranz@pamunkeylibrary.org
FROM: "Kelly Benson" <kdbenson@htls.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/13/01, 2:44 PM
Hope this helps a little!
Kelly Benson
Adult Services Librarian
Three Rivers Public Library District
Channahon, Illinois
FROM: "ROBIN BEERBOWER" <RBEERBOWER@mail.open.org>
REC'D: 2/13/01, 3:38 PM
HIGH LONESOME ROAD by Betsy Thornton
This is a new murder mystery about a bookmobile librarian in the Bisbee, AZ area whose body is found "riddled with bullets." I just got it and can't wait to read it as I was a Bookmobile librarian for 15 years. :-)
Robin Beerbower
Salem (OR) Public Library
rbeerbower@open.org
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