the loveliest librarian

Title: Not One of Us
Creator: Defilippis, Nunzio
Creator: Weir, Christina
Relation: New Mutants
Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Date: 2003-11
Identifier: v. 2, n. 5
Type: Still image
Type: Text

Title: Patsy Walker
Creator: Hartley, Al
Creator: Lee, Stan
Publisher: Bard Publishing
Date: 1960
Type: Still image
Type: Text

Title: Untitled
Creator: Sonya Naumann
Relation: Thousand Dollar Dress
Date: 2006
Type: Still image

Title: Anthropologie Mail-order Catalog
Publisher: Anthropologie
Date: 2005
Type: Image

Title: Chatham Square Branch, children lined up at librarian’s desk, April 11, 1910; “The Night Library”
Creator: Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940
Relation: Lewis Hine Lantern Slides of NYPL Branches
Date: 1910
Type: Still image

Title: LibrarianDressup.com
Creator: Normal Bob Smith Design
Publisher: LibrarianPlanet.com
Date: 2007
Type: Still image

Tonight we are going down, under the ground… to Office 99, a small, neat cubicle, airless and white, at the end of a corridor in the third subbasement of the Empire City Public Library. Here, at a desk that lies deeper in the earth than even the subway tracks, sits young Miss Judy Dark, Under-Assistant Cataloguer of Decommissioned Volumes. The nameplate on her desk so identifies her. She is a thin, pale thing, in a plain gray suit, and life is clearly passing her by. Twice a week a man with skin the color of boiled newspaper comes by her office to cart away the books that she has officially pronounced dead. Every ten minutes or so her walls are shaken by the thunder of the uptown local racing overhead.

On this particular autumn night, only the prospect of another solitary evening lies before her. She will fry her chop and read herself to sleep, no doubt with a tale of wizardry and romance. Then, in dreams that strike even her as trite, Miss Dark will go adventuring in chain mail and silk. Tomorrow morning she will wake up alone, and do it all again.

Poor Judy Dark! Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big black eyeglasses! [The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel by Michael Chabon, p. 267]

Title: Old Flame
Creator: McCarthy, Kevin
Creator: Brereton, Dan
Creator: Konot, Sean
Relation: Michael Chabon Presents the Amazing Adventurs of the Escapist. Vol. 1
Publisher: Dark Horse Books
Date: 2004
Type: Still image

Title: The Librarian
Creator: Reiss, Winold, 1886-1953
Relation: Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro
Publisher: Survey Associates
Date: 1925
Type: Still image

Title: Librarian Hell
Creator: Savage, Doug
Publisher: savagechickens.com
Date: 2007
Type: Still image
Type: Text

On to something, Sherman tried other characters in other roles: the chic starlet in her lakeside hideaway (#7), the luscious librarian (#13), the domesticated sex kitten (#14), the hot-blooded woman of the people (#35), the ice-cold sophisticate (#50), and others. [museum web site]

Title: Untitled Film Still #13
Creator: Sherman, Cindy
Relation: Untitled Film Stills. Collection The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Date: 1978
Type: Still image

Title: Librarians Can’t Read
Creator: Drew
Publisher: toothpastefordinner.com
Date: 2007-05-09
Type: Still image
Type: Text

In my everyday identity, I’m the head librarian of Gotham City Public Library! Everybody thinks of me as a “plain Jane” — a colorless female brain…

Title: The True-False Face of Batman!
Creator: Fox, Gardner F. (Gardner Francis), 1911-1986
Creator: Infantino, Carmine
Creator: Greene, Sid
Relation: Showcase Presents Batgirl
Publisher: DC Comics, Inc.
Date Issued: 2007
Date Copyrighted: 1967
Type: Still image
Type: Text

This collection of prints capture the contemplative experience of the library. Jillian has created an edition of quiet moments from an area known for its wealth of knowledge. The colourful and linear development found within each piece traces a female figure on her tour through the library.

Title: Out of Circulation - One
Creator: Ditner, Jillian
Publisher: Keep Calm Gallery
Date: 2007
Relation: Dealer’s description: http://www.keep-calm.com/artists/jillian/ooc-one
Type: Still image

“This is one of my favorites,” said Mrs. Chinca in a muffled voice.

“Oh, I have that one at home!” Carlo said excitedly.

Carlo was beginning to think that Mrs. Chinca wasn’t so scary after all. She was being such a good and helpful librarian. [p. 13-14]

Title: Carlo and the Really Nice Librarian
Creator: Spanyol, Jessica
Publisher: Candlewick
Date: 2004
Type: Text
Type: Still image

Andy had many good times at the library.

Sometimes the children were invited to look at a movie.

Sometimes the librarian gave a puppet show.

Andy thought of the librarian as his good friend.

She was always willing to answer questions.

She showed him where to look up things for his homework.

She helped him find books about his hobbies. [p. 44-45]

Title: I Know a Librarian
Creator: Voight, Virginia
Creator: Petie, Haris
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Date: 1966
Type: Text
Type: Still image

Aside from a good education, librarians need many things to do their jobs well. First of all, they need to like books. Most librarians are people who love books. They enjoy library work because it gives them a chance to be near books all the time. Then a librarian has to be curious and interested in everything around him. The best librarians have a little extra feeling about how to go about finding information that nobody else can find.

A librarian also has to be neat in his work. He has to want to get things right. He cannot just shrug his shoulders if a name on a catalog card is misspelled or a typewritten date is wrong. One misspelled name might make it impossible for anyone to ever find that book in the library. [p. 52-53]

Title: Read About the Librarian
Creator: Flagsbrun, Francine
Creator: Nevins, Dan
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Date: 1970
Type: Text
Type: Still image

Miss Brown put a date on a card in each book.

“Bring the books back on this date,” she said. “Don’t be late. You must pay a fine for late books.”

“I will take good care of the books and bring them back on time,” said Jane.

“This is a wonderful book,” said Joe. “It tells me what I want to know about sailing. I want to be a good sailor. What do you want to be, Jane?”

“I want to be a good librarian, someday,” said Jane. “I will help people find good books.” [p. 17-18]

Title: I Want to Be a Librarian
Creator: Greene, Carla, 1916-
Creator: Eckart, Frances
Publisher: Childrens Press
Date: 1960
Type: Text
Type: Still image