Captions for Photographs of Male Librarians Note: sometimes there will be more than one photo of the same person. I purposely included them because the photos are different or different sizes, etc

1. Even in this Andre Martins art piece, the librarian is shown with glasses and as studious and bookish. http://www.wordfashionista.com/2007/04/andr-martins-de-barros-artwork.html

2. Apollonius of Rhodes was a librarian at the Library of Alexandria. http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorion/sysol-cometes.htm

3. Aristophanes of Byzantium moved to Alexandria and studied under Zenodotus and Callimachus. He succeeded Eratosthenes as head librarian of the Library at the age of sixty. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-Aristophanes.html

4. Librarian Rupert Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Excerpts from articles discuss this character). http://www.tk421.net/essays/nwyt.pdf

5. In an Orwellian future, a librarian (played by Burgess Meredith) fills the title role of “The Obsolete Man” (1961) in an episode from The Twilight Zone. Rumney Wordsworth is a librarian who has been deemed obsolete (since there are no books there is no need for librarians). He is an older man with gray hair who wears a cardigan vest. He is nervous but strong minded, standing up to the State in the face of death. According to him his profession stands for freedom, intellect, and dignity. He has lived in the same room for twenty years and it is stacked high with books on furniture he made. http://www.tk421.net/essays/nwyt.pdf

6. Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold typifies the stereotype of male librarian as a failure, a cog in the wheel. http://www.skymovies.com/skymovies/article/0,,-11176272,00.html

7. Richard Burton in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold typifies the stereotype of male librarian as a failure, a cog in the wheel.

8. Callimachus originally from Cyrene, North Africa was a Greek poet and scholar. He migrated to Alexandria, where King Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt gave him employment as the chief librarian at the Library. He is also considered to be the founder of Library Science.

9. Orlando Jones as Vox, the holographic reference source of all human knowledge in The Time Machine. Portrayed as an Information Provider (see Snoek-Brown’s Male Librarian Character Types in article excerpts). http://www.allmoviephoto.com/photo/2002_The_Time_Machine_photo.html

10. Typical conservative stereotype of male librarian.

11. Cartoon that discusses male librarians.

12. Male librarian depicted as clumsy, unmanly, and even stupid.

13. Ordinary, almost invisible male librarian.

14. Typical stereotype of glasses-wearing male librarian.

15. Graphic depicts a grouchy, grim, and forbidding male librarian stereotype.

16. Cartoon of monk librarians/scribes.

17. Sketch of a male librarian caricature that has glasses and wears conservative, even out-dated clothing.

18. Demetrius of Phaleron assisted Ptolemy in establishing and organizing the Library at Alexandria. Some scholars also view him as the first chief librarian for the library. http://ils.unc.edu/dpr/path/alexandria/biography.htm

19. A Dewey cartoon that has Dewey discussing the reality of being a male working in a feminine profession. http://www.tk421.net/essays/nwyt.pdf

20. Eratosthenes of Cyrene, Stoic geographer and mathematician, succeeded Apollonius of Rhodes as chief librarian of Alexandria in 235. http://www.livius.org/ei-er/eratosthenes/eratosthenes.html

21. Eratosthenes of Cyrene. http://www.mathsisgoodforyou.com/people/eratosthenes.htm

22. A dusty looking librarian guides Gandalf through ancient scrolls, to a most important discovery. Photograph is from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001). http://www.tk421.net/essays/nwyt.pdf

23. Giacomo Casanova is most famous for his romantic escapades and is sometimes called the world's greatest lover. He spent the last thirteen years of his life as the Count of Waldstein’s librarian in the Count’s Château at Dux. Atypical librarian because he was so handsome, not introverted, and was not seen as boring and bookish. http://www.librarising.com/astrology/celebs/giacomocasanova.html

24. Giacomo Casanova. http://venenolundico.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html

25. A librarian stamping books in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. He is seen as a typically conservative librarian, who is meek and shy. http://www.tk421.net/essays/nwyt.pdf

26. Movie stereotype of a conservative librarian who wears glasses, a sweater vest, and a bow tie.

27. Librarian Mr. Koreander from The Neverending Tale movie is depicted as an information provider, helpful to children. His character displays the typical physical stereotyping of a male librarian: older, staid, glasses, and conservative outdated clothes.

28. On December 31, 1864, President Lincoln appointed Ainsworth Rand Spofford to be the sixth Librarian of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/loc/legacy/librs.html

29. A 1950s male librarian.

30. Librarian in art, with beard and glasses.

31. Typical bearded glasses-wearing librarian.

32. Caricature of geeky, polite, and proper service-oriented librarian.

33. Librarian wearing the typical sweater vest and glasses.

34. Librarian from the turn of the century.

35. Archetypical librarian.

36. Present day librarian.

37. Male librarian stereotype, depicted as an older, pale, dusty bibliophile.

38. Librarian with books.

39. Librarian in a library.

40. Present day librarian from New York Public Library.

41. Librarians, late 1800s.

42. Librarians from the Glasgow University Library, 1920s. http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/timeline/index.html

43. Volker Prechtel in The Name of the Rose plays an anti-social librarian (see Snoek-Brown’s Male Librarian Character Types in article excerpts). http://www.thelin.net/laurent/cinema/films/tt0091605.html

44. Library of Alexandria.

45. Tom Hanks in Joe Versus the Volcano. He plays a special librarian who exhibits mostly positive characteristics, but also gave a negative impression. He is not shown carrying out professional librarian duties, and neither he nor his library are seen as useful by others in the film. Joe’s company, his work environment, and his boss are terrible and project a negative impression of working in general. The opening credits even proclaim that Joe has a terrible job.

46. A Roman library.

47. Library of Alexandria.

77. Jorge the librarian in Eco's The Name of the Rose. For his villain, Eco has borrowed the image of the librarian as priest of the book, merging it with the Borgesian image of the librarian as an uncompromising book-keeper fighting a rear-guard action against a new age.