Monty Python's Flying Circus. Conan the Librarian appears in the comedy showMonty Python in a 1970s sketch featuring Michael Palin as a film director who specialises in non-violent films, such as Conan the Librarian and others.
You Can't Do That on Television . Conan the Librarian was featured on the comedy show You Can't Do That on Television in the 1982 episode "Heroes."
Reading Rainbow. Conan the Librarian appears in a sketch on a 1986 episode of the children's television seriesReading Rainbow. Unlike the UHF Conan, Conan the Librarian is helpful and shows someone how to get a library card. This character was later the subject of a proposed television pilot.
Radio
The Frantics. The Canadian comedy troupe The Frantics featured Conan the Librarian in the lead sketch of Frantic Times show #51, "Roman Numerals", broadcast on CBC Radio'sVariety Tonight programme in February, 1983. Conan was portrayed as a fierce warrior "roaming the wastelands between fiction and non-fiction", who slaughters a client for having a book overdue.
Comics
Conan the LibrarianThe first printed appearance of Conan the Librarian may have been in 1982 in Venue Magazine, at Glassboro State College. Art by Mark Drossman, story by Bob Minadeo. It was reprinted in the Henry Holt & Company collection of college humor from the '70s and early '80s, '.
Mother Goose and Grimm '. Probably the next printed Conan the Librarian appearance is in a 1987 Mother Goose and Grimm'' comic. Ham the pig, returning a book to the "Overdue Books" section, gazes apprehensively across the desk at a scowling and muscle-bound librarian, in typical Conan the Barbarian dress, but identified as "Conan the Librarian" by the placard on the desk.
Film
UHF. Conan the Librarian also appears in a brief segment of the 1989 "Weird Al" Yankovic film UHF. Portrayed by Roger Callard, the exaggeratedly muscular character speaks in Austrian-accented English patterned after Arnold Schwarzenegger's portrayal of Conan. He chastises a library patron for not knowing the Dewey Decimal System, and slices a patron in two for returning a book overdue.
Fan fiction
Hadley V. Baxendale. In 1987, William Mitchell College of Law library staff created the character Conan the Librarian for a talent show performance and subsequently wrote The Adventures of Conan the Librarian. This was followed by The Return of Conan the Librarian and Conan the Librarian on the Information Highway. The author of these stories is the fictitious "Hadley V. Baxendale". This Conan is an ordinary librarian who lives in the mythical "Information Age".
Software
Conan The Librarian, the OpenVMS HELP tool. Mark Daniel wrote a script known as Conan the Librarian that makes OpenVMS Help and Text libraries accessible in the hypertext environment. It also provides a keyword search facility, both from a search dialog on relevant pages, and using a URL query string.
Variations
Colin the Librarian. A variation of the character called "Colin the Librarian" was created by Rich Parsons and Tony Keaveny for their novel Colin the Librarian: The Chronicles of Ancient Threa - Volume 3 or Maybe Volume 4. A different Colin the Librarian later appeared in the juvenile novel Colin the Librarian by Merv Lambert.
Dr. Conan T Barbarian . In higher academia rather than librarianship. Full name: Dr. Conan T Barbarian, BA PhD.. FTCD. In 2011 a faculty profile for Dr. Conan T Barbarian appeared on the Trinity College Dublin School of English website. In his academic history it was said that his PhD was entitled 'To Hear The Lamentation of Their Women: Constructions of Masculinity in Contemporary Zamoran Literature' and that he had earned his position by 'successfully decapitating his predecessor during a bloody battle which will long be remembered in legend and song' in 2006. The entry was removed by the College administration on September 14, 2011, after a day of being viewable on the website.
