Libraries and librarians in fiction

Books and comics

• In Hiro Arikawa's Japanese light novel series Toshokan Sensō , the Japanese government enacts a sweeping censorship law, which spawns a decades-long conflict with forces seeking to protect libraries.
• Jorge Luis Borges' short story, "The Library of Babel", depicts a universe consisting of a library of hexagonal rooms.
• In Ray Bradbury's science fiction novel, Fahrenheit 451, books are outlawed and some rebels fight back by memorizing works, making themselves living libraries.
• Jen Swann Downey's The Ninja Librarian book series, which begins with The Ninja Librarians: The Accidental Keyhand, follows a sword-wielding girl who apprentices herself to a secret society of warrior librarians whose job it is to protect writers from getting in trouble for the viewpoints and ideas they publish.
• Umberto Eco's first novel, The Name of the Rose, is a murder mystery revolving around the existence of a book in the library of a Benedictine monastery.
• Stephen King's novella, The Library Policeman, is synopsized at King's official website as follows: "When a man forgets to return some books he borrowed from the library while writing a speech, and later accidentally destroys them, the phantom librarian who lent him the books sends the library policemen to terrorize him".
• In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, The Librarian of the Unseen University is a recurring character that first appears in 1983.
• Brandon Sanderson's young adult comic novel Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians is the first in a series about a young teen with an unusual skill, who finds himself battling against a cult of evil librarians who secretly rule the world.

  Films

• Desk Set stars Katharine Hepburn as the head of a reference library; she and her staff are seemingly threatened with replacement by an early computer invented by Spencer Tracy's character
• Doctor Strange features the Kamar-Taj library, which houses ancient books about powerful magical lore.
• Fahrenheit 451, an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's book
• Harry Potter films :
• *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, notably featured Hogwarts Library
• * Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, features Hogwarts Library
• * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, features Hogwarts Library
• * Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, featured Hogwarts Library
• The Breakfast Club, five high school students serve a Saturday detention in the school's library
• The Day After Tomorrow, a group of people takes shelter from sudden freezing cold in the New York Public Library, burning books to keep warm
• Shadow Man, starring Steven Seagal, closes with a shootout at a central library
• The Librarian films :
• *', a young man is hired as a librarian, which job entails protecting the historical, and often magical, contents of a secret section of the library
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• ', Gandalf travels to Gondor to research in Lord Denethor's Library the Ring in Bilbo's possession
• The Name of the Rose, an adaptation of Umberto Eco's novel
• The Time Machine, a film adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel, features a holographic artificial intelligence librarian at the New York Public Library in the year 2030 and afterwards

  Games

• Touhou Project, also known as Project Shrine Maiden, is a series of Japanese bullet hell shooter video games developed by the single-person Team Shanghai Alice that features at least two libraries: a private library inside the Scarlet Devil Mansion, owned by Pautcholi Knowledge, and a book store set inside the Human village of Gensokyou, Suzunaan, which sells books with an option of borrowing them for a small fee.

  Television

• The Buffy the Vampire Slayer character, librarian Rupert Giles, serves as Buffy Summers' mentor and surrogate father figure; beneath the school library lies a secret gateway to the demon realms
• In the Doctor Who episode "Silence in the Library", Donna Noble and Tenth Doctor visit a planet which is a 51st-century book repository simply called "The Library"
• In the Doctor Who episode "The Eleventh Hour", the TARDIS swimming pool is said to be in the library
• In the Doctor Who episode "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS", Clara visits the TARDIS library
• In Game of Thrones, several libraries figure prominently: in Oldtown at The Citadel, maintained by maesters; in King's Landing at the Red Keep, maintained by septons; at Winterfell, maintained by House Stark's maestre; and at the Wall at Castle Black, maintained by Maester Aemon Targaryen of the Night's Watch; additionally, Shireen Baratheon uses books from her collection at Dragonstone to teach the imprisoned Davos Seaworth to read
• The Inspector Morse episode "Twilight of the Gods", featured the Bodleian Library
• In Last of the Summer Wine, a Yorkshire local library was a regular feature on this longest-running comedy programme in Britain, especially in the show's early years, and again in the show's final years
• In Person of Interest seasons 1 through 3, the enigmatic billionaire Harold Finch operates secretly from within an abandoned library.
• In the episode "All Our Yesterdays |All Our Yesterdays", Captain Kirk, McCoy, and Spock are transported back in time by the sole remaining inhabitant of a doomed planet: the librarian Mr. Atoz
• In the Stranger Things, in the third episode of both seasons 1 and 2, the librarian of the Hawkins Public Library helps characters research information
• The Librarians is a continuation of The Librarian film series
• In The Twilight Zone episode "The Obsolete Man", a totalitarian state, having banned books, sentences a librarian to death for the crime of being obsolete