Editing Librarian (section)

==Popular culture==
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[[Stereotype]]s of librarians in popular culture are frequently negative: librarians are portrayed as puritanical, punitive, unattractive, and timid if female, or timid, unattractive, and effeminate if male.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Librarian Stereotype: Deconstructing Perceptions and Presentations of Information Work |last1=Pagowsky |first1=Nicole |first2=Miriam |last2=Rigby |date=2014 |publisher=Association of College and Research Libraries Press |isbn=978-0-8389-8704-9 |location=Chicago |pages=1–37 |chapter=Contextualizing Ourselves: The Identity Politics of the Librarian Stereotype |hdl=1794/18775 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> These stereotypes have harmed librarians in the public eye.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hayes |first1=Jessica B. |last2=Parks |first2=Cecelia |last3=McNeilly |first3=Samantha |last4=Johnson |first4=Phill |title=Boomers to Millennials: Generational Stereotypes at Work in Academic Librarianship |journal=The Journal of Academic Librarianship |date=1 November 2018 |volume=44 |issue=6 |pages=845–853 |doi=10.1016/j.acalib.2018.09.011|s2cid=69633320 }}</ref>