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* Creator/HarryTurtledove’s "Literature/TrantorFalls": The people from the University, especially Dean Sarns, try their best to subtly intimidate Gilmer by their vast stores of knowledge and promises to train his military in repairing and operating the technological marvels they've got. When Gilmer returns to his Imperial palace with a peace treaty between equals, his consort, Billye, complains that he must have been enspelled by the "wizards".
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* ''LightNovel/ReZero'' has Beatrice, a mysterious being of unknown power that was contracted to look after the Roswaal Manor’s enormous library.
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* [[CoolOldLady Mrs. Clara]] in WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTheWayne doesn't have magic powers but has ninja training and manages [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything The Stanza]] with the help of [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial squidgits]] and holds many secrets about [[BuildingOfAdventure The Wayne.]]

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* [[CoolOldLady Mrs. Clara]] in WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTheWayne doesn't have magic powers but has ninja training and manages [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything The Stanza]] with the help of [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial squidgits]] squidjits]] and holds many secrets about [[BuildingOfAdventure The Wayne.]]
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* [[CoolOldLady Mrs. Clara]] in WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTheWayne doesn't have magic powers but has ninja training and manages The Stanza with the help of [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial squidgits]] which is [[BiggerOnTheInside enormous]] and holds many secrets about [[BuildingOfAdventure The Wayne.]]

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* [[CoolOldLady Mrs. Clara]] in WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTheWayne doesn't have magic powers but has ninja training and manages [[GreatBigLibraryOfEverything The Stanza Stanza]] with the help of [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial squidgits]] which is [[BiggerOnTheInside enormous]] and holds many secrets about [[BuildingOfAdventure The Wayne.]]
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* [[CoolOldLady Mrs. Clara]] in WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTheWayne is a ninja that manages The Stanza with the help of [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial squidgits]] which is [[BiggerOnTheInside enormous]] and holds many secrets about [[BuildingOfAdventure The Wayne]]

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* [[CoolOldLady Mrs. Clara]] in WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTheWayne is a doesn't have magic powers but has ninja that training and manages The Stanza with the help of [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial squidgits]] which is [[BiggerOnTheInside enormous]] and holds many secrets about [[BuildingOfAdventure The Wayne]] Wayne.]]
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* [[CoolOldLady Mrs. Clara]] in WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTheWayne is a ninja that manages The Stanza with the help of [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial squidgits]] which is [[BiggerInTheInside enormous]] and holds many secrets about [[BuildingOfAdventure The Wayne]]

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* [[CoolOldLady Mrs. Clara]] in WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTheWayne is a ninja that manages The Stanza with the help of [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial squidgits]] which is [[BiggerInTheInside [[BiggerOnTheInside enormous]] and holds many secrets about [[BuildingOfAdventure The Wayne]]
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* [[CoolOldLady Mrs. Clara]] in WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTheWayne is a ninja that manages The Stanza with the help of [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial squidgitds]] which is [[BiggerInTheInside enormous]] and holds many secrets about [[BuildingOfAdventure The Wayne]]

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* [[CoolOldLady Mrs. Clara]] in WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTheWayne is a ninja that manages The Stanza with the help of [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial squidgitds]] squidgits]] which is [[BiggerInTheInside enormous]] and holds many secrets about [[BuildingOfAdventure The Wayne]]
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* [[CoolOldLady Mrs. Clara]] in WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTheWayne is a ninja that manages The Stanza which is [[BiggerInTheInside enormous]] and holds many secrets about [[BuildingOfAdventure The Wayne]]

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* [[CoolOldLady Mrs. Clara]] in WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTheWayne is a ninja that manages The Stanza with the help of [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial squidgitds]] which is is [[BiggerInTheInside enormous]] and holds many secrets about [[BuildingOfAdventure The Wayne]]
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* [[CoolOldLady Mrs. Clara]] in WesternAnimation/WelcomeToTheWayne is a ninja that manages The Stanza which is [[BiggerInTheInside enormous]] and holds many secrets about [[BuildingOfAdventure The Wayne]]
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* ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'': Professor Lexicovermus, the literal bookworm, is a DimensionalTraveler who manifests in extremely unlikely places across the setting's [[TheMultiverse Multiverse]] and can even deliver library material across the fourth wall. Said library material could be anything from a GhostMemory to a book that WasOnceAMan.
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* The librarian of the magic school in ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' is magical, just like the rest of the cast. The first librarian we see is a disgruntled troll that keeps burning books.

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* The librarian of the magic school in ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' is magical, just like the rest of the cast. The first librarian we see is a disgruntled troll that keeps burning books.
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* Balberith from ''ComicBook/Hellraiser'' was originally a normal human librarian and mother who, after trying and failing to find a cure for her son's illness, wound up in the possession of a [[ArtifactOfDoom Lament Configuration]] given to her by an Agent of Leviathan. When she solved the box, she opened a portal to Hell where she was taken and [[BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil turned into a cenobite]], her final human moment seeing that her son had been cured with the knowledge that she will never see him again. She now acts as the librarian to Hell's library, many of the more learned damned souls that end up in Hell transformed into books that catalogue Leviathan's history and grand plan.
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* Twilight Sparkle in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is both a powerful unicorn magician ''and'' a bibliophile who gets just as much joy out of organizing books as most ponies would get out of reading them. Her first home in Ponyfille actually ''is'' the local library, and her castle has an even bigger one. In Canterlot, her home was a tower full of books.

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* Twilight Sparkle in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is both a powerful unicorn magician ''and'' a bibliophile who gets just as much joy out of organizing books as most ponies would get out of reading them. Her first home in Ponyfille Ponyville actually ''is'' the local library, and her castle has an even bigger one. In Canterlot, her home was a tower full of books.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode "The Pixie and the Prickle Pirate", a ScaryLibrarian curses Eustace and Muriel when they don't return a book on time, causing them to gradually transform into the characters from said book until Courage can not only return it to her, but pay the massive late fee.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode "The Pixie and "Wrath of the Prickle Pirate", Librarian", a ScaryLibrarian curses Eustace and Muriel when they don't return a book ("The Pixie and the Prickle Pirate") on time, causing them to gradually transform into the characters from said book until Courage can not only return it to her, but pay the massive late fee.

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* Yuuno Scrya of the ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' franchise. Mage scholar, [[{{Animorphism}} ferret changeling]], and head librarian of the Infinite Library [[ImprobableAge at the age of 15]], partly thanks to his mastery of spells that let him [[SuperSpeedReading scan through several books at once]].

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Yuuno Scrya of the ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' franchise. Scrya. Mage scholar, [[{{Animorphism}} ferret changeling]], and head librarian of the Infinite Library [[ImprobableAge at the age of 15]], partly thanks to his mastery of spells that let him [[SuperSpeedReading scan through several books at once]].once]].
** [[CloneJesus Vivio Takamachi]] is also a librarian at the Infinite Library, though her true passion lies in what is basically MagicalGirl MMA.
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* Twilight Sparkle in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is both a powerful unicorn magician ''and'' a bibliophile who gets just as much joy out of organizing books as most ponies would get out of reading them.

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* Twilight Sparkle in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is both a powerful unicorn magician ''and'' a bibliophile who gets just as much joy out of organizing books as most ponies would get out of reading them. Her first home in Ponyfille actually ''is'' the local library, and her castle has an even bigger one. In Canterlot, her home was a tower full of books.
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* Wong, keeper of the library at Kamar Taj in ''Film/DoctorStrange''.

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* Wong, keeper of the library at Kamar Taj in ''Film/DoctorStrange''.''Film/DoctorStrange2016''.
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* The MagicalLibrary of ''Ashurbanipal'' in ''[[LightNovel/Overlord2012 Overlord]]'' is staffed by a team of [[OurLichesAreDifferent skeleton mages, elder liches and overlords]].
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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', Space Marine Librarians are responsible for their chapter's archives, and are also powerful psykers.

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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', Space Marine Librarians are responsible for their chapter's archives, the interstellar psychic communications the Chapter needs, and are also powerful psykers.psykers. The [[VideoGame/DawnOfWar Blood Ravens]] have a large amount of Librarians, more than the average Chapter, which has lead fans to speculate that the Blood Ravens have a connection to the Thousand Sons, the Chaos Marines of Magnus the Red and may be loyalist Thousand Sons themselves who avoided the Rubric of Ahriman (a spell that turned their non-Psyker brothers to dust sealed within their armor).
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* The Librarian of the Unseen University in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series. He's a wizard, and the library is attached to a wizards' university, but he also commands magics that come from the mere fact of it being a library (most notably the secret of L-Space, which connects every library that ever existed). He was also transformed into an orangutan, and decided to stay that way - some books would drive any man insane to read... but an ''orangutan'' merely suffers a headache from.

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* The Librarian of the Unseen University in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series. He's a wizard, and the library is attached to a wizards' university, but he also commands magics that come from the mere fact of it being a library (most notably the secret of L-Space, which connects every library that ever existed). He was also transformed into an orangutan, and decided to stay that way - some books would drive any man insane to read... but an ''orangutan'' will merely suffers suffer a headache from.headache.



* The Evil Librarians are the main villians of the ''Literature/AlcatrazSeries'', and secretly rule the world as we know it.

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* The Librarian of the [[Film/TheLibrarian eponymous TV film series]] and related spinoff series [[Series/TheLibrarians2014 The Librarians]]. Recruited from the most intelligent and knowledgeable persons on Earth, it's his or her job to protect and maintain the repository of the world's magical artifacts and retrieve others to add to the collection. Fighting the forces of evil along the way is a side-line.

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* The Librarian of the [[Film/TheLibrarian eponymous TV film series]] and related spinoff series [[Series/TheLibrarians2014 ''[[Series/TheLibrarians2014 The Librarians]].Librarians]]''. Recruited from the most intelligent and knowledgeable persons on Earth, it's his or her job to protect and maintain the repository of the world's magical artifacts and retrieve others to add to the collection. Fighting the forces of evil along the way is a side-line.
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** Also worth noting are the keepers of the Black Library, a hidden Eldar stronghold in the Webway said to contain all of their knowledge.
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* Wong, keeper of the library at Kamar Taj in ''Film/DoctorStrange''.
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* The Librarian of the Unseen University in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series. He's a wizard, and the library is attached to a wizards' university, but he also commands magics that come from the mere fact of it being a library (most notably the secret of L-Space, which connects every library that ever existed). He was also transformed into an orangutan, and decided to stay that way.

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* The Librarian of the Unseen University in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series. He's a wizard, and the library is attached to a wizards' university, but he also commands magics that come from the mere fact of it being a library (most notably the secret of L-Space, which connects every library that ever existed). He was also transformed into an orangutan, and decided to stay that way.way - some books would drive any man insane to read... but an ''orangutan'' merely suffers a headache from.
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* Our page quote: in ''Literature/ThursdayNext'', [[Literature/AliceInWonderland the Cheshire Cat]] manages the Great Library, a magical place that contains all books that have been or will be written, and claims to know everything there is to know about them, including how many times they've been read, how many of them ''are being read'' at any given time, and by whom.

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* Our page quote: in In ''Literature/ThursdayNext'', [[Literature/AliceInWonderland the Cheshire Cat]] manages the Great Library, a magical place that contains all books that have been or will be written, and claims to know everything there is to know about them, including how many times they've been read, how many of them ''are being read'' at any given time, and by whom.
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* The Librarians of TheWanderersLibrary. There are variety of librarians, [[http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/the-librarians seen here]], ranging from spider-like beings in charge of reshelving books to [[HumanoidAbomination silent monstrosities]] who guide patrons. Some are implied to be human, some are implied to have [[WasOnceAMan been human]] but are being punished for breaking Library rules.

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* The Librarians of TheWanderersLibrary.''Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary''. There are variety of librarians, [[http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/the-librarians seen here]], ranging from spider-like beings in charge of reshelving books to [[HumanoidAbomination silent monstrosities]] who guide patrons. Some are implied to be human, some are implied to have [[WasOnceAMan been human]] but are being punished for breaking Library rules.

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* Patchouli Knowledge of ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' is the Scarlet Devil Mansion's resident witch, and the de facto librarian of the place. She's constantly seen with a book in her hand when fighting, to top things off. Oh, and her debut stage theme is called "Voile, the Magic Library."
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* Patchouli Knowledge of ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' is the Scarlet Devil Mansion's resident witch, and the de facto librarian of the place. She's constantly seen with a book in her hand when fighting, to top things off. Oh, and her debut stage theme is called "Voile, the Magic Library."
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* The "Strange Powers" update of ''VideoGame/DontStarve'' gives Wickerbottom the Librarian access to FunctionalMagic through her book collection.
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* The Bibliomancer class in ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'' is a magician who uses his personal library as a power source. The more books he has and the rarer they are, the more powerful he becomes.
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* In the sequels to ''Literature/TheMagicians'', [[spoiler:Penny]] becomes the Head Librarian of an interdimensional library, allowing him access to magics far beyond the reach of the other characters. [[spoiler:It does nothing to temper his arrogant personality.]]
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* In ''Literature/TheZombieKnight'', the [[MagicalLibrary Library of Erudition maintains a mystically bound Keeper of the Library who controls access to it. The current Keeper is [[TheDragon Gohvis]], who got the position after he resisted the Library's attempts to [[YourSoulIsMine absorb him]] and [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt killed the previous Keeper]] for trying to restrict his reading. ScaryLibrarian indeed.

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* In ''Literature/TheZombieKnight'', the [[MagicalLibrary Library of Erudition Erudition]] maintains a mystically bound Keeper of the Library who controls access to it. The current Keeper is [[TheDragon Gohvis]], who got the position after he resisted the Library's attempts to [[YourSoulIsMine absorb him]] and [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt killed the previous Keeper]] for trying to restrict his reading. ScaryLibrarian indeed.
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* In ''Literature/TheZombieKnight'', the Library of Erudition maintains a mystically bound Keeper of the Library who controls access to it. The current Keeper is [[TheDragon Gohvis]], who got the position after he resisted the Library's attempts to [[YourSoulIsMine absorb him]] and [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt killed the previous Keeper]] for trying to restrict his reading. ScaryLibrarian indeed.

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* In ''Literature/TheZombieKnight'', the [[MagicalLibrary Library of Erudition maintains a mystically bound Keeper of the Library who controls access to it. The current Keeper is [[TheDragon Gohvis]], who got the position after he resisted the Library's attempts to [[YourSoulIsMine absorb him]] and [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt killed the previous Keeper]] for trying to restrict his reading. ScaryLibrarian indeed.

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