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"Shhh! Didn't your mother and father teach you two to be quiet in the library?"

Booth: All right, what I want you to do is take off your glasses, shake out your hair, and say, "Mr. Booth, do you know what the penalty is for an overdue book?"
Brennan: Why?
Booth: ...Never mind.
Bones, "The Passenger in the Oven"

A very attractive but prim and prudish woman, who would be gorgeous if she would just take off the glasses (or not), let down her hair, and unbutton her top button. However, they tend to prefer more intellectual pursuits. Sometime during the course of the season, the character will be forced to do all of these things to solve some sort of problem involving a lecherous man, but will always manage to escape the situation without sex.

Naturally, there's a segment of people who find this the reason they're hot in the first place. Possibly there's also a hope that she's deeply familiar with stuff in the 155.3 or 613.9 sections of the Dewey Decimal Classification System.note 

Contrast Scary Librarian and Evil Librarians (though they can overlap), see also Beautiful All Along. Compare Magic Librarian, which is more likely to overlap. (Sometimes, all three may overlap.) Compare Teacher/Student Romance. Note that the character doesn't actually have to be employed as a librarian to fit this trope, as long as they fit the physical description (glasses, skirt, hair in a bun, etc.) and share the same character traits (nerdy, shy and sexy). Females usually include glasses (because librarians are supposed to be smart, and Smart People Wear Glasses). This is also common among school teachers, especially in Westerns and Historicals.

Please note that this applies to a character, not simply any hot actor playing a librarian, for the same reason Real Life examples are not listed here. Most actors are "hot" in the first place, so it usually goes unsaid. You can have an attractive librarian without their hotness being a plot element in the work - that would not fall under "Hot Librarian".

Compare Cute Bookworm for shy, sweet characters that like to read a lot.


Examples:

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    Advertising 
  • Even in the 1960s, cigarette companies were advertising in Playboy with hot librarians—reading topless, of course.
  • An eyeglass maker is showing a very attractive woman, who has selected the right glasses, who is going to now roleplay the part of the "naughty librarian." "You've had some very overdue books..."
    • Specifically as of 2012, Essilor Luxottica (Pearle Vision/Lenscrafters) has an ad out featuring Meredith Forlenza as a Hot Librarian-looking woman. A common shortened version has her staring at the camera, a knowing smile on her face, and purring "You've got a LOOOOOT of late fees, mister! Maybe someone should teach you to bring in your books on time!" Freeze frame occurs, pausing the video on the bespectacled woman smiling and a voiceover says "'The Naughty Librarian,' and other looks on sale at Lenscrafters!" A Pearle Vision ad extends the scene by continuing the monologue with "That'll be $75. What? You don't have $75? Well... what are we going to do about that?" She takes a pin out of her hair and shakes it out during the last line. Then comes a reveal that she is a customer shopping for new frames, she asks the sales reps what they think, and they both encourage her to buy the frames.

    Anime & Manga 
  • Negima! Magister Negi Magi has a rare male example in Albireo Imma. In-series, the girls comment on his attractiveness, and he lives under the huge Library Island surrounded by thousands of books.
  • CĂ©cilia Lacques from Claudine works as a librarian in the local all girls school and catches the attention of Claude due to her beauty and intelligence. Turns out, she was one of the lovers of Claude's father.

    Comic Books 
  • Alpha Flight: Jeanne-Marie Beaubier, secret identity/other personality of Aurora, dresses like a hot librarian, but she's a school teacher.
  • Batgirl: Barbara Gordon. Even as the wheelchair-bound computer hacker Oracle, she's drawn as hot with glasses, simply proving that Nerds Are Sexy. Bonus points for being an actual librarian back when she was Batgirl.
  • Cavewoman: When Meriem becomes a Hot Teacher in Cavewoman: Killing Dinos 101, she wears a sexy librarian outfit that she later strips off to reveal her Fur Bikini.
  • Dark Avengers: Victoria Hand.
  • Empowered: Empowered's "much-vaunted disguise, the legendary Librarian Sexy", drawn to the hilt.
    • She even lampshaded it when she first wore said outfit (as bait), wondering if anyone would be fooled by her "librarian-from-a-porn-movie" getup... seconds before being drugged, Bound and Gagged by the villain of the short.
      Capitan Rivet: Now, put the sexy librarian down.
    • When she gets home in that issue, she's trying to brag to Thug Boy about her mission, but his POV of her outfit keeps shoving her talk bubbles out of the frame. Eventually he just grabs her and carries her to the bedroom.
  • Fables: Hillary Page from the Spin-Off Jack Of Fables. She even wears a T-Shirt that says "Hot Librarian."
    • Arguably, the three Page sisters qualify under this. Jack seems to think so. At least until he discovers that they are actually his half-sisters.
  • Fantastic Four: Sue Richards dressed like one when she became a teacher for a while, with the addition of wearing a short skirt.
  • Gold Digger: Khan from the library of time is a male example.
  • Le Petit Spirou: Inverted, as the school librarian is a hideous old crone, hopelessly in love with the equally repulsive gym teacher Mr. MĂ©got. Somehow, the hunky shop teacher is insanely in love with her, but she refuses his advances.
    Shop Teacher: (begging on his knees) Aphrodite, looks aren't everything! Only the depths of my feelings count!
    Librarian: (not even looking at him as she spies on MĂ©got) Cease harassing me, you libidinous dandy! My heart is set on another!
  • In the French comic Les Profs (The Teachers), the old lady in charge of the library is replaced mid-way through the series by a much younger, nicer and more attractive woman, causing a lot more male students (and teachers) to be suddenly interested in visiting the library. Her main Berserk Button is other teachers not considering her job of "putting some books on shelves" to be a real one.
  • Wonder Woman Vol 1: Diana Prince is a well manicured, glasses wearing, prim, modest secretary whose unbuttoning is part of her transformation into the titular hero.

    Fan Works 
  • Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fits this trope as far as personality goes, although she's more "cute" than "hot/sexy." In fanart, however, it's very popular to go this route with her—especially when she's being portrayed as a human.
  • Horrible Turn, the fan-made prequel to Doctor Horrible, features one of these.
  • In Harry Potter and the Paradigm Shift Ron teasingly remarked that maybe Harry and Hermione could do "that Sexy Librarian fantasy" one of the guys at her new school wanted to perform with her.
  • In Past Lives one of Hermione's former lives was head of the Great Library of Alexandria. After Harry cast a spell (at her urging) which brought this personality to the fore, she transfigured her school uniform into a tight black leather outfit and conjured up a bullwhip.
  • The main antagonist Embry of Royal Heights whose described as an attractive albino woman with long eyelashes, pretty white hair, and green eyes. She's also has just the right set of abilities for it.
  • In where you are wanted, Laurel is forced to wear her glasses (as opposed to contacts), a slightly too small grey dress, and finally ties her hair into a messy bun. Dean just stares at her before finally saying she looks like a sexy librarian.
    Laurel: What?
    Dean: Yeah. With the hair and the glasses and the dress. (grins). It's really doing it for me, Laur. Hey, can you say “ If you don't pay your late fees, I'll have to punish you?”
    Laurel: No. (Dean chuckles, she walks up and kisses him). Your books are due back on Monday.

    Films — Animation 

    Films — Live-Action 
  • James Bond: Caroline Bliss's take on Miss Moneypenny in the Timothy Dalton films The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill evokes this.
  • Rachel Weisz's character from The Mummy (1999) actually is a librarian. And extremely hot. Apparently they discover contact lenses or laser surgery in the twenties, though, because she never puts the glasses back on after the first time she takes them off.note 
  • Mary Bailey from It's a Wonderful Life: If her husband, George, had never been born, she never would've married and would've become a librarian (but still hot though).
  • Carolina (Salma Hayek), in Desperado, although she, like the entire town, acts as a mule for the Big Bad's money; the library is just a front.
  • Lara in Doctor Zhivago spends some time as a librarian.
  • Best Film Noir example: the rare-books shop girl Marlowe encounters in The Big Sleep, who whips off her glasses, lets her hair down and closes up the shop suggestively (with Marlowe still in it) at the end of her scene. Oddly enough, this scene, and the one with the taxi driver offering Marlowe her number, don't happen in the book, where Marlowe's ability to control his sexual desires is a big part of his character. However, even in the book, Marlowe notes that the bookshop clerk is very good-looking for a Jewish girl, so the trope stands. Marlowe is very much in control in the movie as well; he's just luckier.
    • The bookstore scene was basically duplicated in a Burt Reynolds movie (probably Shamus), except we know they went all the way.
  • Carole Lombard in No Man of Her Own.
  • As mentioned in the Theatre section, The Music Man saw Marian this way.
    "I need you badly, badly, Madam Librarian...Marian"
  • Prom Wars: The bespectacled Jen L. is fairly pretty, but spends more time reading, studying and talking about college applications than she does pursuing girly things, especially compared to her roommates.
  • In Tomcats, Michael dated a librarian at one point. She's prim, proper, a bit shy, and lives with her Gramma. Oh, and they're both into S&M.
  • The Librarian from The Station Agent definitely quantifies as an HL. Finn's friends even draw attention to it, telling him to buy her glasses so they can play Hot Librarian.
  • In Orange County, Jack Black's character unleashes the inner beast within prim desk clerk Mona (played by Jane Adams). She tries to stop him from breaking into the building and he suggests they start a revolution together. Later they're shown lying down, possibly having slept together, getting high. She ends up being an accessory in burning down the building (metaphorical for her inner sexuality-fire-having been lit up)
  • Lucy Sherwood in The Man Who Never Was was this. Her roommate was an intell analyst who was a Lady of War.
  • Averted in That Touch of Mink. Roger (Gig Young) is dictating and stops in the middle to ask Miss Jones (Jan Burrell) to take off her glasses and shake her hair back. Miss Jones is very near sighted and looks around, nearly blind, with very squinty eyes looking even less attractive than with her glasses on.
  • Diane Kruger as Dr. Abigail Chase — a historical records agent who works at the National Archives — in National Treasure.

    Jokes 
  • A man walks into a library and asks the librarian whether he could take out some books. She says yes. He then asks if he could take her out. "Sir," she said, blushing, "We librarians are for reference only."

    Literature 
  • One of the ultimates is Elizabeth Peter's Jaqueline Kirby. She was a pre-Amelia Peabody Emerson, and though never as popular as that character ended up with probably six or seven excellent third-person mysteries to her name. She is, when she lets herself "unbutton" (i.e. takes off her glasses, lets down her hair, and...well, unbuttons her blouse) a gorgeous redhead who manages to turn men to a weak-kneed jelly and is a remarkably proficient sleuth.
  • Miss Christobel Charteris, the female lead from Florence Barclay's book Through the Postern Gate. Also The Ojou.
  • On the Discworld, Sacharissa Cripslock (introduced in The Truth) is a prim and severely-dressed young woman who impresses her new boss, newspaper editor William de Worde, as no more than average-looking. However, he eventually realizes that she is in fact stunningly beautiful if considered over several centuries — the equivalent of a Renaissance face, pre-Raphaelite eyes, Classical figure and, for some reason, "good medieval ears". And that is just her face; her body featured "a well crafted supply of other features that never go out of fashion at all", and for some reason she seemed to think that wearing extremely plain dresses would downplay this fact.
  • In the Wild Cards series, Jennifer Malloy, also known as the elite thief Wraith, almost qualifies. She's a very attractive blond, a librarian in the New York Public Library's rare books collection, dresses down and puts her hair up as a librarian (as Wraith she wears a black string bikini, a mask and ballet slippers)... but I don't think she wears glasses.
  • Played for Laughs with Miss Laburnum from Margaret Mahy's The Librarian and the Robbers.
  • Lirael, from the Old Kingdom books, may not wear glasses, and hides behind her hair rather than keeping it tied back, but it's implied that she's good looking at several points, and she is actually a librarian, specifically, a second assistant librarian in the great library of the Clayr, which is filled with all sorts of dangerous things, as well as books.
  • The Dresden Files book Dead Beat has Sheila, an assistant in a bookshop (close enough to a librarian,) who is first described as having a bun held in place by pencils, glasses, a quite well-filled sweater, "a heart-shaped face that was more attractive than beautiful" and a smudge of ink on her chin and hand, which sounds like a textbook case. The discovery that she is actually a form taken by the Fallen Angel Lasciel makes this an Invoked Trope, probably taken directly from Pop-Cultured Badass Harry's familiarity with it.
  • Lilja of Dance of the Butterfly works at the library of a prestigious university. She also takes great care of herself through regular, vigorous exercise. There are several passages that describe her beauty and allure.

    Live-Action TV 
  • Jill Taylor in Home Improvement. In one episode, she and her husband debate whether she can succeed in a job interview without being good-looking. She puts her hair up in a bun and goes for the "librarian look" and Tim admits that he's more attracted to her than ever.
  • Subverted with Kitty on Arrested Development: after GOB tells her to take off her glasses and let her hair down, he shrieks at her ugliness/crosseyedness and requests she undoes them. Later, he tries various combinations of these, to no avail. Of course, all efforts to make her look ugly aside, Judy Greer, who plays Kitty, is actually very attractive.
  • An episode, "Page Turner" of CSI: NY featured a fairly attractive librarian. She was, however, "hot" for another reason - she'd been murdered with radioactive Thallium 201.
  • In the first episode of Dollhouse, Eliza Dushku puts her hair up, wears severe clothes and glasses, and looks completely different. Still hot, but completely different. (She's actually a negotiator, not a librarian.)
    • Also Bennett although with a side of Ax-Crazy. It's even lampshaded by Topher.
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
    • Wesley has the prim, stuck up, sexually awkward look down to a T.
    • And Giles, the actual librarian. Also a case of Silver Fox.
    • Fred from Angel. She was an actual librarian, too.
  • Joanna Frankel, one of the Power Trio on Eastwick, has a habit of looking up from under her ridiculously hot glasses.
  • On Episodes when the writer of the show-within-a-show 'Pucks' complains that the librarian's skirt is too short for an all-boys school, it's explained to her that the character is a TV librarian, so she has to look sexy.
  • In the Seinfeld episode "The Library", Kramer hooks up with a fetching librarian: "...she needs a little tenderness. She needs a little understanding. She needs a little ''Kramer''."
  • In the 1972 ABC TV movie Second Chance, the 1960s sex symbol Juliet Prowse played teacher Martha Foster, who didn't exactly look like the prim and proper frontier teacher heroine Geoff Smith (played by tough guy actor Brian Keith) was expecting to find.
  • Liz Lemon is called this by the 25-year-old coffee boy on 30 Rock.
  • Tara Carlisle, the attorney of one of the Leverage team's clients, is obviously not a librarian, but she still sort of fits this trope (enough that on meeting her in person for the first time, Hardison calls her "one sexy librarian"). Or at least, she would fit the trope, if she were a real person, rather than a part played by a grifter auditioning for the team. She passed.
    • A more straight example is Maggie, Nate's ex-wife. She is an art expert, which is how she and Nate met.
  • Kelso on That '70s Show ended up impregnating a beautiful librarian, played by Shannon Elizabeth.
  • Lilith Sternin on Cheers and Frasier. She's actually The Shrink, but fits this trope by appearance and personality.
  • Glee:
    • In the "Britney/Brittany" episode, Britney Spears adopts this look when she's playing the teacher in the Rachel's dream sequence (to the song "Baby One More Time" of course). Rachel, for her part, adopts the Catholic School Girls Rule outfit for the song, in imitation of Britney in the original video.
    • In a later episode, an It's a Wonderful Plot dream sequence where New Directions never formed, Rachel was working as a library page after graduation, and her appearance elicited this reaction from certain fans.
  • On a Community Valentine's Day episode, Troy and Abed both fall for a sexy librarian. Being good friends, they agree to let her decide between the two of them at the holiday dance.
    Troy: Why does being a librarian make her even hotter?
    Abed: They're keepers of knowledge. She holds the answers to all our questions, like 'Will you marry me?' and 'Why are there still libraries?'
    Troy: I wanna be a book. She could pick me up...flip through my pages...make sure no one drew wieners in me...
  • On Parks and Recreation, Tammy II, Ron Swanson's second ex-wife — played by Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman's real-life wife) — is one of these, combined with Scary Librarian. Also a sex fiend. Who turns Ron into one when she gets together with him. This is a major reason the Parks Department hates the Library.
  • Noah Wyle's character in the three The Librarian TV movies.
    • It remains to be seen whether this will turn up in The Librarians 2014. The three Librarians In Training, Jake, Cassandra, and Ezekiel, seem to be just plain good looking, without any real librarian aesthetics (except maybe Cassandra.)
  • In Rizzoli & Isles, the team need to get hold of some jeans from a long ago homicide to exonerate the man jailed for it. When denied access to them by a bureaucratic officer, Jane Rizzoli (who is supposed to be on medical leave) borrows some of Maura's clothes and turns up at the department dressed like this, complete with hair in a bun, glasses on a chain and highly open blouse. Maura thinks she looks like a Sexy Stewardess and tells her to lose the scarf... She then proceeds to retrieve the jeans off-screen by charming the officer; in the squad room, she says that the officer has a calendar of hot women in glasses and last month's was the librarian, before letting her hair down and chewing on the glasses. At home later, her mother thinks she looks like a flight attendant too.
  • Kristen Kringle from Gotham ticks all of the boxes: glasses, skirt, hair in a bun, shy, a passion for order... As a bonus, she actually works in the GCPD archives.
  • On My Name Is Earl, an older librarian discusses this trope, then says, "I wish that were me."
  • Maudette from the Psych episode Dual Spires, certainly in the eyes of the much younger Randy Jackson.
  • Midsomer Murders: Sarah Sharp, the village librarian in "The Silent Land". She deliberately dresses to invoke this trope because she knows the effect it has on one particular man who is obsessed with her.
  • Saturday Night Live parodies the trope in this sketch, with Margot Robbie as the librarian.
  • Supernatural, After seeing Atropos (Fate) Sam describes her as "like a librarian"
    Dean: Your kind of librarian or my kind of librarian?
    Sam: Well she was wearing clothes if that's what you mean.
  • The mild-mannered librarian Barbara Gordon from Batman (1966), better known as Batgirl, complete with glasses and a stylish pixie cut. As Batgirl, she puts on a long red wig (which ultimately became her actual hairstyle when she became a Canon Immigrant).
  • The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: Back in June 2007, Craig had an ongoing bit where he asked U.S. mayors and state governors to declare him an "honorary citizen" of their town or state. On June 22, he aired a pre-recorded video response from Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (this was before she was famous), who granted Craig's request while enthusiastically promoting everything her state had to offer. Craig's first thought?
    Craig: Is it just me, or do you get a kind of naughty librarian vibe from the Governor?
  • Discussed in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, in which Detective Jake Peralta seems to have a bit of a fetish for librarians and school teachers. Although it's played with, as this quote while watching his girlfriend (who is not a librarian, but is a Cute Bookworm) shushing and bossing around a group of people suggests:
    Charles: Wow, she is great at shushing.
    Jake: I know, she's like a librarian.
    Rosa: You mean, like a sexy librarian?
    Jake: [Overjoyed] No. A regular one.
  • Marienne in You (2018) and a gender-inverted example in Joe.

    Music 
  • Lisa Loeb has the look.
  • As did Judy Dyble. In fact, when she left popular music, she actually became a librarian!
  • The music video for the Tears for Fears single "Head over Heels" features a librarian played by Canadian model Joan Densmore, and she's the Love Interest of Roland Orzabal's character.
  • The journalist in the music video for Adam Ant's "Goody Two Shoes." Complete with the glasses-off, hair-down, top-button bit at the end.
    • In fact, Adam Ant seems to do this rather a lot. While not strictly this trope, "Strip" music video has a very prim, proper woman in glasses shown throughout the clip, until the end, when she flips out, kicks over a table and, you guessed it, takes off the glasses and starts to strip
  • The Beatles' "Lovely Rita" has the characteristics of a hot librarian.
  • My Morning Jacket has a song off of Evil Urges called "Librarian", which includes the lyrics "Simple little bookworm,/Buried underneath/Is the sexiest librarian./Take off those glasses and let down your hair for me." It's a really good song, too.
  • The music video for Ludacris' "Splash Waterfalls" features one, getting turned on Ludacris through webcam.
  • The woman in Toto's "Africa" video.
  • Helena Bonham Carter in Rufus Wainwright's Out of the Game music video.
  • Bret from Blue Stahli has jokingly claimed this is his fashion style.
  • Ray Manzarek from The Doors seems to give off those vibes

    Myths & Religion 
  • The modern Hot Librarian is anticipated in spirit by Athena from Classical Mythology: virgin, warrior, goddess of wisdom, protector of civilization. Also, quite hot, and desired — but never actually achieved -— by any man, god, titan, or other being. Older Than Feudalism.

    Pro Wrestling 
  • The wrestling librarian Paige Turner fits the "prim and prudish" parts. Instead of leotards and singlets, her ring gear resemble collard shirts or sweaters, she will wrestle in glasses and though known for being amicable, she will silence you with her Dewey Decimator when pushed.
  • Leva Bates wrestles in All Elite Wrestling as one of two performers sharing the character of "The Librarian" (the other being male wrestler Peter Avalon), a gimmick the bookers created in response to a comment by Dave Meltzer that the one gimmick that would never get in wrestling was a librarian, which they took as a challenge. She normally dresses in a pencil skirt and tight blouse or business jacket, although she swaps the skirt for shorts and loses the jacket when she's wrestling (where she always loses).

    Tabletop Games 
  • In Exalted:
    • The iconic Twilight Caste Solar, Arianna, was a librarian (well, maid working at a library) who exalted while reading poetry (actually a cipher from the First Age). Technically only average in appearance, but tell that to the artists.
    • The iconic Casteless Lunar, Madame Vert, who plays the part of a grieving widow taking care of her dear departed husband's library for his friends during the day... And seducing the local prince under the light of the full moon, in her beastman (beastwoman?) form no less.
    • The Elder No Moon Lunar, Raksi, has taken the ruins of Sperimin, the greatest centre of learning in the First Age, and renamed them Mahalanka - the City of Ten Thousand Golden Delights. While she is actually some fifteen hundred years old, she also hasn't aged a day since she was 16.
    • There's also Cynis Megara, an Air Aspect Terrestrial who feels like an outcast (note; not Outcaste) due to her scholarly inclination and talent for Sorcery - as opposed to the rest of her family, being decadent nobles to the core.
In Series/Episodes there is a Hot Librarian in an all-boys prep school. One episode involves discussing how short a librarian's skirt should be, where it's pointed out that it's okay because she's a TV hot librarian.

    Theater 
  • The archetypal (and possibly first) Hot Librarian was Marian Paroo from the play and film The Music Man, who was literally the town librarian.
    • What can I do my dear/ to make it clear/ I love you madly, madly madame librarian, Marian!

    Video Games 
  • The title character of the game Bayonetta, to the point that people joke about her resemblance to Sarah Palin.
  • The Professor from Contact reacts to Terry's apparent crush on Nadia by saying she has a sort of "Evil Librarian" vibe to her.
  • Echocalypse: Katch, the person placed in charge of the Forbidden City's Library, wears a dress featuring a short skirt that bares her arms and the underside of her massive breasts. She is one of the many Kemono Girls the protagonist can date.
  • Quistis Trepe of Final Fantasy VIII certainly applies for the hot part, if not the librarian. She became a teacher at the age of 18 because she was a prodigy, though she did get fired after a year for not having "good leadership skills" (Seifer was one of her students, and look how that turned out). Even that gets reversed by the end, so it's all good.
  • Grace Nakanmura from Gabriel Knight the Adventure Game/Horror series fits this to a T. Especially in the first one.
  • Lisa of Genshin Impact is definitely the original Fanservice character of the game. Both her outfits accentuate her bust (one of the biggest in a game name for its waifus), and her birthday is none other than 6/9. Her Japanese climbing voice is also notorious for what it sounds like. She is also a Scary Librarian.
  • Harvest Moon:
    • Mary from Harvest Moon 64 and Harvest Moon: Back to Nature is the local lbrarian and is marriageable. She is a Cute Bookworm with glasses who also writes books in her spare time. Aside from the protagonist, Harris and Gray find her attractive and can marry her.
    • Maria from Harvest Moon: Magical Melody is also a "cute librarian". Her original role in the first game was that she used to hang around the local church, however as Magical Melody lacks a church for plot related reasons she was mixed with Mary (who is her granddaughter). Like Mary, she isn' designed particularly sexy but is still an attractive woman and a bachelorette option.
  • Yuuko from Katawa Shoujo is one of these when she's not working at the cafĂ©.
  • Victorian Principles, from Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail!, a literal librarian example. One of Larry's goals, which he eventually achieves all too well, is to unleash her inner sex maniac, which he accomplishes by swapping one of her books with The Erotic Adventures of Hercules.
  • The Matrix: Path of Neo has an unnamed hot librarian potiental. She has the glasses, wears a tight, brown skirt-suit and has her hair up in a bun.
  • Becca from Melody has a job at the local library.
  • TeeTee in Monster Rancher 4, Ms. Fanservice when you meet her, ends up working for a scholarly type of guy at one point and tries to pull off this trope by adding the librarian with the clothes and letting her own looks supply the "hot".
  • Jolene from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. On the job, she wears average business attire and glasses, but in the local juice shop, she sports a cocktail dress and loses the glasses. She doesn't actually say her name, just the fact that you already know her rather well.
  • This is one of the two most common interpretations of Koakuma from Touhou Project, as an orderly and shy aide of Patchouli. The other interpretation is less prude. Either version is dressed properly, though.
    • Patchouli herself is often depicted as attractive in the fanart, too. Whether this is intentional or not is anyone's guess is anyone's guess due to ZUN's signature art.

    Webcomics 
  • When Nina tells Ed that librarian was her first career choice in Between Failures, he envisioned her like this.
  • Dubious Company's Tiren has this look in the highschool arc. Hilariously, all the artist did was put her in a suit instead of her ninja garb.
  • Clarice of Girls with Slingshots fame wants to be a librarian, but for now is settling as a porn shop clerk and part-time dominatrix. She eventually became a part-time dominatrix/librarian, and even later gave up the dominatrix work because she was attracting stalkers in the library.
  • One of the antagonists of Goodwill Heroes is named The Sexy Librarian, just in case the subtlety of her ensemble was lost on you.
  • In Groovy, Kinda, Anya Langerak appears to be a shy, somewhat overweight Cute Bookworm. As the story unfolds, we find out that this Children's Librarian is the former love slave to Eleanor, and has a deep submissive streak. She also sports some world-class cleavage when hosting a dinner for Larry and Edison.
  • Holiday Wars: Misses Cooper, Administrative Assistants Day, fits perfectly into those role and even has the Tina Fey/Sarah Palin glasses to match, she first appears in this strip.
  • Marlene of Jet Dream, especially in her Character Focus story from My Jet Dream Romance.
  • In PvP, Miranda dresses up in "sexy librarian" mode. Informed that they're going to an all-female book club, she figures that with ten women around her chances are still pretty good.
  • In Rhapsodies Bookstore owner Kate tries to make sure no one find out how good she looks with her hair down and wearing anything besides her usual thriftstore ensemble.
  • Shortpacked!: Eccentric rich inventor Joe Rosenthal has an entire COLLECTION of 'em!
  • Sinfest:
  • Ruby of Sticky Dilly Buns is a job-hunting recent graduate and a nerdy Ingenue/Broken Bird with a Sour Prude attitude (although she mellows a little as time goes on). Her look heads toward Hollywood Homely, complete with Nerd Glasses, although when first seen she's wearing a highly inappropriate short skirt (due to someone misleading her for their own gratification). However, she can't hide the fact that she's slim and graceful, and soon starts having difficulty keeping the lid on her libido.
  • Phix in Wapsi Square is the curator of the Bibliothiki, a library in some nearby dimension that apparently houses every book ever written. Oh, and she's not only a hot babe but also a sphinx. Recently she was seen in (very tall) human form dating Monica's boss at the museum.

    Web Original 
  • Marina Orlova, a.k.a. Hot for Words, built herself on this trope. A beautiful young Russian philologist, she publishes weekly YouTube videos defining and exploring the etymologies of requested words and phrases... all the while reminding her viewers that intelligence is really sexy.
  • This blog post, written by an actual librarian, analyzes this trope and describes an incident when a man tried to invoke the trope in Real Life.
  • Tom in The Cartoon Show. While the other characters are decked up in loud clothes, he's in tight jeans and flattering shirt, works in the library, and he's also the most self-aware along with a healthy dose of uptightness and repression.
  • In Simple Complications #60 Ricardo is hitting on one, which is the reason he's in the library.

    Western Animation 
  • The Simpsons:
    • There is an episode in which Marge and Lisa go to see the movie Tango de la Muerte, in which an aspiring champion dancer rejects all other partners to prefer a librarian "who's only read books on dancing". The dancer then takes her in his arms and spins her around a couple of times, prompting her glasses to fall off, her hair to come undone, and the top button of her blouse to pop off, precisely in that order.
    • Lisa has a crush on an older boy who works in the library, even though he's a jerkass.
  • Professor Bertinelli, the secret identity of the Huntress, in Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
  • King of the Hill gives us this jewel:
    Peggy: And just who are the most attractive people in Arlen? Librarians when they take their glasses off!
  • Referenced in an episode of Pinky and the Brain, where Pinky wears glasses that give him a "saucy librarian look" and mentions taking them off and letting down their hair.
    Brain: Pinky, don't act like an idiot 'til after you're elected.
  • Morgan Proctor from Futurama is the bureaucratic equivalent to this trope.

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