Why bother doing a  genealogy of refusal from Fiction and Science Fiction  and popular culture ? If we want to communicate about crisis narratives and constructed scarcity in libraries it helps if we have a common narrative history to refer to that exists "outside" the profession. 


This genealogy is launching point for understanding the librarian's role in crisis narratives in the workplace. It lets us connect the librarian's role not just to the characteristics accredited through the conference of an MLS or other degree or credential,  but also to other memorable characters in popular culture, and to labor and feminist work. Libraries and librarians don't exist apart from the culture we curate, we exist in ithat self-same imperfect culture. Bartleby lives on in and has been taken up by film makers, artists, literary theorist, and even RPGs.

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