Angel at my Table.
Janet Frame, New Zealand's most famous novelist and poet, is awe-struck by her first visit to a library as a child. (1991)
Billy Elliot.
A young ballet aspirant visits a bookmobile and steals an adult book he's not allowed to check out. (2000)
Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Audrey Hepburn is impressed to learn that George Peppard's book is in the New York Public Library. (1961)
The Breakfast Club.
The Brat Pack spends Saturday detention in a high school library. (1985)
City Slickers II.
Treasure hunters make too much noise in the library while searching through old newspapers on microfilm. (1994)
Desk Set.
Research librarian Katherine Hepburn vs. computer genius Spencer Tracy. (1957)
Good News.
June Allyson works in her college library. (1947)
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag.
Librarian falsely admits to a murder. (1992)
Hear My Song.
An Irish entertainment promoter needs sheet music fast, so rushes to the library. (1991)
It's a Wonderful Life.
Donna Reed would have been a librarian had Jimmy Stewart never been born. (1946)
Men of Honor.
Cuba Gooding Jr. woos the library assistant while she helps him pass his naval exams. (2000)
Mercury Rising.
An FBI agent uses the library to track down a suspect's email address. (1998)
The Mummy.
The librarian and Egyptologist heroine helps stop a mummy who's returned to seek vengeance. (1999)
The Music Man.
Shirley Jones as "Marian the Librarian" at work. (1962)
Pleasantville.
Revealing the plots missing from the blank library books helps bring color to the town. (1998)
Scent of a Woman.
A prep school student works in the library and lets a classmate take out a reference book overnight. (1992)
Shawshank Redemption.
Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins as inmates working in a prison library. (1994)
A Simple Plan.
Bridget Fonda works at the local library, but when her husband finds four million dollars, questions whether she still wants to shelve books. (1998)
Stanley and Iris.
Jane Fonda helps Robert DeNiro learn to read; a skill he proudly demonstrates at the library. (1990)
Where the Heart I.
A teenage mother is helped by her small town friends, including the librarian. (2000)
CHILDREN'S VIDEOS
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
Peggy Ann Garner tries to read all the books in the library. (1945)
Beauty and the Beast.
Belle loves to read books from the book seller and those in Beast's library. (1991)
Neverending Story III.
Bastian escapes into a magic book he found in the school library. (1994)
Pagemaster.
Librarian Christopher Lloyd accompanies Macaulay Culkin on a fantasy voyage through literature. (1994)
Compiled by Kathleen Bethel and Ellen Clark, April 2001 .
