Arrangement and Description: Archivists At Large discussion

Who's your favorite fictional archivist and why?

My first thought was Lucien, from the Library of Dream (Neil Gaiman/The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country), but he's really a librarian rather than an archivist. Then again, all the manuscript are unpublished, so maybe he does qualify! Then there's Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler): she wasn't a professional archivist, she just collected massive amounts of material for her own reference, but I do love her for her idiosyncratic filing system.

Anyone out there?

Hello.

I'm here. The only fictional archivist I know of is in the murder mystery series Blue Ridge Library mysteries by Victoria Gilbert. I can't say I really like the heroine though.