I went to Library School at the University of Denver (DU) where I got a Masters in Librarianship and Information Management. The various students there as well as the professors were all quite different and I could find few of them who fit the librarian stereotype. In fact, we used to make fun of the little old lady sssshhhhing people in the library stereotype. Many of the public librarians I have been are extremely noisy places. The academic libraries can still have the ssshhhhing ladies and gents often wearing glasses with their hair in a bun. But, the men as well as the women might have their hair in a bun.

A good percentage of the librarians at the University of Denver were from Alaska and seemed to fit more with the Sarah Palin mold rather than with the Marian the Librarian one. http://stason.org/TULARC/education-b...ype-start.html

I have though run across a few librarians who very much fit the Marian the Librarian stereotype.