Novels and short story collections featuring archivists and archival institutions can be found in abundance. For overviews, begin with:
Burkely Hermann, “Fictional Archivists Out in the Open,” an essay from the Society of American Archivists Issues and Advocacy Section Forum.
Caryn Radick, see listings for her 2013 and 2016 essays here.
Arlene Schmuland, “The Archival Image in Fiction: An Analysis and Annotated Bibliography.” The American Archivist 1 January 1999; 62 (1): 24–73.
Sharon Wolff, “People of the Stacks: ‘The Archivist’ Character in Fiction,” disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory (2018): Vol. 27, Article 20.
And, other titles listed in Goodreads under Archives Archivists Books
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other novels and short story collections with links to come:
Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
Martha Cooley, The Archivist
Nicole Kornher-Stace, The Archivist Wasp
Claire North, Notes from the Burning Age
Rex Pickett, The Archivist: A Thriller
Robert Silverberg, Majipoor Chronicles
Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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