Giacomo Casanova, best known for his love of women, was also an occultist and initiate of Freemasonry; he spent the last years of his life serving as librarian to Count Waldstein at Dux Castle in Bohemia, near Prague.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

"Libraries such as the J.R. Robertson Masonic Memorial Library have special requirements to enable cataloguing of the many different subjects found in their specialized collections. Several different classification systems have been employed in the Grand Lodge Library over the years. The current system was adopted in 1989 following advice from ( Read more... )

This page from the Harry Potter Lexicon tells everything about the Hogwarts library, including the name of its librarian (Madam Irma Pince) and the fact that the library shown in the films is actually the Bodleian Library at Oxford.http://www.hp-lexicon.org/hogwarts/library.

"We all want to be like Giles. Rupert Giles, to the uninitiated, is the suave and sexy librarian on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He is possessed of, in no particular order, a mysterious past, a compendious knowledge of the occult, a personal library and a really cool English accent. Every librarian worth their weight in Dewey wants to be Rupert Giles ( Read more... )

Classification of the Literature of FreemasonryWilliam L. Boyden, 33°, Librarian of the Supreme Council (1893-39 ( Read more... )

An exhibition of rare occult books at the library of Monash University in Australia.

http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/exhibitions/occult/xocccat.html

"The Pomegranate: The Journal of Pagan Studies is published for the interdisciplinary study of comtemporary and classical Pagan religions, including Wicca, Witchcraft, Druidism, Asatru, Odinism, as well as other forms of revived and diaspora Paganism. We welcome articles and essays from historians of religion, environmental historians, social ( Read more... )

Aries is a peer-reviewed journal for the study of Western esotericism. (They have one issue available online for free.)

http://www.brill.nl/aries

The department of Religious Studies at the University of Kent (Canterbury and Tonbridge) offers an MA in the study of mysticism and religious experience.

http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/thrs/postgraduate/mysticism/index.html

An international graduate program offering masters' and doctoral degrees. From their website ( Read more... )