Books about university departments and faculty libraries (fiction / nonfiction)

For something I'm writing, I'm looking for examples of fiction (short stories or novels, though I'd also take TV and film) that is focused on or has significant scenes set in university departments, or even better, in departmental libraries and archives. I'd be grateful for any recommendations.

I'm specifically interested in the small-scale aspect of a particular department/faculty, rather than stories about university life as a whole. I feel like Oxbridge fiction *should* have a fair number of college library scenes, but aside from Gaudy Night and The Tractate Middoth I haven't had much luck.

I'd also be happy to know of any nonfiction books about small university libraries.

The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, by Eva Jurczyk might be what you are looking for.

Oh, and Dear Committee Members, by Julie Schumacher

https://www.librarything.com/tag/campus%2C%20fiction

Quite a lot of good stuff there. David Lodge and Malcolm Bradbury pretty much had the campus fiction thing sewn up between them for a long time, so that might be a good place. For something more Oxbridgey, how about Porterhouse Blue on the heavy satire side, or Simon Raven, e.g. Places where they sing and a few others (thinly disguised version of King’s College, Cambridge). I think some of the CP Snow novels might fit too, on the more serious side. And Stoner if you want something American.

For actual academic libraries, there is Terry Pratchett, of course(!), or library-paperchase type thrillers like Possession.

Thank you, much appreciated!

>3 thorold: Seconding your David Lodge recommendation. The British Museum is Falling Down is largely set in the Museum's reading room.

Maybe also of interest that, for instance, Angus Wilson and Philip Larkin were academic librarians in their day-jobs, even if they didn’t write much that was actually set in libraries.

The Imogen Quy mysteries by Jill Paton Walsh are about a nurse at a Cambridge college, approx 1980s to 1990s (though I think the behaviours are perhaps rather 1970s).