If you like to read books and you think he’s sexy, come on – hang him on your wall.

Walter Betts, systems librarian of the Mary Couts Burnett Library at TCU, bares his belly in an 18-month Texas Library Association calendar. The Men of Texas Libraries Calendar, which begins with January 2007, is a fund-raiser for hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast libraries.

Although some of the calendar guys are scantily clad – one is covered only with a well-placed cowboy hat – Betts’ spread is a bit more subdued. He is posed in an unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt and trousers playing a saxophone.

Betts admits he isn’t eye candy.

“I’m the ‘after’ picture – you know, what happens after 10 or 15 years of working as a librarian,” he said in an interview.