Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person who is a specialist in library work.
- n. A person who is responsible for a collection of specialized or technical information or materials, such as musical scores or computer documentation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who transcribes or copies books.
- n. The keeper or custodian of a library; one who has charge of the books and other contents of a library.
Wiktionary
- n. The keeper, manager of a library
- n. One who cares for the publications, files etc. in a library, whether staff or volunteer
- n. A person who processes and organizes information
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who has the care or charge of a library.
- n. obsolete One who copies manuscript books.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a professional person trained in library science and engaged in library services
Etymologies
- library + -an. First attested around 1710. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Those who even have the word "librarian" in their vocabularies often think library staff are only good for pointing to different sections of the stacks.”
USA Today: Study: College students rarely use librarians' expertise
“One of the perks of being a librarian is the simple act of helping others.”
“Perhaps the librarian is a big fan of Duran Duran.”
“Nance fixes me with what I call her librarian look.”
“One point that the AL makes that has been echoed through other blogs and listservs is that the term 'guybrarian' offensive: "Apparently the label librarian is actually a feminine noun, instead of librarianship just being a feminized profession.”
“Luckily, our librarian is quite vigilant about weeding. songbirdcindi”
“Smith, a former mechanic and self-described “working stiff” turned librarian, is clearly an interested party, but he may have a point.”
“Join librarian and Tame the Web blogger Michael Stephens for a discussion of ten technologies to be aware of in now and beyond.”
Reminder: Ten Trends & Technologies for 2009 with Michael Stephens
“After the week I have had I needed a good laugh ... though I'm reading this at the library and the librarian is looking at me rather sternly!”
“With me behind the counter are three more volunteers preparing pizza and dishing out salad and cookies to the growing line of customers, a cross-section of East Colfax Avenue foot traffic: latter-day flower children, sunburned day laborers, older women in librarian attire, laptop-toting students, professional bums, khaki-wearing businesspeople, vegan-corepunkerkids and the general miscellany of society that never appears in restaurant-industry demographics.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘librarian’.
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work
director, president, chief, boss, consultant, adviser, assistant, advisor, specialist, manager, employee, counselor and 65 more...
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identifiers
species, sex, age bracket, occupation, hobby .. etc.
man, woman, human being, student, zombie, artist, octopus, race driver, scientist, algorithmist, mathematician, child and 59 more...
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Library Reference Desk Words
computer, reference, desk, phone, im, chat, e-mail, catalog, citation, style, transfer, number and 133 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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elvesoncrack's Words
lachrymose, blustering, fjord, chihuahua, chiffon, catalytic, stile, gefilte, prosh, thwart, ralph, ickle and 379 more...
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Beknownst1981's list
I love words, especially the ones I make up with my friends.
translucent meat ..., beknownst (knew), plethora, curmudgeon, wanderlust, actually, differentiate, bearded, hobbit feet, female, sexy time, librarian and 220 more...
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Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric
The ones with which I flavor my speech, and the ones I love to find peppered in literature.
perspicacious, acerbic, vituperation, loquacious, castigate, vitriolic, scintillating, provenance, frolic, attendant, pursuant, epistemology and 313 more...
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Theophilus North
Words from the novel by Thornton Wilder.
Theophilus, bicycle, Newport, cully, Persis, Hard-hearted Hannah, lazaret, jalopy, Gulliver, tennis, typewrite, breathings and 290 more...
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researchgirl's Words
palpable, vade mecum, penumbra, ephemera, esoteric, quirky, quintessential, aphorism, amnesia, insomnia, synesthesia, apostasy and 186 more...
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boychoir's Words
tantamount, nom de guerre, absurd, dolt, transmute, dichotomy, dandy, schadenfreude, ennui, binary, analog, obfuscate and 93 more...
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miscellany
preposterous, minimalism, outnumbered, subroutine, malinger, oddity, eccentricity, laughable, oxymoronic, interstellar, winter, heedless and 335 more...
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Telute's Words
cat, library, librarian, bibliophile, bibliophily, bibliotheca, dreams, clouds, reading, books, literature, fiction and 2 more...
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Autobiography
Words that describe or relate in some way to me
anosmia, Asperger's Syndrome, daughter, granddaughter, sister, niece, shy, bibliophile, imagination, library, librarian, writer and 17 more...
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what should i be when i grow up
janitor, salesperson, advertiser, journalist, seamstress, maid, clerk, author, librarian, scientist, astronaut, politician and 7 more...
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Library words
library, librarian, shelves, books, dewey, classification, taxonomy, searching, reference, catalogue, wonderful
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