Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A wagon or truck shelving or sloping toward the back.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a worker who puts things (as books) on shelves

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Examples

  • TRAVIS (Caller): Yeah, I used to be a shelver at a library here in South Bend, a public library.

    Librarian Kee Malesky Considers 'All Facts' For NPR 2010

  • Arlington public library needs a book shelver and a circulation assistant at Columbia Pike Library.

    Alexandria and Arlington volunteer opportunities 2010

  • I work as a shelver in the Children's Department at the local library, and he's everywhere.

    You can't run a library without Tomie dePaola Roger Sutton 2007

  • I graduated from high school in 1994, and worked as a Page (shelver) in my local public library from 1992-94.

    A Question for the Young Ladies Roger Sutton 2007

  • While attended college and attempting to spend five minutes in every major that they offered, I came to the realization that my part time job as a shelver in the Milwaukee Public Library could be a career path.

    December 2006 2006

  • While attended college and attempting to spend five minutes in every major that they offered, I came to the realization that my part time job as a shelver in the Milwaukee Public Library could be a career path.

    L.A. MIX PROFILE: Librarian and Book Club Organizer Gary Warren Niebuhr 2006

  • I had been working for Alice Angelo, the Public Services Librarian, for four years at that point, as a student circ employee, shelver, and “In-Charge Student”, which meant that I worked the Reference desk between 10 pm and 1 am on rotating weeknights, and I also opened the library and supervised the circ desk from 8 to noon on Sundays.

    2008 August « Attempting Elegance 2008

  • If you are interested in applying for the Genealogy shelver position, you must have completed the tenth grade and be able to shelve and retrieve materials stored in specific numerical or alphabetical order.

    My Dream Job 2006

  • I had been working for Alice Angelo, the Public Services Librarian, for four years at that point, as a student circ employee, shelver, and “In-Charge Student”, which meant that I worked the Reference desk between 10 pm and 1 am on rotating weeknights, and I also opened the library and supervised the circ desk from 8 to noon on Sundays.

    2008 August 08 « Attempting Elegance 2008

  • I had been working for Alice Angelo, the Public Services Librarian, for four years at that point, as a student circ employee, shelver, and “In-Charge Student”, which meant that I worked the Reference desk between 10 pm and 1 am on rotating weeknights, and I also opened the library and supervised the circ desk from 8 to noon on Sundays.

    How it all started « Attempting Elegance 2008

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