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librarian

noun as in person in charge of a library

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The odor of cooking and pipe smoke penetrated the air, and soot from baking bread in the basement damaged books in the Library of Congress, a librarian noted.

She hopes that the books will be cataloged by the end of January, and that she and the other reference librarians can start answering food-related questions and adding to the site shortly thereafter.

From Eater

Philip Williams, a librarian at a Singapore school, has used games on Roblox, a popular platform for the preteen set, to teach physics concepts.

She can describe the real experience of librarians and borrowers who are often overlooked in the copyright debates.

From Fortune

To help with that task, librarians have compiled a 2020 Election Reading List, with nearly 200 nonfiction and fiction titles for adults, kids, and teens.

From Fortune

The mother had left the fields to become a librarian and her love of literature passed on to her three children.

Marjorie Wilkes Huntley was a New Age feminist, a widow, and a librarian.

How about the man who created her—a lover of women who lived with a wife, his lover, their children, and a wayward librarian?

On stage, Amber spoofed Sarah Palin in a topknot and librarian glasses, yanking a toy gun and stuffed moose from her skirt.

Aloof and bookish, Pius XI (Achille Ratti) spent years as a Vatican librarian before becoming a diplomat and cardinal.

Because it's so much pleasanter, in a small library like this, to poke about by one's self—with the help of the librarian.

The Marchesa Baroli, at Turin, provided for his maintenance, by engaging him as her secretary and librarian.

The librarian told me I'd never find a copy, and this was on top of a pile of trash in a second-hand shop right here in this town.

She had been trusted by the librarian to take good care of it.

In any case, she may ask the librarian to advise her which biography to read first.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to librarian, such as: curator, cataloger, bibliognost, bibliosoph, and bibliothecary.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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