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li·brar·i·an

 (lī-brâr′ē-ən)
n.
1. A person who is a specialist in library work.
2. A person who is responsible for a collection of specialized or technical information or materials, such as musical scores or computer documentation.

li·brar′i·an·ship′ n.
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librarian

(laɪˈbrɛərɪən)
n
(Library Science & Bibliography) a person in charge of or assisting in a library
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

li•brar•i•an

(laɪˈbrɛər i ən)

n.
1. a person engaged in library work who has professional training in library science.
2. any person in charge of a library.
3. a person in charge of any specialized body of information, as a collection of musical scores.
[1660–70]
li•brar′i•an•ship`, n.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.librarian - a professional person trained in library science and engaged in library serviceslibrarian - a professional person trained in library science and engaged in library services
cataloger, cataloguer - a librarian who classifies publication according to a categorial system
professional, professional person - a person engaged in one of the learned professions
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Translations
أَمِيـنٌ مَكْتَبَةٌأمين مَكْتَبَه
knihovník-iceknihovnice
bibliotekar
kirjastonhoitaja
knjižničarknjižničarka
könyvtáros
bókasafnsvörîur
図書館員
사서
knihovník
knjižničar
bibliotekarie
บรรณารักษ์
thủ thư

librarian

[laɪˈbrɛərɪən] Nbibliotecario/a m/f; (professionally qualified) → bibliotecólogo/a m/f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

librarian

[laɪˈbrɛəriən] nbibliothécaire m/f
She's a librarian → Elle est bibliothécaire.
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

librarian

nBibliothekar(in) m(f)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

librarian

[laɪˈbrɛərɪən] nbibliotecario/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

library

(ˈlaibrəri) plural ˈlibraries noun
(a building or room containing) a collection of books, tapes, videos etc. He works in the public library; She has a fine library of books about art.
liˈbrarian (-ˈbreə-) noun
a person who is employed in a library.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.

librarian

أَمِيـنٌ مَكْتَبَةٌ knihovník bibliotekar Bibliothekar βιβλιοθηκάριος bibliotecario kirjastonhoitaja bibliothécaire knjižničar bibliotecario 図書館員 사서 bibliothecaris bibliotekar bibliotekarz bibliotecário библиотекарь bibliotekarie บรรณารักษ์ kütüphaneci thủ thư 图书管理员
Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

librarian

n. bibliotecario-a.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
References in classic literature ?
She excited the suspicions of public librarians by asking for works on poisons.
People are not the better for the sun and moon, the horizon and the trees; as it is not observed that the keepers of Roman galleries or the valets of painters have any elevation of thought, or that librarians are wiser men than others.
Then, before I could collect my scattered senses, he added equally quietly, but with an air of regularizing things: "My friend here is Doctor Mull, the Duke's librarian. My name is Brown."
He repeated to me the librarian's question as to whether he thought he ought to put an unexpurgated edition in the hands of a boy, and his own answer that he did not believe it would hurt me.
Emily closed the volume which she had been consulting, and thankfully acknowledged the services of the librarian.
I remember, in the catalogue, being impressed by the title, "The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle." I filled an application blank and the librarian handed me the collected and entirely unexpurgated works of Smollett in one huge volume.
"I'll tell you," the librarian said with a brightening face.
Sladdery, the librarian, "or if you want to get this dwarf or giant into the houses of my high connexion, sir, or if you want to secure to this entertainment the patronage of my high connexion, sir, you must leave it, if you please, to me, for I have been accustomed to study the leaders of my high connexion, sir, and I may tell you without vanity that I can turn them round my finger"-- in which Mr.
I was head librarian of the Doncaster Library for years.
We called him "Bob the Librarian," because he always imagined vain rats behind the bookshelves, and in hunting for them would drag out half the old newspaper-files.
The librarian "showed off" -- running hither and thither with his arms full of books and making a deal of the splutter and fuss that insect authority delights in.
It was his protector, his friend, his librarian. And so the Winged Lion of St.
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