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How to use librarian in a sentence

39 example sentences · noun

Librarian means the keeper, manager of a library. Example: “The librarian was placed at home by her neighbor at the time of the murder.”

Examples of librarian by meaning

nounThe keeper, manager of a library.

  • The amenities of the institute include a well-arranged open-access library of 18,000 volumes, and a small but valuable reference library of railway literature; the present writer is Librarian.1944 May and June, Arthur B. Longbottom, “The Derby Railway Institute”, in Railway Magazine, page 149

More sentences with librarian

  • The librarian was placed at home by her neighbor at the time of the murder.From the entry place
  • I would rather figure things out on my own than ask that peevish librarian for help.From the entry peevish
  • I wanted to take out the encyclopedia, but the librarian said it was a reference book.From the entry reference book
  • There was a huge exodus over at the National Archives for snickety librarians were getting DOGEd silly.2025 February 20, “CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip”, in CNN, spoken by Jesse Watters. From the entry doge
  • She's also worked to help librarians forge connections through professional activities.2018 January 12, Greg Landgraf, “Blazing Trails: Pioneering African-American librarians share their stories”, in American Libraries…. From the entry of color
  • She was plain Carrie, the librarian, wishing she could say something snappy and clever.2016, Linda Goodnight, The Rain Sparrow, →ISBN. From the entry zinger
  • Thank you to the readers, librarians, booksellers, BookTubers, and bloggers who celebrate stories all over the world.2015, "Acknowledgements," in Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows, Henry Holt and Company (2015), page 464. From the entry booktuber
  • Betty Cavanaugh was a retired librarian from Anchorage and a bibliophile who collected Alaskana.2009, Dana Stabenow, Whisper to the Blood, →ISBN, page 224. From the entry Alaskana
  • Archivists and librarians are the unsung worker ants whose scurryings make books such as this one possible.2007, Charlotte Sleigh, Six Legs Better: A Cultural History of Myrmecology. From the entry scurrying
  • Librarians overwhelmingly believe that weeding increases use of books and patron satisfaction.2003, Juris Dilevko, Lisa Gottlieb, “Weed to achieve: a fundamental part of the public library mission?”, in Library Collections…. From the entry weed
  • El Camino Real Elementary School librarian Cindy Mirallegro wants to put a word in the dictionary.2002, Peggy Goetz, “Has anyone seen her wasband? School librarian wants to get a word in the dictionary”, The Orange County Register, May…. From the entry wasband
  • Resident breadbaker, librarian, Buffyatric, occasional pirate wench, and quondam Irish harper.1997 October 28, SjPete, “Stranger enters, goes to corner table”, in alt.pub.coffeehouse.amethyst (Usenet). From the entry Buffyatric
  • Those wire-framed glasses made Babel look like a librarian, but his silence is not librarial.1986, Michael Gregory Stephens, The Dramaturgy of Style: Voice in Short Fiction, page 25. From the entry librarial
  • The librarian should consider the value of the publication compared to its cost.1980 fall, Gail M. Martin, “A Guide to Setting Up a Career Resource Information Center”, in Melvin C. Fountain, editor, Occupational…. From the entry pamphlet
  • "Do you mean it is 'fish or cut bait,' 'duck or no dinner ?'" asked the librarian.1917, Malcolm C. Fenwick, Life in the Cup, page 22. From the entry duck or no dinner
  • Bibliothecology (especially the librarian of school libraries and children’s services) does not compare to careers as teachers or university professors.2021, Patrick Lo, Bradley Allard, quoting Anabel Negrín, “Supporting the Needs of Children through Arts and Culture: An Interview with…. From the entry bibliothecology
  • One author who has drawn the ire of parents and librarians in particular is Barbara Park, whose heroine 'Junie B.2018, Ralf Thiede, Children's Books, Brain Development, and Language Acquisition, Taylor & Francis. From the entry Amelia Bedelia
  • As our Order's librarian, it is one of Dr.2011, Philip Reeve, Fever Crumb - Book 1, page 5. From the entry scaremongery
  • Most librarians I know agree on that.”2011, David Meller, quoting Jeanine Deckers, “Pop-Up Libraries [§] The Airport Library”, in David Meller, editor, Catch. A quarterly…. From the entry librophile
  • So the librarian gives the chicken a book.2004, Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle, An introduction to literature, criticism and theory. From the entry bok
  • The story referred to librarian Cindy Mirallegro's campaign to win acceptance for "wasband" as a word meaning ex-husband.2002, Steve Harvey, “Woman Campaigns for Another Term of Endearment for a Former Spouse”, Los Angeles Times, December 12, 2002. From the entry wasband
  • Nor, I imagine, can librarians be great readers.1982, Saul Bellow, “Him with His Foot in His Mouth”, in Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row…. From the entry tincture
  • The pet book produced, the librarian again starts phoneward, but is waylaid by the president of the student council.1947, Lucile Foster Fargo, The library in the school. From the entry phoneward
  • To every librarian, bookseller, blogger, BookTokker, and reader out there, we hope this year is full of love, health, happiness, and most of all: adventure.2022 May, Christina Lauren (combined pen name of Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings), “Acknowledgments”, in Something Wilder, Gallery…. From the entry BookTokker
  • At the secondary school where I normally work as a librarian, I take key workers’ and other children on a “nature mooch”.2020 April 20, Nicola Chester, “Country diary: a nature mooch undulls the children’s senses”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry mooch
  • Analu Cruze-Josephides, librarian and actor exemplifies his rendition of the “Kubrick stare,” a technique synonymous with villainous characters he plays in films.2017, Don Perez, "Librarian of horror", The Union (El Camino College), 18 May 2017, page 3 (image caption). From the entry Kubrick stare
  • Middle-aged Louisiana State University librarian Myrtle Rusk is tasked with patrolling the stacks to tell lustful students to take their hormones elsewhere.2010, George M. Eberhart, The Librarian's Book of Lists, page 42. From the entry misgrasp
  • This quirky realm is mostly populated by librarians, archivists and museum curators, plus the occasional anxious scientist and panicky megacorporate record clerk.2004 July 10, Bruce Sterling, “Delete our cultural heritage? The world is suffering from a dark and silent phenomenon known as 'digital…. From the entry digital decay
  • The majority of librarians appear to have shown a very ivory tower approach to the application of all types of management technique to librarianship.1968, New Library World, volumes 69-70, page 8. From the entry ivory tower
  • According to press releases and university librarians, Google plans to digitize and make available through its Google Books service approximately 15 million volumes within a decade.2013, Nihar K. Patra, editor, Progressive Trends in Electronic Resource Management in Libraries, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 187. From the entry digitize
  • What it means to be a librarian has changed significantly over the last few decades, and Sheli McHugh is at the forefront of a new generation of tech-savvy bibliognosts.2012 April 15, Patrice Wilding, “Resourceful librarian: City woman puts social media to work for institution”, in The Sunday Times, page F3. From the entry bibliognost
  • Librarians obsess about edging the collection (bringing all books up to the edge of the shelves to make them easier to find and to look tidy).2010, Sheryl Kindle Fullner, The Shoestring Library, page 107. From the entry bookstop
  • Instead of talking to the agent at AAA, the professor, the librarian, the travel agent, or the cinemaphile two doors down, we are interacting with electronic social agents.2002, Anita L. Vangelisti, Harry T. Reis, Mary Anne Fitzpatrick, Stability and Change in Relationships, →ISBN, page 325. From the entry cinemaphile
  • Perhaps even more interesting in the Lynch A7 dialog is the schema behind the question the librarian asks after repeating something the patron says on the phone: “Pink sheets?1984 August 1, S.D. Neill, “The Reference Process and Certain Types of Memory: Semantic, Episodic, and Schematic”, in RQ, volume 23…. From the entry pink sheet
  • I would want a person of remarkable tact and diplomacy because he will have to work with, and convince, many other able librarians that his advice is heedworthy.1970, Foreign Acquisitions Newsletter - Issues 32-36. From the entry heedworthy
  • In Downward Namesmanship, the author lists those who assisted him: students, secretaries, librarians, and so on, which shows he is important enough to command such resources.1957, The New Leader - Volume 40, Part 1, page 24. From the entry namesmanship
  • If books are as provocative as you suggest, one would expect every librarian to utter the shrill screams of a hierophant, to clash ecstatic castanets in his silent alcoves!1919, Christopher Morley, “(please specify the page)”, in The Haunted Bookshop, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC. From the entry hierophant
  • One librarian said, "I could double the circulation tomorrow by closing the periodical stacks and counting every time I handed out a magazine, but I would be disservicing our readers."1975, Sarah Katharine Thomson, Learning resource centers in community colleges. From the entry disservice

Meaning of librarian

  1. noun The keeper, manager of a library.
  2. noun One who cares for the publications, files etc. in a library, whether staff or volunteer.
  3. noun A person who processes and organizes information.

Full definition of librarian

Questions about librarian in a sentence

How do you use librarian in a sentence?
Librarian is used as a noun. For example: “The librarian was placed at home by her neighbor at the time of the murder.”
What is a short sentence with librarian?
“Most librarians I know agree on that.””
What does librarian mean?
Librarian means the keeper, manager of a library.

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