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librarian

[lahy-brair-ee-uhn] / laɪˈbrɛər i ən /
NOUN
person in charge of a library
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These include Eloise, a librarian who believes in peaceful dissent and futilely attempts to bring both sides together.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

I told her that the librarian believed it was appropriate for my reading level.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026

Bunny Levine, a school librarian turned Hollywood actor, has died.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

Hundreds of young Russians gathered outside a Moscow courthouse where Yabloko’s bespectacled chairman, Nikolai Rybakov, who has a mop of brown hair and looks like a small-town librarian, spent hours appealing the ruling in vain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

The librarian narrowed her eyes at him and tilted her head suspiciously.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The USC union, United Faculty-UAW, represents roughly 2,700 non-tenure-track faculty across more than 20 schools and the USC libraries, including lecturers, researchers, clinicians, librarians and pharmacists.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Your local booksellers and librarians will be happy to help you choose between hotly anticipated titles from Marlon James and Min Jin Lee, along with beloved East L.A. artist Guadalupe Rosales’ photo-filled memoir.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

The East SOS Foundation, a Ukrainian humanitarian and human-rights organization, has gathered testimony from librarians and teachers who saw books destroyed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

And what about support staff like teaching assistants, canteen staff and librarians?

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

But the more time I spend with her at school, the more I realize that pretty much everyone gets inarticulate around her—guys, girls, teachers, administrators, janitors, librarians, classroom pets.

From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone




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