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librarian

[lahy-brair-ee-uhn] / laɪˈbrɛər i ən /
NOUN
person in charge of a library
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She attended Princeton on 90% financial aid while working part-time jobs on campus like librarian, tutor and bartender.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 30, 2026

Working primarily as a school librarian — with book talks and storytelling sessions — helped her “fill her performing aspirations,” she recalled.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

Following the premiere of the ‘Reading Rainbow’ reboot, host and internet librarian Mychal Threets speaks about his Latino heritage.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

Anehlina Vietrova is a librarian in the Kherson Library system.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

“I will!” said the holographic librarian, Lonni Gause.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

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

In the 1990s, the district employed over 170 school librarians.

From Salon Apr. 26, 2026

Until the 1990s, Apple had a team of corporate librarians who guarded the company’s archival treasures like they were trade secrets.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 3, 2026

Within these walls, scholars were the aristocracy, and everyone else their servants—especially the librarians, whose directive was to support them in their important work.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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