Librarian

Definition: Librarian

Librarian

Noun

1. A professional person trained in library science and engaged in library services.

Date "librarian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Librarian

Domain	Definitions
Computing	A program that manages a library of files. Source: European Union. (references)
	A program that creates, maintains and makes available the collection of programmes, routines and data that make up operating system. Source: European Union. (references)
Occupations	Maintains library collections of books, serial publications, documents, audiovisual, and other materials, and assists groups and individuals in locating and obtaining materials: Furnishes information on library activities, facilities, rules, and services. Explains and assists in use of reference sources, such as card or book catalog or book and periodical indexes to locate information. Describes or demonstrates procedures for searching catalog files. Searches catalog files and shelves to locate information. Issues and receives materials for circulation or for use in library. Assembles and arranges displays of books and other library materials. Maintains reference and circulation materials. Answers correspondence on special reference subjects. May compile list of library materials according to subject or interests, using computer. May select, order, catalog, and classify materials . May prepare or assist in preparation of budget. May plan and direct or carry out special projects involving library promotion and outreach activity and be designated Outreach Librarian (library). May be designated according to specialized function as Circulation Librarian (library); Readers'-Advisory-Service Librarian (library); or Reference Librarian (library). (references)
	Classifies and files musical recordings, sheet music, original arrangements, and scores for individual instruments. Selects music for subject matter of program or for specific visual or spoken action. Suggests musical selections to DIRECTOR, MUSIC (motion picture; radio-tv broad.) 152.047-018 or DIRECTOR, PROGRAM (radio-tv broad.) 184.167-030 or DISK JOCKEY (radio-tv broad.) 159.147-014. May issue required music to CONDUCTOR, ORCHESTRA (profess. & kin.) 152.047-014, or other studio personnel. May track musical selections broadcasted, using computer. May listen to music, using playback equipment, to verify quality of recordings meet broadcast standards. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Librarian

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A librarian is a professional worker in a library. Although librarians are traditionally associated with collections of books, they are experts in the organization and retrieval of information in any format.

Examples:

Gramophone records and compact discs
Photographs and videotapes
Newspapers, magazines and scientific journals
Computer databases
Referrals to other community organizations and government offices.
Suggesting appropriate books for children of different reading levels, and recommending novels for recreational reading.

Librarians can be found be found in many areas. Public libraries, public schools and university libraries are the most common employers. Librarians can also be found at businesses, government departments, hospitals, law firms, museums, and other large organizations where academic research is performed or that store large quantities of information.

It is usual for a librarian to have an MLS (Master of Library Science) degree from an accredited university. Library technicians (also called assistant librarians or library assistants) may perform duties such as searching for items in the library catalog or basic cataloging, but lack the Master's degree.

The specific duties vary depending on the size and type of library and number of employees, but most librarians spend most of their time working in one of the following areas of a library:

Public service librarians work at the reference desk. Some specialize in serving adults or children. (In larger libraries they may specialize in teen services, the periodicals or other special collection.)
Technical service librarians work "behind the scenes" ordering library materials and database subscriptions, computers and other equipment, and supervise the cataloguing and physical processing of new books.
Experienced librarians may be promoted to administrative positions such as the library director, or the director of a group of libraries. Similar to the president of any other business, they are concerned with the long-term planning of the library as a business, and its relationship with its parent organization (the city or county for a public library, or the college for an academic library).

See: List of librarians In the discworld book series by Terry Pratchett there is a librarian who has been magicallyally turned into an orangutan, if you are looking for him; I suggest you check out The Librarian (Discworld).

St. Jerome is the patron saint of librarians and translators.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Librarian."

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Synonym: Librarian

Synonym: bibliothec (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Librarian

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Book	Bookseller, publisher; bibliopole, bibliopolist; librarian; bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Librarian

English words defined with "librarian": accession, addition ♦ Bibliothecary ♦ cataloger, cataloguer ♦ librarianship ♦ Sublibrarian. (references)

Specialty definitions using "librarian": ACQUISITIONS LIBRARIAN, AUDIOVISUAL LIBRARIAN ♦ BOOKMOBILE LIBRARIAN ♦ CATALOG LIBRARIAN, CHILDREN'S LIBRARIAN, COMPUTER OPERATOR ♦ descriptive catalog librarian ♦ film librarian ♦ hospital librarian ♦ INSTITUTION LIBRARIAN ♦ law clerk, legal aid, librarian, school, LIBRARIAN, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, library assistant, LIBRARY TECHNICAL ASSISTANT, library technician ♦ Magliabecchi, MANAGER, COMPUTER OPERATIONS, MUSIC LIBRARIAN, INTERNATIONAL BROADCAST ♦ news information resource manager, NEWS LIBRARIAN, news library director, newspaper library manager ♦ patient's librarian, prison librarian ♦ recordings librarian ♦ TAPE LIBRARIAN ♦ YOUNG-ADULT LIBRARIAN. (references)

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Modern Usage: Librarian

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Hell, even the school librarian sees more action than me. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Well, that makes you a very clever librarian, Talamascan. (Queen of the Damned; writing credit: Scott Abbott) Of you alone, 57,58, walking around, wearing a nightgown, your hair in a bun, maybe you're a librarian, heating up a can of soup for one, and worrying about the cobwebs that are growing in your womb. (Beautiful Girls; writing credit: Scott Rosenberg) I am a librarian! (The Mummy; writing credit: Stephen Sommers; Lloyd Fonvielle)
Clever	Your attitude is the librarian of your past, the speaker of your present, and the prophet of your future! (references; author: unknown)
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Commercial Usage: Librarian

Domain	Title
Books	The Librarian from the Black Lagoon (reference) Tooting Your Own Horn: Web-Based Public Relations for the 21st Century Librarian (reference) What the Librarian Heard (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Adventures Of Incredible Librarian (reference) Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian (reference) Federal Librarian (reference) Informed Librarian (reference) Librarian Netnews (reference) (more periodical examples)

Music	Librarian Types (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Librarian

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Photo Album: Librarian

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The photo shows a librarian seated at a computer working with PDQ, while a physician examines a print-out.Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).		A librarian at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is using an IBM computer to access PDQ. The Physicians Data Query was designed by the National Cancer Institute to help physicians obtain information about the most up-to-date protocols, physicians, and clinics treating cancer patients.Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).
	Queen of Angels Hospital, Los Angeles, CA. : Sister Mary Digna, Medical Librarian with members of the house staff.Credit: National Library of Medicine.		[Reference librarian cues video].Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	The Library of Congress when it was located in the Capitol, with Ainsworth R. Spofford, Librarian, standing on extreme right, looking at paper; the man on left holding lamp is David Hutcheson, assistant Librarian; and man identified as Robert S. Tharin, 6.Credit: Library of Congress.		Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress, holding up U.S. Constitution, at dedication before placing it in its shrine at the Library of Congress.Credit: Library of Congress.
	L. Quincy Mumford, Librarian of Congress; S.E. Skinner, General Motors; and Davidson Taylor, NBC, in front of NBC television camera, at presentation ceremony of Wide Wide World TV series kinescopes to the Library of Congress.Credit: Library of Congress.		Composite photograph showing librarian placing "closed" sign on door of the U.S. Information Agency library in Salisbury, Rhodesia (top); and a USIA African employee taking down the American flag from the building (bottom).Credit: Library of Congress.
	The Librarian, U.S. Naval Academy.Credit: Library of Congress.		Folger Library. Mr. Slade, librarian at Folger Library I.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Librarian

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		You can think of this sourcebook as your personal Internet age reference librarian. (references)
		Ask your medical librarian if the library has full and unlimited access to this database. (references)
		Focus on those items that are not available via the Internet, and ask the reference librarian for help with your search. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Librarian

"Librarian" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.38% of the time. "Librarian" is used about 799 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	97.38%	778	8,875
Noun (proper)	2.63%	21	76,261
Total	100.00%	799	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Librarian

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "librarian": librarian-aide, librarian-disposer.
	Ending with "librarian": teacher-librarian.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Librarian

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
librarian	279	librarian gift	9
librarian job	42	nude librarian	9
librarian sexy	41	librarian job description	8
school librarian	27	infotrac librarian	8
librarian salary	22	librarian poem	8
librarian index to the internet	22	chicano librarian	8
directory editor librarian publication	20	immigrant librarian	7
american association of school librarian	18	digital photo librarian	7
naked librarian	15	immigrant librarian mexican	7
librarian sex	14	american association of law librarian	7
lipstick librarian	12	librarian training	7
joke librarian	12	book librarian recommended	7
reference librarian	12	digital librarian	7
librarian career	12	interview librarian question	7
law librarian	12	american association librarian	7
become a librarian	11	librarian pdf	7
ask a librarian	10	index internet librarian lii.org	7
librarian and resume	10	librarian on the internet	7
teacher librarian	10	librarian degree	6
librarian resource	9	librarian index	6
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Librarian

Language		Translations for "librarian"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		bibliotekaris. (various references)

Albanian		bibliotekar. (various references)

Arabic		‏كتبي (bookish, bookseller), ‏قيم المكتبة, ‏أمين المكتبة. (various references)

Bulgarian		библиотекар. (various references)

Chinese		圖書管理�"� , 图书管理员. (various references)

Czech		knihovník. (various references)

Danish		biblioteksprogram (library program, library programme), bibliotekar. (various references)

Dutch		bibliothecaris. (various references)

Esperanto		bibliotekisto. (various references)

Faeroese		bókavørður. (various references)

Farsi		کتابدار (Curator). (various references)

Finnish		kirjastonhoitaja. (various references)

French		bibliothécaire (library program, library programme). (various references)

Frisian		bibletekaris. (various references)

German		Bibliothekar. (various references)

Greek		βιβλιοθηκάριος. (various references)

Hebrew		ספרן. (various references)

Hungarian		könyvtáros. (various references)

Italian		bibliotecario. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		ライフル銃 (Leipzig, library, life-work, lilac, lime, limelight, live, live house, live recording, live show, rhyme, ribosome, rifle), 図書館�"� , 司書 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ライブラリアン , ししょ (branch, history book, personal letter, place of death, place to die, private document, substation, the four Chinese classics), としょか�"い�". (various references)

Korean		사서. (various references)

Manx		lioarlannee, fer lioar-hasht. (various references)

Norwegian		bibliotekar. (various references)

Papiamen		bibliotekario. (various references)

Pig Latin		ibrarianlay

Portuguese		bibliotecário (librarianship, library). (various references)

Romanian		bibliotecar. (various references)

Romansch		bibliotecar. (various references)

Russian		библиотекарь. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bibliotekar. (various references)

Spanish		bibliotecario. (various references)

Swedish		bibliotekarie. (various references)

Thai		บรร�"ารักษ์. (various references)

Turkish		kütüphaneci. (various references)

Ukranian		бібліотекар. (various references)

Vietnamese		người công tác thư viện, cán bộ thư viện. (various references)

Welsh		llyfrgellydd. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Librarian

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	bibliothecarius. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Librarian

Derivations
	Words beginning with "librarian": librarians, librarianship, librarianships. (additional references)
	Words ending with "librarian": nonlibrarian, sublibrarian. (additional references)
	Words containing "librarian": nonlibrarians, sublibrarians. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Librarian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: libarian, Librair, libraire, librairian, librare, libraria. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Librarian"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "librarian" (pronounced lībre"rēun)
6	-r e" r ē u n	agrarian, contrarian.
5	-e" r ē u n	authoritarian, barbarian, carrion, centenarian, Clarion, disciplinarian, egalitarian, humanitarian, libertarian, majoritarian, nonsectarian, octogenarian, ovarian, parliamentarian, planarian, proletarian, sectarian, seminarian, septuagenarian, totalitarian, unitarian, utilitarian, vegetarian, veterinarian.
4	-r ē u n	centurion, criterion, Cyprian, equestrian, historian, hyperborean, pagurian, pedestrian, praetorian, presbyterian, salutatorian, valedictorian, valerian.
3	-ē u n	accordion, alien, amphibian, arcadian, bohemian, Campion, chameleon, champion, circadian, collodion, comedian, custodian, draconian, galleon, gorgonian, Guardian, halcyon, herculean, lesbian, mammalian, median, mediterranean, meridian, Napoleon, nickelodeon, oblivion, obsidian, Odeon, plutonian, scorpion, simian, subterranean, symbion, theologian, thespian, utopian.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Librarian

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-i-i-l-n-r-r"
	-3 letters: narial.
	-4 letters: aalii, alibi, bairn, banal, biali, binal, blain, blini, brail, brain, briar, laari, labia, labra, lanai, liana, libra, libri, naira.
	-5 letters: abri, airn, alan, alar, alba, anal, anil, aria, aril, baal, bail, bani, barn, birl, birr, blin, bran, brin, ilia, inia, lain, lair, lari, liar, lira, liri, nail, raia, rail, rain, rani.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-i-i-l-n-r-r"
	+1 letter: librarians.
	+2 letters: libertarian.
	+3 letters: libertarians, nonlibrarian, sublibrarian.
	+4 letters: arbitrational, librarianship, nonlibrarians, recalibrating, recalibration, sublibrarians.
	+5 letters: libertarianism, librarianships, recalibrations.
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