librarian
noun
li·brar·i·an
lī-ˈbrer-ē-ən 
-ˈbre-rē-
: a specialist in the care or management of a library
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While libraries formally held the line and didn't stock the book for a time, librarians and teachers who knew of the circumstances would find ways to get it into young readers' hands.
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Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 13 Dec. 2025
Now picture for a second, when in 2022 Leavens joined the staff at Guadalupe Centers Middle School, in Kansas City, as an English Language Development teacher and learned there was no library or librarian.
—Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 13 Dec. 2025
So after Lupton, a career librarian and book collector, died unexpectedly in 2003, his entire book collection was moved to Alabama.
—Anne Byrn, Southern Living, 9 Dec. 2025
Library leaders informed the part-time librarians that their positions were eliminated as part of a decade-long decision to phase out part-time librarians, according to BCPL.
—Adam Thompson, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2025
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Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 13 Dec. 2025
Now picture for a second, when in 2022 Leavens joined the staff at Guadalupe Centers Middle School, in Kansas City, as an English Language Development teacher and learned there was no library or librarian.
—Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 13 Dec. 2025
So after Lupton, a career librarian and book collector, died unexpectedly in 2003, his entire book collection was moved to Alabama.
—Anne Byrn, Southern Living, 9 Dec. 2025
Library leaders informed the part-time librarians that their positions were eliminated as part of a decade-long decision to phase out part-time librarians, according to BCPL.
—Adam Thompson, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for librarian
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“Librarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/librarian. Accessed 17 Dec. 2025.
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