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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Veronica Martinez, news researcher and librarian for the Bay Area News Group, contributed to this story.
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 25 Nov. 2025
Who’s Who in America® remains an essential biographical source for thousands of researchers, journalists, librarians, and executive search firms around the world.
—Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 24 Nov. 2025
Descriptive set theorists are thus like librarians, tending to a massive bookshelf of different kinds of infinite sets (and the different ways of measuring them).
—Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2025
More than 80 librarians worked on the lists, reading thousands of titles to make their selections.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 20 Nov. 2025
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Martha Ross, Mercury News, 25 Nov. 2025
Who’s Who in America® remains an essential biographical source for thousands of researchers, journalists, librarians, and executive search firms around the world.
—Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 24 Nov. 2025
Descriptive set theorists are thus like librarians, tending to a massive bookshelf of different kinds of infinite sets (and the different ways of measuring them).
—Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 21 Nov. 2025
More than 80 librarians worked on the lists, reading thousands of titles to make their selections.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 20 Nov. 2025
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“Librarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/librarian. Accessed 2 Dec. 2025.
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