Meaning of bibliothecary | Babel Free

Definitions

A librarian.

archaic

Examples

“Hence we went to the house of Hippolito Vitellesco (afterwards Bibliothecary of yᵉ Vatican Library)[…]”

“What I said in my epistle to my reverend friend and master, Doctor James, the incomparably industrious and learned bibliothecary of Oxford, I profess still; but I hold those canons of the apostles uncanonical.”

““You can trust Zarifar,” he said. “He’s as close to a bibliothecary as we’ve got.” / “Are you serious?” Torrin asked incredulously. He could understand the tallfolk races patronizing the library, perhaps even serving as its unofficial bibliothecary. They were in Sundasz, after all. But not someone of a race that—if Val’tissa was to believed—had once been drow.”

“Bibliothecaries in the audience are likely to shudder when Dorothy (ejected from the whites-only section of a library) steals a computer-programming manual and justifies it to her son by saying, “I pay taxes. And taxes paid for everything in that library. You can’t take something you’ve already paid for.””

“More important, though, is the blow [Emma] Boettcher’s win strikes for education, academic rigor, book smarts.[…]The nation’s bibliothecaries are no doubt fist-pumping her victory this week.”

“Specifically, without the assistance of those bibliothecaries who toil at Florida International University, Miami-Dade Public Library System, and the University of Miami, my task of writing a fact-filled but readable guide to the consular institution would not have been as enjoyable as it was.”

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