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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