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English
Etymology
From Latin bibliothēcārius: compare French bibliothécaire.
Noun
bibliothecary (plural bibliothecaries)
- (now rare) A librarian.
1644 December 4 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, , 2nd edition, volume I, London: Henry Colburn, ; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, , published 1819, →OCLC, page 120:Hence we went to the house of Hippolito Vitellesco (afterwards Bibliothecary of ye Vatican Library) […]
1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy: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.
2017 February 17, Charlotte O’Sullivan, “True story of the black backroom girls in the American space race”, in Evening Standard, page 34: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.”
2019 June 9, The Editorial Board, USA Today, “I’ll take ‘The Importance of Education’ for $1,000, Alex”, in The News-Press, volume 135th, number 165, page 40A:More important, though, is the blow Boettcher’s win strikes for education, academic rigor, book smarts. […] The nation’s bibliothecaries are no doubt fist-pumping her victory this week.
2020, Cami Green Hofstadter, “Acknowledgments”, in Modern Consuls, Local Communities and Globalization, Palgrave Pivot, →ISBN, page vii: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.