librarianship
Americannoun
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a profession concerned with acquiring and organizing collections of books and related materials in libraries and servicing readers and others with these resources.
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the position or duties of a librarian.
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Cleary graduated from the University of Washington’s School of Librarianship and worked as a children’s librarian in Yakima.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2021
She graduated from the School of Librarianship at the University of Washington, worked as a librarian in Yakima, and has received the highest alumni honor at UW.
From Washington Times • Mar. 31, 2021
“In some places, entire school libraries are in the situation where they have to do fundraising to receive books,” said Audrey Church, director of the School Librarianship graduate program at Longwood University.
From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2020
Librarianship really felt like a calling to me, honestly.
From Slate • Mar. 3, 2017
The Whig party accepted his partisanship, but had no opportunity of rewarding it, and after receiving the Librarianship of the London Institution in Moorfields, he died of apoplexy in 1808.
From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by Saintsbury, George
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