bookshelver

English

Etymology

From book +‎ shelver or bookshelf +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

bookshelver (plural bookshelvers)

1. A person who places or arranges books on shelves in a library etc.

   Hypernym: shelver

   • 1995, A[aron] A[lbert] Carr, chapter 40, in Eye Killers (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series; 13), Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 182:

     As a freshman at U.N.M., she’d had a work-study job as a bookshelver at the medical library—the worst job she’d ever had. It was the terminal quiet that had bugged her; trying to shelve books extra-quietly so as not to disturb anyone’s studying.