librarianship

English

Etymology

From librarian +‎ -ship.

Noun

librarianship (countable and uncountable, plural librarianships)

1. The act of operating of a library; service as a librarian
   • 1979 April 14, Peg Cruikshank, “Publish or Perish”, in Gay Community News, page 10:

     For several years, Booklegger has been serving readers interested in radical librarianship, alternative books sources, and feminism, and now it has published a guide called The Passionate Perils of Publishing.

Derived terms

• e-librarianship

 

Translations

the act of operating of a library; service as a librarian

• Azerbaijani: kitabxanaçılıq
• Crimean Tatar: kitaphanecilik
• Czech: knihovnictví n
• Hebrew: ספרנות (he) f (safranut)
• Irish: leabharlannaíocht f
• Polish: bibliotekarstwo (pl) n
• Turkish: kütüphanecilik (tr)
• Uzbek: kutubxonachilik (uz)