bookshelver
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From book + shelver or bookshelf + -er.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bookshelver (plural bookshelvers)
- 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.