What's the difference between archivist and librarian?

Archivist


Definition:

  • (n.) A keeper of archives or records.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The former senior KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin, who has died from pneumonia aged 81, will be best remembered for his extraordinary achievement in noting down the contents of top-secret Soviet foreign intelligence files and, at great personal risk, smuggling them out of the secret police headquarters on almost every working day for 12 years.
  • (2) It was Tim, an archivist from Warners whom I had been pestering for years about trying to track down some long-lost film footage.
  • (3) The issue came up after an archivist discovered documents showing that Hitler and the president who appointed him, Paul von Hindenburg, had been given honorary citizenship of Dietramszell.
  • (4) Murray Melvin, a member of Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company, now the theatre's honorary archivist, recalled the original cast's extraordinary experience.
  • (5) We can do four or five hundred a day,” says one of the archivists, Lucas Behmer.
  • (6) A team of specialist conservation staff from Historic Scotland is now working with the school's own archivists to retrieve and conserve vulnerable materials.
  • (7) As theatre director emeritus and honorary archivist of the Victoria theatre collection at Staffordshire University, he continued his involvement with the theatre he loved.
  • (8) It’s a great surprise for the new year,” said archivist Niurbus Ferrer.
  • (9) Directed by Franny Armstrong (a documentary film-maker and outrider for the Guardian's 10:10 campaign), The Age of Stupid cast Pete Postlethwaite as a mournful archivist in 2055, looking at footage from 2008 of flash floods and rampant air travel and wondering where it all went wrong.
  • (10) What I believe could [provide] context here is that back in the early 20th century there was a small student group that adopted the name Ku Klux Klan,” said archivist William Maher at the University of Illinois, who was listed in the published phone numbers, told the Guardian.
  • (11) A team of archivists is busy cleaning, photographing and indexing crates full of 33, 45 and 78 RPMs.
  • (12) The American diplomatic cables show a long and increasingly futile effort on behalf of the embassy to mediate between the Vatican archivists and outside historians, bedevilled by mutual mistrust.
  • (13) Andrei Tarkovsky: it's time to immerse yourself in the work of a true auteur Read more Many of the images which are particularly technically flawed are expected to be among the most coveted when the collection is sold by his son Andrey, who is also his archivist, at Bonhams auction house in October.
  • (14) According to Lionel Joseph, 90, who was the CTC's archivist until he turned 83, the name change, which came about in 1883, was prompted by protests from those who favoured three wheels over two.
  • (15) Pete Postlethwaite, who stars in the film as an archivist in 2050 looking back at the opportunities mankind had to stop climate change, will arrive in a solar-powered car.
  • (16) After working for King, Maude and Leonard Ballou moved on to what is now Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina, where Leonard Ballou was an archivist.
  • (17) Specialist archivists from the Glasgow School of Art have begun the operation to conserve items damaged by the fire that ripped through the Charles Rennie Mackintosh building in the city centre on Friday.
  • (18) Blake, the assiduous archivist, photographed them – an image now in the Cardiff show, alongside the train ticket he bought for his journey there – and regarded their meeting as a good omen.
  • (19) Volunteer Archivist and Alumni Events Organiser City University London.
  • (20) In recent years, publishers, authors, and archivists have become aware of the destructive effects of acid decay on medical journals.

Librarian


Definition:

  • (n.) One who has the care or charge of a library.
  • (n.) One who copies manuscript books.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
  • (2) The value of the library committee, commission, or council has been debated by librarians in various types of libraries.
  • (3) Budgeting is a responsibility faced by all hospital librarians.
  • (4) We donated to the Ferguson library so that they will be there for everyone who understands that stories are part of what makes us human, makes us people, makes us who we are, and helps us to become more.” A book drive for the library has also been set up by Angie Manfredi , a New Mexico librarian and book blogger, and young adult writer Joelle Charbonneau has been helping to co-ordinate donations of signed copies.
  • (5) Seven hundred and twenty-eight chief librarians were identified in the population: 57 percent were professional librarians while the remainder were without a graduate library degree.
  • (6) Since one of the underpinnings of education is threatened by reductions in library collections, actions must be taken by publishers, librarians, faculty, and professional associations to ameliorate the present situation and to limit additional increases in serial prices.
  • (7) It is intended as a guide to the development of a collection for librarians and for health professionals in research and education.
  • (8) The data processing equipment and computers that have permitted librarians to explore different ways of presenting cataloging information are discussed.
  • (9) The library and the librarian will, therefore, become more directly involved in the practice of medicine, and the library will be a more crucial resource in providing superior patient-care.
  • (10) It is what made American librarians into such doughty defenders of private reading.
  • (11) Publishers, librarians, faculty, and consumers of scientific information perceive the situation differently.
  • (12) I nearly needed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation,” said the retired librarian.
  • (13) Five target audiences were identified: library users, staff, librarian peers, library science students, and patients.
  • (14) This growth presents problems: copyright, quality, instability in the publishing industry, and uncertainty about collection scope; librarians managing the new services require new skills to support their collections.
  • (15) The librarian – he was a very tall gentleman with a pretty dark beard – went off and figured it out.
  • (16) Halifax District Hospital's Medical Library, Daytona Beach, Florida was altered from two dingy rooms to a modern, well-equipped Medical Library twice its former size by its maintenance men in six months time, with the help of the librarian's sketches and an architect student from the junior college to draw the plans.A complete renovation was done, eighteen-inch walls between rooms being demolished, plumbing, ceiling, and windows removed.
  • (17) It identifies three basic information retrieval and communication services provided by reference librarians and characterizes the negligent provision of information as a failure to exercise care in one or more of the three.
  • (18) It is remarkable, and a credit to the determination of Vietnam's librarians that, in a country with a legacy of war, economic deprivation, and international isolation, they have somehow managed to provide a sound basic level of information services for health care professionals.
  • (19) Finally, the role of the librarian as the key integrating force in developing a sound building plan is emphasized.
  • (20) THE FINDINGS OF THE STUDY WILL BE PRESENTED IN THREE FUTURE REPORTS: (1) a descriptive analysis of the programs; (2) a description of the characteristics of all former trainees in medical librarianship who responded to a questionnaire and a discussion of their reactions to their training programs; and (3) a comparison, based on selected characteristics, of a group of former trainees who are currently employed in medical libraries with a group of medical librarians who did not go through special training programs.

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