(n.) Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known.
(n.) A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation.
Example Sentences:
(1) "She is a very private person after all, a bookworm really, she once said.
(2) But he argued that his hard labour in the fields had prevented him from studying and attacked "bookworms who ignored their proper occupations" and craved a college education for their own selfish benefits.
(3) She has just got a job in publishing and is a real bookworm, so her advice was valuable.
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(5) Other changes include "housemistress" becoming "teacher", "awful swotter" becoming "bookworm", "mother and father" becoming "mum and dad", "school tunic" becoming "uniform" and Dick's comment that "she must be jolly lonely all by herself" being changed to "she must get lonely all by herself".
(6) Speaking last month at the Bookworm literary festival in Beijing, Hyeonseo Lee , a defector who fled North Korea in 1997, attacked Beijing’s treatment of North Korean defectors.
(7) Sims may love food, family or mischief; they may be hotheaded bookworms, gloomy loners or goofball romantics; they could be driven by dreamy creativity or pure financial greed.
(8) I don’t have a problem with the term “gamer” – to me it signifies what “film buff” or “bookworm” does – someone who is heavily invested in the medium.
(9) Finally, you’ve found another bookworm – and you can judge them by what they’re reading (yes, Middlemarch; no, Ayn Rand).
(10) The ever-busy Cave's one-woman show, Bookworm, debuts at the Edinburgh festival fringe this summer.
(11) In those days, any self-respecting teenage bookworm went to school with a Penguin Modern Classic tucked in a blazer pocket.
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.