Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who specializes in finding information on the Internet or managing digital information.
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- noun One who maintains a
cybrary ; alibrarian who works withdigital resourcesonline .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Blend of cyber– and librarian.]
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Examples
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Sharon Middle-High School librarian - or "cybrarian," as Principal Leonard Rich likes to call her - Molly Matchak helps keep students 'heads in both worlds.
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Sharon Middle-High School librarian - or "cybrarian," as Principal Leonard Rich likes to call her - Molly Matchak helps keep students 'heads in both worlds.
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At that time, I reformulated the role of librarian into that of 'cybrarian', ie managing "just in time, just for you" information streams to senior management who were not in any real sense using the physical library resources anymore.
P2P Foundation 2009
minivet commented on the word cybrarian
Neologism alert! And a pretty clumsy one, I might add.
December 10, 2006
andrew.simone commented on the word cybrarian
Definitely going into my Words that Shouldn't be
December 10, 2006
seanahan commented on the word cybrarian
This is indeed an ugly word.
December 10, 2006