to reshelve
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- verb
- /riːˈʃɛlv/
- When my car could hold no more books, she handed me a large envelope and explained that one of her jobs as assistant librarian had been to check the returned books before reshelving them.
- reshelve the books
Examples
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No one is present except the children's librarian, a young woman, reshelving books in the stacks.
Fiction book (1993) -
Third, I am the only adult in a library that serves over 700 students, and I have observed that the number of books that I can allow students to circulate is limited not by their desire to obtain books but by my ability to reshelve them.
Academic text (2006) -
Other students were scheduled to reshelve books at recess times.
Academic text (2007) -
This program is a way for me to keep hundreds of books in active circulation without having to reshelve or recard items.
Academic text (2006) -
We can reshelve the books, tidy the shelves, change the displays, all to make the library a better place.
Academic text (2007) -
I worked in the library as a floater, usually reshelving books, sometimes behind the front desk, sometimes in the offices upstairs.
Fiction book (1996) -
Randy moves down the aisle, reshelving videos.
Fiction book (1996) -
Librarians are no longer the people who tell kids to be quiet then reshelve books; they are teachers, leaders, learners, risk-takers, and knowledge seekers.
Academic text (2015) -
I guess I better reshelve my (currently alphabetical by author) books before my Proust volumes start smacking up the Piserchia paperbacks.
Blog text (10) -
I returned to the reference section and started reshelving the encyclopedias.
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Etymology
Reshelve is made of re- ('again') and shelf ('a board where you put books'), so it means to 'put back on a shelf'. That's why to reshelve something is to return books or items to their places on the shelves.