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bibliographer

bibliographer

1 8.9
A person who makes lists of books and articles
  • noun
  • /ˌbɪbliˈɡrɑːfər/
: bibliógrafo
  • The bibliographer carefully selected and organized all the sources for the research paper.
  • Studies bibliographers
  • American bibliographers
  • South Asia bibliographers

Some introducers play the bibliographer, reading out a virtual card catalog of their subjects books.

Examples

  • For librarians, this effort also involves a traditional role: the librarian as subject specialist or bibliographer.

    Academic text (2008)
  • The bibliography cites 1,849 titles and a list of 136 contributing bibliographers.

    Academic text (1993)
  • In other words, like the other bibliographers mentioned in this section, he makes no reference to the subject boundary of American Studies.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Some introducers play the bibliographer, reading out a virtual card catalog of their subjects books.

  • Yet, without a more or less delimited knowledge base, the bibliographer would find it hard to avoid arbitrariness and gaps in book selection.

    Academic text (1992)
  • For bibliographers, a clarification of terminology may be necessary before further discussion.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Her data indicated that in 2007, 92 percent of South Asia bibliographers used LC's programs to build their collections.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Their answers are important in weighing collection decisions in the near future because bibliographers welcome information about the use of materials added to the library's collections.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Although a long-standing problem among the Americanists, it has seldom been discussed from the bibliographers' point of view.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Yet the issue is largely ignored by American Studies bibliographers who tend to improvise with some pragmatic, ad hoc solutions.

    Academic text (1992)

Synonyms

compiler
vsbibliographer
2 5.4

A person who collects and puts together information from different sources for a book or report

is trained to create detailed source lists for books and research

Surface Forms

bibliographer singular

Morphology

bibliographer = bibliograph (semi-transparent) = biblio + graph + er

The word is a regular agent noun built from a specialized base, so the form is clear but the base itself is not highly familiar to average learners.

Etymology

Bibliographer comes from Greek parts biblio- 'book' and -grapher 'one who writes or records', like in photographer. So a bibliographer is a person who makes careful lists or records of books and articles.