bibliographer
- noun
- /ˌbɪbliˈɡrɑːfər/
- The bibliographer carefully selected and organized all the sources for the research paper.
- Studies bibliographers
- American bibliographers
- South Asia bibliographers
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Watch on YouTubeSome introducers play the bibliographer, reading out a virtual card catalog of their subjects books.
- Some introducers play the bibliographer, reading out a virtual card catalog of their subjects books.
Examples
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
A person who collects and puts together information from different sources for a book or report
Surface Forms
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.