[Ads-l] Antedating of "Librarian"

[Shapiro, Fred]

librarian (OED, 2. The keeper or custodian of a library, 1713)


1702 James Kirkwood _A Copy of a Letter Anent a Project, for Erecting a Library, in Every Presbytry, or at Least County, in the Highlands_ 11 (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)  If any do neglect to return any Book by the time limited, the Librarian shall take care to send him notice, the charge of which message he shall pay, besides the forfeiture.


Fred Shapiro



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