- cybrarian
- (sy.BRAYR.ee.uhn)n.A librarian who specializes in locating, prioritizing, and organizing information on the internet. [Cyber- + librarian.]Example Citations:Cybrarians are exactly what the name implies: a librarian for the 21st century. Cybrarians have the same research and data gathering skills of traditional librarians, but they apply that knowledge to online technology.—Anthony Balderrama, " 5 careers you might not have heard of: http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/09/06/cb.unusual.careers/index.html," CNN.com, September 6, 2010About a third of the library graduate programs in the United States have now ditched the word library. Not that librarians, as a rule, have begun identifying themselves as information scientists or, for that matter, cybrarians—I use this last word to conjure up the new breed of tech-savvy librarians, part cyborg, part cat's-eye reading glasses.—Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All: http://www.amazon.com/This-Book-Overdue-Librarians-Cybrarians/dp/0061431605/, Harper Books, February 2, 2010Earliest Citation:It has been suggested that in the future information society librarians (or 'cybrarians') should act primarily as link-persons between those with information and those seeking it.—Roderick Cave, "Getting the balance: education for information work in New Zealand for the twenty-first century," New Zealand Libraries Volume 47, March 1, 1992Notes:I thought the term cybrarian had faded away years ago, but it has staged a remarkable comeback of late, helped largely by the release of Marilyn Johnson's book This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All, which received a decent amount of press last year. The variant cyberarian also exists, but that extra syllable ruins the euphony.Related Words: Categories:
New words. 2013.
