Meanings
nounbookshelver (plural bookshelvers)
plural bookshelvers
- A person who places or arranges books on shelves in a library, etc.
As a freshman at U.N.M., she’d had a work-study job as a bookshelver at the medical library—the worst job she’d ever had. It was the terminal quiet that had bugged her; trying to shelve books extra-quietly so as not to disturb anyone’s studying.
1995, A[aron] A[lbert] Carr, chapter 40, in Eye Killers (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series; 13), Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 182
Origin
From book + shelver or bookshelf + -er.
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APA
bookshelver. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bookshelver
MLA
“bookshelver.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bookshelver. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bookshelver,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bookshelver.
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