Sentence examples for post of librarian from inspiring English sources

In 1955 Philip Larkin took up the post of librarian.

Being extremely poor, in 1770 Lessing had no choice but to accept the badly paid post of librarian at Wolfenbüttel, which he had earlier visited in 1766.

In this year a devoted friend, Isaak von Sinclair, obtained for him the sinecure post of librarian to the landgrave Frederick V of Hesse-Homburg.

When he took up the post of librarian in Wellington, Shropshire, in 1943, Larkin was 21 and Ruth Bowman, as she then was, was a schoolgirl of 16.

Excited by the news business, in 1951 he successfully applied for the post of librarian at the Manchester Guardian, a paper he then held in awe.

Libraries had increased in size, but their growth had been haphazard; administration had become weak, standards of service almost nonexistent; funds for acquisition tended to be inadequate; the post of librarian was often looked on as a part-time position; and cataloging was frequently in arrears and lacked proper method.

Originally, after he had spent some years being apprenticed to a local bookseller, he had hopes of becoming a librarian like his father, but after being turned down for the post of city librarian for Cardiff, he decided to open a shop of his own.

These skills qualified him for the post of chief tutor librarian at the Napier College of Science and Technology in Edinburgh (now Edinburgh Napier University) and he and his family moved there in the mid-1960s.

In the archive of the History Centre in Hull, there is a letter from Larkin to a colleague in Oxford in 1978, thanking him for news of the vacant post of Bodley's librarian, but saying that he is reluctant to apply.

Breslin said she was writing after being contacted by Argyll and Bute pupils, who "asked for my support in their protest against the deletion of the posts of school librarians within their secondary schools".

In 1770 Lessing finally found a secure post as librarian for the great collection of the Dukes of Brunswick in Wolffenbüttel, where he remained until his death in 1781.