LIBRARY:
Circle an "L" in the air. If you are right-handed I recommend you move the "L" hand clockwise from your perspective and counter clockwise from the other person's perspective. If you are left-handed, do a mirror image of the right hand version. Also, if you see someone do the circle the "other" way just smile and remind yourself that there is a lot of variety out there.
LIBRARIAN:
In the old days we used to use the word "AGENT" as the label for the flat-hand version of the PERSON sign. Why? Because it was common in the 80's and 90's (and earlier) to use "P" hands for the general / isolated sign for "person." We labeled the "P" hand version as PERSON.
In order to have a different label for the flat hands version of the sign we used the word AGENT as the label for the version of the sign that we added to various other signs. For example: LIBRARY+AGENT meant to sign LIBRARY and then do the flat hands version of PERSON.
Later, it became unpopular to use the initialized (use an English initial) version of any sign that didn't significantly benefit from the initial for clarity. For example we still as of this writing use an "N" for NURSE).
Over time people started signing "person" using the AGENT sign and started pooh-poohing anyone who still signed "PERSON" using "P" handshapes.
On one of her answers for the for a test a student typed:
"your family any library and agent"
It seems she missed the point of the sign that is sometimes labeled as AGENT.
A proper interpretation of the video would be:
"Is anyone in your family a librarian?"
The study sheet indicated:
"YOUR FAMILY ANY LIBRARY+AGENT?"
The signed concept of LIBRARY plus the concept of AGENT combine to mean "librarian."
It is as if the student was translating from the study sheet rather than from the video which is why she might have interpreted the plus sign "+" as meaning "and." The plus sign is included simply to indicate that two signed concepts are joined.
The sign "AND" was not signed on the video and is not part of that sentence.
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