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He shelves work done by others (9)

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I believe the answer is:

librarian

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'he shelves work done by others' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'he' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'he' could be 'ian' and 'ian' is located in the answer.
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(Other definitions for librarian that I've seen before include "Custodian of a collection of books" , "employee in Reading office?" , "Browsers need her" , "job!" , "Book keeper" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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