After further investigation, I found that this is a duplicate of MCPE-79433 . I destroyed the barrels that I was using as storage and the new villager now properly links to the lectern. You can close this issue and link it to the other one.
Also affects 1.18.12
Frederic
After further investigation, I found that this is a duplicate of MCPE-79433 . I destroyed the barrels that I was using as storage and the new villager now properly links to the lectern. You can close this issue and link it to the other one.