circulating library
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Among its innovations, the store established a circulating library for travelers wintering in Pasadena’s grand resort hotels, who often preferred to rent a book rather than lug it home.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2022
The 100,000 square-foot renovated circulating library, designed by the lesser-known Dutch firm Mecanoo, will not be without eye-catching design features, including what the library describes as the only free, publicly accessible roof terrace in Midtown.
From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2017
The Imperial Library was what’s known as a circulating library.
From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2016
Books were expensive, but for a modest fee you could join a circulating library.
From Slate • Feb. 9, 2016
The young librarian of the circulating library of a Sunday-school, whose pupils came largely from the tenement-houses, was occupied a considerable part of a day in covering and arranging the books.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
