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 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
Officials make a decent argument for concentrating on a new central circulating library instead.
From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2013
Books from the circulating library have been known to be treated almost like proof-sheets, and corrections are jotted down in pencil on the margin of the leaves.
From A Lame Dog's Diary by Macnaughtan, S. (Sarah)
