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
There are also broadsides, pamphlets, newspaper clippings and other material that Hooker kept in a kind of circulating library, many with “I.B. Hooker, please return” marked in her handwriting.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 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
When Robert settled at Ellisland he aroused an interest among the people of the district, and succeeded in establishing a circulating library.
From The Real Robert Burns by Hughes, J. L.
