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
Who would read a clean new copy of Robinson Crusoe when he might have one that had seen service in a circulating library, or had been well thumbed by several generations of adventure-loving boys?
From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard
