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
He found that her life was a very idle one, and that she was perpetually reading the same books,—the dear dilapidated volumes of popular novels that were to be had at every circulating library.
From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
