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

So well are these unfortunate persons' names known by those who read the book in England, that in the copy which I have from a circulating library, they are all filled out in pencil.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker