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lending library

noun

Also called circulating library, rental library. a small library that is maintained by a commercial establishment, as a drugstore, and is composed largely of current books that are lent to customers for a fee.
Chiefly British. a public library that lends materials or the division or section of it that carries out this function.

lending library

Also called (esp US)circulating library the department of a public library providing books for use outside the building
a small commercial library

First recorded in 1700–10

I shall be there all the afternoon giving out the lending-library books, and a good many volumes need re-covering.

At about the same time a lending library of reference books was established in connection with the work of the society.

Satisfied that his entrance was unobserved he strolled casually in and began looking over the volumes in the lending library.

As a general rule, these libraries were divided into the lending library and the library of reference.

In another room the lending library is attracting large numbers.

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