circulating library

noun

a library whose books can be borrowed by its members or subscribers.

lending library.

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1735–45

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circulating library

—n
1.	another name (esp US) for lending library
2.	a small library circulated in turn to a group of schools or other institutions
3.	a rare name for subscription library

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"My residence was more favorable, not only to thought, but to serious reading, than a university; and though I was beyond the range of the ordinary circulating library, I had more than ever come within the influence of those books which circulate round the world, whose sentences were first written on bark, and are now merely copied from time to time on to linen paper."

-Henry David Thoreau