public library

noun

a nonprofit library established for the use of the general public and maintained chiefly by public funds.

Origin of public library

First recorded in 1605–15

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024

You can Google yourself at your local public library or ask the research desk where the secret books about you are shelved.
Aubrey Plaza’s Great Disconnect | Aubrey Plaza | August 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Sued a public library that blocked access to pro-gun websites.
P.J. O’Rourke: Who Really Actually Wants This Bill of Rights? | P. J. O’Rourke | April 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
A pop over to the New York public library provided access to the journal.
The Story Behind The World’s Greatest Headline | Brandy Zadrozny | January 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
This was made for an exhibit at the New York public library in 1992.
Anthony Grafton: How I Write | Noah Charney | July 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
His name is also on the main building of the New York public library, to which he contributed $100 million.
Stephen Schwarzman on His New Scholars Program: ‘I Love Picking People’ | Daniel Gross | April 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST

He used to think then, what a wonderful thing a public library was, a place where anybody, anybody at all could go in and read.
Time Enough at Last | Lyn Venable
The year before the peace the first public library in the Colony, the Redwood Library, was founded.
A short history of Rhode Island | George Washington Greene
He would wait until morning and go to the public library where he could look up the references with no questions asked.
The Winning Clue | James Hay, Jr.
If the girl has no books of her own she should ask for advice and help at the public library.
The Canadian Girl at Work | Marjory MacMurchy
They are better than a public library where the books must be hurried back at a given date.
Girls and Women | Harriet E. Paine (AKA E. Chester}

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