circulating library

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Describes a type of library from which books may be borrowed for use outside the library.

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  • In the 19th century, the rise of the circulating library made books accessible to a wider audience.
  • Our town's public library functions as a circulating library, allowing residents to borrow up to twenty items.
  • Unlike a reference library, a circulating library lets you take the books home.
  • She paid a small subscription fee to join the local circulating library.
  • The old bookstore on the corner once operated as a private circulating library.
  • Many early novels gained popularity through their distribution in the circulating library system.
  • Is this a reference collection, or is it part of the main circulating library?
  • The mobile van serves as a circulating library for rural communities.
  • His research involved studying the records of a Victorian-era circulating library.
  • The main purpose of a circulating library is to promote reading by lending out books.