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Definition of Circulating library
1. Noun. Library that provides books for use outside the building.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Circulating Library
Literary usage of Circulating library
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1906)
"ATTRACT CUSTOM AND MAKE MONEY ESTABLISH IN YOUR STORE A Tabard Inn Circulating
Library OF YOUR OWN There are now in circulation in the United States fully a ..."
2. The Census of Massachusetts: 1875 by Carroll Davidson Wright, Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor (1876)
"Campbell's circulating library. Backup's circulating library. Bixby's Circulating
Library. Broadway circulating library. Carter's circulating library. ..."
3. The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760 by Myra Reynolds (1920)
"In 1751 a circulating library was opened in Birmingham by the famous William H
uU on, who wrote in his Autobiography, " I was the first who opened a ..."
4. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York public library (1921)
"... Aguilar Free Library Society, Washington Heights Free Library, St. Agnes Free
Library, Harlem Library, New York Free circulating library for the Blind, ..."