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Lending library

A lending library is a library from which books and other media are lent out. The major classifications are endowed libraries, institutional libraries (the most diverse), public libraries, and subscription libraries. It may also refer to a library or other institution that sends materials on request to another library, usually via interlibrary loan.

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History

Types of lending libraries

Endowment libraries

Parish church libraries

Municipal corporation libraries

Social libraries

Hidden libraries

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Lending library

Nodes40
Edges39
Triples30
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.05
Components1

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Lending library

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related to history · 19
Lending library → Brit, C'Tess Pembroke Ps, Cambridge, Chamberlayne, CXII, England, English, Gt, He, III, Lending-libraries, Most, Public Libraries Act, School District Library Acts, St, The, The Libraries, This, United States
related to Hidden libraries · 4
Lending library → Hidden, It, Libraries, The Tabard Inn Library
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Lending library → library from which books and other media are lent out

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libraries library books public also church subscription parish lending use endowed institutional england 1850 early private history parochial municipal english

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Lending libraryis alibrary from which books and other media are lent out0.90text
St James' Churchinstance ofand promoted the circulation of books so that the inhabitants of the parish could take them home.Some contemporary churches0.80text
Sydneyinstance ofand promoted the circulation of books so that the inhabitants of the parish could take them home.Some contemporary churches0.80text
maintain lending libraries on theologicalinstance ofand promoted the circulation of books so that the inhabitants of the parish could take them home.Some contemporary churches0.80text
religious subjects for the use of their parishioners.Parochial librariesParochial libraries were defined by Kelly to distinguish them from parish church librariesinstance ofand promoted the circulation of books so that the inhabitants of the parish could take them home.Some contemporary churches0.80text
whose books could be used by the localsinstance ofand promoted the circulation of books so that the inhabitants of the parish could take them home.Some contemporary churches0.80text
were often chained to desksinstance ofand promoted the circulation of books so that the inhabitants of the parish could take them home.Some contemporary churches0.80text
Lending libraryrelated to Hidden librariesIt0.60section
Lending libraryrelated to Hidden librariesHidden0.60section
Lending libraryrelated to Hidden librariesLibraries0.60section
Lending libraryrelated to Hidden librariesThe Tabard Inn Library0.60section
Lending libraryrelated to historyThe0.60section

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