A subscription library (also membership library or independent library) is a library that is financed by private funds either from membership fees or endowments...

"These 'libraries' would be called rental collections today." Private subscription libraries functioned much like commercial subscription libraries, with...

sophisticated. Circulating libraries also charged a subscription fee. However, these fees were set to entice their patrons, providing subscriptions on a yearly, quarterly...

Score Library Project (IMSLP), also known as the Petrucci Music Library after publisher Ottaviano Petrucci, is a subscription-based digital library of public-domain...

The Australian Subscription Library was the first library to exist outside of private collections in Australia. Started in 1826 as the 'Sydney Australian...

London Library is an independent lending library in London, established in 1841. Membership is open to all, on payment of an annual subscription, with...

1890), English publisher and founder of Mudie's Lending Library and Mudie's Subscription Library, was the son of a second-hand bookseller and newsagent...

to the Australian Subscription Library established in the colony of New South Wales (now a state of Australia) in 1826. The library is located on the...

of men founded the South Australian Subscription Library, with a collection created by donation and subscriptions, and in 1845 it took over the collection...

One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) is a one-stop digital library in India with institutional access to global research in various academic disciplines...

Bromley House Library (originally the Nottingham Subscription Library) is a subscription library in Nottingham, England. The library is situated in Bromley...

a home library service that started in 1900. The Book Lover's library acquired a large subscription list of members of the Tabard Inn Library that could...

The Tabard Inn Library was a circulating subscription library with numerous exchange stations (also known as sub-stations) across the United States. It...

When Green was thirty, he became a member of the Nottingham Subscription Library. This library exists today, and was likely the main source of Green's advanced...

The library was freely available on the web, with CDs and DVDs of the most recent materials initially issued quarterly as part of an MSDN subscription. However...

Charleston Library Society, founded in 1748, is a subscription library in Charleston, South Carolina. The library is the third oldest subscription library in...

public libraries, and subscription libraries. It may also refer to a library or other institution that sends materials on request to another library, usually...

The Leeds Library is the oldest surviving subscription library of its type in the UK. It was founded in 1768, following an advertisement placed in the...

problem of rising subscription costs of serial publications, especially scholarly journals, outpacing academic institutions' library budgets and limiting...

The Portland Library Society (originally named Falmouth Library Society, also known as Portland Library) was a subscription library in Portland, Maine...

The Warrington Circulating Library of Warrington, England, was a subscription library established in 1760. It became part of the Warrington Museum in 1848...

building in 1997. York's first subscription library opened in 1794, but it was only in 1893 that the city's first public library was opened in Clifford Street...

The Redwood Library and Athenaeum is a subscription library, museum, rare book repository and research center founded in 1747, and located at 50 Bellevue...

novels; they required a substantial subscription that many lower class readers couldn't afford. Circulating libraries were important cultural institutions...

The Lanier Library Association is a subscription library in Tryon, North Carolina. Established on 9 January 1889, it is named for Sidney Lanier. The Lanier...

Scribd is a digital document library that hosts over 195 million documents. Everand is a digital content subscription service offering a wide selection...

listened to readings and discussions of books from the Tradesman's Subscription Library, which his father had helped create. Later in Pennsylvania, while...

community's book supply grew too large. Today, Coal Creek Library is considered the oldest subscription library in the state. Vinland was not legally platted until...

of a main theatre, a smaller studio theatre, a restaurant and a subscription library. It has also served as a mechanics' institute, an art exhibition...

Society Library (NYSL) is the oldest cultural institution in New York City. It was founded in 1754 by the New York Society as a subscription library. During...