A subscription library(also membership library or independent library) is a library that is financed by private funds either from membership fees or endowments...
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sophisticated. Circulating libraries also charged a subscription fee. However, these fees were set to entice their patrons, providing subscriptions on a yearly, quarterly...
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"These 'libraries' would be called rental collections today." Private subscription libraries functioned much like commercial subscription libraries, with...
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London Library is an independent lending library in London, established in 1841. Membership is open to all, on payment of an annual subscription, with...
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The Australian Subscription Library was the first library to exist outside of private collections in Australia. Started in 1826 as the 'Sydney Australian...
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Score Library Project (IMSLP), also known as the Petrucci Music Library after publisher Ottaviano Petrucci, is a subscription-based digital library of public-domain...
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One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) is a one-stop digital library in India with institutional access to global research in various academic disciplines...
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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...
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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...
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WHSmith (redirect from W.H. Smith & Son's Subscription Library)
(Autumn): 285-291. Lange, Ernst Philipp K. (1861). "W. H. Smith & Son's Subscription Library (advert)". The madman of St. James', tr. from the Germ. of Philip...
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Bromley House Library (originally the Nottingham Subscription Library) is a subscription library in Nottingham, England. The library is situated in Bromley...
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The Warrington Circulating Library of Warrington, England, was a subscription library established in 1760. It became part of the Warrington Museum in 1848...
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Charleston Library Society, founded in 1748, is a subscription library in Charleston, South Carolina. The library is the third oldest subscription library in...
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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...
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The Tabard Inn Library was a circulating subscription library with numerous exchange stations (also known as sub-stations) across the United States. It...
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Microsoft Developer Network (redirect from MSDN subscription)
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...
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Portico Library, The Portico or Portico Library and Gallery on Mosley Street in Manchester, England, is an independent subscription library designed...
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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...
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her £1,200 if she could add a third volume.: 40 Outside of the subscription library system's three-volume novels, the public could access literature...
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Hall Library is located at 17 Donegall Square North, Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is the oldest library in Belfast and the last subscribing library in...
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of men founded the South Australian Subscription Library, with a collection created by donation and subscriptions, and in 1845 it took over the collection...
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Serials crisis (redirect from Big deal (subscription model))
problem of rising subscription costs of serial publications, especially scholarly journals, outpacing academic institutions' library budgets and limiting...
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The Redwood Library and Athenaeum is a subscription library, museum, rare book repository and research center founded in 1747, and located at 50 Bellevue...
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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...
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building. In 1879, the Honolulu Library and Reading Room Association was formed. The HLRRA was Hawaii's second subscription library and was supported by the...
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novels; they required a substantial subscription that many lower class readers couldn't afford. Circulating libraries were important cultural institutions...
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public libraries, and subscription libraries. It may also refer to a library or other institution that sends materials on request to another library, usually...
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The Portland Library Society (originally named Falmouth Library Society, also known as Portland Library) was a subscription library in Portland, Maine...
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library in Barre was a small subscription library established in 1848. In 1873, the Barre Library Association was organized, as a formal subscription...
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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...
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