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    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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    (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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  • 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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  • 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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