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Booklovers' Library
Booklover's Library was located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It published a monthly magazine, ''Booklovers Magazine''. The Booklovers' library had an invite-only membership and was 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 be solicited for other business and home delivery of books. The Booklovers' library owned both the Tabard Inn Library and the Bodley Club Library. The Bodley Club library was specifically to service libraries, and books appeared in blue covers to prevent them from being turned in at Tabard Inn library stations, as public libraries tended to lend the books out free of charge. In one of the Booklovers Stock offers, a Rugby library for children and Temple library targeting Sunday Schools was also in the planning states in April 1903. The Booklovers Magazine would run special offers. For $3, patrons could have an annual subscription to the magazine. For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circulating Library
A circulating library (also known as lending libraries and rental libraries) lent books to subscribers, and was first and foremost a business venture. The intention was to profit from lending books to the public for a fee. Overview Circulating libraries offered an alternative in the 18th and 19th centuries to the large number of readers who could not afford the price of new books but also desired new reading material. Many circulating libraries were perceived as the provider of sensational novels to a female clientele but that was not always the case. Many private circulating libraries in Europe were created for scientific and/or literary audiences. In Britain, readers in the middle classes depended on these institutions to provide access to the latest fiction novels; they required a substantial subscription that many lower class readers couldn't afford. Circulating libraries were important cultural institutions in Britain and America during the 18th and 19th centuries, affording ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
