lending library

lending library
1. Also called circulating library, rental library. a small library that is maintained by a commercial establishment, as a drugstore, and is composed largely of current books that are lent to customers for a fee.
2. Chiefly Brit. a public library that lends materials or the division or section of it that carries out this function.
[1700-10]

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