Interlibrary loan allows libraries to provide patrons access to the collections of other libraries, especially rare, infrequently used, specialized and/or out-of-print books. Libraries also lend books to each other, a practice known as. Services may be provided for other groups, such as or materials, and other materials for teenagers, or materials in other than the national language (in foreign languages).
In 1797, there was established at Kendal what was known as the Economical Library, 'designed principally for the use and instruction of the working classes.' The late-18th century saw a rise in subscription libraries intended for the use of tradesmen. The highest percentage of subscribers were often landed proprietors, gentry, and old professions.Towards the end of the 18th century and in the first decades of the 19th century, the demand for books and general education made itself felt among social classes generated by the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. Subscription libraries prided themselves on respectability. There was almost a complete elimination of cheap fiction in the private societies. The accommodations varied from the shelf for a few dozen volumes in the country stationer's or draper's shop, to the expansion to a back room, to the spacious elegant areas of or those at the resorts like Scarborough, and four in a row at Margate.Private-subscription libraries held a greater amount of control over both membership and the types of books in the library. These circulating libraries provided a variety of materials including the increasingly popular. The circulating libraries not only provided a place to sell books, but also a place to lend books for a price. Entrance to the National Library in,The establishment of circulating libraries in the 18th century, by and provided a means of gaining profit and creating social centers within the community. These social and institutional libraries formed the base of many academic and public library collections of today. Matthew Battles states that:It was in these years of class conflict and economic terror that the public library movement swept through Britain, as the nation's progressive elite recognized that the light of cultural and intellectual energy was lacking in the lives of commoners.Public libraries were often started with a donation, or were bequeathed to parishes, churches, schools or towns.
Made in dry rooms available to patrons of the baths, and tried with some success to establish libraries within the empire.In the middle of the 19th century, the push for truly public libraries, paid for by taxes and run by the state gained force.
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