单词 | social library |
释义 | > as lemmassocial library social library n. North American (now historical) a member-owned library maintained by subscription or by the purchase of shares. ΚΠ c1765–80 in New Eng. Hist. & Gen. Reg. (1868) 22 446 We the Subscribers being desirous of purchasing a Social Library..do severally promise and engage to pay Four Dollars a piece for this purpose. 1835 Southern Literary Messenger 1 272 Lectures and social Libraries..are among the chief glories of New England. 1910 A. E. Bostwick Amer. Public Libr. 7 The joint-stock form of library is in its simplest form a book club, as in the so called ‘social libraries’ of Massachusetts. 1999 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 70 395 The social library that arose in De Funiak Springs, Florida, shortly after the establishment of the independent Chautauqua there in 1884. < as lemmas |
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