Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin is commonly credited with starting the first lending library in the United States in 1731 in Philadelphia. Franklin and a group of friends created the Library Company of Philadelphia as a subscription library where members paid to borrow books.
It is impossible to know who founded the first library. However, we do know that Ptolemy I founded a massive library at Alexandria, Egypt, in the fourth century BCE. Benjamin Franklin started the first American free lending library at Philadelphia, PA.
Benjamin Franklin
The first lending library in America was Philadelphia's Library Company. The city of Philadelphia established the first library in America.
Library circulation or library lending comprises the activities around the lending of library books and other material to users of a lending library.
The first 'lending' public library was in England, it is located in the London Guildhall and it was built in 1425. The first library in Europe was a private one, founded in France by King Charles V in 1368.
The first public library was opened in Athens in 330 BC. The earliest known library was in Nineveh in Babylonian times.
The first subscription library in Arkansas was founded by the Ladies’ Library Association in Little Rock in 1847. Its purpose was to provide a lending library for its members and promote literary culture in the community.
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A place where books are stored for easy use and lending to the public.
Benjamin Franklin started the first library in Philadelphia