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My constituency contains a small library, the first lending library not set up by a local authority but by the local laird.
The existence of a first-class free public lending library system in this country has meant that fewer people buy books than would normally be the case.
It has its own lending library as well as a blood bank for humanitarian purposes.
Brassey paid his navvies and gangers a wage and provided food, clothing, shelter and, in some projects, a lending library.
Tehni runs a film club, a youth centre, a theatre workshop, a music workshop and a lending library specialising in music and drama.
Among these were its first newspaper, lending library, parliament, historical museum, and governing body for the legal profession.
Another example would be funding for the public lending library service, which local authorities have a statutory duty to support.
The one is a reference library; the other is a lending library.
