#lending library

[djkerr]

Noah Wyle started a Lending Library for the cast and crew of The Pitt.

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[pernicious-cobalt]

Is there anyway I can find a place to watch The Murderbot Diaries that's not apple TV...

[walks-the-ages]

The Internet Archive is currently (October 11th 2024) after being hacked.

Once the site is back up and running, please take the time to reset your password if you have an account!

[scotianostra]

On November 1st 1756 the Wanlockhead Miner’s Library was established, the second oldest subscription Library in Scotland and indeed Europe.

It was only the second subscription library for working people to be founded anywhere in the World. It was closely modelled on the first, the neighbouring Leadhills Library, founded over ten years earlier in 1741.

Throughout the mid eighteenth and nineteenth centuries libraries like Wanlockhead flourished, it is one of the few remaining examples of a phenomenon which was once found throughout Scotland. That of the community (or subscription) library. A community library is really a sort of club. Members can join upon payment of an entry fee and afterward pay a yearly subscription. Money raised in this way was mostly fed back into the purchase of stock and gradually a permanent library is accumulated.

The founding of a library suggests that there were high levels of literacy amongst the local population. The ability of the miners to read and write can be traced back to the village school which was established by the Duke of Bucchleuch in the eighteenth century and a teacher was employed to teach local children.

The Society has a fascinating history for example it amassed a collection of around 3,717 books by 1925, although only around 2572 or around two-thirds are housed in the library today.

Having ceased to function as a working library in the early 1930s the fate of the book collection and society archives appeared sealed. However, having been looked after by villagers for a number of years, the preservation and promotion of the collection became a fundamental aim of Wanlockhead Museum Trust when it was formed in 1974. The Miner’s Library collection itself became a ‘Recognised Collection of National Significance’ in 2008. A survey of its archives was recently added to the National Records and Archives of Scotland Register.

In addition to gaining this official recognition, the Museum was also awarded £40,000 by Museums and Galleries Scotland which was used to research and promote the collection.

More about the Leadhills Museum and the library here

Scotland's Only Lead Mining Museum | Museum of Lead Mining

Discover the history surrounding Wanlockhead village, Lochnell Mine and the stories of the people who lived and worked here.

[victusinveritas]

This is the best thing ever and also ooh Mission Impossible 2.

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Interesting

[geezerwench]

Alan Ramsay’s poetry is still read and appreciated in Scotland but is not well known elsewhere. But whatever his enduring fame as a poet, Ramsay made a social contribution that many of us still continue to enjoy today.

In 1718, Ramsay gave up his successful business as a wigmaker and opened a bookstore in Edinburgh. Books were expensive luxuries in those days, and few people could afford extensive libraries. To make books affordable to more people, Ramsay hit upon the idea of renting them. For a modest subscription fee, patrons of Ramsay’s store could borrow books, read them, then return them without having to buy them. His innovation was soon copied throughout Britain.

In 1731, Benjamin Franklin and other members of the Junto Club in Philadelphia adapted Ramsay’s model. They pooled their money and bought enough books to create a respectable library, with all the members being allowed use of the books. But they also allowed non-members to borrow the books, provided they left a deposit equal to the value of the book, which was returned to them when they returned the book. That was the first lending library in America.

Alan Ramsay, creator of the first lending library, died on January 7, 1758.

The portrait is by William Aikman (1722).

[shuttermug]

stopped at this little free library... it's the little things that make all the difference in brightening the everyday.

I brought this really stunning edition of the second book in the Foundation series home with me. next time I'm in the area I'm bringing some book donations this this and the other nearby little free library 🩵📚☮️