@article{bibcite_10321,
  author = {Keith A. Manley},
  title = {Scottish Circulating and Subscription Libraries as Community Libraries},
  abstract = {<p>Before the advent of public libraries, people who wished to borrow books for home reading frequented circulating and subscription libraries . These libraries were run on commercial principles but can be regarded as community libraries, providing cultural and educational reading material to a predominantly local community. Private subscription libraries were favoured in Scotland before they multiplied in England, while commercial circulating libraries owe much to Alan Ramsay{\textquoteright}s famous library in Edinburgh.</p>},
  year = {2003},
  journal = {Library History},
  volume = {19},
  pages = {185-94},
  language = {English},
}