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Membership Libraries

book cover: america's membership libraries

Lanier Library is one of only a few membership/subscription libraries still in operation in the United States.  A recent publication titled, "America's Membership Libraries," edited by Richard Wendorf, Stanford Calderwood Director and Librarian of the Boston Athenaeum, and published by Oak Knoll Press, features sixteen of the remaining libraries.

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1   Link   The Redwood Library and Athenaeum - 1747
2   Link   The Charleston Library Society - 1748
3   Link   The New York Society Library - 1754
4   Link   Boston Athenæum - 1807
5   Link   Salem Athenaeum, 1810
6   Link   The Athenaeum of Philadelphia - 1814
7   Link   The Portsmouth Athenaeum - 1817
8   Link   The Library of the General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen - 1820
9   Link   Mercantile Library for Fiction - 1820
10   Link   The Mercantile Library of Cincinnati - 1835
11   Link   The Providence Athenaeum - 1836
12   Link   The St. Louis Mercantiel Library Association - 1846
13   Link   The Mechanics Institute of San Francisco - 1854
14   Link   The St. Johnsbury Athenaeum - 1871
15   Link   The Lanier Library Association - 1889
16   Link   The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library - 1899