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rental library

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variants or lending library

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Recent Examples of rental library All proceeds from the event will benefit the Lakewood Toolbox, a tool rental library that allows community members an affordable and educational option for borrowing tools. — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 5 Oct. 2020

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There are also the journalists, the athletes, and the kids who spend sunny days doing contact improv, which was invented at Oberlin, tangling their limbs in the grass outside the library.

— Jesse Dougherty, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Rarely has a film so resourcefully evoked the transportive but decidedly analog thrill of reading; rarely has the warmly musty smell of research libraries and archives somehow wafted with such sense-memory precision off a cinema screen.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

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Hermès artisans still saddle stitch leather goods by hand and screen-print scarves using an archive of more than seventy-five thousand proprietary colors.

— Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
Best Brunch Muffins This classic blueberry recipe from our archives is loved by readers.

— Ginger Crichton, Midwest Living, 6 Sep. 2026

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