@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org
2026-07-29 04:19 UTC
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@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org 2026-07-29 13:34
"inter-library loan" vs. "interlibrary loan" Google Books Ngram Viewer data comparing across the full corpus (1870–2019), and it gives a real number: around 1925. Here's what the data shows: 1870s–1910s: The hyphenated form dominates entirely — this matches Green's 1876 "Inter-Library Loan of Books" and the early ALA-era usage we found in Library Journal. ~1900s–1920: Both forms are climbing in frequency (unsurprising, as ILL practice was growing), with hyphenated still clearly ahead. 1/2
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@xk3@mastodon.social 2026-07-29 04:26
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org weird that some sources say earlier like 1858??
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@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz 2026-07-29 04:27
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org Everything about the history of public libraries is astonishing to the uninitiated modern person. This one is interesting rather than astounding, of course.
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@bdekoz@indieweb.social 2026-07-29 05:18
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org awesome!!
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@Photo55@mastodon.social 2026-07-29 06:10
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org there's a bit about it in Cryptonomicon (Neal Stephenson, contemporary)
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@mjd@mathstodon.xyz 2026-07-29 13:53
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org Mary Clark's wrote a book about running the library in Endicott, New York in the 1930s. It contains some descriptions of how they established home delivery and pickup of books, which the library patrons loved. One thing they did was get the guy who drove the delivery truck for the A&P supermarket to carry books for them. (I know this isn't interlibrary loan, I just thought you'd think it was cool.)