| Newberry Library | | Independent research library with a focus on the humanities is privately funded, but free and open to the public. |
| Providence Athenaeum (Rhode Island) | | An independent membership library; provides a collection of books and other materials to all who love reading, appreciate literature, and enjoy cultural discovery. |
| St Deiniol's Library | | Information on this library founded by William Ewart Gladstone in 1889 for the promotion of "Divine Learning". Includes details on programmes and access to the library catalogue. |
| The Ambleside Museum & Armitt Library | | Free educational institution in the English Lake District. Bibliographies and artefacts on natural history and local people including Beatrix Potter, Ruskin and the Lake poets. |
| The Devon & Exeter Institution | | Independent subscription library with collections strong in nineteenth-century periodicals and material on South West England. Photographs, history and membership information. |
| The Folger Shakespeare Library | | Administered by the trustees of Amherst College, the Folger was a gift to the American people from Henry Clay Folger and his wife Emily Jordan Folger in 1932. Includes news on library projects and extensive background information. |
| The Grolier Club Library | | Overview of the collections of this New York City club devoted to printing, bibliography and the arts of the book. |
| The Huntington Library | | Library of rare books and manuscripts principally in the fields of British and American history and literature, with readers' guides, events calendar, and images of some of the collection. |
| The Linen Hall Library | | Subscription library with unique collections of books, manuscripts, pamphlets, genealogical sources, graphic images and ephemera for Irish and local studies. |
| The London Library | | Scholarly subscription library in central London collecting principally in the humanities. History, collections, membership information and online catalogue. |
| The New York Society Library | | Subscription library with public access to the reading and reference rooms only; members may borrow books. Site includes information for members and the general public. |
| The Portico Library and Gallery | | A UK subscription library from Manchester featuring 19th century literature, local school exhibits, artist submissions, and gallery. | |
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