Innerpeffray - The oldest free lending Library in the country, founded about 1680. The Kirkwall Publick Bibliotheck in Orkney followed in 1683 and the Leighton Library, part of Dunblane Cathedral, was founded in 1684.
I read also that the Public Libraries Act of 1853, decreed that Public Libraries should be funded by local taxation for the benefit of all but that ' there were strong pockets of uproar that taxes should be used in such a way!'
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