Bodley Club Library

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Bodley Club Library
Bodley Club Library Bookplate
Location	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Type	Circulating library
Established	1903
Dissolved	c.1910
Branches	36
Collection
Items collected	Books, periodicals
Size	100,000+ volumes
Access and use
Members	1,000,000+ at peak
Other information
Director	Seymour Eaton
Parent organization	Booklovers' Library

The Bodley Club Library was a service similar to The Tabard Inn Library, but focused on libraries where books appeared in blue covers to prevent them from being turned in at Tabard Inn library stations, as public libraries tended to lend the books out free of charge.^[1] The Booklovers' Library owned both the Tabard Inn Library and the Bodley Club Library.^[2]