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📚 Not for borrowing 💰 Not in use 🩸 Not flowing
noncirculating

noncirculating

6.6
That must stay inside a library and cannot be borrowed
  • adjective
  • /ˌnɒnˈsɜːrkjʊleɪtɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : no circulante
  • The library has a section of noncirculating books that cannot be checked out by patrons.

Examples

  • As director of the CCBC, Horning coordinates a noncirculating examination, study, and research library for books, ideas, and expertise in the field of children's and young adult literature.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Images would be liberated from original slides and negatives, which could be housed, like crown jewels, in some noncirculating storage facility deep within a mountain or museum.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Students can access noncirculating materials on-site, but they must return them before leaving the library.

  • Most of the noncirculating resources are rare manuscripts that scholars can only view in special reading rooms.

Synonyms

uncirculated
vsnoncirculating
7.0

Not shared with the public

is kept for use only inside the library and not lent out

Antonyms

circulating
3.4

Moving from person to person or place to place

How Borrowable

loanable
3.6
noncirculating
  • Specialized
6.6

Surface Forms

noncirculating positive

Morphology

noncirculating = circulating (transparent) = non + circulate + ing

The adjective is formed by prefixing 'non-' to 'circulating' meaning 'not in circulation' which directly yields the library sense.

Etymology

The word noncirculating comes from non- 'not' and circulate 'to move around', the same root as circle. So a noncirculating book or item does not 'move around' to borrowers and must stay inside the library.