Public library
Circulating libraries and subscription libraries came before public libraries, in  the 18th and 19th centuries. In England in 1790, there were about six hundred rental and lending libraries, with about fifty thousand members.  People had to pay to borrow the books.   The first community-run public library, the Malatestiana Library, started in 1447 in Cesena, Italy.  Chetham's Library in Manchester, claims to be the oldest public library in the English-speaking world. It opened in 1653.  Biblioteca Palafoxiana in Puebla City, Mexico, is recognized by UNESCO as the first public library in the Americas. It was founded in 1646. People could not usually borrow the books from these early libraries.