Library vocabulary

[Misha Angelovskiy]

There's a magical English designation of "circulating"
to refer to these books.  (As opposed to reference
items that cannot be taken out of the library.)  To
translate the German phrase you can go with something
as wordy as:

You may borrow these books,
You may check these books out;

or simply label the shelves as

Circulating

or something along those lines.

NB: I believe all these suggestion are acceptable in
Standard American English, not sure if the Britons
would say them differently.  And I really hope that I
didn't misunderstand the German phrase--it's not
mitnehmen to keep and never to return, is it?

Misha


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