Mercantile Library may refer to any of several United States libraries:
- The Center for Fiction, originally the New York Mercantile Library, 1820 New York City, New York
- Mercantile Library Association (Boston, Massachusetts), est. 1820
- Mercantile Library of Cincinnati, 1835, Cincinnati, Ohio
- St. Louis Mercantile Library Association, 1846, University of Missouri–St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
- Mercantile Library Association of California, ~1852, San Francisco, California Absorbed by San Francisco Mechanics' Institute in 1906.
- Saint Paul Mercantile Library Association, 1857, Saint Paul, Minnesota
- Brooklyn Mercantile Library Association, 1857, Brooklyn Public Library Business Library, New York
- Philadelphia Mercantile Library, 1866, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Galveston Mercantile Library, 1871, Galveston, Texas
Famous quotes containing the words mercantile and/or library:
“What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Our civilization has decided ... that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men.... When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)