The Linden Free Public Library maintains an organized system for collecting, storing, and circulating materials for library patrons so that they can be retrieved when needed.

During the mid-1920s, Soviet officials in Nizhny Novgorod and other locations encountered religious groups successfully circulating anti-Soviet political materials.

Bloggers were effective in spreading information, mobilising citizens and circulating audio-visual materials about the excesses of government and their security forces.

Archive translates, organizes, and circulates critically invested materials.

The Mariam and Youssef Library provides access to an expanding collection of core reference and circulating materials in print, manuscript, electronic, audio, visual, cartographic, and other appropriate formats.

The NLC Library and Shouf Library provide access to a core collection of references, circulating materials, periodicals and electronic resources, in addition to providing space for quiet, individual study.

Small lending libraries run out of people's homes, they circulate materials that the librarians say are banned by the government.

Available to visitors within each library are reference and circulating books, periodicals and audio/visual materials.

The wave of modern media images has, in turn, merged with the novel in the form of graphic novels that both exploit and question the status of circulating visual materials.

The abolitionists pioneered techniques such as circulating printed materials, presenting evidence before inquiries and promoting petitions.