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An early example of this style of library (if not the first of its type) is the Distributed Library Project of the [[San Francisco Bay Area]].<ref>[http://www.nongnu.org/dlp/ Distributed Library Project]</ref> While distributed libraries are being established in several cities worldwide, the San Francisco Bay Area library still only has a few hundred members.

Another example, which takes a slightly different approach, is the Unlibrary.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.unlibrary.com/index.pl?rm=tour1 |title=Unlibrary (archived version of website) |access-date=2011-10-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111022122620/http://www.unlibrary.com/index.pl?rm=tour1 |archive-date=2011-10-22 |dead-url-status=nolive }}</ref> In this system, users are free to create communities of any size and scope, rather than a single citywide community. For instance a church might have its own community, with church members all able to borrow from each other. Users can also have private, invite-only groups.

Another example is the digibruted library of Geneva.<ref>[https://digilioge.wordpress.com/ Digilioge: The Digibruted Library of Geneva]</ref> The name digibruted is coined from “Digital” and “Distributed”. This library is a digital construction that indexes books for local distribution. The difference from Unlibrary is that the books are freely given to readers, who act also as librarians, in a kind of peer-to-peer schema.