Future for Public Libraries

... across Europe as smaller libraries disappear and community libraries close due to their unsustainable nature . It would appear that one future is to have a well-funded, flagship library in each major city, but a steady decline in the number of small libraries serving local communities. In the UK alone we could see the number of public libraries drop from the thousands to the hundreds between now and the next century. Whilst this is how things might develop, it is not necessarily how things should develop. Recent elections have shown just how important the Internet has been in ...