Future for Public Libraries

... over the coming years, spread across Europe and become seen as a standard way of delivering library services, complemented by large city ‘super-libraries’ such as that which opened in Birmingham in 2013 . If this is to be the future for public libraries across Europe, it is fair to say that the future looks bleak.There is likely to be only a small number of suitable libraries across Europe as smaller libraries disappear and community libraries close due to their unsustainable nature . It would appear that ...