[The Fisher Account]

Originally Posted by Trans Canada

Indeed I think physical libraries are on their way out in the medium/long term, and while physical copies are important to have, they will be kept in archives which need not be in a central and accessible location. I would be very surprised if this building lives its entire life as a library (given our current definition of a library) and I reckon it will either significantly evolve as time goes on or be repurposed entirely (in, maybe, 50 years).

I think the term people are using now is that libraries will evolve into "community spaces" and less so into book repositories. Or something like that