"MALL Y'ALL?" - Chapel Hill Library potential move to University Mall

I just submitted this comment on the linked page:

"Perhaps these projections exist, and I will try to make time to search for them on the library's site and/or to ask the library.....

Here is the point I wish to raise:

With the strong growth in "e-books" of all kinds, combined with all of the growth that has occurred in online access to library-type resources, I hope that someone has created some projections on what the use of the library is expected/assumed to be in 5/10, perhaps 20 years? How does present use breakdown and what do experts (and we have so many at the library and informations sciences school at UNC) think will change in the years ahead.

Before getting to the very challenging question of the possible move to University Mall, I think we need to understand really well what a day in the life of the library is today, and what knowledgeable people project it to look like 5/10, perhaps 20 years from now.

Further, I'd like to see the views of knowledgeable people about what the future is for bookstores in Chapel Hill, along with other information/library resources, and the role that the Chapel Hill Library plays and expects to play in the evolution of all of that complex marketplace. This analysis would take into account trends in the use of home, business and other organizations' computers and telecommunications devices to do what the library might otherwise do."