City Library on borrowed time as council plans new CBD facility by 2020

By Clay Lucas
Updated August 28 2016 - 10:18pm, first published 9:36pm
Librarian Debbie Faifer in City Library last week.  Photo: Wayne Taylor
Librarian Debbie Faifer in City Library last week. Photo: Wayne Taylor
A woman reads a book in front of the Flinders Lane building in 2002, before it became a library.  Photo: Ken Irwin
A woman reads a book in front of the Flinders Lane building in 2002, before it became a library. Photo: Ken Irwin

When Debbie Faifer was studying to be a librarian in the early 1980s, she would travel into Melbourne's city centre and wonder to herself, "Why isn't there a public lending library here?".

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