My local library used to be an old mansion that was donated by the estate. It was really nice, albeit labyrinthine. Lots of quiet nooks you could sit in and read for hours undisturbed on antique furniture. The city had to sell the building because costs to maintain it were too high, and a new, larger building was built. It's a soulless box, open floorplan, and like half of it is dedicated to DVDs. And not even a curated collection of films of cultural significance, but mostly slop from the 2010's onwards.