Sadly the library has been ruined due to the council turning the second floor into the council's housing service. It is an essential service but it does not belong in the library. It creates the wrong atmosphere - often there will be dispossessed people, really sadly dishevelled and with bags etc up in the reading areas; and there might be someone shouting occasionally. It's horrible. How does Cardiff council hope to nurture the minds of its next generations if it insists on dragging them even in a library down into the depressing and worrying side of life? The council has carved away at the people's right to a dedicated space for mental and even spiritual development. What is more, it's taken this service away from the least privileged - ie those who don't have rooms at home where they can go to study in peace. Retired people too will not feel comfortable coming in and working on their projects any longer. It is a great loss. And, it is shameful: those in charge of these changes would likely have had grants (not loans) for their education, and they would have had the original library, which was a beautiful quiet temple of learning full of buzzing minds, young and old, thrilling to learn, to create, to grow. Honestly, how can you be at your best when you have to walk through a housing office? The desecration of the library with this change is wrong on so many levels. Forget a city of culture, the place can barely be considered to have the status of a true 'city' nowadays.