Libraries have existed for five thousand years, but since the invention of the Internet last century and its advancement, libraries have seen a huge decline in terms of the importance of their role played in shaping many societies, in preference to the Internet’s promise that information, knowledge and stories can be accessed on demand, at any time. The need for structuring, cataloguing and collecting that might shape a library could be resolved by the mass-contribution of everyone to the Internet knowledge pool. Furthermore, due to the impact of Covid-19, libraries have been forced to close their doors, shrouding the future of public access in uncertainty. In place of the library, the World Wide Web is fast becoming the main platform from which information is accessed, disseminated, exchanged, bought or sold. Now, audiences are creating their own hubs of shared interest through social media platforms, utilising hashtags as keywords to seek each other out. This means that traditional physical access via a singular geographic location is no longer required. Therefore, the future of online public and academic lending consists of digital e-books, e-pubs, PDF’s and online membership. As a result, the library risks becoming another relic of a bygone age with the loss of its visibility. Therefore, Athenaeum: The Library Re-imagined, a collaborative publication and event, produced and curated by the MRes Communication Design cohort at the Royal College of Art, sets out to make the Library visible once more.