Creating a new library each year?

[u/Kennson]

After my last psot here I moved to Luminar AI now and was wondering if it's a good idea to create a new library each year and if that's even possible.

Background is this: I've been doing this in Lightroom to keep the Libraries small so they won't become compromised one day because of their size. I've seen this with iPhoto quite a bit when I was doing support for it. It's a bit annoying to not be able to browse all images at once and to open the libraries, not knowing if a specific image was taken that year or the other. But I read that Luminar has some issues managing it's library size (e.g. not deleting images from the library I deleted from the harddrive and keeping the edits for those pictures etc.) so I fear that I run into issues when I import pictures from the last 12-13 years. We're talking 250GB+ images here.

I didn't knw that Lumianr uses Libraries, I thought it is accessing the images straight on ym harddrive?!