Libraries are always easy targets to administration in k-12 and higher Ed because they have high cost for materials. Let's say I am a librarian at a small private school and my materials budget is 100k and my new president thinks that no one uses physical books anymore so I am mandated to reduce costs by 50%? Well there goes JSTOR, ProQuest, LexisNexis, and an EBSCO subscription that gave students access to more than 2 million journal articles because the easiest thing to cut is database subscriptions that are paid yearly. Libraries also pay for copyright licenses that cover the school so that you and your professor don't get slammed with fines and charges for sharing a PDF of a textbook chapter. These fees are all based on school size so the higher the FTE the higher the cost. A major school will have a library budget in the millions. We are a profession that is always on the front lines of budget cuts and public apathy and/or misinformation that fuels more cuts. My first gig as a librarian involved making substantial budget cuts due to a president like this and the students and school suffered for it. And while these are all generalities, if the school has an a program with secondary accreditation in education, nursing, law, etc. Those accreditation bodies have their separate guidelines for libraries. Nursing accreditation requirements for one call for materials to be published within 10yrs, so library staff are constantly having to weed and replenish a collection. Imagine doing that with digital books? Separately not all publishers have forever licenses. Penguin previously would make public libraries buy a new license after x-number of checkouts. The rationale being that a physical copy of a popular fiction book can only survive 30 or so circulations. That's the type of greed you're dealing with.