Sadly that's what you get when you whittle away at and force out the people who have known and worked at the place for decades. You get outsiders who start making decisions who don't know the place or what they're doing.

Are they just trying to force students out and shut the place down? There has been kids play equipment up at the apartments I think since the early 2000s.

As someone who spent 13.5 as a reference librarian in the VSC until fairly recently I very much disagree, but you're entitled to your opinion.

In my experience art and photography people definitely wanted books. Some majors tend more towards journal articles, but many still relevant articles are in books that are not available online.