Lots of people treat libraries like holy places they supposedly value and the books are the holy artifacts. But these people are trying to overrule those who actually use these places. No one's life is made any better by their interference, but they get to be seen "standing up for the books."
(If I were to take the analogy further, it's like the people who only attend church on Easter and Christmas telling the weekly church-goers how to run the church.)
Go ahead and take the analogy further still. It's like people who only attend church on Easter and Christmas actively preventing other people from attending church on Sundays. Even the largest libraries have a limited amount of shelf space. If we can't get rid of some of the books that are using that space, we can't add new, appealing, useful books for the people who want to read them.
Lots of people treat libraries like holy places they supposedly value and the books are the holy artifacts. But these people are trying to overrule those who actually use these places. No one's life is made any better by their interference, but they get to be seen "standing up for the books."
(If I were to take the analogy further, it's like the people who only attend church on Easter and Christmas telling the weekly church-goers how to run the church.)