In my 20+ years of librarianship, I have worked in schools, public libraries, for library vendors, and in university libraries. In every position, I have had to continually fight against budget cuts, position cuts, tenure removal, cities or university administration wanting in some way to take over library space, etc. It's depressing. ETA I think some people don't value what libraries have to offer until services are reduced or eliminated entirely. I'm not sure why this is the case.