Infuriating as this is, in the long run it doesn't matter in the slightest, since my children (or at least certainly my grandchildren) will someday be asking "Daddy, what was a public library?".
The internet, and projects like the one Google is participating in, which scan thousands of books from library shelves, will ultimately make libraries obsolete. This is even the case with college librarys. I can say this first hand as a graduate student. Almost every scholarly paper printed after the early 1990s is available online (some require a subscription, but they are there) and many older ones are being added.
As smaller and smaller laptop computers become availabe, and wireless internet growth continues, there will be no further need for libraries, and their assosiated communist librarians.
Do you not see any danger in that?
One of the advantages of having large amounts of material in printed form is that it's not possible for anyone to retroactively change it. If someone decides that a particular page that only exists in electronic form is politically incorrect, they can 'fix' it and just about nobody will be the wiser. Even if other people happen to have copies, the original publisher can claim those other copies are fake. And of course, with DRM those other copies wouldn't even exist at all.
Although it might be possible for a publisher to recall a certain book from libraries and have reasonable success at doing so, it's not possible for a publisher to transparently alter the content of books already on the shelf. Those books hold a record of what was in them at the time of publication, not what the publisher wants in them today.