With so much info on phone, why huge library?

Aaron Gillum couldn’t help but think, “You know, once upon a time you would have had to go to the library to find this information, and dug it out of some sort of paper archive – that probably would have been outdated.”

Surely our government locally, which is allegedly so short of money that they can’t employ cleaning staff for government facilities, isn’t spending taxpayer money on free episodes of Jack Bauer’s finest hour for the general public, are they?