Digital information is great until the power goes out or the censors kick in. A basic hard copy of human knowledge is fundamental IMO.
Libararians are often leftist censors. You won't find any books on the shelves that offend any politically correct fashions during the past 100 years.
When the power goes out the lights at the library won’t work either. It isn’t obvious to me that you need libraries with the Gutenberg project, Amazon.com, and Ebay sitting around.