I invite you to visit my office today; the walls are hung with artwork, and the office is entirely free of bookshelves; there are at most half a dozen books on my desk, including the dictionary, and not a single journal.
Just before I left Central Bank for the IMF in 1998, whenever I was too busy to get to the library, the library came to me, in the form of piles of incoming journals, tied together with a routing slip on the top copy.