At my first tech job, the programmers' office had a shelf of manuals. (I was not then a programmer.) At the next, every new version of Oracle produced three or

At my first tech job, the programmers' office had a shelf of manuals. (I was not then a programmer.) At the next, every new version of Oracle produced three or four feet of manuals for the shelves. A brief stint at another contractor's offices in Virginia showed a real library, by which I suppose I mean that they had copies of IEEE and ACM journals and books by authors I had heard of. My office at work has an assortment of books, mostly ones that I bought. I don't know of a tech library there.