A friend works at a military contractor doing (effectively) windows GUIs for power system controls. His only access to an internet-connected computer is on his breaks, where he has to wait in line to use one of a very small number of computers in a special room to google things.

I don't think he has books, but he has an enormous amount of documentation (something like the whole MSDN library, a bunch of internal documentation and reference info, and other documentation) installed on his computer.