We would have research-based projects (e.g. look up history of $topic and write 2-page "report" while citing sources).
Students were trained by school librarians how to use the Dewey Decimal system, and take out/return books.
The teachers/librarians reacted with intense hostility to my getting the required information within a few seconds, rather than needing to slog through hundreds of pages of paper reference material.
The librarians, in particular, gave stern lectures about how digital information was untrustworthy, and the ability to do research using physical books would always be a critical life skill.
Also, younger folks these days haven't lived through a physical media migration.
The weirdest thing I remember about the early CD-ROM days was that everything was parallel distributed: there was a floppy version (10 disks!) that would be substantially media-cut-down, then a CD-ROM version. Because install bases don't grow overnight.