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The article presents the author's views on library services. According to the author, many public institutions only focus on the portion of the budget that is earmarked for them. The author states that one should be persistent, and willing to look into every activity and service that the library performs.

The author reflects on providing for a financial support. He cites on Starbucks Corp. for making a low-budget production film, which might be a good suggestion that it could have also be done to fund the library for financial support. He points out about the collection development policy for the library is important and items on the library should be retained.

The article focuses on the ever-increasing demands of library users. In this ever-changing environment, some of the things one can be certain of are the need for more staff, space, and money for libraries. Libraries are ever striving to do more and more while, at best, maintaining current levels of staff and resources. The two most important goals are to increase library funding, or make the use of current resources more efficient. Jerry Nichols' contribution in this issue draws attention to a situation in New York State where revenue, collected to support local libraries for years, was left unrealized. Similarly, Andrew Itedjere's article brings to light what can happen when a Nigerian university doesn't support its library--monetarily or intellectually. While a system has been implemented requiring library users to pay a registration fee, the deemphasized importance of library collections for research has imposed a barrier to the library to realize fully needed funds to support service, collections, and technology. Khalid Mahmood and his colleagues suggest another approach in their article, which is charging library visitors for services rendered.