Budget allocation in libraries is a complex process that involves a considerable amount of planning, analyzing and coordinating in order to fulfill mandates and goals of a specific library. This process is further challenged by insufficient funds available to libraries and constant economic ambiguity. At the core of the issue is the provision of serials. The focus, however, shifts today from intrinsic tension between monograph funds and serial funds to proliferation of electronic publishing and its implications for collection management.

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